Spore hit the Apple Keynote stage all those months ago to show iPhone 3G hopefuls what kind of gaming experience to expect on the iPhone 3G and iPhones running the iPhone 2.0 OS. Spore Origins, alongside Sega’s Super Monkey Ball, promised to usher the iPhone and iPhone 3G into the world of mobile gaming. Unfortunately,…
Google’s Chrome browser coming to Google Android
Leave it to Google to take on industry incumbents with the goal of completely redefining the user experience. Google’s latest project, Chrome, is a web browser based on Apple’s open-source rendering engine Webkit. As a new web browser designed from the ground up to put the user experience in line with advanced features, Google’s Chrome…
Snow Patrol to release interactive album as iPhone application
There’s no slowing down the iPhone and the AppStore. As popularity for the Apple smartphone and its integrated AppStore continue to grow, companies and musicians alike are looking to new ways to market themselves with an iPhone-twist. The latest group to take advantage of the iPhone and AppStore’s popularity is the Irish band Snow Patrol.…
US mobile internet usage sees huge jump in Q2 2008
With 3G usage in the US surpassing Western Europe, it’s not all that surprising to hear that the US has seen mobile internet usage increase almost a third in Q2 2008. The US has seen mobile web access jump 29.4% from Q1 to Q2 2008. Crisp Wireless reports that mobile internet traffic increased as mobile…
AT&T pinpoints EDGE/3G data network outage problems
When the premier data network in the US takes a nose-dive, people pay attention. Especially those people that were left without data access for hours. AT&T, reeling from the enormous bad-press generated by a multi-state data network outage on the East Coast, left us all hanging with their promise to find out exactly what caused…
US 3G market penetration out paces Europe
It looks like our immature, underdeveloped 3G wireless network infrastructure hasn’t stopped the US from passing-up Western Europe in terms of 3G subscribers. According to comScore, 28.4% of US wireless subscribers have hopped on board the 3G bandwagon. Compare that to the 28.3% of western European wireless customers with 3G handsets in tow, and it’s…
Apple rejects fart-joke iPhone application
Talk about a lame excuse. Apple, long known as the tech-company that does whatever it feels like doing, has rejected an up-and-coming iPhone application on grounds that it provides “limited utility.” Granted, the iPhone application, Pull My Finger, does little more than generate a “fart” sound, Apple’s rejection of the application is a disturbing move.…
Verizon launches simple Samsung Knack
In today’s mobile-world filled with dizzying acronyms and even dizzying-er feature-sets, there are bound to be those with a need for a simple flip-phone that focuses on doing one thing well – making voice calls. To that end, Verizon has announced today the launch of the Samsung Knack for the less-than-power-users out there. The Samsung…
DIY homemade iPhone document scanner
The iPhone as a document scanner? No way! It’s nigh impossible to hold an iPhone still enough and at just the right distance from a document to take a clear picture of said document for digital safe-keeping. That is, unless you’re rocking this DIY (do-it-yourself) homemade iPhone document scanner. Digital warrior and University of Cincinnati’s…
Delaware home goes up in flames, cellphone charger to blame
We’re used to hearing about batteries in mobile phones catching fire and causing bodily injury, but it’s not too often that we hear about cellphone wall-chargers going up in flames. In what could be the first mobile home fire related to defective wall-charger, the Delaware Online is reporting that just such a fire caused $30,000…