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Another day, another iPhone fix (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

Blackberry clamshell pair leaked online — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:54:18+0100

It's a bug's life

Version 2.0.2 of firmware for Apple's iPhone was made available yesterday, offering improvements on 3G reception for some, but not fixing the crashing applications Steve is promising to sort by September.?

Blackberry clamshell pair leaked online (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

The Register - Comms: Mobile — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:55:12+0100

Online retailer slips up

Details of the first Blackberry clamshell format phones have appeared online, following a mistake made by online retailer Expansys.?

Vodafone jacks up UK prices (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

Another 60 days' free MobileMe service, madam? — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:25:19+0100

By as much as 40 per cent

Vodafone will jack up its prices next month, it said today. Standard call charges will rise from 15p to 20p per minute for pre-pay customers and contract minutes outside monthly inclusive packages.?

Palm to unveil Treo Pro today? (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

Another day, another iPhone fix — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:30:46+0100

Company agent says as much

Palm looks set to announce the Treo Pro today, according to an email sent out by one of its media agencies.?

Another 60 days' free MobileMe service, madam? (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

Palm to unveil Treo Pro today? — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:17:13+0100

You just can't give it away

Apple has added 60 days onto the end of every MobileMe subscription, in another attempt to pacify punters still unhappy with the online synchronisation service.?

HTC Dream sails through FCC tests (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

Vodafone jacks up UK prices — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:59:13+0100

Wi-Fi certificate granted too

Production of the first mobile to use Google?s Android platform has taken a step forward, following the US Federal Communications Commission?s (FCC) approval of HTC?s Dream handset. The Wi-Fi Alliance has given it the thumbs-up too.?

Apple's AppStore closes in on $500m in software sales (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

HTC Dream sails through FCC tests — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 08:46:09+0100

Bonanza for some, kill switch for others

Analysis Apple is as usual dazzling the market with stunning headline figures that frequently overshadow underlying problems and dissatisfaction with its iconic iPhone and associated services. As bullish analysts say the device is set to sell almost 4.5 million units this quarter on the back of aggressive international expansion, CEO Steve Jobs crowed that the AppStore, launched a month ago with the 3G iPhone, has already processed 60 million downloads and is generating $1m a day in sales of paid-for software, and could crack the half-billion dollar mark within a year of opening.?

Palm lets slip Treo Pro piccies (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

Orange to bundle free Eee with HSDPA modem, airtime — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:04:00+0100

HSDPA version of Treo 800w?

Palm's upcoming Treo Pro, the smartphone formerly assumed to be the Treo 850, has made an early appearance on the web - courtesy of the manufacturer itself.?

Orange to bundle free Eee with HSDPA modem, airtime (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

Apple's AppStore closes in on $500m in software sales — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:54:40+0100

SCC subsidised

Orange will tomorrow offer Brits Asus' newly announced Eee PC 900 16G for... well... nothing at all. Orange will expect however, punters to sign up for a two-year, �25-a-month airtime contract.?

Twitter falls silent in the UK (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

Samsung builds phone from corn — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:54:38+0100

Free service cuts off SMS delivery

Twitter has stopped sending SMS updates to UK customers, thus leaving them unaware of the latest important updates on what their friends had for breakfast.?

Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 release date named (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

Twitter falls silent in the UK — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:14:33+0100

Firm's first Windows Mobile smartphone

Sony Ericsson's eagerly anticipated Xperia X1 Windows Mobile-based smartphone looks set to be released early October.?

Samsung builds phone from corn (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

Yahoo! knows! where! you! are! — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:57:31+0100

A-maize-ing

A mobile phone with a case made entirely from an eco-friendly material has been unveiled by Samsung.?

Sun opens Java tools in mobile fight back (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

Palm lets slip Treo Pro piccies — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:36:34+0100

Eclipsed, again?

Sun Microsystems has open sourced its Java toolkit for building mobile applications just as the role Java plays on handsets comes into question.?

Samsung Cell Phone Pin a Hot item in Beijing (textually.org)

textually.org — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:41:00+0100

When they're not watching their favorite athletes, Olympic fans are going crazy for pins which are being sold on the streets of Beijing.

