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Hundreds of people waited in line last week to get their hands on the Blackberry Storm, the first touchscreen device from Research In Motion. Too bad the warning not to buy it didn't come until today. The highly anticipated phone was expected to be RIM's and Verizon Wireless' response to...
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If you haven't heard about the widget wars yet, you are about to. Last week, I moderated a panel at the Open Mobile Summit. The subject was "Apps in the Cloud," which explored the difference between accessing content through applications, which are downloaded to the phone, and content that...
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Here's another example of how Apple's process for approving applications for the iPhone doesn't make sense. One of the big rules is that Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL ) doesn't allow companies to use undocumented APIs to develop applications, and in Google's latest application release, it used...
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In UK, a television ad touting the speed of Apple's 3G iPhone has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority for misleading consumers, the second time this has happened there. It's easy to see from the commercial itself, created by ad agency TBWA/London, why the watchdog ruled against...
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If the down economy is affecting experimental ad budgets, it doesn't seem to be the case for both Target and Gap, which are launching their very first iPhone applications just in time for the holidays. Tina Unterlaender, who is the management supervisor for the mobile division of AKQA , which led...
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Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL ) is being sued for patent infringement over the way its iPhone surfs the internet, arguably one of the device's greatest features. EMG Technology sued Apple in the Eastern District of Texas, alleging that the company infringes on a patent it holds for navigating the internet on...
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Apple has not only been successful at selling millions of iPhones, but its application storefront has been a runaway hit, too. Launched in July, the App store is available in 60 countries, and is stocked with about 8,000 games, social networking sites, and other reference tools. The number of apps is...
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Palm ( NSDQ: PALM ), the maker of Centro and Treo smartphones, said it is trimming its workforce as it faces stiff competition from Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL ), Blackberry's Research In Motion and now even Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ). Reuters reported that Spokeswoman Lynn Fox said the layoffs began last week...
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The iPhone has been thoroughly lionized, but as much as users love the device, they also complain incessantly about dropped calls and voice quality. Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL ) today released a new software update that aims to tackle those issues and offers some other updates. Here's some other changes...
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Orb Networks has launched an application for the iPhone and iPod Touch that brings users' home media collections to their mobile devices. OrbLive , which is available for $10 or as a free trial on the App Store, can pull media ranging from music to videos, photos, webcams and live TV. The application...
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NTT DoCoMo is developing an Android-based smartphone with an aim to launch it next year, a spokesperson with the Japanese operator confirmed to AFP via Business Standard. The phone could help the carrier compete with its smaller rival Softbank, which has been growing customers at a faster rate since...
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China Mobile, which has more subscribers than there are U.S. residents, is looking replicate the success of the iPhone App store on a much grander scale. At this point, there's probably very few operators and handset manufactures that aren't trying to open up a content and application store on...