Google to Create iTunes Rival Based on Android
The drumbeat continues as Google takes on Apple in yet another realm Cupertino once thought secure. The Internet giant plans to take on iTunes, adding music downloads to its Android Marketplace. At first, owners of Android devices will need to visit Google’s Web shop to purchase and download tunes to their cell phones (and later tablets,
Analyst: iPad Has 91 Percent Consumer Satisfaction
Two new surveys released bear good news for both Apple and the beleaguered publishing industry: More than 90 percent of consumers love their iPad. The surveys by ChangeWave found demand for the tablet device is increasing after the product’s introduction and that iPad owners are three-times as likely to read newspapers and magazines compared
Hearst Picks Skiff as Preferred E-Reader
The phone has not been completely eclipsed by Apple’s iPad when it comes to reading your daily newspaper or magazine. Tuesday, publishing giant Hearst Corp. inked a deal with Samsung, naming the cell phone maker its “preferred e-reading service partner.” Samsung’s smart phones, such as its newly introduced Galaxy S, will include software from Skiff allowing
Tiger App Fosters Illicit Loves by Auto-Deleting Texts
You need not risk $20 million in alimony to find deleting compromising text messages from your cell phone useful. That’s the premise behind Tiger app, a nod to philandering putter Tiger Woods, an iPhone application that erases indiscreet SMS messages, forever, right after you’ve read them. You can set a text “life span,” then those texts
Fring Updates Its App To Allow Voice And Video Over 3G
Who knows — soon, having to watch your cell minutes might just be a thing of the past, as more communication apps embrace VoIP over 3G after Apple nixed its no-Internet-calls-over-3G policy. The latest to do so is Fring, announcing today that calls — and video calls — can now be made over the 3G
Apple Wants U.S. Nokia Phone Sales Banned
Like a modern-day Hatfield and McCoys, Apple and Nokia are at it again, the latest shot fired by the Cupertino, Calif. firm, asking the International Trade Commission to block imports of the cell phone giant. The legal action comes after Nokia asked the same commission to ban imports of iPods, iPhones and Macs. The action was
CES: Powermat Shows Off Cheaper Charging Mats, Talks Up iPhone Bundle
LAS VEGAS — Powermat is a wireless charging pad for powering up gadgets without plugging them into their chargers. I’ve been testing a competing product from Pure Energy Solutions for several months, and found that wireless chargers really change your charging habits. My wife and kids, for example, who never charge their cell phones/iPods, have
iPhone, Other Smartphones To Own 55% Of Market Value By 2010
The iPhone may be the face of the future. Smartphones like Apple’s iconic handset are on target to take 55 percent of the cell phone market value in 2010, analysts said Wednesday. Despite a faltering general handset market, smartphones will comprise 27 percent of all handsets purchased in 2010, according to the UK analyst firm
iProduct Placement: Sandra Bullock Goes Rogue in “The Proposal”
In “The Proposal,” Sandra Bullock plays a Canadian-born, bulletproof book editor who finds herself stuck in Sitka, Alaska while waiting to marry her assistant to get a green card. After her cell phone gets stolen by an eagle, she picks up a replacement at the town general store — what could be more Alaska? — and
