SF Chronicle |
October 12th, 2008 |
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The iPhone was not the first touch-screen smart phone when it was introduced last year, but it might as well have been. The exclusive AT&T; device and its successor, the iPhone 3G, set the pace in this trend-setting category with their ease of use, Internet[...]
Wayfinder has announced that Sony Ericson has extended the agreement on pre-loading the Wayfinder Navigator application onto its mobile phones. The application uses maps from Tele Atlas covering more than 70 countries, which can be downloaded to the handset avoiding data costs. Wayfinder has been providing maps on several Sony[...]
Seeking Alpha |
October 10th, 2008 |
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In a part of the world where everyone is either praising or fearing every move of Eric Schmidt and the Monster of Mountain View, Merc columnist Chris O’Brien this morning had a very skeptical column about Google’s new cellphone operating system, entitled “Why we'll all soon forget about Google's Android.”Citing [...]
Portfolio |
October 9th, 2008 |
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Kevin Maney writes: Silicon Valley has never been a place where people throw in the towel. The dot-com crash of 2000 didn't drain the life out of the tech start-up culture -- in fact, it probably helped by injecting a dose of realism and weeding out dumb ideas and pretenders [...]
CNN |
October 9th, 2008 |
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Where there are eyeballs, there are usually ads. And the most eye-catching gadget of late has been the iPhone, which can now run thousands of software programs available at Apple's App store.[...]
Seeking Alpha |
October 9th, 2008 |
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Research in Motion (RIMM) has launched its Storm touch handheld, and it is critical to the company’s long-term plans. RIM, along with Vodafone (VOD) and Verizon (VZ) Wireless, launched the Storm on Wednesday.. The phone, a rival to Apple's (AAPL) iPhone 3G, signals a product barrage for the company. On [...]
Miami Herald |
October 8th, 2008 |
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It was late on a Saturday night.[...]
Miami Herald |
October 8th, 2008 |
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When nature calls, don't reach for the iPhone when the iPood will do the job. The sturdy, aluminum trowel collapses to the size of a candy bar but is tough enough to dig in the grudging Colorado soil.[...]
Greek Information and Communications Technology (ICT) house and Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions provider Globo, until now little noticed outside of its home market, is about to burst on to the world scene with an offering that it says can turn almost any cellphone into a Blackberry challenger. Globo [...]
Seeking Alpha |
October 8th, 2008 |
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Teenagers just love their Apple gear as the iPhone and iPod widen their lead among this fickle set. According to a Piper Jaffray report Apple is dominating teenagers’ buying patterns.[...]
Seeking Alpha |
October 7th, 2008 |
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Smartphone sales were up handsomely in the U.S. in the first half of the year and the average price of smartphones was down 26% to $174 in August (via NPD Group). With consumer spending on the wane and all the doom and gloom of the current economic climate likely to [...]
Wireless Week |
October 6th, 2008 |
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AT&T is adding a new flip phone to its line-up, the C610 from Korean manufacturer Pantech.[...]
Seeking Alpha |
October 6th, 2008 |
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"Proprioception" is a word that Macro Man has only ever heard inside of a gym, usually in the context of balancing on some sort of ball or hemisphere. It refers to the body's sense of itself, and how different areas of the body relate to each other. You can get [...]
Wireless Week |
October 6th, 2008 |
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AT&T’s debut of the BlackBerry Bold smartphone is delayed because of ongoing testing[...]
The Street |
October 6th, 2008 |
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This touchscreen device doesn't try to be an iPhone, but it still has a ton of features meant to engage younger users.[...]
Wireless Week |
October 6th, 2008 |
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Boost Mobile, a division of Sprint Nextel, is now selling Motorola’s i776 phone.[...]
Seeking Alpha |
October 5th, 2008 |
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So all the buzz in the market is the new Dream phone running the new Android OS from Google (GOOG).To properly look at the Dream phone, it must be done in two distinct parts: The Google Android Operating System, and the actual telephone hardware.[...]
Portfolio |
October 1st, 2008 |
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In the perennial fight against ad drop off during commercial breaks, tech and video firms are coming up with new ways to force viewers to watch advertising. Over in Britain, BBC competitor Independent Television (ITV) is begining tests of "automatically placed overlay advertising." The technology, developed by California firm Keystream, [...]
