Apple is all about the iPhone today. The long-awaited ringtone-making service for our iPhones is finally here. Steve Jobs announced the new Ringtone tab in iTunes that would enable the user to create a custom ringtone (complete with fade-in and fade-out effects) from one of 500,000 compatible songs. The service will be piggy-backed onto a…
3 UK refuses to sell Nokia N81 due to built in music store
First it was Orange and now it is 3, the operators are making their voices heard. They don’t want to let go of their income. Will Nokia step up their advertising and try to push consumers to buy unlocked handsets? [Via: Talk 3G]
AT&T unveils Smart Limits for Wireless, web-based parental control service
AT&T’s recent survey revealed that 84% of consumers believe parental controls and safety tools are extremely important in keeping children safe while they use contemporary entertainment and communications technologies. So it doesn’t surprises that the carrier released the new parental control feature for its subscribers. The AT&T Smart Limits for Wireless is a parental control…
iPhoneSIMfree starts selling wholesale licenses for iPhone unlocking software
Update iPhoneSIMfree does not guarantee that the software will continue to work with the next or successive iPhone updates via iTunes. They will continue to update the software and keep on top of the updates, but they can’t say that future iPhone updates will work 100% with this unlocking method. Should a future update disable…
Why should the big boys be afraid of the Google Phone?
This post is entirely speculation on my part, I don’t have any inside information and you shouldn’t listen to people who say they do either. The Google Phone, it might be an operating system, it may be an actual device or series of devices, whatever it is I know that if Google gives this thing…
Why Ovi will not be dead by Christmas
When it comes to writing about Nokia I’m practically a corporate cheerleader, hell I even moved to Helsinki to see if I can join the borg. On the other end of that spectrum there is Andrew Orlowski who seems to enjoy slamming everything Nokia has done recently. In the world of telecom it is absolutely…
Google puts in patent application for SMS text message payment system
Wait, hasn’t this already been done before? Indeed it has. SMS text message-based payment system have been in use for quite some time now, and it seems that Google has been keen to the new trend for about a year and a half. The search giant has just published their patent application (filed Feb. 28,…
Apple set to launch custom ringtone maker for iPhone music ringtones
It looks like Apple if starting to finally come through on their promise of expanding the iPhone’s feature set through updates. Those last two updates via iTunes have been somewhat of a disappointment – they offered nothing in the way of new features. But, as Apple Insider reports, the New York Post got wind of…
Free SMS text messaging from your web browser – also sends to your mobile phone, does mass messaging, replies
Granted, there’s nothing new about a free web-based SMS text messaging service – there are plenty of similar websites out there. But Joopz breaks from the crowd by offering some incredible features and integration with your mobile phone. Thanks to the good folks over at Joopz, you can send SMS text messages straight from your…
Ovi: Nokia’s first step thru a door that leads to a strange new world
The image above of Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo standing in front of a room full of press proclaiming that devices are not enough is a sight that sent shivers down my spine. When you take into consideration how the company has made revenue for the past two decades, on mobile devices, you realize that the…