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Weekly News In Review: MySpace for BlackBerry v1.5, Treo Pro available through Alltel

Social Networking Since we can’t actively cover every news article that breaks (as much as we would love to), PhoneDog compiles various announcements and press releases that have been published throughout the week and places them in one easy to read...

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PC World looks at rejected iPhone apps

Cell Phone App Reviews Is this news? Not really, but it’s darn funny. PC World ’s coverage of 10 rejected apps was meant to shed light on the iPhone app developer’s dilemma: Is there any way to know whether a pet project stands a chance of approval in the App...

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Proposed Italian law may block Facebook access

Social Networking Inspired by what the Italian government refers to as "those who justify or incite criminal behavior," a bill introduced by Senator Gianpiero D’Alia may block access to Facebook for some. Apparently, various groups on the social...

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Skyfire 0.9 Beta: facebook, twitter, and Feed Management

Skyfire Noah gets a hands-on demo of the new Skyfire browser for Winows Mobile and Symbian phones. Version 0.9 beta adds some cool social, media, and news feed management features along with improved browsing that includes Flash 10 and streaming...

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Getting social with Android, part 3: Twidroid

Android No social networking apparatus is complete without a few tweets. While there is a long list of apps in the Android Market that feature Twitter integration as a bonus, and a good handful of programs that are dedicated specifically to...

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Getting social with Android, part 2: fBook

Android fBook wraps the iPhone Facebook application, and as the developer states, "fixes it." I am not an iPhone owner, but I've seen the Facebook app for iPhone. Without getting into detailed comparisons based on videos and my foggy memory, I...

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Getting social with Android, part 1: BuddyMob

Android Rather than ranking the social networking apps available in the Android Market, I've decided just to write about them in small clusters. Programs that demand more words will get their own blog entries. One of the most deserving is the...

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Android's personal task list apps

Android If you read this site regularly, you may have seen a post of mine referring to Astrid or Remember the Milk. I'm not going to rehash anything that's already been said - just follow the links if you're interested. But I thought it might be...

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PhoneDogFight! iPhone 3G vs BlackBerry Storm - facebook

Head To Head Reviews So many people these days don't even talk on their phones - they use them to keep in touch via Email, SMS, IM, and social media. Noah pits the iPhone 3G vs BlackBerry Storm in a battle of facebook connectivity - apps and Websites.

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Mobile Firefox sees new stage, Twitter

Social Networking The second alpha release of Fennec benefits from many optimizations that increase performance. Of note is the conditional updating of certain canvas regions, rather than redrawing the whole canvas after each change. This is an...

from 2008 by John Walton 1

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Get the most from PhoneDog through Facebook

Social Networking (Click to see the full story for active links.) Do you have a Facebook account and like what we're doing at PhoneDog? Go become a Facebook PhoneDog fan! Just go to this page and click on "Become a fan." While you're at it, click ...

from 2008 by John Walton 0

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MySpace for BlackBerry breaks records

Social Networking Last week, I posted about the launch of MySpace for BlackBerry , which joined BlackBerry's social networking crew of Facebook and Flickr. Now MySpace and Blackberry maker Research In Motion announce that their joint venture has broken...

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Enjoy phonedogTV from your Facebook profile

Social Networking Check it out . You can add the phonedogTV Facebook application to your FB profile. Have it always at the ready under the boxes tab, or post and share it on your wall. Live broadcasts will prompt you to join, and when there isn't a live...

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MySpace for BlackBerry launches at midnight!

Social Networking Sources in the know tell us that the MySpace app for BlackBerry smartphones launches at 12:01AM EST tonight. This is good news for those who get bored during corporate town hall meetings or want to kill some time between appointments. Now,...

from 2008 by Adriana Lee 0

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fBook brings IPhone Facebook app to Android?

Android I've never used the iPhone Facebook app, so I can't compare. But fBook's description in the Android Market says it's "a wrapper that optimizes and fixes* the Facebook iPhone web app for your Android phone." The asterisk denotes a list of...

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Twitter client for Android released

Android Today is the scheduled release date for the first public version of the Twidroid application, formerly known as Twitroid. It allows you to post updates with pictures via a site called--you guessed it--Phodroid. If you said “Picdroid,” you...

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Hacked: Quick review of Current & Twitter's "Hack the Debate"

Social Networking This week's Noah's Bark podcast features an interview with Chloe Sladden, VP of Special Project Programming at Current TV. Chloe and I talked about "Hack the Debate," a collaboration between Current and Twitter which allows viewers...

from 2008 by Noah Kravitz 0

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Noah's Bark Episode 6 - Obama + McCain + Current TV + Twitter = Hack the Debate (with your phone)!

Android Chloe Sladden, VP of Special Project Programming at Current TV, comes on the show to talk about "Hack the Debate." Current has teamed up with Twitter to broadcast a near-real-time river of tweets with each Presidential (and VP) debate this...

from 2008 by Noah Kravitz 0

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iPhone Watch: Facebook 2.0 app available for free download

Social Networking Did you know you can keep up with the PhoneDog Crew (that's what YouTube called us last week) via our Facebook page ? It's true. What's also true is that Facebook launched version 2.0 of their iPhone app yesterday, and I downloaded it...

from 2008 by Noah Kravitz 2

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Across the Web : PhoneDog on Facebook and Technorati

Social Networking We've been working hard to spread the PhoneDog love far and wide across the Internet. So here's a little update. By now you know you can catch my video reviews and comparisons of phones on YouTube, but did you know that you don't...

from 2008 by Noah Kravitz 0