Archive for June, 2007

iPhone Round-up

Friday, June 29th, 2007

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cell phoneI was tired of hearing about the iPhone weeks ago. Nevertheless, the march towards 6pm goes on. The folks at our sister site are working feverishly to get you every single possible angle on people waiting in lines. Just kidding. There’s more to their …

iPhone Now Available

Friday, June 29th, 2007

cell phoneThe wait is finally over! Starting 6 p.m. today, will be available through Apple's retail stores, its online store, and selected AT&T retail stores.iPhone will be available in a 4GB model for $499 (US) and an 8GB model for $599 (US), and will work with either a PC …

Free iPhone?

Friday, June 29th, 2007

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cell phoneNice piece on about how all Apple employees who’ve been with the company for more than a year are getting a free iPhone in July.

Well, there’s more to it than that, but that’s the part technophiles will drool over first. In the company-wide …

BlackBerry Gets Juicier

Friday, June 29th, 2007

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cell phonePressDisplay.com, an online newspaper kiosk, is now available on BlackBerry devices.

The service, which sports more than 500 newspapers and magazines from around the world, allows viewers to read the publications in their entirety. Daily alerts use keywords to notify users of relevant news updates.

Hollywood Targets Cell Phones

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

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cell phoneAs the summer blockbuster season heats up, so too is Hollywood’s use of ads targeting mobile consumers.

Users who click ads for Paramount’s Transformers, Universal’s Knocked Up, and Warner’s In the Land of Women go to a mobile Web page to select theater times and locations.

MizPee: Mobile 2.0 for Toilets

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

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MizPee, just , is a web site devoted to help you find a toilet when you need to go. To find a toilet that fits your needs, just turn your mobile browser to Mizpee.com or SMS 415-350-2290 and enter a location. Mizpee will spit out the toilets in your area along with details like disabled access or a diaper-changing station.

It may sound a little absurd, until nature calls while you’re on the go.

Smartphoners Tap Google

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

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Google tops the list of Web destinations by smartphone users in M:Metric’s . Google held a nine point advantage over the second place Orange in the United Kingdom and a whopping 29 percentage point lead over Yahoo in the United States.United States CompanyTotalGoogle Inc.62.48% Yahoo! Inc. 33.54% Microsoft Corporation 33.36% AT&T Inc. 21.22% Time Warner Inc. 19.06% The Walt Disney Company 17.00% News Corporation 15.54% Sprint Nextel 15.29% The Weather Channel 15.28% eBay Inc. 14.19%

First iPhone Display

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

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Peter Ha at has a nice update about the in Seattle. Check it out.
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Then don’t forget to eyeball his amusing post about Apple employees their iPhones.

High Awareness of iPhone

Monday, June 25th, 2007

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cell phoneThe majority of U.S. and U.K. mobile phone users know about the iPhone, according to M:Metrics, a data research company. In other news, dogs bark.

Fourteen percent of U.S. users who had heard of it intended to purchase it. Mark Donovan, senior vice president …

GSM Calls for More Coverage at 900MHz

Monday, June 25th, 2007

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cell phoneDeployment of networks in the lower spectrum band would potentially add 300 million new mobile broadband customers, says the Groupe Speciale Mobile (GMA) Association, a global trade organization for the mobile phone industry.

Tom Phillips, the chief government …