Mobile & Wireless

Google today will make available automatic speech recognition captioning for its YouTube video selection.  You can also add captioning manually by following directions on YouTube's site here.

It's time to download the beta of Microsoft Office 2010. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers put it through its paces and play "guess the release date".
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The New Oxford American Dictionary has announced its Word Of The Year for 2009: unfriend. (Well, at least they didn't choose teabagger.) But in IT Blogwatch, bloggers wonder if that's the best the wordmeisters could do.

According to Gartner, Windows Mobile share is being eaten up by Android...

In today's podcast: Dell to sell smartphones in China, Brazil; Berners-Lee's World Wide Web Foundation opens; and Microsoft confirms vulnerability in Windows 7.

An expert offers tips on extending the life of batteries. Also, just how dead is your battery?

Jeez, from the talk out there you'd think that Dell's just announced Mini 3 phone had no shot at success.  Dell, even though it hasn't been wildly successful over the past few years, still builds a lot of computers, including one of the thinnest and sexiest out there, the Adamo laptop line.

Their history in portable devices is less illustrious.  They had the Dell DJ and Axiom lines which both didn't live up to expectations.  However, the blame for those failures might be more on the OS than the hardware. 

Lenovo will soon be shipping an ARM Snapdragon-based netbook using Linux.

Google's latest toy for us to play with is a new Web protocol. Designed to make browsing faster and more efficient, SPDY sets out to solve many of the limitations of good ol' HTTP. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers dig into the detail, shouting "¡Ándale! ¡Ándale! ¡Arriba! ¡Arriba!" Not to mention Tweetlanta...
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Google's gift to travelers might have something else hidden inside.

I often tell people wireless is both a job and a hobby.  Like any hobby, one aspect I really enjoy is reaching out to others with the same interest to share information, debate, and learn from each other.   In this post, I want to highlight two different ways to find wireless users on Twitter: by using the #WirelessWednesday hashtag and through TweepML. 

There had been some questions as to whether or not Apple would kill support for Intel's Atom chips in today's 10.6.2 release. Last week it was reported that the latest 10.6.2 builds had new kernels that wouldn't work on Atom chips.

Today we find out that Apple indeed has cut support for Atom Chips.

Up until now, Google's Voice service has been a bit of a piecemeal apparatus.  You've needed regular land lines, a mobile number or another VOIP service for it to work.  Not anymore...

News hot off the wires is that Google is about to purchase the leading mobile ads vendor (besides Google itself), Admob .

An Australian, Rickrolling iPhone worm is now spreading internationally. The Antipodean prankster goes by the names Ash, ikee, ikex, ike_x, or @ikeeex. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers admire their new Rick Astley wallpaper, complete with "ikee is never gonna give you up" macro. Not to mention etsy.com fail...
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