Waiting in a tent outside an Apple store for a week and get a slightly updated phone - and pay for it as well - is just so absurd that it honestly makes me think that it’s just a PR thing from Apple. The photo above is taken today outside the Apple Store in NYC.

What do you think? Would you stand in line for more than a couple of hours to get an iPhone 3G? I wouldn’t stand in line for more than 10 minutes…

Let Freedom Ring (iPhone 3G style) [geardiary.com]

A while back, I posted a call for help on the Motorola ic502. James sent me an email, letting me know that he's taken it upon himself to hack together an iSync plugin for the unsupported Motorola ic402 iDEN/CDMA, and may be able to get things to work for the ic502, with your help...

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CTIA 2007 -- SanDisk, in conjunction with Verizon Wireless, has announced a 4GB microSDHC card. microSDHC is the new High Capacity (HC) version of microSD, more information on that is available...

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China Internet Users are taking search engines to a whole new level. Recent public comments regarding the Chinese earthquake victims and Tibet have lead to a sort of internet lynching by human search engines.

Groups of users seek out all details about a citizen who makes comments against China or its decisions, once they find out all the details about that persons life, they harrass them into apologizing or….into hiding in some cases.

Case in point is the young woman who killed a kitten wearing high heeled shoes and posted a video of it on the Internet. Citizens in China found out everything they could about the woman including her name and harassed her until she apologized and lost her government job.

And they don’t always go care if they have the right person,

“In an unfortunate case of mistaken identity, it turned out there was another exiled Tibetan called Lobsang Gendun living in Utah. Since the targeting of his namesake began, Mr Gendun, a self-proclaimed ?Olympic supporter?, has received hundreds of aggressive emails and telephone calls.

?Yes, we curse him to death and we are eager to see him go to Hell,? a participant in the hate campaign against Mr Gendun ? it did not seem to matter which one ? said. ?But do you see us pouring petrol round his house? We are just expressing our rage.?

Interesting article worth a read from the Mail & Guardian about the educational potential of mobile content. This is a trend worth watching and at Movaya we've had a number of conversations recently with content developers looking to bring "edutainment" to mobile devices.

Often, when I tell people what we do - help distribute games and applications to mobile devices - a standard response is something like - "Oh, you help people find ways to screw around and waste time on their phones." And although we love playing games and using our phones for other diversions, there is a lot of potential benefit playing learning and memory games. Game-based learning is getting a fair amount of focus right now, and many parents are becoming aware of the potential of games as learning tools.

We'll be announcing some partnerships in this space in the coming weeks and are updating our system to have new categories that cater to this area as well. Stay tuned.

News.com reporter Daniel Terdiman visits Florida's Naval Air Station Pensacola, home of the Blue Angels.

He is writer for Crunch Gear and Tech Crunch - publications owned by Michael Arrington.

Good to see that Americans are coming to Mobile World Congress too!

Today is the world of INTERNET means every user on net is connected to each other.There is no need to go to market to buy different commodities.Just sit at home and order what you want.
From a Tiny Steel Pin to A BIG SHIP you can buy everything online.
Today the Market is turned into e-market and buyers become e-buyers.
So,if you want to buy a MOBILE PHONE there is no need to check out the outlets.
Just a click on net and here you are with a number of retailers right in front of you with a numerous attractive deals that it become difficult to resist yourself from buying the gizmo's.Go for online Mobile Phone Shop ping.
Nail Salon Brisbane ping.

Filed under: T-Mobile, HSUPA

What's the first network to claim a true, full HSPA across all of the United Kingdom? Vodafone? Orange? 3? Nope -- try T-Mobile, which has just flipped the switch on its HSUPA upgrades nationwide to bring upload speeds to a blazing 1.4Mbps (theoretically, anyway). The figured they'd commemorate the occasion by giving download speeds a little boost, too, so those are now up to 7.2Mbps, making Great Britain an absolutely fabulous place to do a little mobile computing right now. Oh, and hey, T-Mobile USA, you could seriously learn a lesson or two from your counterparts across the Atlantic here.

[Via Tech Digest]

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Zounds! It seems Apple has picked today to be a big day for iPhone news. Apple has finally announced the release of iPhone 3G, and it looks to be a big upgrade over the previous iterations of the iPhone.

Steve Jobs' keynote speech was inundated with applause from the crowd as he made the announcement. Notes Jobs,

We've learned so much with the first iPhone. We've taken everything we've learned and more and created the iPhone 3G. It's beautiful. This is what it looks like. Black back! Thinner at the edges. Full plastic back, it's really nice.

The keynote is currently ongoing, so expect a fuller update later in the day. For now, here's what you can expect from iPhone 3G:

• Solid metal buttons
• Flush headphone jack
• 3.5 inch display
• Camera
• Improved audio
• Improved battery life
• Faster data downloads via 3G
• Launch in 70 countries
• US 199 price tag for the 8 GB model, US 299 for the 16 GB model
• To be out on July 11
  

The Sony Ericsson W580i WalkmanImage © Sony EricssonWith so much cutthroat competition in the world of cell phones, standing out in the sea of so many requires something novel. Oftentimes the...

