mobile OS

Palm announces webOS and Pre phone

ITworld staff — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:24:13 -0500

Palm is hoping to get back on track with its new Pre touch phone, which comes equipped with equally new operating system webOS, both announced on Thursday.

New Palm Handset and OS Coming on Thursday?

ITworld staff — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:11:40 -0500

Palm is set to preview this week its latest incarnation of mobile operating system - Nova - in a bid to re-ignite the company as a smartphone leader.

AT&T hopes for single smartphone OS

ITworld staff — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:38:42 -0500

AT&T hopes to standardize on a single operating system for AT&T-branded smartphones as part of a consolidation of its mobile platforms over the next few years.

iPhone 2.2 update gets jailbroken

ITworld staff — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:31:27 -0500

If you're into iPhone gimmicks and unsupported Apple applications, DevTeam released PwnageTool 2.2 to help you jailbreak the latest 2.2 iPhone software update available from Apple since Friday.

iPhone OS 2.2 update doesn't fix key business flaws

ITworld staff — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:42:04 -0500

Unfortunately, the iPhone OS 2.2 update released this weekend doesn't address the gaps in what business users need from the iPhone. That may give the new BlackBerry Storm a real chance to push the iPhone out of the enterprise.

Nokia goes after Google with open-source Symbian

ITworld staff — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:15:26 -0400

Nokia has announced its Symbian mobile operating system will join the likes of Android and will become an open source operating system. The announcement was made Tuesday at the Smartphone Show in London and is seen as a bid to maintain and possibly grow its developer base. This move comes at the same time Google makes its Android source code available to developers. The Nokia news contradicts previous reports on Nokia adopting Android OS.

Report: T-Mobile to announce Google phone Sept. 23

ITworld staff — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:15:14 -0400

T-Mobile USA will become the first company in the world to announce a mobile phone based on Google's Android OS at a New York press conference Sept. 23, the New York Times reports, citing T-Mobile.

Google shows Android running on a phone

ITworld staff — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:25:06 -0400

Google provided a glimpse of its Android operating system running on a mobile phone for the first time in Europe on Tuesday, in a limited viewing ahead of its imminent launch.

Microsoft looks to build one-stop mobile apps market

ITworld staff — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:03:32 -0400

Microsoft is preparing to launch in the next few months a Web site called Skymarket to sell Windows Mobile OS applications, a job advertisement suggests.

Google drops Bluetooth, GTalkService APIs from Android 1.0

ITworld staff — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:40:57 -0400

Google dropped Bluetooth and the GTalkService instant messaging APIs (application program interfaces) from the set of tools for the first version of the mobile phone OS, Android 1.0, according to the Android Developers Blog.