Mike Woodward, Vice President of the Mobile Device Portfolio at AT&T, recently said: “over the past six quarters [18 months], the number of megabytes being consumed by AT&T subscribers has soared 5,000 percent”. Think about that for a moment. [Via: mocoNews]
R.I.P. Hannu Pirskanen: Chief Designer of the S60 software platform
Say what you will about S60 in its current state today, but when it came out it was quite revolutionary. Hannu Pirskanen, who was a part of the early S60 UI concepting phase, as well as the Chief UI Designer of the Nokia 6110, died last week in his home town of Oulu, Finland. Christian…
Brief: Palm’s stock surged because of rumours saying Nokia is going to buy them
Palm’s stock yesterday rose $1.12 to $17.07 fueled by speculation that they were going to be purchased by Nokia. Do you think it could happen? I mean, it would give Nokia a foothold in the American market, but what the hell would Nokia do with webOS? They’re betting on Maemo and Symbian in the long…
Find your local Starbucks, and buy a cup of coffee that tastes like burnt dirt; there’s an app for that
Starbucks, an international chain of coffee shops that usually have highly attractive young women serving coffee that can no longer be called coffee since so many additional mystical, magical, and foreign substances have been added to it, has released two iPhone applications. The first is called “myStarbucks” [iTunes link] and it can be used to…
Videos: Layar, the Android augmented reality application we all love, is going 3D this November
Layar, which came out only 3 months ago and has received a hell of a lot of hype, is adding 3D capabilities to their application this November with the launch of Layar 3.0. Thanks to OpenGL, the accelerometer, GPS chip and compass inside mobile devices today, Layar is able to draw 3D objects in real…
The iPhone can now be sold in South Korea
Telecommunications regulators in South Korea have approved the sale of the sale of the iPhone in their country. It remains to be seen whether or not the iPhone will be sold there, since that is a decision local operators have to make. Any South Korean readers excited about this, or are you already using an…
QoTD: “AT&T is cutting off your arm and then trying to sell you some bandages.”
Reading other people’s rants is like ringing a person’s doorbell and having them answer in their underwear. You know that little bit extra about them that you didn’t before your eyes saw those Hello Kitty boxers. With that said, Adam Frucci from Gizmodo blows it out of the fucking water with this rant about AT&T’s…
Samsung: 2 new 1 GHz processors, new 5 megapixel camera sensor, and ultra fast memory
At the sixth annual Samsung Mobile Solutions Forum in Taiwan, the South Korean company introduced various bits of hardware that will be coming to a mobile phone near you some time during the next decade. First we have two new processors, the S5PC110 and S5PV210, both use the ARM Cortex A8 running at 1 GHz,…
Becoming a better blogger, reader and helping me take out the trash: Trimming in Public: Episode 15
Trimming in Public is a series where I go through my list of 293 RSS feeds, 10 feeds at a time, give some detail as to why I subscribed to a particular feed, and then decide whether or not to keep on consuming that feed. In Episode 1, I explained what RSS is and how…
Attention T-Mobile UK customers: Roaming to become crazy expensive on October 26th
T-Mobile UK customers should head on over to this website to see how much the prices of roaming are going to change on October 26th. Most notable change is roaming in the USA, increasing by over 50%! [Hat tip to Ilicco Elia, Head of Mobile, Reuters]