We’re well on the way to Halloween, and so what better time for iPhone/iPod Touch apps providers to come with new titles! In this case it’s Scholastic Media with two apps based on their books series: I SPY and Goosebumps. I SPY Spooky Mansion: Takes players on a hidden object adventure through a scary and…
AT&T And Google Voice: Tit For Tat
What started off as an FCC probe into the banning of Google Voice apps from the iPhone AppStore has exploded into a drama-filled soap opera that has Google and AT&T trading tit for tat. The latest salvo was fired by AT&T and is aimed at undermining Google’s claim that it blocks certain numbers from its…
Judge Curbs Music Industry Greed, Shoots Down Ringtone Royalties
Federal judge Denise Cote has dealt a blow to the music industry’s American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) with a new ruling that ringtones are not considered public performances and therefore aren’t subject to music royalty fees. Yes, that means the ASCAP was seeking to collect a royalty fee every time a musical…
T-Mobile gets class-action sued over Sidekick snafu
Microsoft and T-Mobile have come out with assurances that most (probably all) Sidekick data has been recovered and will soon be restored to affected Sidekicks. You’d think that announcement alone would be enough to preempt any class-action lawsuits against T-Mobile or Microsoft (which owns Danger, the company responsible for maintaining Sidekick data). And, you’d be…
New iPhone 3GS jailbreak still possible!
Okay, so remember how we told you that Apple modified new iPhone 3GS’s to prevent current and future jailbreak exploits? Right, well, turns out that wasn’t as true as we once thought. Our bad. New iPhone 3GS’s have been modified, that much is true, but they can still be jailbroken (which is where we were…
Microsoft: Most Sidekick Data Recovered
Sidekick users can mostly breathe a sigh of relief today. T-Mobile Sidekick data has been mostly recovered! Microsoft confirmed today that they have “recovered most, if not all, customer data for those Sidekick customers whose data was affected by the recent outage.” Microsoft will soon begin restoring data to Sidekicks affected by Microsoft’s recent server…
Amazon offering AT&T’s HTC PURE for $0.01
AT&T’s own on-contract pricing for their HTC PURE (AT&T’s branded Touch Diamond2) wasn’t too bad, but it’s got nothing on Amazon’s asking price. Amazon is now offering the just-launched AT&T PURE for just a penny, when purchased with a new 2-year contract through AT&T. Leave it to Amazon to undercut AT&T on a spanking brand-new…
Toshiba TG01 owners, your Windows Mobile 6.5 upgrade is here
Toshiba is pushing out a little present to Toshiba TG01 owners today. Following on the official launch of Windows Mobile 6.5, TG01 users around the world can now update to the new Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional OS for free! The update is being rolled out to English, German and French language devices, which should just…
Layar comes to iPhone with augmented reality view of… everything
Layar grabbed headlines a few months back as one of the first augmented reality browsers/apps to go live. Today, they’re making waves with the launch of their new Layar Reality Browser iPhone app [iTunes link]! If you check the AppStore, you’ll find that Layar is now ready for iPhone 3GS users (you have to have…
Free Peek Pronto for burned T-Mobile Sidekick users
Were you burned by Microsoft’s T-Mobile Sidekick server crash? Well, Peek has an offer to help you deal with losing all of your Sidekick data. Like many good marketing campaigns, Peek is taking advantage of another company’s misfortunes by offering Sidekick users a free Peek Pronto for a limited time. The Pronto is a purpose-built…