Section: Communications, Mobile, Web, Websites Fandango was one of the first companies to take movie ticket purchasing online. But now that the rest of the world has caught up with them, Fandango needed to take another step to get ahead of the game. So they came out with mobile tickets. Mobile phones have now become computers in their own right. In fact, if you want to find out what movies are pla...

Nokia Betalabs today announces the public availability of Microsoft Silverlight for Symbian – Beta. Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform implementation of the .NET Framework for creating media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web on desktop computers and mobile phones. Silverlight beta contains an installer for Symbian^1 devices and developer tools for developi...

There are not too many times when you want to use Caps Lock. However, the times when you do need it, its really convenient. Its a lot easier to set your keyboard to display ALL CAPS than it is to have to capitalize each letter of a word or phrase yourself. As mobile phones get closer and closer to being small computers, we might want to have the ability to use Caps Lock on our phones. Guess what? ...

Way back in 1991, just as Apple was transitioning from 68k to PowerPC chips, the braniacs at Xerox PARC were predicting its entire iPod, iPhone and iPad strategy. And next up for the iPad is a blackboard-sized device. Nearly 20 years ago, just as personal desktop computers were taking off, researchers at Xerox started thinking about

Silverlight, a cross-browser, cross-platform implementation of the .NET Framework for building media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web on desktop computers, is now officially available for Nokia S60 5th Edition devices such as Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia N97 and Nokia N97 Mini. Silverlight is already powering thousands of applications around the world and organizations in...

Straight from the press release: We are pleased to announce the public availability of Microsoft Silverlight for Symbian Beta. Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform implementation of the .NET Framework for creating media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web on desktop computers and mobile phones. Silverlight beta contains an installer for Symbian ^1 (S60

As part of the activities at its MIX10 conference Microsoft has announced that the Beta of Silverlight for Symbian is now available. Microsoft describes Silverlight as 'a cross-browser, cross-platform implementation of the .NET Framework for building media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web on desktop computers'. The current Beta lets you run Silverlight applicatio...

The Cupertino firm has hired a wearable computing expert who will reportedly work alongside Jonathan Ive, Apple’s design guru, on a number of secret projects. According to a Computerworld report, Apple has named an expert in wearable computers Richard DeVaul its Senior Prototype Engineer. Seth Weintraub, the author of that report, claims Apple cleared DeVaul to

ComputerWorld is reporting that Apple has hired Richard DeVaul as a Senior Prototype Engineer—and hes an expert in wearable computers. DeVaul has a PhD from MIT and works with computer systems built into wearable devices, like clothes and glasses. His thesis was about broadcasting small bits of data onto your glasses, which subliminally helped with

Computerworld reports that Apple recently hired Richard DeVaul, an expert in wearable computers, to the position of "Senior Prototype Engineer". The move appears to signify efforts by Apple to remain at ...