Archive for the ‘Mobile phones and apps’ Category

AT&T CruiseCast: $1300 for BYOS (Bring Your Own Screen) Back-Seat TV for Your Car

I don’t have kids and I rarely go on long road trips, so I’m probably the last person in the country who would blow $1299 to put an AT&T CruiseCast antenna on top of my aging Honda Accord. But if you’ve got the money (and a preinstalled rear-seat entertainment system to hook the antenna signal into), the system and its [...]

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Google I/O Previews Even Neater Web Apps

Yes, today’s Web apps are cool — but you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. That was the message from speakers at the keynote for Google I/O, the company’s developer conference, which runs today and tomorrow at Moscone Center West. With Google CEO Eric Schmidt as emcee, several Google execs showed off a variety of cool technologies, [...]

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Send Your Location Instantly with Zhiing

If I need to figure out how to get somewhere, I can use Google Maps on my iPhone. But what if someone else needs to figure out how to get to me? Sure, I can spend a few minutes on the phone describing my whereabouts or giving directions. But unless I can easily pinpoint my [...]

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