According to EDT, the unofficial Olympic �sport,� took off at the 1988 Calgary Winter Games, and has slowly been gathering momentum as the Chinese get bitten by the trading bug.

The most sought after one according to Ted Arthur is a Samsung pin that has a phone on it that actually slides open and closed.

I found the Samsung pin everyone is talking about at PinLink.com, a collectors website which has a section on olympic pins.

Yahoo! knows! where! you! are! (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

Ofcom knocks back spectrum auction — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:44:43+0100

Fire Eagle takes off

Yahoo's punter-locating database officially launched yesterday and already has privacy advocates in a flap, despite offering users complete control as well as expecting them to lie every now and then.?

Ofcom knocks back spectrum auction (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

Sun opens Java tools in mobile fight back — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:37:46+0100

T-Mobile and O2 still fighting their corner

Ofcom has admitted it will not start the auction of three chunks of 2GHz spectrum in October as promised, pushing the date back as litigation from T-Mobile and O2 drags on.?

iPhone 3G isn't necessarily (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

Chinese network announces $14.5bn 3G plans — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:34:18+0100

Networks place the blame at Apple's door

Eager punters cooing over their 3G iPhones are finding the third generation connectivity not quite what they had hoped, and according to some reports Apple's super-phone is failing to meet the requirements of the 3G standard.?

Best Buy helps Apple put an iPhone under every tree (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

iPhone 3G isn't necessarily — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:14:39+0100

First 'independent' US retailer

Best Buy next month becomes the first ?independent? US retailer to start selling the iPhone, as Apple looks to establish the shiny device as this year?s tickle me Elmo.?

Google Android just five weeks away? (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

Best Buy helps Apple put an iPhone under every tree — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:27:15+0100

T-Mobile asks $399, Google demands your soul

This week, another unnamed source told TmoNews - a T-Mobile obsessed blog - that the American wireless carrier will offer up the first Android phone for pre-sale on 17 September.?

No wireless sex please, we're American (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

Google Android just five weeks away? — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:16:00+0100

Prudes Congressmen pledge support for porn-free spectrum

When it comes to filtering adult content in the US things are due to get that bit more um, sticky. Two Democrat members of the US congress have sent an open letter to FCC Chair Kevin Martin, supporting the agency's goal of a nationwide wireless service suitable for family viewing and accusing detractors of playing for time.?

China Mobile adds 7.11 mln new subscribers in July (textually.org)

Samsung Cell Phone Pin a Hot item in Beijing — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:29:00+0100

China Mobile Ltd. announced on Aug. 20 it added 7.11 million new mobile phone subscribers in July this year, while China Unicom Ltd. said on Aug. 19 that it added 539,000 in the same period.

[via China Business Daily]

Phone a friend in exams (textually.org)

China Mobile adds 7.11 mln new subscribers in July — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:03:00+0100

A Sydney girls' school is redefining the concept of cheating by allowing students to "phone a friend" and use the internet and i-Pods during exams. The Sydney Morning Herald reports.

"Presbyterian Ladies' College at Croydon is giving the assessment method a trial run with year 9 English students and plans to expand it to all subjects by the end of the year.

... An English teacher, Dierdre Coleman said her students were being encouraged to access information from the internet, their mobile phones and podcasts played on mp3s as part of a series of 40-minute tasks. But to discourage plagiarism, they are required to cite all sources they use.

"In their working lives they will never need to carry enormous amounts of information around in their heads. What they will need to do is access information from all their sources quickly and they will need to check the reliability of their information."

... International education consultant, Marc Prensky threw out the following challenge to educators in a British Educational Communications and Technology Agency publication: "What if we allowed the use of mobile phones and instant messaging to collect information during exams, redefining such activity from 'cheating' to 'using our tools and including the world in our knowledge base'?

"Our kids already see this on television. 'You can use a lifeline to win $1 million'. 'Why not to pass a stupid test?' I have begun advocating the use of open phone tests ... Being able to find and apply the right information becomes more important than having it all in your head."

Chinese network announces $14.5bn 3G plans (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 release date named — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:09:57+0100

Olympian outlay

China Unicom says it will splurge $14.5bn on network infrastructure over the next two years, as the company rushes to deploy its 3G network.?

