People like free things, and it is proven again.  The Ovi Map from Nokia has been downloaded for 1.4 millions times since it went free last week.  An on average, it is one download every second. The response has been so good that it’s exceeded Nokia’s expectations according to Anssi Vanjoki, Nokia Executive Vice President.  And the countries that top the 5 are China, Italy, UK, Germany and Spain. It is hard to resist when [...]

This make sense as Google is becoming the common enemy of Apple and Microsoft. With Google’s strong push of Android in the market and works from Google to integrate their services tightly to the platform, it will slowly capture the mobile search market and soon the mobile market. And with the recent purchase of Admob (a mobile ads company) and release of its first Android phone, Nexus One, to the market, the big G has [...]

After a short while of private testing with developers, Palm‘s latest killer development platform, Ares, is now opened for public beta. This development platform is built entirely on web, developers do not need to download anything.  Just goto http://ares.palm.com to start coding, visually.  The platform is also made easy for developer collaboration and app submission to Palm’s App Catalog. Ares includes Complete integrated development environment Drag-and-drop interface builder Code editor Visual debugger Log viewer Source [...]

HTC has started to upload some widgets to Android Market.  They are downable for free.  However, they are only for HTC Hero and Eris only.  That means they are only for Sense equipped devices. The four widgets are: Dice: Tap the dice first, and then simply shake your phone to “throw” the dice. Today in History: In this widget, learn about significant events and famous people who were born or who died on this day [...]

Looking for an alternative search engine on your iPhone?  Microsoft has made its search engine Bing available in iPhone App Store.  And it will compete with Goole’s mobile app. The key features of the new application include: Daily image from Bing.com Easy to access voice search Tips and tricks on the home page “Locate Me” functionality Ability to add pushpins and save locations Show multiple locations on a single map If you wish to try [...]

A good news for Symbian phone users, Skype has just released Skype for Symbian beta for many of the Symbian handsets.  The Symbian phone owners can now have a native Skype client for the phones and do not need to rely on any other third party clients. From the announcement, phones that are supported are: Nokia E71, Nokia E63,  Nokia E66, Nokia N82, Nokia E51,  Nokia N95,  Nokia N95 8GB,  Nokia N81,  Nokia N81 8GB, [...]

Users of latest Windows mobile devices with digital compass like HTC HD2 will be pleased to know about this.  The digital compass can now be used with the latest Google Maps 3.3.1. All you have to do is to tap on the my location icon on the botom right and a littil blue arrow will display on the map (in place of the blue dot).  The tip of the arrow will basically be the top [...]

Opera browser is one of the best (if it is not the best) brwoser for mobile devices.  It brings a consistent and featureful browsing experience to mobile users.  And now it is available for Android users.  However, it is not available for general download.  Instead, it will be licensed through manufacturers and operators. According to opera: “Opera’s cross-platform UI framework is built on top of the browser engine. This allows it to work seamlessly on [...]

Tencube, the Singapore firm who produces the winning software of Android Developer Challenge 2, Wavesecure, has announced that they are giving the Android users lifetime account for Wavesecure if you sign up for an account before 31st of January 2010. They have mentioned this in the blog: “As a giveback to Android users support that made our ADC win possible, we are offering an unlimited free lifetime account for Android users. Just head over to [...]

When Google released the Google Maps Navigation (the turn-by-turn navigation) for Android 1.6 and above, it was not so good news for users not residing in US as the service is only available in US.  May be this is due to licensing restriction?  Otherwise, I would think Google’d surely like to offer the service worldwide. Then there came the hackers from XDA-Developers and they made the service work in the regions outside US with some [...]