Let me repeat this once again – Monty Pythons are coming to the iPhone and Android. Spanish company Zed secured the rights to mobile-ize the once famous (and still popular) sketch show, which was performed by Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin (not related to Sarah at all).…
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Please stop encouraging tricky apps like Handy Light
By now, you should be aware that Apple pulled the Handy Light app this morning because the flashlight app could be secretly turned into a tethering program with a secret code. I would like all the people encouraging other developers to include secret functionality in apps to kindly shut up. Tricking the gatekeepers leads us…
Verizon Offering 5GB Pre-paid Data for $80, and FiveSpot Next Month?
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to tell you that there is a whole lot more you can do with 5GB of data than 1GB, and the latter is the most Verizon is offering right now in its pre-paid bucket. Anything more than some casual browsing and a few e-mails here and there and you’ll…
Samsung Epic 4G Hoping for FCC Stamp of Approval
Samsung is hoping to get its first WiMax phone for the U.S., the Epic 4G, past the halls of the FCC for approval. That outline you see above is not quite as sexy as the device you’ve seen–and the device we’ve had on hands on–before, but it’s part of what has been submitted to the…
Samsung Gravity Touch Arrives at Bell and Virgin Mobile
I’ve been keeping my eye on the Samsung Gravity Touch for a little while now… and as expected the device has launched on Bell today for Canada to enjoy. While the launch on Bell is nothing to be surprised at, their little brother Virgin Mobile opened the doors on the side-slider as well. This is…
Microsoft giving Windows Phone 7 handsets to employees
There’s one way to ensure your mobile platform will get some market share: give away phones for free. That’s exactly what Microsoft will do with its upcoming Windows Phone 7 smartphones, as the more than 90,000 employees will be getting a free handset, according to Microsoft reporter extraordinaire Mary Jo Foley. “90K down … just…
Root the AT&T Samsung Captivate / Galaxy S [Tutorial]
So, you’ve got an AT&T Samsung Captivate in hand, and you want to get some root only applications like SetCPU, CacheMate, or Root Explorer onto your Samsung Galaxy S variant, do you? Well, you’re in luck, we have put together a handy little guide that should make it easy for you to do with your…
Skype gets iPhone iOS 4 multitasking support, allows you to side-step voice minutes completely
Good news, Skype users with iPhones, Skype has updated its free iPhone app to support the iOS 4 multitasking feature that allows the app to run in the background. In doing so, the refreshed app basically allows heavy Skype users to avoid using their wireless voice minutes on an iPhone 4 or iPhone 3GS with…
House Says No Cell Phones for Prisoners
This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone, but the House of Representatives just gave a big no-no for the use of mobile phones in prisons. Any prisoner in the United States is not allowed to have a device that accesses any wireless services according to bill S. 1749, or the Cell Phone Contraband Act.…
IntoMobile comments system under repair
If you’ve recently posted a comment on IntoMobile, we’d like to thank you for being an active part of the largest mobile mobile tech community on the web. We’d also like to apologize for our wonky comments system. We’ve just become aware of a problem with the Intense Debate side of our comments system that…