Microsoft: 15-app push notification limit isn’t that big of a deal, could be increased in the future
So Microsoft sounded off this week on the row over the 15-app push notification limit that just recently came to light, and while they've confirmed that the limit is very real, they've done a good job busting some of the FUD, explaining why it's not a huge deal, and how the limit might change in the future. First off, apps that support push but don't have it enabled don't count toward the limit, so that means that you won't necessarily end up with crashy software as long it's all coded correctly to handle errors raised by the operating system. Secondly, built-in live tiles -- Outlook, People, and so on -- don't count toward the limit, so if you include those, you could actually end up with over 20 total live tiles (sounds excessive to us, but we're sure someone's going to want to push the envelope)
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: bandwidth, count-toward, entry, fud, limit, load, microsoft, Notifications, operating, outlook, server, sliver, windowsphone7
Skyfire disappears from iTunes App Store due to technical difficulties (update: ‘sold out’)
Trying to get a copy of the Skyfire browser for your iOS device? You may not have much luck, as the pseudo-Flash-capable browser has just disappeared from iTunes App Stores around the globe, mere hours after its splashy debut . When we try to download it for ourselves in the United States we get the message immediately above, and RazorianFly readers are chiming in with reports that the app is no longer available in Greece, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Australia, Canada, Switzerland, Norway, Spain and the UK
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: appstoreapprovalprocess, breaking-news, denmark, engadget, norway, server, sweden, united-states
ARM reveals Eagle core as Cortex-A15, capable of quad-core computing at up to 2.5GHz
Way to take the wind out of our sails, ARM -- no sooner does your dual-core Cortex-A9 finally ship , do you reveal an even more powerful smartphone, smartbook and server-slaying beast. The Cortex-A15 MPCore picks up where the A9 left off, but with reportedly five times the power of existing SOCs, raising the bar for ARM-based single- and dual-core cell phone processors up to 1.5GHz... or as high as 2.5GHz in quad-core server-friendly rigs with hardware virtualization baked in and support for well over 4GB of memory
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: breaking-news, cortex, dual-core-cell, hotness, partner, raising-the-bar, result, server, st-ericsson
Kuwait wants RIM to filter BlackBerry traffic, Saudi Arabia testing three servers
The floodgates are open , and another country has washed in -- though unlike Saudi Arabia , India and the UAE , this one's not threatening a BlackBerry messaging ban...
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: arabia, demands, engadget, entry, india, kuwait, server
Official: iPhone 4 jailbreak hits from iPhone Dev Team (updated with video)
The Library of Congress made it legal, MuscleNerd showed us it was a go , and now Comex and company have delivered the long-awaited jailbreak to the fourth rendition of iPhone.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: apple, backup, divide-the-load, entry, handset, iphone, iphone 4, jailbreaking, rendition, safari-upon, server
New ‘licensing service’ replacing existing copy protection method in Android Market
Copy protection has always been a concern in the Android Market , primarily because applications can be sideloaded onto phones without a root or other modification from the end user.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: app, apps, copy protection, copyprotection, drm, entry, market-license, mechanism, operatingsystem, protection, security, server, sideload
Hey, Lego my Droid, you remote-controlled fiend! (video)
That original Motorola Droid looking long in tooth? Not sure what to do with it once you upgrade to Incredible , X , or even the progenitor's most direct descendant
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: blocks, fiend, ingenuity, missing, motorola, nxt, progenitor, server, structure
Google I/O recap: more web than you can shake a frozen dessert at
Whew, Google really knows how to pack it in. Two days of Google I/O and we've got enough info on the future of the web, phone, and television to write a couple sci-fi novels and retire
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: apple, download-server, flash, gingerbread, google io 2010, googleio2010, internet, microsoft, partners, server, web, web-browser
webOS port of Xorg in the works, OpenOffice support the inevitable result
In the absence of a full, editable version of Documents To Go (DataViz still hasn't released it), this might be of some serious interest to the Palm community -- or those that are willing to muck around a bit, anyway. X.org's X server implementation has been successfully shoehorned onto a Pre , meaning that we're well on our way to being able to run arbitrary Linux-based X11 apps on our phones -- including the mighty OpenOffice, as demonstrated here. It seems we're still a ways off yet; the devs have some file system issues to work through, which they say will likely take "weeks to months, rather than days" to fix, but it's a promising start
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: desktop-office, editable, inevitable, linux, linux-based, result, server, ways-off-yet, x11, xorg
Novatel NovaDrive cloud-based unlimited storage preview
Hold onto your hats, it seems Novatel , maker of some of the finest 3G / WiFi devices has decided to stretch its legs from connectivity into the realm of data storage. Not only is the cloud-based storage accessible through their software for Windows or Apple, but they're thoughfully built a nice mobile site so your cellphone can get in on the fun.