Technologizer

iPhone SMS Vulnerability: Should You be Scared?

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Run for the hills! That’s the message iPhone owners are receiving after multiple reports say security researchers will tomorrow unveil an iPhone vulnerability that could allow the popular device to be taken over via simple SMS (or text) message. The bug, discovered by iPhone hacker Charlie Miller, will be outlined during a presentation at the Black [...]

5Words for May 5th, 2009

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

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Happy Cinco De Mayo, everybody! Pictures of Amazon’s giant Kindle? FTC trouble for Google, Apple? Why Blackberry push Gmail matters. The biggest cults in technology. Windows Mobile Marketplace rules established. Embedded 3G for new MacBooks? More Microsoft layoffs to come. Will the iPhone work blue?

5Words for April 16th, 2009

Thursday, April 16, 2009

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Greetings to you from Malta… Please, Apple, approve iPhone SlingPlayer. TwitPic glitches frustrate, alarm users. Should Apple fear Zune? Maybe. Windows Mobile Zune? Also maybe. Acer’s ultraslim, fairly cheap notebook. Digg bows to DiggBar critics. Non-Apple Mini DisplayPort monitors. Hands on: Verizon’s Hub 2.

5Words for March 11th, 2009

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

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Let’s get newsy, shall we? Details on Windows Mobile store. Three new Nokia music phones. Gmail is bigger than YouTube. Google cuts off free texting. In-flight Internet ramps up. Analyst thinks Snow Leopard’s lagging. Europe gives Microsoft an extension. PlayStation gets NBC Universal content. Xbox 360: Worth a million? Chinese hackers rip off iTunes. A pig dock for iPod.

5Words for March 5th, 2009

Thursday, March 5, 2009

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What I’m reading this morning: Twitter-like makeover for Facebook. Ballmer: Windows Mobile needs work. Amazon’s selling used video games. Pogue slams Samsung’s Memoir phone. Facebook spurns poor Ms. Batman. Fab Four meets Rock Band. Spy shots of new BlackBerry. Windows 7’s revamped UAC: useless? Vista SP2 available for download. Interesting, nitpicky Safari 4 review.

Microsoft: Windows CE is Closer to End-of-Life than Windows

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

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On Monday, Microsoft debuted its long-awaited Windows Mobile 6.5 update at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. But as Microsoft moves forward with its “Midori” operating system incubation project, the longevity of Windows CE–the platform that Windows Mobile is based on–is in doubt, according to internal company documents viewed by Technologizer. The documents refer to a [...]

Full-Fledged Flash on Smartphones. Most of Them, Anyhow…

Monday, February 16, 2009

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It’s tempting to crack a joke about “Skip Intro” coming soon to a smartphone near you. But seriously, this is good news: Here at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Adobe is announcing that it plans to bring Flash Player to phones running the Windows Mobile, Android, and Symbian Series 60 operating systems, as well as [...]

Google Syncs to New Heights

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

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Over the past couple of weeks, Google has been releasing interesting new stuff at such a furious pace that I’m getting short of breath just trying to keep up. It’s now released a new version of its formerly BlackBerry-centric Google Sync service that syncs calendars and contacts between Google’s Web-based services and an iPhone or [...]

Report: Windows Mobile 6.5 to Launch Midyear

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

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Microsoft will distribute Windows Mobile 6.5 to its partners after it launches the OS at the Mobile World Congress in February, according to a report by DigiTimes. Microsoft will continue to rely upon current business model of working with phone manufacuters to deliver Windows Mobile based products on the market, the report said. DigiTimes’ sources told [...]

A Zune Phone? Likely.

Monday, November 24, 2008

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It is plausible that rumors about Microsoft being close to announcing its answer to the iPhone are true. Microsoft must maintain parity with Apple, and its acquisition of Sidekick creator Danger Inc. has given it the industrial design known-how to get the job done. UK-based technology news journal The Inquirer broke the news that Microsoft will [...]

Zune Features Headed To Windows Mobile

Friday, October 3, 2008

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Okay so it might not be true Zune phone per se, but Microsoft does have designs to put Zune functionality in its Windows Mobile operating system soon. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made the comments to British IT magazine CIO when asked why the company had created the music player in the first place. “We built the [...]