SIM modding kit offered to Brits (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

Dutch unlocked iPhone site takes ?700,000 then goes offline — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:08:52+0100

Beat the iPhone 3G network tether

Easy handset unlocking has come to the UK courtesy of online supplier SIMable which is now offering a 20 quid kit to let any SIM work with (almost) any network-locked mobile.?

Even Koreans turn off mobile TV (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

No wireless sex please, we're American — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:35:24+0100

Nobody's watching

Despite billions invested in turning mobile phones into pocket TV sets, the public continues to find it all a giant yawn. A study by TMC Media published earlier this month suggests that peak-time viewing of direct broadcast TV on phones in Korea barely exceeds the pollsters' margin of error.?

iPhone kill switch can be disabled (textually.org)

au Design Project x Yamaha merges music with mobile in new ways — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:40:00+0100

According to Gizmodo, the kill switch that lets Apple remotely remove applications on your iPhone can be disabled with the push of a button.The kill switch that lets Apple remotely remove applications on your iPhone can be disabled with the push of a button.

TechDirt

Dutch unlocked iPhone site takes ?700,000 then goes offline (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

Even Koreans turn off mobile TV — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:10:35+0100

Phones down, site owner 'missing'

A Dutch online reseller who promised customers simlock-free iPhones has apparently gone missing, leaving coworkers bemused and hundreds of consumers a total of ?700,000 in the hole.?

SMS used to land plane (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

'I've cracked Nokia S40 security', claims researcher — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:45:49+0100

Rnwy 3 clr, lndin gr dwn, prepr 4 lnding

In what could be a world first, an air-traffic controller (ATC) in Ireland has used text messaging to successfully bring home a stricken plane.?

'I've cracked Nokia S40 security', claims researcher (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

iPhone apps selling like hot cakes — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:35:42+0100

Gimme ?20k and I'll show you how

Updated A lone researcher claims to have discovered a raft of security issues with Nokia's mid-range handsets, allowing him to remotely install malicious applications with unprecedented capabilities - but he's asking for ?20,000 for the details.?

iPhone apps selling like hot cakes (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

SIM modding kit offered to Brits — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:17:05+0100

As long as Apple likes the recipe

Apple has been selling $1m worth of iPhone apps every day, Steve Jobs told the Wall Street Journal. He also confirmed Apple's ability to reach out and disappear applications previously installed on punters' iPhones.?

Top-secret Android handset surfaces on YouTube (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

SMS used to land plane — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:44:53+0100

A rare moment of openness for Google's open OS

Defying Google's pathologically closed approach to its open mobile platform, someone has posted video of a top-secret Android phone to YouTube.?

3G to hit 12 million Chinese by 2012 (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

Top-secret Android handset surfaces on YouTube — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 08:02:03+0100

So they can watch the London Olympics?

Analysts EJL Wireless Research estimate that more than 12 million Chinese will be using TD-SCDMA handsets by 2012, though they also claim that Huawei won't be providing much of the infrastructure to support them.?

au Design Project x Yamaha merges music with mobile in new ways (textually.org)

Obama to announce his Vice-Presidential candidate by SMS — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:43:00+0100

The au Design Project x Yamaha from KDDI show a series of phones that double as musical instruments. Designed by a foreign and Japanese team of young innovators, these handsets are original, creative, and (the best part) actually able to make music, writes Trends in Japan.

In My Pocket, below, is unique in that it comes with multiple accessories to create different instruments from the harmonica to the trumpet. Sounds are �hummed� into the handset (much like with Yamaha�s EZ TP Trumpet) with the rest controlled by the fingers.

Join LiMo, avoid a patent pantsing from the big lads (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

3G to hit 12 million Chinese by 2012 — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 02:02:54+0100

Membership has its privileges

LinuxWorld For all its talk of openness, just a quarter of the code in the LiMo Foundation's mobile platform is open source, making it a minefield to navigate in terms of protected patents - 300,000 patents to be precise.?

T-Mobile dates BlackBerry Bold launch (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

Man buys $1,000 worth of iPhone pixels by accident — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:36:51+0100

RIM's first HSDPA 3G BlackBerry coming next month

T-Mobile will launch RIM?s first tri-band HSDPA 3G handset into the UK next month. Also dubbed the Bold, the network provider will release this on its Business 1-Plan.?

