There’s a lot of argument over just how “open” Google is with it’s Android OS, and now Mozilla is doing something about it. To combat the part-open-part-closed Android Mozilla will be creating it’s own mobile OS for smartphones and tablets currently named Boot to Gecko (B2G). Boot to Gecko will use the Gecko engine that more »

Google’s Android platform has been championed as the side of openness compared to Apple in the mobile OS wars, but it seems that claim isn’t as clear as you’d think. According to a lawsuit filed by Skyhook against Google, it would seem that in some instances Google is running more of a closed platform. According more »

It looks like Foxit is trying to make some headway in the ebook market, or more specifically it looks like they are at least trying to keep up with the current giants of Amazon, Sony and Barnes & Noble by having an ebook store carrying their name. Yes, similar to those three big players, Foxit more »

Today, Google extended Wave invites to everyone that applied for one. Along with that, they hit the 1,000,000 user milestone. This is great and all, but I’m sure that three-fourths of these users don’t exactly know what to use Wave for. I consider myself half and half on that aspect. To me, Google Wave is more »

The Foxit eSlick reader was originally announced back in mid-December of last year, and since then it seems to have blended into the ever growing collection of available ebook readers. That said, the eSlick was just recently given a firmware update, and a nice one at that. And that update is offering at least one more »

San Diego Comic-Con 2009 is kicking off and Mattel is introducing a new set of toys based on the movie “Avatar” that brings augmented reality to kids. Here’s how this works: each toy (vehicle, action figure, etc.) has a 3-D tag which can be scanned using a webcam. Then the computer will display info about more »

MetroPCS has just announced that they will begin allowing customers to activate handsets from other carriers. As a CDMA carrier, customers will be able to use handsets from other major carriers such as Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel and Alltel. According to the official announcement this will make MetroPCS “the largest U.S. wireless carrier” to allow more »

As we mentioned earlier in the week, Hulu has, as promised, opened their doors to the public. “Today we are excited to leave our private beta and open Hulu.com to everyone in the U.S.. Our streaming video service is free – anyone in the U.S. with a broadband internet connection and a computer can just more »

Online video service Hulu will be opening its doors to the public in just a few days. As of Wednesday March 12, 2008 anyone will be able to sign up and use Hulu, where before (and currently) it is has been limited to invitation only sign-ups which has been in effect since they first launched more »