The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Filed under: iPhone, iPod touch, First Look, App ReviewThere's a lot of buzz about iPhone IM clients.Other applications have gotten a lot of coverage for allowing iPhones to chat from their AOL, Google, ICQ, Jabber or a host (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Let's just get this out of the way: the Touch HD2 is the nicest phone in the world. It's ostentatiously huge but amazingly slim; it's all business but pure pornography. Hardware like this deserves better software. From the ou (Read More)
Gizmodo:
So, I'm doing the Mindflex game review, and I start thinking about the evolution of classic board games. Personally, I like the fact that many of them got a 21st century makeover. These 10 games may have purists thinking othe (Read More)
Mashable!:
Students at Purdue University are experimenting with a new application developed at the school called Hotseat that integrates Facebook, Twitter, and text messaging to help students “backchannel” during class.People who have a (Read More)
Gizmodo:
I still can't believe the TwitterPeek exists. It's a portable device that only does Twitter. Seriously, who the hell would spend $200 on this? Am I crazy here? The original Peek, which just runs email, is something I would ne (Read More)
Gizmodo:
In case you missed it, the XPERIA X10 got official overnight. Besides the 1GHz Snapdragon processor and big 4-inch capacitive touch display, it's Sony Ericsson's beautiful Rachael interface sitting on top of Android that impr (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
A recent study by industry group the Participatory Marketing Network has unearthed some surprising data on Gen Y behavior. Apparently, the members of this young demographic (ages 18-24) would rather give up their social netwo (Read More)
Gizmodo:
The Bold 9000's successor is now official. As a reminder: The 9700 has a slimmer design, optical trackpad, 3.2-megapixel camera (up from 2Mp), and a higher-resolution display (480 x 320). Like the Storm 2, it runs BlackBerry (Read More)
TechCrunch:
In the U.S., many of us use Twitter through its website or through a third-party client that uses its APIs. But an original key to Twitter, and one that remains very important to reaching the widest possible audience, is text (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Last week we asked a simple question: How will you use Google Wave? Over 600 responses later, we're sending Wave nominations to the people who had the best use cases. Here are a few. Education: Increasing Interactivity and C (Read More)
Mashable!:
The mobile industry is on a tear. The CTIA semi-annual wireless industry survey has just been released, and while numbers showing robust mobile broadband growth are no surprise, data released on consumer text messaging behavi (Read More)
Gizmodo:
It appears that Samusng has dropped the InstinctQ branding on their upcoming Android-powered QWERTY slider to something that sounds like a lyric in a cheesy ballad. At any rate, more details about the upcoming Sprint phone ha (Read More)
TechCrunch:
This guest post was written by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who was elected to the position in 2003 and reelected in 2007. Newsom is also running for governor of California in the upcoming 2010 election. In this guest (Read More)
Gizmodo:
This Ping app by the guy who made PushGmail is a mix between text messaging and instant messaging. What you need to know is that it's free and it's fast. Ping is designed to look like the SMS app, and behaves much the same wa (Read More)
mashable:
Silicon Valley-based entrepreneur Trevor Blackwell has a proposal for Facebook: remove subject lines from Facebook mail.Blackwell, whose company Anybots builds humanoid robots, argues that Facebook subject lines are so often (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Today, after years of providing service for one of the world's most sophisticated cellphones lacking the most basic features, AT&T finally turned on multimedia messaging (MMS) for iPhone users. (It's live now!) We're wonderin (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Jon Swartz wrote a long article in USA Today this morning about the phenomenon of the real-time web. The article blames "the real-time web" for declining test scores in school, anti-social addictions, short attention spans a (Read More)
The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, iPhoneWhy? Because the iPhone sucks up network bandwidth on a rather massive scale. The article, available online, tells a story most iPhone users already know. AT&T was unprepared for the mas (Read More)
The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Filed under: Apple Corporate, App Store The hits just keep on coming, folks: Apple has posted a full response to the FCC inquiries on its web site. It's a long document -- and oddly similar to a fake open letter written two w (Read More)
Gizmodo:
PR speak doesn't usually come this blunt, but the situation warrants it. AT&T's full response to the FCC's investigation into the Google Voice app rejection can be summed up like this: This one's on Apple. As for Apple's? It' (Read More)