Tag Archives: Blackberry

Orange and Netvibes deal brings Widgets to the fore

Orange made a very interesting announcement yesterday regarding their support of widgets. Their tie up with Widget Behemoth Netvibes is a big positive step towards adopting widgets as a platform. This ties neatly into the conversations that were going on in Barcelona about unified app platforms. Ericsson, for example, use widgets as the basis for [...]

BlackBerry Barack

With many eyewitnesses name-checking their BlackBerry’s in the recent reports coming out of Mumbai, it seems they aren’t the only ones firmly attached to the device. Reported in the Sydney Morning Herald, president-elect Obama, says giving up his BlackBerry ‘is a problem’ and that he’s working with the Secret Service to work out how he [...]

Lifelines in Mumbai

The minute the terrorist attacks broke in Mumbai, Twitter received a huge volume of messages sent by SMS. Over at CNN, they report that, “With more than 6 million members worldwide, an estimated 80 messages, or “tweets,” were being sent to Twitter.com via SMS every five seconds, providing eyewitness accounts and updates. Many Twitter users [...]

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