Following on Apple’s legal posturing yesterday, Palm has fired back with its own statement declaring its confidence in its patent portfolio and its ability to fight off any IP legal battle. Apple’s COO Tim Cook yesterday said his company is all for competition, but will fight anyone that infringes on its IP. The statement has…
‘Objectified’ Takes a Look Inside Jonathan Ive’s Design Workshop
A new gadget design documentary titled ‘Objectified‘ (coming spring 2009!) recently did some filming in Jonathan Ive’s design space out in Cupertino. As you can see above, Mr. Ive looks to be hard at work in his clean and clear design space. If you’ve never heard of Jonathan before, he’s the Chief Designer over at…
Windows Mobile smartphone sales trump iPhone in Q4 2008
Well what d’ya know? It looks like Windows Mobile has managed to expand its sphere of influence just a tick further than Apple’s iPhone OS (exclusive to the iPhone and iPhone 3G) in the last quarter of 2008. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer stated in a recent earnings conference call that Microsoft had seen 5 million…
ImaSafari – Turn off Mobile Safari images on jailbroken iPhones
Web browsing on the iPhone 3G can be an enjoyable experience. That is, unless you’re running late and need to hit up the web for some mission-critical information. It can be frustrating wasting precious seconds for your web pages to load all those images – 3G can bog down, on EDGE it’s not even funny.…
Apple COO Growls at Knock-Offs
Apple reported some exemplary growth in their Q1 earnings report the other night ($10.2 billion in revenue, far beyond investor expectations in light of the recession), but the most interesting bit came in the Q&A period when someone asked about competition from BlackBerry, Android and now Palm. Apple Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook answered: We…
iPhone takes 2.2% of Taiwan mobile market share!
The iPhone 3G has barely landed on Taiwanese shores and retailers are already lauding Apple’s success in cracking the island’s mobile market. According to sales reports, Apple has locked down a solid 2.2% of Taiwan’s mobile phone market. With 12,012 iPhone 3Gs sold during a December that saw a total of 546,000 mobile phone purchases,…
Multi-Photo Email iPhone app – First third-party email client sends email with multiple photo attachments
The iPhone email client is almost as good as it gets among smartphones. Apple really did a bang-up job in integrating the iPhone’s intuitive email client throughout the iPhone OS. But, there’s always room for improvement. A new iPhone app from Aqua Eagle aims to make up for one of the iPhone email application’s glaring…
Google puts iPhone-optimized iGoogle portal out to pasture
Web-based services pop-up and fizzle-out all the time in the mobile space. There’s just no telling what service will soar and which services will fail. Google has apparently deemed their iPhone-optimized iGoogle.com portal a failure and has put the iPhone-customized portal out to pasture. iGoogle.com allowed you to customize your homepage with all manner of…
Ustream Viewing Application goes live for iPhone!
There we go. Just in time to stream President-to-be Obama’s Inaugural Ceremony live to every iPhone and iPhone 3G in on planet Earth, Ustream.tv has announced that their Ustream Viewing Application is live in the iPhone App Store! Ustream had been waiting on Apple to green-light the live video-stream viewer for acceptance into the App…
RepairPal for iPhone – Find mechanics, get a tow, browse estimates from your iPhone!
No one likes running into car troubles. Whether it’s a mechanical breakdown or an auto accident, it can be a hassle getting a tow truck, finding a good mechanic, and comparing repair estimates from multiple shops. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could use your iPhone to help you through those trying times? Enter RepairPal.…