With almost 1,000 diggs yesterday, the allegedly leaked iPhone OSX map architecture was a great April Fool’s hoax from joker Charles Ying. Did you fall for it? We know we pretty much did! The prank was awesomely subtle in its execution, with only a Unix timestamp of April 1 revealing the hoax. And it’s no…
AT&T Will Upgrade Its High-Speed Network With Faster Upstream Speeds
AT&T’s Kris Rinne, executive vice-president of network planning and architecture, announces that AT&T plans to upgrade its UMTS/HSPA network to enable faster up-link speeds. With HSDPA pushing down-link data at broadband-speeds, AT&T wants to boost their Cingular wireless network’s current UMTS-based up-link speed using HSUPA. The HSUPA software upgrade would enable peak up-link speeds of…
Motorola’s MC35 Has More Brain Than Beauty
Motorola has introduced a new EDA – that’s Enterprise Digital Assistant – that aims to take the PDA to a whole new level with an “all-in-one communication device that harnesses the voice and data applications people expect from an office setting and delivers them in the form of a durable and compact handheld mobile computer.”…
Apple Ripped Off Their 2007 Oscar’s iPhone Commercial
Most of us remember the seemingly original and innovative 2007 Academy Award Show commercial for the iPhone. It featured a montage of clips of actors answering a phone with the famous Apple slogan, “hello.” Apparently, Apple stole the idea from the 1995 film “Telephones,” by Christian Marclay. So, according to Marclay, Apple “approached us [about…
AT&T teams with Napster; 3 million songs available for free download
AT&T and Napster announced a deal, under which the carrier will start offering 3 millions songs for free download for a year via Napster To Go service, to its qualified subscribers. Starting from Sunday, April 1, this $180 valued freebie will allow users to download, organize and create playlists on a PC, and then sync…
Apple Should Trash The iPhone
Trash the iPhone?! Who would dare think such a thing? Well, apparently, John Dvorak thinks Apple should do away with their iPhone. He cites overconfidence, on Apple’s part, based on past success with the iPod – clearly Apple best selling product.
FreeConference.com Sues AT&T
Well, here we go again! In this lawsuit-happy world we live in, it should come as no surprise that FreeConference.com has filed suit against AT&T for blocking its wireless customers from calling FreeConference.com’s access numbers. You may recall that Cingular recently blocked accesss to popular free conference calling services, citing “high access rates” that fall…
iPhone Makes A Cameo Appearance At CTIA
During his keynote at CTIA today, Randall Stephenson, top exec. for AT&T Inc., gave a boost to his otherwise drab presentation. When he pulled out the legendary Apple iPhone in the middle of his speech, the whole room came alive with camera flashes and buzz, reports Yahoo News.
Palm announces Treo 750 WM6 update; HSDPA for Cingular/AT&T customers
On the 10th anniversary of its Pilot, at the CTIA Wireless in Orlando, Palm announced that an update to the Windows Mobile 6 Professional edition will be available for Treo 750 smartphone users around the world. At the same time, following the launch in Hong Kong, Palm also announced that for Cingular/AT&T customers, the update…
Cingular Launches US Mobile Banking!
Remember when all your (geek) friends would keep saying that, in the future, the cell phone would replace everything, including your wallet? Well, that day is nigh! With converged devices already combining a mobile phone with a PDA, digital camera, GPS unit, mp3 player, radio, and even TV, the convergence of a digital wallet is…