Nokia VP, David Rivas, was in San Francisco yesterday touting Symbian^3 improvements. While we’ve heard and seen plenty about Symbian Three’s enhanced user experience already, it’s still worthy of another look considering Symbian’s dominant marketshare. Besides, David provides a very detailed look as he walks us though elements like the customizable (and more finger friendly) [...]

PrimeSense was formed in 2005, and unless you’re a sickly obsessed silicon junkie, you’ve probably never heard of them. All that changes today. We sat down with the company at GDC to learn more about the chip that it produces, and we left with an imagination sore from being stretched so severely. Put simply, the [...]

Sony’s calling the PlayStation Move the “next generation” of motion gaming and planning to market it as heavily as an entirely new console, so it’s sort of a big deal — and that means our main dudes at Joystiq are all over it. We’ve already covered the main details, but hit the links below if [...]

The search-engine wars are alive and well — and Bing is the beneficiary again. Microsoft’s so-called decision engine grabbed 11.5 percent of the U.S. search market in February, according to comScore.

Although that’s only a slight increase over January, when Bing boasted 11.3 percent of the search market, it’s an incremental improvement Microsoft is glad to [...]

Apple tightly controls not only the approval of third-party applications for its App Store but also its developers. Apple’s developer agreement says “Public statements regarding this agreement, its terms and conditions, or the relationship of the parties” require Apple’s written approval.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation made the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement public. EFF obtained the [...]

With its mind in the clouds and an eye on rival Microsoft, Google on Tuesday launched an online application store for third-party programs that can be integrated with its online Google Apps office suite, with a single log-in and Google’s universal navigation. The programs can sync with Gmail and Google’s calendar, and use document-sharing features.

With [...]

By and large, EA Sports’ Season Opener event here at GDC was underwhelming, but one glimmer of newness did manage to shine through. Nearly a year after Active hit stores (video after the break) and encouraged Wii gamers to drop those unwanted pounds before hitting the soft sand in the summer, the company has announced [...]

There’s no denying that the Mini 5 is real, but up until now, we’ve had to provide all of our own promotional material. At long last, it seems as if the suits in Round Rock are finally getting around to crafting the first advertisements for the upcoming slate, and while we knew about the 5-inch [...]

We had a hunch that Pentax was readying a 645 Digital, and sure enough, the company has come clean with that very camera today. The May-bound 40 megapixel 645D is a medium format beast, but unlike similar options from Hasselblad, this one won’t actually destroy your hopes of sending four generations of offspring to college. [...]

Facebook may join other Internet companies in offering location-based services. The social-networking site plans to let its users to share their location and see the locations of friends, according to published reports.

Facebook could use the service to provide advertisers with targeted information such as the nearest ATM. The feature is expected to be similar to [...]