AT&T Sues Verizon Over Map Ads
This has got to be one of the weirdest lawsuits I have seen in a while. AT&T and Apple have been running Iphone ads for a while with the tag “There’s an App for that”. Well, Verizon recently...
View ArticleVerizon Announces Pre-paid 3G modems
An interesting move by Verizon to put their broadband 3G modems into prepaid plans. The downside? It’s a pricey concept. Check this: Verizon Wireless today announced three new Mobile Broadband plans...
View ArticleMotorola Droid Comes to Verizon
Today is droid day, the day that the Motorola Droid hits the marketplace, available through Verizon Wireless. This phone marks Motorola’s plunge into using Google’s Android operating system on a...
View ArticleApple Grabs 17% of Worldwide Smartphone Market
Even as overall sales for mobile phones remained flat for the third quarter, smartphone sales continue to show double digit growth—as they have ever since the market was redefined by Apple’s iPhone....
View ArticleApple Sues HTC Over Software Patents
In what some see as a stunning admission of being crowded out of many of the smart phone markets, and perhaps as a preemptive strike against the upcoming Google Nexus 1, Apple and NeXT have filed suit...
View ArticleMicrosoft Tickled Pink?
According this story at Gizmodo, as well as writeups at ARS Technica, it looks like Microsoft is going to hit the market with Verizon on a new mobile phone called the Pink. I have to say that...
View ArticleChina ZTE Leads Charge to Cheaper Smart Phones
I found this article from Reuters about the move to lower price smart phones, and found it to be very interesting, especially as it speaks about ZTE, a phone company from China that hasn’t been seen...
View ArticleThere are A Quarter Million Apps For That
The Apple App Store has apparently reached a significant milestone, with now more than 250,000 apps in store, according to this report in Fortune (and to be fair, they are quoting yet another site to...
View ArticleGPS Most Common Smart Phone Use for Travellers
An interesting article in USA Today gives us some interesting stats about smart phones and stats. First off, 30% of all phones in the use in the US now are internet connected “smart phones” . 19% of...
View ArticleFCC Approves White Space Wi-Fi
Some are refering to it as “Wi-Fi on steroids”, others are calling it a significant breakthrough in computer communications. The FCC this week announced that they have approved “white space” wireless,...
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