Just because a phone incorporates a terrific operating system that makes it simple to use doesn't make it a "toy" — as some die-hard techies contend — and doesn't mean it's not a serious, substantial, take-care-of-business device. Yes, I'm talking about ...Read More
Apple could sell more iPads in the first three months of availability than it sold original iPhones in the same period, according to sources quoted by the Wall Street Journal. "Hundreds of thousands" of units have already been pre-ordered, says ...Read More
Apple patent applications are usually pretty dry, but it looks like a new one turned up by Patently Apple has a bit more user-focused meat to it -- it describes a location-based social networking app called "iGroups," which lets groups ...Read More
Palm gave us a heads-up back in late February that its upcoming earnings report wouldn't exactly be cause for celebration, and today the news has become official: the outfit recorded a net loss of $22 million during its fiscal Q3, ...Read More
NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Palm Inc. (PALM) Chief Financial Officer Doug Jeffries estimated that the troubled company's fiscal fourth-quarter revenue would be a dismal $150 million or less as demand for its smartphones continue to drop off. Jeffries called the fourth quarter ...Read More
If you can't pitch the press, pay them. That's the proposition some review sites have for publicity-starved iPhone developers.
Several websites dedicated to iPhone app reviews are requesting payments from developers in exchange for writeups of their apps, Wired.com has learned. ...Read More
HTC has responded to Apple's patent suit to give notice that it intends to vigorously defend itself against allegations of patent infringement. Unlike other ongoing suits--such as the dispute between Nokia and Apple--HTC is not launching a countersuit accusing Apple ...Read More
Amazon has at last released Kindle for Mac, which means you can now read your Kindle books on most any device. It joins the iPhone, PC Blackberry and of course the Kindle itself.
Like the PC version, Kindle for Mac is ...Read More
The tech industry wants Google (GOOG) to deliver an iPhone 'killer,' and continues to be disappointed that Google doesn't share that interest. The reaction to a report issued Tuesday by Flurry Analytics managed to completely overlook some interesting news–the Android-based Motorola ...Read More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cellphone developer HTC Corp said it is confident it can fight off a recent technology patent infringement lawsuit from iPhone maker Apple Inc and promised to issue a formal response in the next few weeks.
The comments ...Read More
Sprint is going Google, and may soon offer the fastest of smart phones. The Overland Park wireless carrier announced Wednesday that it would soon sell Google's Nexus One phone - although the company wouldn't say precisely when or how much the ...Read More
To buy or to build? That's the question that drove Yahoo's decision to buy social sports startup Citizen Sports, which owns a series of sports-related apps on the iPhone and on Facebook, according to Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) media head James ...Read More
An independent study has found that the market for mobile applications will increase from $6 billion today to $17.5 billion in 2012. The study was commissioned by GetJar, the world's second biggest mobile app store.
The study also reported that downloads ...Read More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel will unveil a cellphone from HTC Corp next week that will be the first to support WiMax, Sprint's fastest wireless service, according to analysts.
Sprint, the No. 3 U.S. mobile service struggling to stop customer ...Read More
On Wednesday, developer Amro Mousa from Return7 posted on Twitter that Apple has now added the ability for developers to schedule a sale window for their iPhone applications, allowing them to temporarily schedule a different price. Macworld has independently confirmed the ...Read More
The market for mobile apps - be they for smartphones, less-capable "feature phones," or carry-alongs such as Apple's iPad - will swell to $17.5bn by 2012. Or so says a study commissioned by a company with a vested interest in that ...Read More
The appearance of third-party video-recording iPhone apps from vendors such as Qik was an oasis in the desert to owners of original iPhones such as myself. But in the case of the popular Qik Video Camera, which recently disappeared from the ...Read More
Consumers seeking a protective film for the screen on their iPhone, iPod, iPad or Mac will soon have to look outside of Apple's retail stores, which will soon halt sales of the accessories indefinitely.
Citing sources at a number of iPhone ...Read More
The latest version of the Nexus One unveiled Tuesday could make the device a more serious challenger to the iPhone, which uses AT&T Inc.'s 3G network as its main communications channel in the United States. The Nexus One had been running ...Read More
Windows Phone 7 Series will not come with cut-and-paste functionality, according to a wide number of reports citing information Microsoft reportedly revealed during a Q & A session at its MIX10 conference late Tuesday. Microsoft believes that people don't need ...Read More
Following in the footsteps of the iPhone, it seems that Windows Phone 7 OS won't be support Cut/Copy/Paste. Engadget's Chris Ziegler has confirmed this with Microsoft: OK, when the iPhone was released back in 2007, it too was lacking any way for users ...Read More
