Ngmoco is the newest mobile gaming start-up to hit the scene. With mobile gaming getting a renewed push from the iPhone, Neil Young decided it was time to leave his executive position at EA Games to form a new start-up aimed at making games exclusively for the iPhone. Apparently, a stagnated mobile games market was…
Alltel rolls out ‘My Circle’ messaging option – free unlimited messaging in-circle
It was only a matter of time before Alltel’s popular “My Circle” unlimited calling offering was opened up to allow for unlimited messaging. The CTIA has estimated that something like 363 billion SMS text messages had been sent out in 2007, and Alltel is looking to cash in on the texting craze. With Alltel’s new…
A year with the iPhone – iPhone turns 1 year old
As of 6pm PST today, my iPhone will be turning exactly 1 year old. Well, actually, seeing as how it took me a good 20 minutes to get inside the Apple store last year, my iPhone’s 12-month birthday will fall on approximately 6:20pm PST. So, just how has the iPhone lived up to expectations? And,…
Motorola’s touchscreen offering for Verizon – Motorola Blaze isn’t an iPhone fighter
Verizon Wireless, lacking a focused strategy to battle Apple’s current iPhone and upcoming iPhone 3G, has been flooding their CDMA market with touchscreen handsets of all sorts for the better half of the past year. With a dizzying array of almost-there touchscreen handsets aimed at Verizon customers looking for a good iPhone-compromise on America’s “most…
Online petition proves growing Canadian distaste for Rogers’ iPhone 3G calling plans
By now it should be clear that iPhone 3G hopefuls in Canada are getting the short end of the data-plan-stick. Rogers (and their wholly-owned Fido network) announced not too long ago that they’ll be offering our friends to the North a chance to get their hands on an Apple’s next-generation iPhone, the iPhone 3G, come…
Pedal your way to full charge – O2’s pedal battery charger
This one goes out to all you cyclists out there. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could harness all that energy you’re putting in to pedaling yourself from point A to point B? While this new pedal-power harnessing technology won’t help you do more than yap on your handset just a bit longer, putting your…
Experiencing T-Mobile BlackBerry outage? T-Mobile is upgrading BlackBerry Internet Email to v2.5
BlackBerry email outages are something of a staple among the die-hard push-email fanatics out there. Which makes it all the more impressive when any BlackBerry service outage is announced ahead of time. T-Mobile has announced that they’re are in the process of updating their BlackBerry Internet Email system to version 2.5. And, outages are coming…
Helio posts Q&A to inform customers about Virgin Mobile takeover
It’s basically a done deal, pending regulatory approval, that is. Virgin Mobile USA’s acquisition of Helio has been expected to happen for some time now, and now that it’s finally official, there are bound to be handfuls of Helio customers with questions about the takeover. More like 170,000 handfuls of Helio customers, to be more…
Rogers Wireless shows us how NOT to do business
Virtually the whole world over has adopted, or is rumored to be adopting, unlimited data pricing structures in anticipation of the iPhone 3G launch. That is, except Canada. Well, not Canada, per se, but Canada’s oft mis-guided and confusingly business un-savvy wireless carriers. Today’s example of how NOT to do business in a competitive wireless…
Verizon CEO refuses to believe wireless carriers are doomed to be dumb-pipes
In a recent interview, Verizon’s CEO proclaimed that not only will Verizon Wireless succeed in capturing a significant portion of US customers looking to get in on the mobile internet boom, but that wireless carriers will have the power to control emerging wireless service business models.Rather than coming to terms with his company’s, as well…