Just one day after Google (NSDQ: GOOG) beefed up Android with an eye on gaming, Palm (NSDQ: PALM) introduced tools that could bring 3D graphics and improved performance to webOS applications. The company previewed its Plug-in Development Kit at CES earlier this year, and it finally made a beta version available to developers over the weekend. [...]

iPhone users, your day of visual search reckoning has arrived! While Android users have been prancing around town with the Google Goggles app primed to identify objects by snapping a quick picture, the iPhone camp has been left without a viable visual search app to call their own. That is, until today. A new iPhone [...]

I think it’s a crying shame that Tawkon’s iPhone application won’t be allowed in the App Store because it seems like a well-crafted program that could find a large audience. I’m not too concerned about my cell phone’s radiation but I know a lot of people are. According to Tawkon’s technology page, the app uses an algorithm [...]

During the latest Engadget Show, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) showed off a prototype LG smartphone that will run Windows Phone 7 Series. Microsoft’s Aaron Woodman said the handset is a pre-production model but I wouldn’t expect it to change much before its release (which could be as early as September). There are no finalized specs yet but [...]

It was really only a matter of time before the National Aeronautics and Space Administration go on board the good ship iPhone. Today, NASA is giving iPhone users a chance to pilot a Lunar Electric Rover across a virtual lunar landscape. You’re probably never going to get a chance to man the controls of a [...]

It looks like Apple (NSDQ: AAPL)’s decision to give Wobble iBoobs the boot from the AppStore wasn’t an isolated incident – Apple has up and banned some 5,000 iPhone apps from the AppStore, citing new content rules regarding “adult” apps. It seems the iPhone maker is hell-bent on cleaning up its AppStore of any apps [...]

Good news for those of you living in constant fear of your significant other’s potentially volatile menstrual cycles – you now have a friend in the new PMS-tracking  PMSBuddy iPhone app. Just as the name implies, the PMSBuddy is an iPhone app that keeps track of when your lady friend’s “Aunt Flo” comes into town, [...]

It seems Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has changed their tune on the way VoIP apps are allowed to make calls on its iPhone. Apple has just approved an update to the Line2 app that actually allows the iPhone to make and receive phone calls over a 3G internet connection. That’s a stark departure from Apple’s previous [...]

Sygic Mobile Maps for iPhone has got a major update. It is bringing a whole UI reworking to its users free of charge – sweet! It is traffic-ready and the traffic info system will be gradually launched to the regions during this quarter. Additionally, it supports speed camera or road incident sharing between the app [...]

If you’re thinking about updating your iPhone to the latest iPhone OS 3.1.3 firmware, you might want to note that the update will essentially stop you from unlocking your iPhone for use on GSM networks that aren’t your official iPhone carrier. The iPhone OS 3.1.3 firmware comes bundled with a new baseband firmware version (05.12.01) [...]