Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology. TiVo’s announcement of TiVo Premiere represents the most significant user interface overhaul for the device in years. Based on Adobe Flash and optimized for the high-definition screens that are likely to be paired with CableCARD programming, the new user interface blends together live, recorded, and broadband content. That presentation is more akin to what we’ve...

Naturally, we need to first disclaim this noise by saying that rumors of third-party multitasking capability in the iPhone are as old as the iPhone SDK itself. That said, it’s hard to ignore a new reference to a “multitasking dialog box” buried deep within the iPhone SDK 3.2 beta that — while not new to beta 4 specifically — we’re told didn’t exist in 3.1.3. Now, the wildest possible speculation would have...

Martin Cooper knows a thing or two about cellphones, having invented them and all. And while he’s owned an iPhone before, he revealed in a recent interview that his current handset of choice runs Android. Guess which! More » View full post on Gizmodo SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Inventor of the Cellphone Is an Android Man [Android]", url: "http://nicebookmark.net/news-feed/gizmodo/the-inventor-of-the-cellphone-is-an-android-man-android.htm"...

Isn’t Italy a place of contrast? After the country’s judiciary slammed Google for failing to keep a tight enough leash on user-uploaded content, we’re now hearing that its local version of Wired magazine is putting forward the internet as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of its contributions to “helping advance dialogue, debate and consensus.” Right then. Just in case you think this is all a bit silly...

Cynics will likely say China’s forcing Motorola to include Bing search instead of Google in Chinese Android phones, due to the ongoing war o’ censorship with Google. Me? Well, Bing is the better search engine. Kidding! More » View full post on Gizmodo SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Motorola Replacing Google Search With Bing On Chinese Android Phones [Google]", url: "http://nicebookmark.net/news-feed/gizmodo/motorola-replacing-google-search-with-bing-on-chinese-android-phones-google.htm"...