Newsletter Archive: 2009

AutoDesk Releases AutoCAD For iPhone
In PR from Autodesk, the company not only announced a coming release for Mac OS X but also, a supporting app for iPhone and iPad – the AutoCAD WS mobile application, a new app for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch that will allow users to edit and share their AutoCAD designs in the field.Details...
Date: 2010-09-03


StumbleUpon Comes to the iPhone and Android
StumbleUpon has finally released its mobile apps for the iPhone and Android.
Date: 2010-08-20


Mobile Review: Samsung Galaxy S
Last week I bought a new Samsung Galaxy S Android phone and changed my phone service from my iPhone 3Gs on AT&T to T Mobile.
Date: 2010-08-06


Removing Songs From Your iPhone Spotlight Search
A friend showed me how to use Spotlight search on my new iPhone 4, and it's a great way to find things quickly, but I really, really don't want to have it search the thousands of songs I have on my phone, just my contacts and address book information. Is that something I can tweak or alter?
Date: 2010-07-23


Growing Your Mobile Social Media Beyond Facebook
Whenever mobile social media comes up in conversation, I tend to hear a lot of f-words. Hopefully they won't be censored here, as the ones I'm referring to are Foursquare and Facebook. Perhaps I'm part of the problem.
Date: 2010-07-09


Taking Mobile Data Plans Into Account When Developing
While a lot of the attention on AT&T and Apple in the past few weeks has been focused on the release of the iPad and new iPhone,  the elimination of unlimited data plans is an equally important development, especially for website owners and publishers.
Date: 2010-06-25


New Study Shows 23% Of Mobile Users Have A Smartphone
New Nielsen data from Q1 2010 shows that 23% of mobile consumers now have a smartphone, up from just 16% in Q2 2009.
Date: 2010-06-11


Downloading Notes From Your iPhoneNewsGator Becomes More Mobile'
I have written about NewsGator before (see NewsGator Offers Social Sites ™: A Comprehensive Enterprise Social Networking Suite). I have been a fan of NewsGator for some time as they were my first RSS reader in early 2004 (see Finally, I'm Scanning the Web through NewsGator)
Date: 2010-05-28



This is beyond annoying: I've been using the Notes application on my iPhone 3G to keep track of different things and now that I want to get the notes of, I realize that I'm kind of trapped.
Date: 2010-05-14


Google Confirms The Nexus One Will Not Join Verizon
The only way to purchase a Nexus One is to visit google.com/phone and get it either on AT&T unsubsidized, or on T-Mobile with or without a subsidy.
Date: 2010-04-30


Using Mobile Geolocation For Business
The buzz on geolocation marketing is hot. Recently Lawrence Coburn from RateItAll released the beta version of a new project: DoubleDutch, a platform for creating your own geolocation check-in app, ala Foursquare.
Date: 2010-04-16


Smartphone Review: Sony Xperia X10
This morning I received the Fed Ex package that said overnight but I felt like it was over a year of waiting as the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Android phone was finally in my hands.
Date: 2010-04-02


Report Government Concerns Through Your Mobile
GORequest for iPhone the Government outreach mobile app enables citizens to communicate with local governments and report items of concern... Nice! 
Date: 2010-03-19


Palm Pre Was Set To Fail With Palm's Small Screen Bet
Some of you might not know, but if I like a mobile phone I buy it. I have purchased several iPhones for my family and I own a Droid as well (I don't recommend buying that one, instead I am telling my friends to get the Google Nexus One, which is a better device due to its speed).
Date: 2010-03-05


Android And iPhone Users Mirror Usage Trends
As an aside from my complaints on the conduct of Apple, the users of  Android are now sharing the usage trending of those of the iPhone as both sets of users greatly increased their mobile social media use.
Date: 2010-02-19


Mobile Computing Slated To Surpass Desktop Computing
Sounds like a sensationalistic headline, but if you read Morgan Stanley's latest series of reports on the Mobile Internet, you'll walk away with the same impression.
Date: 2010-02-05


Mobile Web Made Huge Gains In 2009
Quantcast has just released their 2009 Mobile Web Trends Report. The report highlights overall growth trends, market share of web consumption across device manufacturers, operating systems and browsers, and provides a review of the top gifted devices of the 2009 holiday season based on post-holiday web-consumption increases.
Date: 2010-01-22


Nexus-One: Googles New Super Phone
While we've all pretty much assumed they would tout Android and reveal the Google-sold Nexus One phone, there's always the possibility that Google will surprise us all.
Date: 2010-01-08


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