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Palm gives up [for now] on Pre + iTunes direct syncing

Ronald O Carlson — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:45:56 +0000

For awhile there, it seemed like Palm and Apple would go back and forth, enabling and then disabling direct Pre + iTunes syncing for a good long time. Now, with Palm licking its wounds and PsyStar likely down for the count, Cupertino seems to be running out playmates.

The New York Times reports [...]

Judge refuses AT&T injunction request for Verizon ads

Ronald O Carlson — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:02:02 +0000

Ma Bell has been getting spanked by Verizon’s highly effective TV advertising campaign and now the courts have, at least for the time being, refused to give the carrier any relief either. But now AT&T has hit back with a TV spot of their own.

David Balser told U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Batten [...]

Qualcomm confirms it’s talking chips with Apple

Ronald O Carlson — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:15:24 +0000

Recent rumors have pointed to a “worldmode” iPhone sometime next year, which would mean Verizon network compatibility. Today, we get independent, if off-handed, confirmation that the mothership is at least talking with the chipset maker at the center of this tantalizing possibility.

Bloomberg is reporting comments by Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs in Hong [...]

Top 10 best iPhone apps for the N1H1 virus

Ronald O Carlson — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:59:52 +0000

Swine Flue worries gotcha feeling blue? Then you shouldn’t leave the house again until you’ve armed yourself with at least one of these powerful and/or funny (think gallows humor) apps for your iPhone or iPod touch, some free and some not so much.

When it comes to the N1H1 virus, or Swine [...]

Top 40, best games for the iPhone 3GS, 3G iPod touch

Ronald O Carlson — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:12:27 +0000

Apple’s serious about mobile gaming — the company’s newest iPhone and iPod touch models include best of class ARM processors, a good bit o’ RAM and richly detailed OpenGL graphics. Moreover, Cupertino’s been kitting out its in-house iPhone game development team with Graeme Devine of Halo Wars fame already on board.

No [...]

AT&T whimpers text only reply to Verizon’s visual 3G ads

Ronald O Carlson — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:26:30 +0000

Desperate times call for desperate measures, and Ma Bell sure looks desperate now. Their belated response to Verizon’s “there’s a map for that” advertising campaign is wimpy in the extreme as it delivers statistics in textual form only about how complete its 3G + EDGE, which can charitably be referred [...]

FaceBook iPhone app developer quits over ‘Apple’s policies’

Ronald O Carlson — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:00:28 +0000

Fresh news from the alternate universe inhabited by the mothership’s App Store grannies and developers: the guy behind the most popular app on the platform is quitting in disgust. It seems that the app review process and the people behind it are tools of the devil, or maybe just tools, a [...]

Worm infects iPhones

Michael W. Jones — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:24:48 +0000

Those of you who have been waiting with bated breath for malware to make its way to the iPhone may resume breathing; a worm named ikee has made its appearance on the Apple handset.

Reports from Australia indicate that the new worm has popped up [...]

Apps: Insults, profanity at the ready on your iPhone

Ronald O Carlson — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:22:11 +0000

Given that the English language is a mishmash of German, Gaelic, Old Norse, French and what not, it’s perhaps the richest repository of insults and profanity known to man. IPhone Blorge has a pair of apps for your iPhone and iPod touch to invigorate your vituperation, or there’s another app who’s [...]

iPhone App Store passes 100K apps, issues linger

Ronald O Carlson — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:14:52 +0000

Although the mothership gets endless grief for their byzantine app vetting process and for barring some apps, there’s no question the iPhone’s the smartphone to buy for the biggest selection, both in terms of quantity and quality, of mobile software. Still, those issues linger, though the FCC and Verizon seem to [...]