One of the big themes at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference keynote speech today was pricing: A super-cheap price for an upgrade of the new Mac operating system Snow Leopard ($29), a price cut for the iPhone 3G (down to $99), …
The keynote address at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference contained several good nuggets for game developers. The biggest deal is that Apple’s just-announced iPhone 3GS model will be much better at displaying 3-D graphics and supporting networked multiplayer games than current …
Apple head of marketing Phil Schiller delivered a pleasant, enjoyable keynote show for several thousand software developers this morning at the Moscone West conference center in San Francisco. Newer, better iPhones were the show’s already-predicted climax. But there were three …
So rumors do come true. Apple has just announced a new version of the iPhone, dubbed the iPhone 3GS, built to run data-intensive applications faster. It can also record video.
Phil Schiller, senior vice president at Apple, said at the …
There are a bunch of surprises, some long-awaited, in the iPhone 3.0 software update coming on June 17th, Apple announced today at its Worldwide Developer Conferences. One of the coolest is that you can now use the Internet connection of …
Apple executive Phil Schiller started the keynote at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference this morning with a focus on a new Mac laptop that drew plenty of oohs and ahs from the crowd of 5,000 attendees.
He showed off a new …
Who is the sexiest of them all?
The iPhone wows with its dynamic App store. The Android boasts multi-tasking on applications. The Palm Pre lures with its integration of things like address book. So what does Nokia have to offer?…
We’ve added some more speakers at our MobileBeat 2009 conference on July 16.
Christy Wyatt, vice president of software applications and ecosystem at Motorola, is among the executives trying to turn around the company’s mobile phone division — in part …
With less than 48 hours to go before Monday’s opening keynote presentation at Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, the Apple rumor mill just isn’t cranking ‘em out like the old days. Lower-priced iPhones will be revealed Monday, …
The Palm Pre went on sale at midnight last night in Sprint, Best Buy and Radio Shack stores around the country. Crowds lined up to get their hands on the smartphones, which are expected to be in short supply.
Palm …
Sony Ericsson may be late to the game when it comes to launching an app store for its mobile phones, but it’s surging ahead in what it thinks might be another major industry trend: green devices.
The handset maker yesterday …
Apple plans to introduce a low-cost iPhone on Monday at the WWDC worldwide developer’s conference in San Francisco. The carefully-worded reporting at the Financial Times implies that they’ve got inside info. But with wireless carriers including AT&T desperate to keep …
Cassatt, the San Jose, Calif.-based provider of cloud computing environments, has sold its assets to public IT management firm CA for an undisclosed sum. The company has been in trouble for a while now, announcing its intentions to find a …
Why build an app store from scratch? Sony Ericsson’s upcoming app store, dubbed the PlayNow arena, will feature more than 45,000 free apps cataloged by GetJar. The apps, which cover 38 phone models in 13 countries, are a mix of …
AdMob serves six billion mobile ads per month. And when iPhone 3.0 arrives this summer, the mobile ad company will be rolling out several new ad formats tailored to the device. So advertisers will be locked and loaded with ads …
iPhone app developer Rick Strom has nearly 20 apps in Apple’s App Store. So when Strom claims that apps aren’t selling, he has first-hand data to back it up. His Zen Jar app, when it was free of charge, was …
Which mobile phone is the best?
Is it really the iPhone, as its legions of fanatics claim? Well, some Blackberry users think that the iPhone is pretty crappy: Its email interface is infuriatingly clunky (compared to the Blackberry) and its …
We’re delighted to announce two of the speakers at our MobileBeat2009 conference, to be held in San Francisco on July 16.
The conference comes at a time of considerable tension in the mobile industry: Apple is getting ready to release …
Sometimes there’s no need to reinvent what your enemy has done. That seems to be the thinking that Palm embraced as it announced today that the Palm Pre cell phone will be able to sync with Apple iTunes content.
Although …
The cruelest, truest moment in iPhone: The Music Video is when New York Times gadget guru David Pogue sings, “So what if it’s AT&T?” A bit of audio doctoring mangled Pogue’s “AT&T” in sputtering mimicry of a bad connection. My …
