Google's Nexus One Not Getting Android 4.0 Update

Google's Nexus One phone, manufactured by HTC and originally released in January of 2010, will not be receiving the Ice Cream Sandwich update along with other phones, says Google's Android product management director Hugo Barra, because the device is "too old." The Nexus lineup has traditionally been used to showcase new, "stock" versions of Android without added manufacturer customizations, and as a result they typically receive access to new Android updates before other handsets. Google's decision not to support less-than-two-year-old Nexus One with its newest mobile OS stands in contrast to Apple's strategy for the oldest phone in its lineup, 2009's iPhone 3GS, which received most of iOS 5's new features when...

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MoPub Launches New Marketplace For Real-Time Mobile Ad Bidding

MoPub, the mobile advertising startup founded by former AdMob and Google employees, has been known as kind of a ”Doubleclick for mobile” until now. Today, the company is expanding its offerings with the launch of theMoPub Marketplace, which will serve as a virtual trading floor for mobile ads, allowing app publishers to connect with ad buyers in real-time.The Marketplace will operate as a self-serve platform, allowing publishers to access new sources of revenue, while still remaining in control of their mobile ad inventory. Explains Co-founder and CEO Jim Payne, the new real-time marketplace can do what ad networks cannot, equating those to a sort of “black box” where publishers can’t control what they’re buying or target their ads with any real sophistication.To use the new service,...

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MacBooks Still Clicking in a Post-PC World

Apple's latest MacBook Pro refresh was a meat-and-potatoes upgrade: faster processors, better graphics, more storage, no fancy stuff. The new computers are born in a time Apple itself calls the "post-PC" era -- a time when the main machine people live on could more often be a tablet, not a notebook. How long will it be before the iPad and its ilk cannibalize personal computers? Juicy details from the newly released Steve Jobs biography, including a quote from the lateApple (Nasdaq: AAPL) cofounder suggesting he'd found a way to break into the TV market, fueled the never-sputtering rumor machine this week.Talk of Apple's jump into television manufacturing seemed to overshadow the updates Apple made to its MacBook Pro line. Price points...

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Cablevision Rolls-Out Optimum App Version 2.0 For The iPad, iPhone & iPod Touch [Cablevision Optimum 2.0 Brings Improvements To The iPad App, Along With Live Streaming On The iPhone & iPod Touch]

Cablevision has rolled out an updated version of their Optimum app for iOS. And the good news here, the update includes the iPad version as well as the iPhone and iPod touch version. The apps both climb to version 2.0 and perhaps a bit more important — they both include worthwhile improvements.First things first though, the iPhone and iPod touch version requires iOS 4.0 or later and the iPad version requires iOS 4.2 or later. Both apps are free to download, however you will need to be a Cablevision subscriber to get any use out of them.Moving past that, the big changes include the ability to stream live television on the iPhone and iPod touch as well as the remote DVR management for all three iOS devices. Breaking...

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Apple iOS 5 Gets Semi-Tethered Jailbreak Solution

There is a distinct difference between a tethered and an untethered jailbreak for iDevices. With the former, you get stuck at the Apple logo every time that you reboot your iPhone or iPad unless you plug it back into a PC. That’s not the case with an untethered jailbreak. So, what exactly is a “semi-tethered” jailbreak then? Well, it’s somewhere in between. A tethered jailbreak for iOS 5 has been around for some time, but no one has come up with an untethered jailbreak yet. With the semi-tethered jailbreak from Big Boss (you can get full instructions on TheBigBoss.org), you get some of your core functionality back when you reboot the device, even without having to reconnect back to a PC or Mac. This isn’t quite as good as truly untethered,...

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Android App Downloads Surpass iOS App Downloads For the First Time [Android Got More App Downloads Than iPhone, iPad & iPod Touch in Q2 2011]

Android has taken the lead in application market downloads, according to reports by by market analysts. This is the first time for the platform to overtake iOS, although Apple still trumps Google in terms of revenue and per-user downloads ABI Research recently revealed market findings during the 2nd quarter of 2011. According to the analysts, Android Market downloads have surpassed those of Apple’s App Store. During that period, Android got a 44% market share in app downloads, while Apple’s share slid to 31%.ABI credits this trend to Google’s open approach to Android and application development, citing how the platform is open for use by multiple manufacturers, while Apple’s iOS is a closed ecosystem. Also, quarterly shipment figures...

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The Lion Roars: Mac OSX 10.7 - the Mac cat’s new features

The world has changed greatly for Apple in the past few years. As of their earnings statement released Monday, three quarters of all income comes from the iPhone and iPad and the number of users of iOS is already at least four times that of Mac users. After the under-the-hood tweaks and rationalizations of previous operating system update Snow Leopard, the mission for Mac OS X Lion was clear - make the Mac OS comfortable and familiar to the new Apple mobile user audience without putting off established Mac veterans. Can they pull it off?InstallationSo how do you install? You hop on a bus to the Apple Store, buy the Lion upgrade box, get home, take out the enclosed discs and... No you don't. Never again. You log in to the Mac App Store, pay...

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Nokia 710 – Smartphone With ClearBlack Display Technology

Nokia 710 is the latest windows smartphone from Nokia. This smartphone houses a large 3.7 inch Capacitive touchscreen display and powered with 1GHz single core processor. Nokia 710 runs on latest Microsoft windows phone OS 7.5 mango and the device comes equipped with ClearBlack display technology, which reduce the reflections on the screen and improve visual image quality especially in outdoors and the viewing angle of the display is improved, so sharing pictures on-screen will be a much easier.Nokia 710 Touchscreen SmartPhone Features:Single Core 1.4GHz Processor 3.7 Inches inch Touchscreen Display 512MB of RAM 8GB Internal Memory Micro Sim Card Support 5 Megapixel Camera Wi-Fi + GPS + Bluetooth Social Networking. Email, Messengers 820 mAh...

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