For a limited time, Konami is selling games for iPhone and iPod Touch users for 99 cents each. This offer will be effective through November 30th. The lineup of available 99 cents Konami titles at the App store includes Field Prowlers POLICE RUSH! 9 (car chase), Metal Gear Solid Touch, DanceDanceRevolution S and S+, Power [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Steve Jobs’ baby is set to make another conquest. South Korea is one of the two most advanced countries in the world when it comes to mobility and connectivity. Will the iPhone make an impact there? The iPhone will be distributed by KT, though SK Telecoms will be following suit. SK serves 50% of Korean [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 16, 2009
According to this rather enlightening CNET article, netbooks are not to be compared with laptops. Rather, think of netbooks as smartphone with a bigger screen and a QWERTY keypad you can actually speed type on. … students in K through 12 are accustomed to iPhone-size screens and performance. So moving to a Netbook is a big [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 11, 2009
The second iPhone worm of the week carries with it a lot more risk than the first one. According to Intego Security, this new iPhone worm that is known as iPhone/Privacy.A uses the same hole that ikeeex found a few days ago to change the hacked iPhones’ background image into Rick Astley’s photo. The new [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Frankly, I’m surprised this is news at all. The summary from Strategy Analytics: Apple became the world’s most profitable handset vendor in Q3 2009. Fueled by strong volumes, high wholesale prices and tight cost controls, the PC vendor has successfully broken into the mobile phone market in just two years. What can Nokia do to regain [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 10, 2009
The Apple iPhone in the U.K. has officially stopped being exclusive to O2 starting today. Orange is offering subsidized iPhones and pay-as-you go but will not compete with fees that O2 is currently offering. So it’s a level game there in Britain for both iPhone providers. Forecast from Mediacells is saying that a million iPhones [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 2, 2009
Mobile Applications can be addicting, so says the numbers. But the numbers don’t mean any single application or type of applications, they mean all applications. The numbers came from Flurry, a mobile analytics company. I understand the addiction. It’s a lot of fun downloading and trying out various applications, especially when many of them are [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Perhaps Motorola Droid won’t be enough for Verizon. Wall Street analyst Brian Marshall is putting his money on a Verizon iPhone next year when Apple and AT&T may end their exclusivity deal. “AT&T’s ’sweetheart’ carrier subsidy (~$450) for the iPhone would not be attainable at Verizon,” said Marshall in the note. “[But] diverse carrier support is [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 20, 2009
And to think we were all pretty stoked about the Apple iPhone finally coming to the biggest and most reliable wireless company in the U.S. Now here comes Verizon with an anti-iPhone ad (”everything iDon’t Droid Does”) that may just mean good-bye to a Verizon iPhone in 2010. It’s not just business when you’re taking [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, October 18, 2009
Wolfram Alpha has been accessible on the iPhone via mobile Safari since last June, but now, the company has released a Wolfram Alpha iPhone app for retail at the App Store. Surprisingly, they’ve chosen to go against the trend of selling iPhone apps at dirt cheap prices and are actually selling it for $49.99. It’s [...]
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