Norwegian web browser player Opera Software has acquired Australian Web-based and IMAP e-mail provider FastMail.fm. According to Opera, the acquisition will enable the company to expand its current messaging product portfolio and deliver cross-platform messaging to a wide range of devices, including computers, mobile phones, TVs and gaming consoles.
How popular is Apple’s Passbook, the new iOS 6 application that lets you store tickets, cards, and coupons in a mobile wallet-like interface? According to some early data from Branding Brand, the company that built the app for cosmetics and skin care brand Sephora, Passbook adoption is booming.
Google’s G-mail app on Android is by far the best G-mail experience you can get on any mobile device. Sadly, the same can’t be said about Androids stock e-mail client. It seems as if that may change as Google has officially acquired Sparrow. If you’re not familiar with Sparrow, it’s arguably the most popular and best e-mail client available for iOS.
In a recently released survey meant for Xbox Live users, Microsoft got a bit curious about people’s smartphone preferences. Fair enough — they’ve got some skin in the game, after all — but there was something slightly amiss about how the question was framed.
It’s still a hairy problem for every mobile app developer: how do you attract new users in a hopelessly crowded app store?
Last year, video trailers for apps emerged as one popular for developers (and particularly game developers) to acquire users as Apple cracked down on other methods.
Several companies including San Francisco’s Flurry, which is also a popular mobile analytics provide
Apple hasn’t done much to change the way iOS works at its core, in terms of navigating within and between apps and the home screen. In fact, iOS is maybe the mobile OS that has remained the most fundamentally the same since its introduction, at least among those that are still in active use.
Customize Ubuntu’s new Unity desktop, all from an easy-to-use interface. Confity allows you to re-enable the Ubuntu system tray, resize or hide Ubuntu’s dock and remove the Fisher-Price color scheme.I called Ubuntu 11.04 a big step foward for Linux, but not everyone agrees. Ubuntu’s Unity interface is brand new, and reaction to it has been mixed to say the least.
Windows 8 media attacks seem to be intensifying — with some bloggers and journalists suggesting the Windows 8 Metro user interface will be too confusing for many customers to learn. But here’s the big, ironic problem: Many members of the press have never used Windows 8 or have never even seen the operating system, which won’t arrive on PCs until October.
Six months after its initial launch, the preview of Outlook.com, Microsoft’s free webmail service that is meant to replace the aging Hotmail brand and design, now has over 60 million active users according to the company’s own data.
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