This make sense as Google is becoming the common enemy of Apple and Microsoft. With Google’s strong push of Android in the market and works from Google to integrate their services tightly to the platform, it will slowly capture the mobile search market and soon the mobile market. And with the recent purchase of Admob (a mobile ads company) and release of its first Android phone, Nexus One, to the market, the big G has [...]

Time has named Motorola DROID to be the number one of “The Top 10 Everything of 2009″. The reasons given on the web site: “The Droid is a hefty beast, a metal behemoth without the gloss and finish of the iPhone, but you don’t miss it. The Droid’s touchscreen is phenomenally sharp and vivid, it has an actual physical (not great, but good enough) keyboard, and best of all, the Droid is on Verizon’s best-of-breed [...]

This is another proof that open market will benefit the consumers When there are more competitors in the market, there will be more choices and the prices will be more competitive. Singapore consumers, you are now free to choose your iPhone operators.  And we are seeing the prices and bundles keep changing from the 3 operators these few days.  M1‘s iPhone plans were bundled with 10Gb of data originally, and now they are bundled with [...]

The second worm has hit the jailbroken iPhone.  This time, it is specifically targeting people in the Netherlands who are using their iPhones for internet banking with Dutch online bank ING. If you have a jailbroken iPhone and with SSH installed, beware!  The recently reported worm will try to get your banking and some other private information out of your iPhone. Apparently, some of the people who jailbroke their iPhones and installed SSH have never [...]

Apple is going to fight with South Korean’s local phone manufacturers, Samsung and LG.  KT, the South Korean mobile operator, has announced the they will offer iPhone on 28th of November. After clearing the government regulation, KT is finally ready to sell the iPhone.  From KT’s website, they will offer the 32GB iPhone 3GS at 132,000 won (US$114) with a mobile service contract.  They will also sell the 16Gb iPhone 3GS as well as the [...]

A recent report show Apple has filed a patent for some kind of forced advertisement.  And one significant thing is the “enforcement routine”: “The technology can freeze the device until the user clicks a button or answers a test question to demonstrate that he or she has dutifully noticed the commercial message.” This is leave you no choice but to finish watching the ads. If Apple uses the patented technology and use it on iPhone [...]

Apple App Store is famous in their inconsistency, arbitrary and these have been annoying to many of the iPhone developers.  And this time, Facebook iPhone app developer, Joe Hewitt, shows his anger and states the “decision to stop iPhone development has had everything to do with Apple’s policies“. He has handed over the development of the app to another developer and handed to something else. Well, this is not the first time for such kind [...]

Despite the problems of App Store’s apps acceptance, Apple App Store had managed to get 100,000 apps into the store. App Store continues to grow and it has hit 2 billions download mark recently.  It is a big challenge for the new comers like, Microsoft’s Marketplace, Android’s Market, and Palm’s App Catalog who are working hard to get apps into their stores. It is hard not to salute Apple, for still being strong and market [...]

Apple continues to annoy people of its inconsistancy way of accepting applications into App Store.  Macworld Editor-in-Chief Jason Snell just had his iPhone book rejected – for using the word “iPhone” in the title. We understand that Apple may not like any application to have the word “iPhone” as the name of applications.  However, in this case, what title could Jason Snell use as it is a guide for the iPhone?  And apparrently, there are [...]

The game goes on, the recent release of Apple iTunes 9.0.2 kills the media sync capability between iTunes and Palm Pre. Despite Palm‘s effort to make the Pre compatable to iTunes media sync, Apple just hates it and keeps breaking it with new updates. While the main goals of iTunes 9.0.2 are to add support for Apple TV software version 3.0, add an option for a dark background for Grid View and improve support for [...]