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Droid: Motorola and Verizon vs. Apple and AT&T

Michael W. Jones — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:12:23 +0000

The Motorola Android phone may or may not be an iPhone killer (probably not) but it looks like this first solid platform for the Google Android operating system will heat up the smartphone wars.

It shapes up to be a [...]

China Mobile wants iPhones, OPhones

Michael W. Jones — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:21:25 +0000

Despite a signed deal between Apple and China Unicom, plus what appears to be a deal between China Mobile and Lenovo for the O1 Android phone, China Mobile still appears to want the iPhone.

Although smartphone service provider exclusivity is an issue in [...]

FCC wants Apple, AT&T to explain Google Voice rejection

Ronald O Carlson — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 02:19:23 +0000

After years of letting industry have its way on just about everything, we’re now seeing a reborn federal telecoms regulator and Apple’s iPhone App Store shenanigans, among other transgressions, have caught the attention of agency’s chairman and watchdogs. Although there’s just as much danger from too much regulation as there is [...]

Apple sued over BluWiki legal threats

Ronald O Carlson — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:03:35 +0000

An open source effort to work around (hack) Apple’s iTunes + iPod + iPhone lock-ins has been the subject of repeated threats from Apple’s legal team. Now, the company that hosted the forum at the center of the controversy is fighting back and, assuming the case ever gets to court, [...]

iPhone and iPod Touch Apps — users suck it and see — once

Gareth Powell — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 04:52:34 +0000

Users download their apps from the App Store for the iPhone or iPod Touch, test it on the old maxim of suck it and see. If it is not what they want — one hesitates to use the word ’sucks’ — do not use it again. [...]

Convert movies for your iPhone/iPod Touch

Gareth Powell — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:42:52 +0000

iPodMe converts movies for your machine. It is wonderful. Not to say that iPodMe is the best free program for iPod Touchor iPhone. Life is too short to test them all. But for what it does it appears to be the [...]

Apple will defend the iPhone

Gareth Powell — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:59:31 +0000

Apple would appear not to have been joking when it said it would vigorously defend its intellectual property behind the iPhone.

World of Apple notes that the U.S. Patent Office has awarded Apple the patent on their application titled, “Touch screen device, method, and graphical user interface [...]

Linux, Windows apps coming to the iPhone

Ronald O Carlson — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 06:05:22 +0000

Apple’s hot selling, zeitgeist defining handset shows its versatility in the hands of third-party developers. But, will we ever live to see a triple boot iPhone running OS X, Windows and Linux side-by-side?

Linux on the iPhone (via iPhone-dev.org) has announced that, true to their name, they’ve ported the Linux [...]

Firefox for the iPhone? Not happening, says Mozilla CEO

Erna Mahyuni — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:53:37 +0000

Mozilla’s CEO put paid to any notion of the popular browser Firefox coming to the iPhone. But we haven’t really seen a realmobile version of Firefox, have we?

If Firefox does go [...]

Apple prods developers to charge for iPhone, iPhone 2 apps

Triston McIntyre — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 02:29:58 +0000

With the World Wide Developers Conference 2008 just a few days away, the iPhone buzz has reached a deafening roar. Though the iPhone 2 is expected to bell of the ball, Steve Jobs should be [...]