Smartphone Success May Be in the Touch: Touch screen has phenomenal impact on smartphone market. There’s no debate that the touch screen is having a phenomenal impact on the smartphone market. Apple’s iPhone finger-tap panel design is literally rattling the competitive smartphone industry into refreshing traditional small static screens and is driving handset innovations across [...]
AOL’s Apple 3G iPhone opens a door for Pandora
Will AOL’s iPhone app pave way for Pandora? Details of AOL’s streaming radio application for the Apple 3G iPhone have surfaced after it was revealed that the application won an Apple design award for “Best Entertainment Application” at this year’s WWDC. The free application will be available [...]
Mobile Alert System: U.S. Federal Communications Commission sends text alerts
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has moved to set up a system that would send text alerts to people on their mobile phones in case of natural disasters and other emergencies.
With an order released Wednesday, the FCC adopted technical requirements for transmission of the alerts, which [...]
iPhone Envies Wireless Industry - iPhone knockoffs at CTIA Wireless show
If there’s one thing I saw too much of at this year’s CTIA Wireless show, it was iPhone knockoffs. LG and Samsung were the most glaring offenders, with the Vu and Instinct. Apparently the wireless industry can’t “think different.”
If imitation is the sincerest form of [...]