Funny story: When Microsoft announced Windows Phone 7 back in the fall, the splash page on its website featured a bunch of icons for apps that’d be available in the Windows Phone Marketplace.
One of those icons was the Angry Birds logo.
Rovio, the company behind Angry Birds, swiftly responded via Twitter:
“We have NOT committed to
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Has the Apple App Store experience been everything you wanted and more? AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson thinks that their customers deserve more. In a keynote speech at the Mobile World Congress, Stephenson called out Apple for forcing customers to purchase the same program for different products.
“You purchase an app for one operating …
Verizon iPhone sales may be “performing a little under what Apple and Verizon anticipated,” according to BGR.com, which cites sales numbers apparently leaked to the site from one of its sources inside Apple.
The data reportedly comes from five Apple retail locations, “including two very, very prominent Apple stores,” and includes …
Apple has officially opened its new subscription payment service up to publishers today. Here’s how everything shakes out.
How does this affect you?
Unless you’re a publisher that wants to sell “content-based apps” in Apple’s App Store, it doesn’t affect you all that much. You’ll probably start to notice more newspapers and …
I’ll be honest: Rumors of an iPhone that’s capable of facilitating time travel haven’t surfaced… yet. But there’s some new scuttlebutt regarding larger-screen versions and an apparent prototype with a slide-out keyboard.
The rumors pertain to the iPhone 5, which is widely expected to be announced in June during Apple’s …
HTC has officially made its entry into the wild world of tablets with the HTC Flyer, a 7-inch Android tablet.
The Flyer features a 1.5GHz processor, 1024×600-resolution screen, aluminum body, 4G cellular data connection, and access to web-based gaming service OnLive. It’ll be running Android version 2.4 by launch time underneath HTC’s …
The Mobile World Congress expo is underway in Barcelona, Spain. It’s truly a psycho-erotic thrill ride of cell phone and tablet news, some of which pertains to the U.S., some of which doesn’t, and all of which gushes forth uncontrollably until everyone goes home.
Here’s a look at some of the more newsworthy items from the past …
We’ve got more fuel to add to the “iPhone Nano” rumors that caught fire late last week. The Wall Street Journal adds to Bloomberg‘s report of a smaller, less-expensive iPhone model that may hit the market as early as this summer. Both stories come from unnamed sources, so continue to take all this news with a grain of salt unless …
During a speech at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Mich., President Obama outlined a plan to bring 4G technology to 98% of American households by 2016.
According to an official White House statement, the plan “will enable businesses to grow faster, students to learn more, and public safety officials to access …
Apple may be targeting the lower end of the cell phone market, reports Bloomberg, citing unidentified “people who have been briefed on the plans.”
Apple is apparently working on a smaller version of the iPhone that uses older components and has no “Home” button. It’s roughly two-thirds the size of a regular iPhone and would supposedly …
Nokia and Microsoft have announced a partnership wherein Nokia will build handsets running Microsoft’s new Windows Phone 7 operating system.
There aren’t any hard-and-fast dates for when the first Nokia-branded Windows phones will hit the market, but some of the highlights of the partnership are as follows:
– Nokia will use the …
Despite RIM’s best attempts to dodge pricing and availability information for its BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet, it looks like Office Depot may have spilled the beans in an internal screen shot apparently leaked to CrackBerry.com.
If it’s legit, it details a selling price of $499.99 for the 16GB version and an in-store date of “week 17,” …
