Sure, if you’re already and AT&T customer, especially if you have an iPhone, you can already enjoy free WiFi service in Barnes & Noble retail locations throughout the US. But, for the rest of you without an AT&T subscription to call your own, Barnes & Noble has just announced that it will give all customers…
Meet Robochan, the iPhone 3GS robot!
When will geeks’ obsession with smartphone-controlled robots end? Well, if they’re half as cool as Robochan, we hope it never does! Meet Robochan, a Kondo KHR-2HV humanoid robot controlled by an iPhone 3GS that also serves as the ‘bot’s head and face. Robochan comes to life with the iPhone 3GS connected through the dock connector.…
Sprint focuses on pre-paid with acquisition Virgin Mobile for $483 million
The thing about big-time wireless carriers with nationwide networks is that they’re always looking to become even bigger-time wireless carriers. Sprint, for example, has just announced that it will be acquiring Virgin Mobile USA for the not-so-small sum of $483 million. The deal is part of Sprint’s push to focus on the pre-paid wireless market…
Apple pulls Google Voice apps from AppStore
Chalk up another controversial AppStore policy for Apple. This time around, the iPhone maker has pulled third-party apps that help iPhone users take advantage of Google Voice services. Both GV Mobile and VoiceCentral have been taken down from the AppStore. According to GV Mobile developer Sean Kovacs, Apple pulled his iPhone app on grounds that…
Microsoft opens Windows Marketplace to devs
Microsoft isn’t exactly known for making good on their launch deadlines, but it seems Redmond has learned from their past. Today, as Microsoft had said they would, the Windows Marketplace for Mobile is officially open to Windows Mobile developers. Microsoft has announced that it is now accepting WinMo app submissions from developers in the 29…
Apple brings back iPhone app promo codes for 17+ apps
iPhone developers, your complaints have not fallen on deaf ears. Following the iPhone developer backlash that Apple brought on themselves by prohibiting iPhone apps with a 17+ age-rating from being issued promotional codes, Apple is once again doling out promo codes to interested devs. Apple has apparently given in to consumer and developer-demand by lifting…
Resident Evil 4 for iPhone goes live!
Just as expected, Resident Evil 4 for iPhone has gone live on the AppStore. Capcom’s more highly rated Resident Evil title is now available for iPhone gamers itching to take fire a couple rounds into a zombie head… or two. At $7.99 (iTunes link), Resident Evil 4 for iPhone isn’t one of the cheaper games…
Foxconn pays iPhone suicide victims $44,000 and a computer
First off, Foxconn employee and graduate student Sun Danyong is the real victim here. Sun is the 25-year-old Foxconn worker entrusted with a gaggle of next-generation iPhone prototypes. After losing a prototype, Foxconn allegedly interrogated Sun through physical abuse and humiliation. On July 16, Sun apparently jumped to his death from the 12th floor of…
Pot-finding iPhone app scores devs more than 1000 paid downloads
Even with all that money being spent on “zips” of purple kush, pot-heads across the US have driven over 1000 paid downloads of the “highest” iPhone app, recently launched on the AppStore. The Cannabis iPhone app, for those of you with (ahem) memory problems, gives iPhone-wielding smokers a quick and easy way to find the…
Verizon Wireless tucks another 1.1 million subscribers under its belt
The nation’s largest wireless carrier has gotten a good deal bigger in Q2 2009. Verizon Wireless has announced that its second quarter of this year netted the US wireless carrier a cool 1.1 million subscribers. Big Red’s net subscriber adds fall short of AT&T’s just announced count of 1.4 million additional subs for the second…