Move over, Apple: get ready for the Google PhoneIt’s only been a rumour until now, but TechCrunch says it can now confirm: Google is making its own mobile phone, and it should be out early next year. Time for Steve Jobs to start sweating?
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Why Google just dropped $750m on a mobile ad network
Google just spent $750 million to buy out mobile phone ad network AdMob. Why? Check out the chart: the mobile ad market is booming, with AdMob reporting 10.2 billion ad requests in September.
Why China hates the iPhone
The rest of the world may be experiencing iPhone fever, but public reaction to the phone’s release in China has been decidedly tepid. And it’s not just the high price that is turning consumers off — it’s the government’s continued stranglehold on the Net.
Is it Game Over for Nintendo?
Nintendo have reported an astounding 52% decline in profit due to slow Wii sales. Will a new DS be enough to save Nintendo? Did they focus too hard on appealing to Wii Fit mums rather than focusing on hard core gamers?
Is FarmVille the next Google?
Mobile phone apps aren’t all iPee Drunk style games. The app economy is booming, with Zynga, creators of FarmVille, being touted as the next big thing, while Apple’s App Store dominates the market.
Dial-a-success: iPhones push Apple profits up 46%
Does it seem like everywhere you look there are iPhones? Well, Apple have sold 7.6 million of them in the last quarter, helping raise profits by a whopping 46%. The US are still in a recession, right?
Ping! sends a shake-up message to nervous telcos
An application released last week for Apple’s iPhone, which gives users the ability to circumvent the carriers to send SMSs, will be making our large phone companies a little bit nervous,
Nokia: we won’t Finnish behind iPhone
Finland’s mobile phone giant Nokia has launched an offensive to catch up with new technology by unveiling a range of smartphones to rival the iPhone and the BlackBerry.
A news revolution in the palm of your hand
The iPhone has meant I no longer need to buy a newspaper for anything at all, says Alan Kohler, and the launch of Apple’s much-hyped new tablet computer — the iPad — may put Steve Jobs’ name alongside Johannes Gutenberg, John Walter and Giambattista Bodoni as a news revolutionary.
Things that are sixteen per cent…
Malcolm Turnbull has called an urgent meeting with his Media Strategy Team…
Dying for the iPhone?
The New Yorker is trying to find out more about a 25-year-old employee at Foxconn, Apple’s Chinese manufacturer, who committed suicide, apparently after being interrogated about a missing iPhone prototype.
Apple sells 1.5 billion apps in first year
Apple iPhone and iPod Touch users have downloaded 1.5 billion apps since the launch of the App Store a year ago. No doubt the company have changed the face of mobile communications, but will developers stick with them for another year?
ToiletGate
With Government 2.0 up and running, I decided to see how the iPhone toilet finder app developers were going. Looks like they’ve run into some issues with the Dept of Health and Ageing, says Joshua Gans.
If only newspapers were an iPhone app
The incredible success of iPhone apps has demonstrated the biggest tragedy of newspapers: their failure to find a viable micropayments system, writes Alan Kohler.
VIDEO: Apple’s new toys
Gizmodo have put together a three-minute highlight clip of Apple’s WWDC keynote speech, where they announced all the features of the new iPhone and Macbook Pro.
Jobs ready to return to Apple
Steve Jobs is on track to return to the helm of Apple at the end of June — but will he make a surprise early appearance to present the new iPhone at the the company’s developer conference next week?
iPhone 3.0 rumour round-up
A great graphical representation of all the rumors circulating over the past few months about the third generation iPhone.
First New Yorker cover by iPhone app
Jorge Colombo used Brushes, an application for the iPhone that’s a bit like virtual finger painting, to create this week’s cover while standing for an hour outside Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum.
The West Wing of iPhone apps
Marc Ambinder runs down the top 10 Jesus Phone apps for Washington insiders.
The iPhone ad you’ll never see
SlateV imagines an iPhone ad promoting apps that solve problems with the phone itself:
Palm Pre vs. iPhone 3G
The Palm Pre is being touted as the big rival to Apple’s insanely popular iPhone. Wired puts them side by side.
iPhone apps for political wonks
Mashable rates the top 5 iPhone apps for political junkies.
One billion iPhone apps. But how many are worth downloading?
The marketplace for iPhone applications is growing increasingly more crowded, but the question must be asked: are they actually any good?
