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1 Apr 2011

This week’s. Good advice on coding for the Mobile Web. More details on the BlackBerry PlayBook’s Android support. It’s not there out of the box, it won’t access the Android Market, and there may be performance issues with Android apps. Game developers, especially, are advised to use the PlayBook’s native QNX platform, which requires C++. [...]

Last week Google announced it was going to upgrade their privacy practices after it became known that the company had unwittingly snapped up bits and pieces of WiFi data that had been left unencrypted by its Street View cars. While the data was mostly fragmented sometimes entire emails were snagged. <p style="text-align: center;" Continue reading: [...]

Yep, another T-Mobile story. Months back, our man Chris told you about a deal between Google and T-Mobile US that saw Google becoming the default search engine on all T-Mobile mobile phones. At the time, T-Mobile Europe and their parent company Deutsche Telekom still had an exclusivity deal with Yahoo. But, now that contract is [...]

What would make you want change your default search engine? I always have to change it because my browser may force me to use the local version of Google (as I am installing the browser from abroad) and thus I need to switch it to google.com. You can also switch off the personalization of search [...]

Consumers shouldn’t expect to be overwhelmed with search options if they decide to buy Windows Phone 7 devices.  A high-ranking Microsoft employee has revealed that there will be only one default search engine: Bing. Microsoft, with its 90,000 or so employees, supposedly ran into some technical problems when it came to accommodating search rivals.  Greg [...]


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