June 2009 Archives
Texting While Driving Worse than Drinking While Driving, Says Car and Driver
To gauge the effect of texting while driving, Car and Driver magazine conducted road tests to determine just how dangerous texting and driving can be. In the Car and Driver video of the test, Editor-in-Chief Eddie Alterman, said, "While you're texting and driving, time disappears. You're concentr…
40% of Smartphone Owners Say They’ll Switch to iPhone, Says Crowd Science
Four out of ten Blackberry and other smartphone users would switch to Apple's iPhone, as their next smartphone purchase, according to a recent survey conducted by Crowd Science.On the other hand, only 14% of non-Blackberry smartphone users would switch to a Blackberry for their next purchase. Meanw…
Verizon to Pay Restiution for “Free” Mobile Content, Settles with FL
Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum announced his office has reached an agreement resulting in millions of dollars in refunds to Florida Verizon Wireless and Alltel consumers for third-party charges on their cell phone bills. Verizon Wireless, LLC has also agreed to adopt a series of “bes…
iPhone Rules Apps and Upgraders, Says AdMob
AdMob reports that in less than one year, the Apple App Store has grown to more than 50,000 applications and given consumers access to applications with broad consumer appeal as well as a long tail of niche applications that serve specific segments.An AdMob blog post showed a fast adoption rate of t…
HTC Ozone with Wi-Fi, Global Roaming Coming to Verizon for $49.99
Verizon Wireless' HTC Ozone will be available on July 29 from Verizon. The QWERTY, Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphone has host of connectivity options that include 3G network, global roaming and Wi-Fi. It will cost at $49.99 after a rebate They claim it is great value for first-time smartphon…
Palm Pre News, Tele-Buy, Over 1 Mil Apps, 150,000 Units, and Enterprise Goes Zen
The Palm Pre is gaining momemtem and mentions in the news. Still in short supply you can order a Palm Pre over the phone from Sprint, the app catalog will take time, 1 million apps have been downloaded and around 150,000 Palm Pre phones have been purchased.As we reported eariler, Palm Pre phon…
iPhone 3GS, Costs $178.96 to Make, Says iSuppli
iSuppli has estimated how much it costs to make the new iPhone 3GS and its just slightly higher than the iPhone 3G. The dissection conducted by iSuppli Corp.'s Teardown Analysis team also eveals some interesting changes in the parts and suppliers. "The entry-level, 16Gbyte version of Ap…
Palm Pre Shortage Persists: Sprint Catching Up / Pre-Orders at Best Buy
Bob Brust, CFO of Sprint revealed during a webcast investor conference about Palm Pre supply, "We still have a backlog of subscribers but it's not unmanageable and we get shipments every week ... We'll be short for a while but we're catching up." He sees that the Palm Pre is attracting both new c…
IT Pros Don’t Protect Their Mobile Data, Says CREDANT
Even IT pros don't protect their data on their mobile phones notes a new CREDANT survey. IT Security professionals report that they are suffering from password fatigue when using their mobile devices, exposing their data to personal and corporate identity theft if thedevices were to fall into the wr…
Palm Pre and BlackBerry (Storm/Curve/Bold/Pearl) Apps 2Day: New RealPlayer
If you are the kind of person who likes take your video with you where every you go than the the new beta version of RealPlayer, RealPlayerSP is for you. The SP stands for social/portable because this player helps users share their video through social networking sites and transfer video to smartpho…
Deal of the Week: No AT&T Activiation – Free BlackBerry Bold/Curve 8900 & More
Wirefly really knows how to attract new customers for AT&T, many of you bought the BlackBerry Curve 8900 on sale from every carrier on the big sale weekend. If you would like AT&T to be your carrier the deal Wirefly is offering for one week only is the best cheapest deal with or without coup…
Moto Karma Q1A Coming from AT&T June 28
If you live and work in California, like we do, you know that we want good karma. Without reviews yet, the Motorola Q1A Karma surely has texting and social networking, karma. The Motorola Q1A Karma is square when closed with a slide-out portrait keyboard with social networking features built-in. The…
Nokia & Intel Partner for Future Mobile Devices
Intel Corporation and Nokia today announced a long-term relationship to develop a new class of Intel Architecture-based mobile computing devices for fast mobile broadband connections. They will define a new mobile platform with nnovative hardware, software and mobile Internet servic…
Netbook/Notebook Ain’t the Same, Consumers Confused, Says NPD Group
NPD Group has also studied the confusion around notebooks versus netbooks. Netbooks are not as powerful and can dissapoint buyers.Although netbook and notebook sound the same, they are not. According The NPD Group, many consumers believe the two have the same functionalities. NPD's Net…
More Twitter Awareness than Ever and Twitterers Love/Buy Music
The NPD Group likes to know what's going. They have tracked Twitter awareness. They found that awareness of Twitter more than doubled in the first quarter of 2009 reaching a 52 percent awareness level among the U.S. Internet-using population, which increased from 22 percent awareness in the fo…
1 in 5 Want to Buy iPhone: Pricing & Data Obstacles, Says NPD Group
A new NPD Group study shows the main reasons consumers do not want to purchase an iPhone, "high price" was the second-leading reason (42 percent) after "lack of interest" (55 percent). Based on consumer tracking information reported in NPD's "iPhone Opportunity and Demand" report:One in five mobile…
35% of Teens Admit to Cheating with Cell Phone, 100 Texts While in Classroom
Moore than 35% of teens admit to cheating with cell phones, and more than half admit to using the Internet to cheat reports a study by the The Benenson Strategy Group for Common Sense Media. Furthermore, many students don't consider their actions to be cheating at all. The results show a need for pa…
New Snappy QWERTY Smartphone HTC Snap from Sprint
If you want to organize in a snap the HTC Snap is the first wireless phone to feature Inner Circle, which allows people to prioritize emails from the most important people to them. We saw a demo of this feature at CTIA and it was very nice.Sprint is the exclusive nationwide …
Sprint Offers QWERTY Samsung Exclaim
Sprint is now offering the Samsung Exclaim. a messaging-centric dual-slider with a numeric keypad and a full QWERTY keyboard. Exclaim is focused on social networking, with new interactive Facebook and MySpace tiles right on the home screen as part of Sprint's One Click interface.Cu…
Samsung Jet Pre-Orders Reach Over 2 Million
Pre-orders of the Samsung Jet have skyrocketed, according the Telecoms Korea that reported that Samsung announced pre-orders for the jetsetting Jet had topped two million. That's what you call jet propulsion.That's more than the iPhone 3GS that sold only a million over the weekend.1.8 million units …
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