Cell phone sales down, average price up in the US (textually.org)

Phone a friend in exams — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:06:00+0100

US consumers just aren't buying cell phones like they once were, according to the NPD Group. Unit sales are at the lowest level since the firm started tracking them in 2005, although consumers do seem to be buying more expensive units.

The market research firm said today that recent surveys showed that only 28 million handsets were sold to consumers during the second quarter of this year, reflecting a 13 percent year-over-year decline.

[via ars technica]

Apple's secret iPhone app blacklist (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

T-Mobile dates BlackBerry Bold launch — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:52:45+0100

Cloak-and-dagger app wipes imminent?

A researcher has discovered a URL buried in the iPhone hardware that appears to point to an application blacklist - potentially allowing Apple to retroactively remove applications it decides no longer fit the bill.?

Obama to announce his Vice-Presidential candidate by SMS (textually.org)

Sleep Deprived teenagers risk their hearts — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:57:00+0100

According to The New York Times, sometime before the opening gavel of the Democratic National Convention next Monday, Senator Barack Obama plans to break the mold by doing it with a text message. The names of vice-presidential candidates up until now were typically announced at news conferences or political conventions.

"Last week, the Obama campaign said that anyone who sent a text message of �VP� to a dedicated phone number would be among the first to learn the identity of his running mate."

[via Switched]

Man buys $1,000 worth of iPhone pixels by accident (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

Join LiMo, avoid a patent pantsing from the big lads — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:18:29+0100

'I blame everyone but myself'

An American man has accidentally spent $999.99 on an iPhone app that does nothing but display a glowing red ruby.?

Deutsche Telecom sees income dip (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

Apple's secret iPhone app blacklist — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:24:00+0100

And UK mobe subs stand still

Deutsche Telecom is reporting a good first half of 2008, with income dipping only slightly by three per cent to ?30.1bn, though that can be "adjusted" into an "organic" increase of 0.3 per cent. This produced an adjusted net profit of ?1.4bn.?

Intel Mobile Mood Rings (textually.org)

Cell phone sales down, average price up in the US — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:15:00+0100

Intel has a new vision for the future, and one of them is a mobile mood ring concept that is able to recognize a person from the heartbeat, speech pattern, movements and appearance, helping keep your private information by blocking it from others who it does not recognize. Ubergizmo reports.

"This same device could see use at hotel desks int he future, where checking in will allow this mobile mood ring to run a scan through you, automatically sending your personal preference in room temperature, TV channels and special requests to your suite before you even go up the lift.

In addition, this ring is able to track your mood as well as the moods of others, warning you if somebody you don't like is in the area."

Nokia's Trolltech renews Windows mobile vows (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

Deutsche Telecom sees income dip — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:26:13+0100

No Symbian monogamy

LinuxWorld Nokia-owned Trolltech has re-committed its Qt cross-platform application framework and toolkit to Windows.?

EU grabs 30MHz of spectrum for talking cars (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

Too much money? Bling your iPhone with the $1000 app — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:54:31+0100

My other car's a right nag

The EU has agreed to reserve 30MHz of spectrum (around 5.9GHz) for cars that want to talk to each other, in the belief that doing so will save lives rather than add more driver-distracting gadgets.?

Condom a cappella ringtone promotes safe sex (textually.org)

Intel Mobile Mood Rings — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:03:00+0100

A ringtone that chants "condom, condom!" has been launched in India to promote safe sex and tackle the growing HIV/AIDS epidemic, writes Breitbart.

"The "condom a cappella" has been designed to break down Indians' reluctance to discuss condom use and to make wearing a condom more acceptable.

Organisers of the campaign, funded by the foundation set up by Microsoft mogul Bill Gates and his wife Melinda, hope the ringtone will become a craze among young Indians. "

[via Gizmodo]

Sleep Deprived teenagers risk their hearts (textually.org)

Nano-Scale Springs to Protect Mobile Phones from Damage — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:20:00+0100

We've read about teenagers being sleep deprived because they text all nightt, but here's something new to worry about. According to The Sydney Morning Herald, new research suggests that sleep-deprived teenagers are at greater risk of high blood pressure and heart attacks - and their mobile phones, computer games and iPods could be to blame.

