RIM fights back the iPhone and Android with touchscreen BlackBerry Torch and BlackBerry OS 6

We knew that BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion was going to announce something big at its joint AT&T event today, and it certainly didn’t disappoint. The company unveiled its latest flagship device, the touchscreen BlackBerry Torch, which will be available on AT&T August 12 for $199 with a two-year contract, and will be the first device [...]

Official Twitter App Launched For Android 2.1

After acquiring Tweetie, so they can launch an official Twitter app for iPhone, and after working with RIM to make an official Twitter app for BlackBerry, Twitter have now released an official app for Android.
Sadly, it is only compatible with Android 2.1 devices — the unfortunate side-effect of Android’s break-neck pace of development.
The app actually [...]

Camtweet Does Justin.tv Live On Twitter

There are a few ways you can send out live video feeds over Twitter right now. The most obvious is just take a service like Justin.tv, shorten your live stream URL, and tweet it out. But there’s no real easy-to-use seamless way of doing it. That’s what Camtweet, a new side project of Justin.tv launching [...]

Location Finding With Google Maps Comes To Chrome and Firefox [Google]

If you are running Chrome 2.0+ or FireFox 3.5+ you will notice a dot in the upper left corner of Google Maps that should, theoretically, be able to locate your position using the W3C Geolocation API.
We have been around this block before with apps like Geode and Google Gears, but it has yet to catch [...]