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HP launches calculator app for iPhone and Windows

Stephen Shankland | Jun 29, 2009

HP now sells an HP 12C calculator app for the iPhone.
(Credit: Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET)

It looks like a fourth generation of my family is going to be introduced to the ways of reverse Polish notation calculators.

That's because my three-year-old son, an iPhone fan in his own preschool way, is about to be exposed to Hewlett-Packard's new iPhone application that fully emulates the company's 12c financial calculator. The US$14.99 application is accompanied by a US$29.99 emulator of the 15c scientific calculator, which is better at handling trigonometry and integration than mortgage payments and net present value.

All that's missing is the pocket protector-like iPhone case, my colleague Ina Fried cracked as she mocked my nerdish tendencies.
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HTC TouchFlo 3D tweaked to hide even more

John Chan | Jun 29, 2009

New shortcuts below the clock.
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We've seen the latest iteration of HTC's TouchFlo 3D on the Touch Diamond2 and Pro2 smartphones. This comes with quite a number of improvements over the last version of HTC's custom interface. Some of them include large menus throughout the Windows Mobile (WM) OS and an enhanced contacts page which integrates your text messages, emails and even Facebook updates for each address book entry. It seems like HTC is not quite done with the tweaks, and a future update to TouchFlo 3D has emerged showing further efforts to hide the default WM interface.

According to the screenshots, most of the settings pages have been skinned so you don't need to access the default Settings menu to get things changed. Shortcut icons have also been added to the Home screen below the clock so you can get to favorite applications or contacts quickly. Pocketnow speculates that the new version will make its way into the WM6.1-equipped Pro2 and Diamond2 when those devices get upgraded to WM6.5 later in the year. It's a likely proposition, but one we'll have to wait to see if it really happens. At the earliest, this will likely be in August or September.

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Android developers get native-code kit

David Meyer | Jun 29, 2009

A native application development kit has been released for Android developers, offering a way to create certain kinds of high-performing applications for handsets running the Google platform.

Android applications run through the Dalvik virtual machine, which emulates a Java virtual machine. On Thursday, the Android Native Development Kit (NDK) was released, allowing coders to create parts of their Android 1.5 applications outside Dalvik, using native-code languages such as C and C++.

This approach would not ordinarily produce a massive performance boost, but it does allow developers to reuse existing C and C++ code for Android applications.
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Mobile Internet flourishes with Michael Jackson's death

Damian Koh | Jun 29, 2009

Network traffic overview when news of Jackson's death hit the Web. (Credit: Akamai)

When news of pop music legend Michael Jackson's death hit the Web last week, it brought the Internet down to its knees. People wanted to read the latest news. They wanted to share it. And they reacted to it. So much that microblogging sites such as Twitter simply collapsed under the weight of the Internet.

People are not only following the unfolding of events from their PCs, but are also keeping tabs on headlines off their mobile phones. Does it take the death of someone to realize how reliant on interconnectedness we all are? Share what you think. Has the mobile Internet benefitted you, or has this interconnected world become a burden bombarding you with information all the time?

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Is Sony planning a PSP phone?

Jennifer Guevin | Jun 29, 2009

The newest version of Sony's PlayStation Portable isn't even on sale yet, but the company is already looking ahead to what's next, according to Reuters.

The electronics giant is looking into making a combination gadget that would meld its PSP gaming system with the cell phones made by Sony Ericsson, its joint-venture Swedish electronics maker Ericsson, according to Reuters, which cited the Nikkei business daily.
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