James Alan Miller

Getting around can be tough — detours, weather, unknown roads. Here’s a gaggle of iPhone apps to help you along your way. This list of iPhone apps provides a roadmap to the best navigation, travel and local bus/subway apps available for both professionals and consumers. Use it as a guide for yourself or pass it […]

The Nexus One is available unlocked (without a contract) for T-Mobile and AT&T’s carrier networks as well as locked (with a two-year subscriber agreement) from a single operator, T-Mobile. The unlocked edition, at $529, is considerably more expensive than the locked version, which goes for only $179 with a two-year contract. Also, keep in mind […]

Various types of recurrence (e.g. daily, weekly, monthly and yearly) are supported. So a user can schedule a Happy Birthday message to be sent all years on a particular date, for example. The software supports the scheduling of an unlimited number SMS messages and allows users to specify multiple recipient numbers for each scheduled SMS, […]

A popular database and forms creation tool for mobile devices allows you to now track whatever you like with Apple’s smartphone. DDH Software has brought its database and forms software for mobile devices, HanDBase, to the iPhone. Launched for the Palm OS way back in the late nineties, HanDBase is also available for Windows Mobile […]

Most of the major smartphone platforms (i.e. Windows Mobile, Symbian & the Palm OS) allow you to run applications off of a memory card. That way you don’t have to take up all your device’s internal memory to store and run the myriad of apps many of people use. Not the case with the first […]

One year ago the Mozilla Foundation announced it would was developing a version of its popular FireFox web browser mobile devices. The first fruits of this effort may finally arrive soon. According to Mozilla CEO John Lilly, the foundation should roll out the alpha version of FireFox mobile in the next few weeks. Codenamed Fennec, […]

You can now access your QuickBooks Online account from an iPhone and BlackBerry, two of the most popular and fastest growing smartphone platforms today. Through the Web apps, users can users can check current bank and credit card balances, track who owes them money and who they owe, find vendor and customer contact info with […]

Research In Motion’s (Bold) has started rolling out its latest BlackBerry model, Bold, in some international markets. So, if you happen to live in Chile, you can now pick up a BlackBerry Bold from Movistar for 299,990 Chilean pesos (about $583 today) with a two-year agreement. Sorry, the latest and greatest BlackBerry is not available […]

Like Google for Android and Apple for the iPhone, RIM is now offering up a good chuck of change to advance the mobile experience. It is partnering with RBC and Thomson Reuters to create the BlackBerry Partners Fund, a $150 million venture capital fund designed to drive the development of mobile applications and services. Unlike […]

The latest edition of RIM’s BlackBerry Connection newsletter includes some useful tips to help you transfer videos, songs, documents or other files from your BlackBerry to your computer and, by extension, load your smartphone with media files from your desktop. You can transfer files directly by connecting your BlackBerry to your computer and using the […]