Fring adds Dynamic Video Quality to its video calling apps
Fring is working hard to seize on this (hopefully temporary) gap in the video chat firmament, where Google is lacking in a first party mobile video chat solution, Apple's supposedly open FaceTime standard has yet to be opened, and Skype is dragging its feet on a mobile video call implementation.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: audio, cross, dvq, entry, firmament, fring, video, video chat, video-conferencing, videoconferencing
N900 can run unmodified webOS games, what can your Linux-based phone do?
Ah, standards. Palm and Nokia know what we're talking about, which is why they support similar methods of developing native Linux apps, namely SDL 1.2. Add on the hardware similarities between the Palm Pre and the N900 (OMAP3430, PowerVR SGX, Open GL ES 2.0 support) and you have a beautiful recipe for cross-platform gaming.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: cross, exciting-beyond, game, launch, linux, maemo, nokian900, open gl, palm, platform, platforms, POTENTIAL, speed-on-much, unmodified-web
Adobe announces Air 2.5 for TVs, tablets and phones, launches Adobe InMarket to package apps
Adobe's making a serious play for the app space today, and it's not limiting itself to phones -- its new Air cross-platform runtime environment is designed to toss apps on your smart televisions and tablets as well. Air 2.5 supports accelerometers, multi-touch gestures, cameras and microphones, GPS data and hardware acceleration in a variety of silicon
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: adobeair2.5, air, app store, apps, cross, gestures, hosting, microphones, result, samsung, samsung-as-well, samsungsmarttv, smart, smarttv, televisions
Microsoft to open mobile games studio, develop and incubate Windows Phone 7 titles
Microsoft employees may eat their own dog food , but they won't have to code cross-platform Windows Phone 7 games in their spare time -- Redmond job postings recently revealed that there's a studio for that, which will develop and publish first- and second-party titles on the company's dime.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: britches, cross, emerging-mobile, game, mgsmobile, microsoft, mobilegaming, platform, platforms, studio, windows
It sucks that..
I have to get on my 360 so I can chat with my friends on PS3. I hope cross-game chat comes with the new paid service.
Categories: PS2 Tags: chat, chat-comes, cross, friends, friends-on-ps3, game, hope-cross-game, new-paid, ps3, result