A double-edged sword. That’s what the iPhone AppStore is fast becoming for Apple’s PR team. On the one edge, we have an incredibly popular and lucrative iPhone App Store that has seen something like 25,000 applications (6,000 of which are games) being offered to iPhone owners. Surely, that’s a pretty sharp edge. Unfortunately, there’s this…
Apple iPhone developers running out of time?
With iPhone developer contracts only outlined for a one-year period, iPhone developers who jumped on board the good-ship iPhone App Store in its earliest days are now facing a dilemma – they’re contracts are set to expire within the month and Apple has yet to announce an official contract-renewal mechanism. Apple previously told iPhone developers…
AT&T strike averted!
In a bit of good news for both AT&T Mobility and their 20,000 Communications Workers of America (CWA) employees, AT&T has announced that the telecom giant’s wireless business and the employee union have come to terms on a tentative contract agreement. The agreement staves off the CWA’s threatened strike, keeping workers working and AT&T Mobility’s…
Verizon to pay out quarterly dividend
Looks like Verizon Wireless is doing quite well for themselves. So well, in fact, that Verizon’s Q4 2008 accounting books showed a 15% growth in quarterly earnings. Verizon netted themselves a cool $1.24 billion in the previous quarter, bucking the trend of fiscal losses in this gloomy economy. All that success is being passed down…
Alltel’s Palm Treo Pro now available online
As expected, Alltel has beaten Sprint to the punch with their own CDMA-based Palm Treo Pro. The Alltel Treo Pro was expected to be available online on March 5th, but it turns out Alltel flipped the switch a few hours early, offering pre-orders to Treo Pro-loving night-owls last night. Today, Alltel is pushing the Alltel…
Windows 98 running on Nokia N95!
Seeing Windows 3.1 running on an already-aged Nokia N95 reminded us just how far we’ve come in the past decade, or so. Then there was that iPhone running Mac OS 7 (System 7). Mobile phones these days, smartphones especially, are jam-packed with more computing power than we would have thought possible before the turn of…
China Unicom chairman confirms Apple iPhone talks!
Here we go again. Apple has been trying to crack the China market with its iPhone for almost as long as the iPhone 3G has been around. With multiple rounds of reported negotiations between Apple and Chinese wireless carriers having fruited little more than speculation, the folks in Cupertino have yet to lay claim to…
BlackBerry 8230 Pearl Flip goes official on Telus website!
No, it’s not the same as a product launch. But, for fans of the BlackBerry 8230 Pearl Flip with a loyalty to Telus’s network, the appearance of the BlackBerry Pearl 8230 on the Telus website is a good sign. Telus is apparently preparing to go live the BlackBerry 8230 Pearl in the near-term. With Best…
WeFi – Find WiFi hotspots anywhere in the world
If you’re the type to strive for a connected and mobile life, the cellphone in your pocket is likely a smartphone, and it likely has a WiFi radio. But, before you can take advantage of the high-speed WiFi connection, you’ll need to find an available WiFi hotpsot. Finding that WiFi hotspot, however, can be a…
Internet Explorer Mobile 6 to be available on new WM 6.1 smartphones!
Windows Mobile 6.5 has been the talk of the WinMo-town of late. With an arguably more finger-friendly UI and its full-featured Internet Explorer Mobile 6 promising to deliver a more desktop-like browsing experience, Windows Mobile 6.5 is the de facto “next-big-thing” in the Windows Mobile camp. Unfortunately, Microsoft has taken a non-upgrade stance on the…