9to5 Mac spotted that the most recent beta of Apple's Photo Stream has a rather peculiar icon that might be a hint of a total iPhone 5 redesign. It's a lot of weight to put on a single icon, but if you peer at it, the screen certainly seems to take up more of the phone's face, and the home … [Read more...]
PhoneScoop and SprintFeed are reporting that Sprint is set to massively bump up their early termination fee, up from $200 to $350: "Beginning September 9, Sprint is introducing a new pro-rated policy for ETFs for customers purchasing advanced devices such as smartphones, tablets, … [Read more...]
So, the US Government thinks that AT&T and T-Mobile merging would just serve to kill competition in the cellphone market, and don't want it to happen — a view I happen to agree with. AT&T, understandably, do not, and have issued a statement: We are surprised and disappointed by today’s … [Read more...]
The US Government has decided that the proposed AT&T T-Mobile merger would not be in the best interest of consumers and has moved to block the combination. “AT&T’s elimination of T-Mobile as an independent, low- priced rival would remove a significant competitive force from the … [Read more...]
Garmin's GPS services tend to ask for a lot of money up front in order to give you access to their extensive maps, traffic information, and other useful features. Their newest app Garmin Streetpilot onDemand follows a different model: it's only $0.99 up front, but it's hobbled unless you pay an … [Read more...]
Way back in April, the Financial Times announced that they didn't want anything to do with Apple's in-app subscription guidelines, refusing to offer subscriptions inside the app where Apple could take a 30% cut of it. This saw them ditch the app model and switch to a web app instead … [Read more...]
comScore has just released one of their trimonthly smartphone reports, and both iOS and Android have gained ground, while Microsoft, RIM and Symbian continue their decline. For this three month period, Android jumped up more than 5% and Apple gained 1% where RIM lost 4% of the smartphone … [Read more...]
Steve Jobs' emails were famous for being terse and bordering on caustic, often times single word or sentence responses to long and complex emails. So what's going to happen now that Tim Cook is in charge? We've already seen a couple of emails thrown his way, and while his responses are only slightly … [Read more...]
We were just talking about Zite this morning, and now this news comes in: CNN has just bought the digital magazine. Rumors swirled over the last few weeks that Zite was up for grabs and that CNN was eying them up, and now the move has officially been made. CNN is claiming that it will run Zite as … [Read more...]
If you're not using Zite on your iPad, you're missing out on an incredibly cool personalized magazine application. It allows you to enter search terms, and then pulls together articles on that and other topics into a single news feed of everything you want to know. Now Zite has started parsing the … [Read more...]
