AT&T just posted their Q4 2009 figures and, for someone with such a shady network, they’re doing alright. They’ve added 2.7 million new wireless subscribers between October and December, their second best quarter in terms of adding customers. Churn, defined as a customer leaving a network because it either A) sucks or is B) too…
Adobe just flipped Apple the birdie with regards to the iPad
Adrian Ludwig, an Adobe employee, wrote a blog post on Adobe’s official Flash Platform blog that blasts Apple and their stubbornness regarding Flash. It looks like Apple is continuing to impose restrictions on their devices that limit both content publishers and consumers. Unlike many other ebook readers using the ePub file format, consumers will not…
Nokia Q4 09: Operating profit up almost 99% year on year, net sales still down 5%
After Q3 09, when Nokia reported their first loss in over a decade due to a huge write-off for Nokia Siemens Networks, no one thought the company would bounce back. Well they did, and their numbers are looking a hell of a lot better. Between October and December of 2009 Nokia generated almost 12 billion…
With the iPad, Apple just jumped the shark
Everything was going great at Apple, until today. The Macs are selling because Vista was a terrible operating system, and while Windows 7 is better, it’s still not considered “cool” to own an HP, Dell or Acer computer. The iPhones are selling because they truly are awesome pieces of technology. You can fit a web…
Video: Nokia puts a radar detector in your pants, now you can measure the speed of your pump action
Nokia’s Research Center in Helsinki has invented mobile radar. Yes, you’ve heard that right. The same type of technology that submarines have and make Sean Connery in The Hunt for Red October an awesome Russian anti-hero. Jani Ollikainen, Ilari Teikari, Risto Kaunisto, Terhi Rautiainen have to be given credit here, their demo shows how one…
Video: In case you haven’t heard about it yet, McGraw-Hill CEO confirms the iTablet/iSlate/iPad
We were debating in our team chat room who should write this story up. Just say Apple Tablet next to someone who works for IntoMobile and they’ll begin violently vomiting and defecating while screaming obscenities in 3 different languages all the while simultaneously making sexually explicit facial expressions at small children. It’s that bad, we’ve…
Fraunhofer, the guys who invented the MP3, invent “Audio Communication Engine” for use with LTE
The MP3 was invented by a bunch of engineers working at Fraunhofer. You probably have hundreds, if not thousands of MP3 files on your computer right now. Some say they ruined the music industry, but the people who speak such things are pissed because they don’t get to fly around in their own private jet…
FCC investigating all US operators (Sprint, T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon), and Google, over ETF pricing
The FCC has sent letters to AT&T, Google, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless asking what an ETF (Early Termination Fee) is and how it benefits the company. It’s about time this happened. American operators have an invisible monopoly when it comes to handset financing. If you don’t want to spend $600 on that smartphone, and…
Officially less than 24 hours until the iTablet/iSlate/iPad is announced, who will have the best coverage?
It’s officially 12:07 in Texas which means there are now less than 24 hours until the big day tomorrow, when Apple is supposedly going to reveal their iTablet/iSlate/iPad device. I’m still convinced that something with a 7 to 10 inch screen is absolutely retarded, but we’re not going to wait long to find out if…
State of the Mobile Web December 2009: Opera Mini is now 4 years old, has 46.3 million users
In November 2005 Opera Mini went public in a limited trial offered to only Sweden and Norway. A few months later, January 2006, it would be released globally, and this month Opera is celebrating 4 years of having their wickedly awesome Opera Mini browser available around the world. As per every month in recent history,…