"A study of teens aged 13 to 16 found those who slept less than 6� hours a night were up to three times more likely to have elevated blood pressure.

Researchers said the "technological invasion of the bedroom" was responsible for creating a generation of sleep-starved youngsters.

The study, by Susan Redline from University Hospital's Sleep Disorders Clinic in Cleveland, published in Circulation, the journal of the American Heart Association, looked at the sleeping patterns of 238 teenagers and found that the duration of sleep directly affected blood pressure.

... It is the first study of its kind to look at the link between sleep and blood pressure in healthy teens."

Links to other SMS related sleep deprived studies

MySpace elbows into the Cloud (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

EU grabs 30MHz of spectrum for talking cars — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:02:03+0100

Social netvomit now available wirelessly

MySpace has teamed up with The Cloud to offer UK social networkers free access to Wi-fi hotspots, so they can keep up with what their pretend friends are up to while out socialising.?

Too much money? Bling your iPhone with the $1000 app (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

ColorWare's colourful iPhone 3G — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:58:58+0100

Red sparkly thing only a grand to you

iPhone users can now buy themselves a picture of a red gem to display on their handsets, purely to demonstrate they've got enough money to throw $999.99 at such a pointless gesture.?

Text messaging a plus for Obama campaign (textually.org)

Condom a cappella ringtone promotes safe sex — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:32:00+0100

A Michigan researcher says releasing Sen. Barack Obama's vice presidential choice in a text message will net his campaign millions of cell phone numbers. UPI reports.

Researcher Allison Dale of the University of Michigan says the move could result in the biggest text messaging experiment ever.

"They're enticing people with a little bit of information," Dale says. "and once they have those numbers, they can use them again for mobilization."

Dale, a graduate student, was co-author of a study of 4,000 people released last September on the effects of text messaging."

The study found that people who received a text message reminder to vote one day before an election were 4.2 percent more likely to get to the polls. "

Cellular Service to Become Available on Korean Cruise Ships (textually.org)

Nokia Shows off Carbon Fibre Mobile Phone — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:20:00+0100

For the first time in Korea, a cellular service will be available to passengers on domestic cruise ships. [via Digital Chosunilbo]

"... Starting in early September, the service will become available on passenger ship The Ohamana.

The office expects the service will also help local fishermen and plans to expand the service soon. "

Nano-Scale Springs to Protect Mobile Phones from Damage (textually.org)

Cellular Service to Become Available on Korean Cruise Ships — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:05:00+0100

A team of Clemson University researchers, led by Apparao Rao, professor of physics, has invented a way to make beds of tiny, shock-absorbing carbon springs which possibly could be used to protect delicate objects from damaging impacts. Cellular News reports.

"With collaborators at the University of California at San Diego, the team has shown that layers of these tiny springs called coiled carbon nanotubes, each a thousand times smaller than a human hair, can act as extremely resilient shock absorbers.

The group also envisions coiled nanotubes in soldiers� body armor, car bumpers and bushings and even as cushioning elements in shoe soles."

ColorWare's colourful iPhone 3G (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

Nokia's Trolltech renews Windows mobile vows — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:56:03+0100

Grab yourself a multi-tone phone

Almost everyone owns an iPhone 3G now, or so it seems sometimes. So if you want to stand out from the Apple crowd, but aren?t willing to give up the phone, why not have your handset custom hued??

LiMo lands seven new phones (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

Analysts slam iPhone security and battery life — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:55:34+0100

21 partners join Linux mobile fold

The battle of open-source mobile systems continues to heat up. Motorola, NEC and Panasonic are rolling out seven new mobile handsets based on the LiMo (Linux for Mobile) software platform.?

Nokia Shows off Carbon Fibre Mobile Phone (textually.org)

Lonely Planet Content now Available on Nokia Maps — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:22:00+0100

Nokia has shown off a new "premium" mobile phone - the Nokia 8800 Carbon Arte, which the company says has been engineered from carbon fibre, titanium, polished glass and stainless steel. Cellular News reports.

"The Nokia 8800 Carbon Arte also offers the unique tap-for-time feature - consumers can tap the steel surface below the display twice and a clock appears on the screen. Background images organically change during the day, giving a unique appearance to the display.

