You know Twitter is getting big when a huge telecom giant resorts to using the micro-blogging service to keep customers informed during service blackouts. Following a cable-cut situation that left Santa Clara, CA. and San Jose, CA. residents without their daily YouTube and NSFW-fix on Thursday, AT&T used their Twitter account to send out updates…
Bluetooth 3.0 going official April 21!
Looks like T-Mobile’s going to be competing for press coverage on April 21. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) is ready to go live with their 802.11-based Bluetooth 3.0 specification on April 21. The new Bluetooth 3.0 spec touts faster, more reliable data transfers that will have us all transferring entire music libraries and DVD…
T-Mobile’s brewing something for April 21
T-Mobile’s got something brewing in their test kitchens. The No. 4 US wireless carrier has scheduled some sort of press event for April 21 in New York City. With all sorts of possible product launches looming on T-Mobile’s horizon, we can’t wait to see what T-Mobile has in store for us on April 21. The…
Verizon launches HTC Touch Diamond!
The rumors, they ran true, it seems. Earlier this week we had heard rumblings that the HTC Touch Diamond would finally launch in CDMA-form on Verizon Wireless on April 10. Lo and behold, Verizon has gone and launched the once-spectacular Touch Diamond! Starting April 10, Verizon customers can pick up the HTC Touch Diamond through…
BlackBerry Tattoo – What happens when geeks get drunk
What likely started out as a fun-sounding way to show his hardcore dedication to the BlackBerry App World probably ended up adding another notch to his belt-of-regret. CrackBerry member ivanmor was apparently so smitten with RIM’s new BlackBerry App World logo, that he decided to go out and tattoo the friggin’ logo to his person.…
Cable provider Cox prepping own wireless network
With telcos offering internet and television service and cable TV providers getting into the home-phone and internet service game, the lines between different wired and wireless networks will become more muddled. Case in point, sixth-largest US cable provider Cox Communications is preparing to launch their very own wireless network. Cox is looking to branch out…
New iPhone on schedule for June launch!
It’s almost an accepted fact that Apple will be launching the new iPhone, possibly two new iPhones, this June or July. Given Apple’s short history with iPhone launches, it makes sense. Today, the Chinese-language Commercial Times is reporting that component suppliers are now shipping iPhone parts to hardware integrators. The ship dates are an apparently…
Palm Pre now rumored for mid-April launch on Sprint!
If you thought the previous rumor about the Palm Pre being launched by Sprint on April 30 was full of hot, Tweeted air, you’ll find this latest Palm Pre rumor even more outlandish. Rumblings along the mobile grapevine are hinting at a mid-April launch for the highly-anticipated Palm Pre – April 15 or 16 is…
Video recording, digital compass coming to new iPhone!
The latest iPhone rumor borne of the iPhone OS 3.0 betas points to the possibility that new iPhone hardware will include video recording capabilities and a magnetometer. Of the possibly two new iPhones coming out this Summer, at least one of them may sport the same “digital compass” technology as the T-Mobile G1 (most notably…
Analyst: Apple readying two new iPhones for mid-Summer, tiered data from AT&T
As we wait for Apple to drop new iPhone hardware on us come this Summer, we can’t help but to try and make sense of the scraps of info we’ve gathered on the next-generation iPhone. The iPhone 3.0 OS betas have already yielded some juicy hints of two new iPhone variants coming down Apple’s product…