Headlines for January 28th, 2010 through February 1st, 2010
Posted on 01. Feb, 2010 by [modern media mom] in Lastest Headlines, Latest News, Links & Resources
- Cellphone Curbs May Not Decrease Car Crashes – "Laws that forbid motorists from using hand-held phones or texting while driving don't appear to result in a significant decrease in vehicle crashes, according to a new study by the Highway Loss Data Institute expected to be released Friday.
The study, expected to be released at a conference in Washington, D.C., Friday, comes amid stepped-up efforts by federal highway-safety regulators to ban texting while driving and curb other forms of driver distraction. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood earlier this week announced rules to forbid commercial truck and bus drivers from text messaging while driving. Mr. LaHood has said he would ban all texting while driving if he could."
- Firefox Mobile Arrives on Nokia N900 Smartphones – "The mobile version of the Firefox browser is now available to owners of the Nokia N900 smartphone, after several months of beta tests. Mozilla is also working on versions for smartphones running Windows Mobile and Android."
- Acer, Spooked by iTunes, Says No iPad Rival – "Acer refuses to follow the pack with a tablet like Apple's iPad, saying it's too hard to compete with iTunes and the App Store."
- Five Apps We Can’t Wait to See on the iPad – "The iPhone already has a lot of apps that are better, fuller featured and easier to use than their desktop equivalents. Tweetie (a Twitter client) for iPhone does way more than Tweetie for the Mac, in a much more elegant way. All of the current iPhone applications should “just work” on your shiny new iPad, albeit at original size in the middle of a big. black screen, or scaled up to fit. Better will be the tweaked, iPad specific versions that should be around for the launch in two months time.
Here’s a list of applications we can’t wait to see on the iPad."
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