The turn-to-mute silencing mechanism allows individuals to silence incoming calls in a discrete manner by turning the phone over, screen-side down."

Press release

Analysts slam iPhone security and battery life (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

Jobs in 'Apple not perfect' shock — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:13:27+0100

Gartner puts brakes on biz takeup

Industry analysts have decreed that the new iPhone's lack of security and poor battery life make it unsuitable for all but the lightest enterprise use.?

Jobs in 'Apple not perfect' shock (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

MySpace elbows into the Cloud — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:58:08+0100

MobileMe could have been better, admits Steve

An internal email sent by Steve Jobs admits that MobileMe was "not up to Apple's standards" and that the company tried to do too much too quickly.?

Microsoft harpoons Nokia to fine tune Zune (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

Motorola hires Jha to get handset biz out of a pickle — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:26:04+0100

Playing catch-up with iTunes

Word on the street is that Microsoft and Nokia are cooking something up for Microsoft's Zune. But rumours that the result will be a Zune phone, appear wide of the mark.?

Apple pulls posted pulled iPhone modem app (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

Microsoft harpoons Nokia to fine tune Zune — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:54:47+0100

Netshare, the iPhone App Store's fastest moving product

The strange case of Netshare, the application that turns the iPhone into a modem - whenever it exists - became stranger still over the weekend, when it appeared and disappeared for a second time in the iPhone App Store. Apple and AT&T (widely assumed to be the bad guy here) remained tight-lipped, leaving the world trying to figure out the significance of the strange and brief manifestations.?

Rumour of redesigned iPhone (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

Apple pulls posted pulled iPhone modem app — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:04:49+0100

Will Santa's stocking hold a new iPhone Nano?

O2?s pay-as-you-go customers could find a remodelled iPhone under the Christmas tree this year, according to the latest word on the grapevine.?

Motorola hires Jha to get handset biz out of a pickle (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

LiMo lands seven new phones — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:36:25+0100

Ex-Qualcomm COO gets Moto co-CEO role

Motorola has finally found a new CEO for its ailing handset division, after tempting Sanjay Jha away from mobile chip giant Qualcomm.?

Apple 'jams iPhone-as-modem app' (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

Rumour of redesigned iPhone — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:56:47+0100

No ad hoc Wi-Fi for you

Updated Apple has apparently put the blocks on an iPhone application that turns the device into a modem for a PC. Macrumours reports that Canadian software company Nullriver Inc. released the application, called NetShare, yesterday through Apple's iTunes store, but it was withdrawn within hours.?

US Congress to vote on in-flight mobile ban (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

Apple 'jams iPhone-as-modem app' — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:54:32+0100

'HELLO? I'M ON A PLANE IN EUROPE! NO, IT'S AWFUL'

US lawmakers could ground moves to permit in-flight mobile phone calls. New laws to permanently silence mid-air yammering will go forward to a vote in the House of Representatives.?

Lonely Planet Content now Available on Nokia Maps (textually.org)

Text messaging a plus for Obama campaign — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:38:00+0100

Nokia and Lonely Planet have teamed up to distribute Lonely Planet content via Nokia Maps. Travellers can purchase and download the city guides so that they have information at their fingertips whilst they are on the road.

With over 100 destinations available now, and more to come, Nokia Maps and Lonely Planet have many of the most world's most popular tourist locations covered.

[via MarketWatch]

Apple says MobileMe mail problems 'behind us' (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

US Congress to vote on in-flight mobile ban — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:27:17+0100

Will users turn the other cheek?

Apple claims to have repaired its MobileMe service to all subscribers that were blocked from using their e-mail accounts for more than a week.?

BT snares Silicon Valley phone firm (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

Apple confesses MobileMe vanishing contact bug — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:58:18+0100

Yak yak, Ribbit Ribbit

BT is buying phone firm Ribbit for $105m, months before the Silicon Valley outfit's service is even scheduled to launch to consumers.?

Apple confesses MobileMe vanishing contact bug (The Register - Comms: Mobile)

Apple says MobileMe mail problems 'behind us' — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:04:47+0100

iPhone reset time

Apple is having yet another issue with its MobileMe service, although this time the problem is mercifully less substantial than having subscribers locked out of their accounts for more than a week.?