Last month when Cerulean Studios launched Trillian Astra, they also submitted Trillian for iPhone to the Apple App Store for approval. Fast forward thirty days and they are still waiting for a response from Apple.
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Sprint announced their new Any Mobile, Anytime within a day of AT&T’s announcement of A-List. It has been a while since any of the major U.S. mobile carriers have added new customer perks. Maybe this is a sign that the competition may be heating up.
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Apple just couldn’t resist breaking the Palm Pre’s ability to synchronize directly with the new iTunes 9. I wrote in late July about Apple’s obsession with breaking iTunes on the Palm Pre and things are not likely to change.
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RIM’s BlackBerry continues to grow market share in spite of iPhone’s success. While some say RIM has multiple BlackBerry models competing against a single iPhone model, the BlackBerry Curve outsold the iPhone by itself in the first quarter of 2009.
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AT&T announced today that Visual Voicemail is now available to BlackBerry Bold customers. The new Visual Voicemail feature will allow users to selectively handle their voicemail messages in a manner similar to an e-mail inbox.
The New York Times reported back in May that the Federal Trade Commission was investigating the violation of antitrust laws related to Apple and Google sharing two board members on their boards of directors. Apple may have crossed another line by creating a software monopoly for the iPhone. This issue has yet to catch the attention of the Federal Trade Commission.
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A case study for porting an iPhone application to Windows Mobile was recently published by the Windows Mobile Developer Center within the Microsoft Developer Network. A post on the Windows Mobile Blog offers further perspective on the process. The study produced a ported iPhone app that ran successfully on an HTC Touch Pro with a beta version of Windows Mobile 6.5. The author made the follow conclusion of the process.
A recent security exploit affecting mobile phones has been identified that compromises mobile phones by simply receiving SMS or text messages. While most of the news surrounding this exploit has focused on the iPhone, other popular phones are also at risk.
Since the Palm Pre was launched in June with the capability of syncing directly with iTunes, Apple has been obsessed with breaking that feature for Pre owners. It seems that this effort by Apple isn’t helping them in any way and is probably hurting them in the media. Here’s why: Read the rest of this entry »
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As Google continues to send invites for their Google Voice service, they have announced mobile apps for BlackBerry and Android. The announcement describes the app’s integration with the phone’s contacts which allows calls to be made via Google Voice right from the contact list. You must have a Google Voice account to use the new mobile app.