Archive for July, 2010 - Page 10
Privacy Concerns Over Nighttime iPhone Uploads [Internet Discovers That Apple Uploading Data From iPhones At Night, Controversy Ensues]
Some users on the Apple support forums discovered that at night – roughly between 1am and 2am – their iPhone was uploading some data back to Apple. The amount was as high as 73MB at one point – and obviously [...]
LG: We Have “A Couple” Of Windows Phone 7 Phones Coming This Year [LG Confirms That It's Working On WP7 Devices, More Than One Coming For Sure]
Microsoft already announced that LG was among the hardware partners that would be producing the first wave of Windows Phone 7 devices. Now, LG has also commented on that situation, saying that they’re planning to have “a couple” out before [...]
Verizon Sends Awful Blurry Droid X Ads To BlackBerry Customers [Verizon BlackBerry Customers Get Spammed By Droid X Ads, Even Though You Can't Find Them]
Although most who want one can’t find one (protip: Amazon.com has Droid Xs in stock right now), that hasn’t stopped Verizon from still heavily promoting the Droid X. Several BlackBerry (and other phone) users on Verizon reportedly got some video [...]
Fancy Droid Incredible Costs $163 To Make [HTC's Droid Phone For Verizon Costs About A Third Of What They Sell It For, Says iSuppli]
The good folks at iSuppli have done a tear down of the Droid Incredible, the sexy Android device on Verizon, made by HTC. They found that the device is very similar to the Nexus One/HTC Desire. That makes some sense [...]
Rumor: Sony Planning Cheaper $350 PS3 Move Bundle [Sony May Be Offering Two PlayStation Move Bundles With Console, One With Smaller Hard Drive]
Website Gamervision is citing a reliable internal Sony source, saying that Sony is planning to offer two PS3 Move Bundles, one of which will be about $50 cheaper than the other. One will cost a steep $399 while the other, [...]
New Colored Kindle Coming by Christmas? [Amazon Interested in Color Kindle But Sticking With Regular E-Ink for Now]
So, Amazon managed to sell-out the previous Kindle model, but that simply means they didn’t replenish the stock as they were waiting to launch this new Kindle baby. The new device was made official yesterday evening and boy does it [...]
Nintendo Has Poor Financial Results Due To Strong Yen [Gaming Giant Loses Profits Based On Currency Exchange And Price Cuts On Nintendo DS]
Nintendo may be the darling of this console generation, having sold millions of millions of Wiis to people who only bring them out for a party once or twice a year. Kidding, of course. Jokes aside, Nintendo do so well [...]
Jeff Bezos Doesn’t See The Benefit Of App-style eBooks [Amazon CEO Defends Kindle As Purpose-Specific eReader, Wasn't Compelled To Build A Tablet]
Folks have wanted to compare the iPad and Kindle since they first came out, despite them really being in different markets. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos agrees with my assumption, and he told the Wall Street Journal that that’s why he [...]
Eric Schmidt: Android Could Make Us $10 Billion A Year [Google CEO Defends Android Platform, Says It Could End Up Becoming Major Platform For Google, Hints At Paid News Feeds From Google]
We know that several Wall Street investors have voiced concerns about Google’s “pet projects” including Android. Some of the Gordon Gekko types don’t see how a free product like Android (among others) could end up making money for the company. [...]
1+ Million Android Market Users Threatened by Malicious App [After App Store Phishing Attacks, the Android Market Gets Hit: More Than 1 Million User Details Lost]
Don’t tell me I didn’t warn you a few weeks back about this sort of attack, folks! Since even the App Store, which so many of us assumed was basically unhackable (and truth be told, the actual iTunes stores were [...]