AP - In a July 1 story about the new version of the iPhone, The Associated Press, relying on information from an AT&T spokesman, erroneously reported that the carrier is working on creating a prepaid plan for the phone. Spokesman Michael Coe later said he miscommunicated, and that there will be no prepaid plan for the iPhone 3G.

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Today Sharp unveiled a prototype of a 26-inch LCD Aquos TV [JP], which is solely powered by solar energy. The company said one day, their solution might bring television to all the 1.6 billion people on earth who don’t have access to electricity.

Sharp’s new green TV uses half of the power existing LCDs need. In comparison to the power consumption of the 28C-PB500 [JP], a CRT TV Sharp introduced in 2002, the prototype looks even more interesting since it boasts just 25% of that old model’s annual power consumption.

A  highly advanced triple-junction thin-film solar cell battery is used to power the green TV. The solar panel/TV kit will be showcased during the G8 summit in Hokkaido starting July 7th.

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It looks like Verizon will be introducing a third variety in their Q9 lineup, and as of now its being code named “Napoleon.” It does however have something special in store for worldwide business travelers as it will not only offer CDMA EV-DO Rev. A support but it will also include full GSM support, meaning you can take and use this worldwide.

The Q9 Napoleon will be running Windows Mobile 6.1 and feature a 320 x 240 display, 2-megapixel camera with flash, Wi-Fi, stereo speakers and ship with a 1500mAh battery. In addition to the added support on the inside, the new world edition Q9 has also gotten a little face lift with a new shiny bezel around the edges.

Also, just good measure they have included a fingerprint scanner on the back, I guess when traveling worldwide you should never have your data unsecured.

As of now, no pricing or release information has been let loose, but as usual we will keep you posted when we find something out.

Via [BGR]

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BBC:
Google ‘faces Street View block’  —  Google's plans to launch a mapping tool in the UK could be referred to the Information Commissioner.  —  Street View matches photos of locations to maps, including passers-by who were captured as the photograph was taken.

When word got out that the Sprint would require customers to carry a $70-per-month plan if they wanted to rock an Instinct, folks were a bit worried about whether or not their SERO plans would keep them from activating. (For those who don’t lurk phone forums, SERO is intended as a discounted plan set for those with friends/family that work for Sprint. In practice, it’s a discounted plan for anyone who can track down a Sprint employee email address)

To the surprise of many, the Instinct activated just fine on the SERO plan. No sneaky workarounds or trickery needed - it just worked. Unfortunately, it wasn’t supposed to work. Only those on the $99 SERO Unlimited plan were supposed to have been allowed.

Hoping to grab the “Worst Reaction of the Week” title, Sprint has decided to essentially push the blame onto the customers. Rather than eating the loss as a system error they should have covered from day one, they’re calling up SERO/Instinct customers and giving them an ultimatum: Change plans, or give us the phone back.

Losing money sucks, but once the customer is signed and out the door, it’s on the lap of the company that allowed the screw up to slip through. Sprint has yet to respond, though a number of customers have confirmed the situation.

[Via Phonenews]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The deteriorating U.S. economy and slumping stock prices will frame discussions among top media and technology executives at the 26th annual Allen & Co confab in Sun Valley, Idaho, next week.

Image © Amazon.com, Inc.What’s better than free? How about when you buy something and they pay you? In the world of cell phones where most of the money comes from recurring...

Slashdot has a post drawing the conclusion that podcasting is now on the "Net Sidelines". I must say that from everything I am seeing here on the Zune team; working on podcast content and its distribution; it is alive and doing very well.

Sure podcasting may have declined in the hype of it and the techno-elite have moved on to Twittering areas now, but podcasts or downloadable portable media is still growing and doing very well. I do believe though that the technology of podcasting will eventually disappear from user view as better user interfaces make it easier to find and connect with this media on many always connected data platforms.

I am also hoping that this xml based revolution will transform and bring efficiency to the music, television and film industries around digital download distribution.

When Neil Armstrong took one small step onto the moon in 1969, it seemed only a matter of time before the advent of thriving space colonies and summer vacations on distant planets. But after an initial flurry of moon landings, manned lunar expeditions dwindled: the last time an astronaut left his footprints on the moon was in 1972.

Rumors have been circulating on the internet that Bethesda's post-apocalyptic themed video gaming Fallout 3 (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC) may not be making it to the land down under.

A poster on the GameSpot forums stated that the game has been denied classification by the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) Board of Australia.

The rumor stated that Fallout 3 was denied classification because it features use of Morphine. The presence of this in the game is said to fall under the OFLC set of reasons for not classifying a video game, specifically this one:

Depict, express or otherwise deal with matters of sex, drug misuse or addiction, crime, cruelty, violence or revolting or abhorrent phenomena in such a way that they offend against the standards of morality, decency and propriety generally accepted by reasonable adults

If this rumor holds true, then the game can not be sold on retails shelves in Australia. In addition, we can probably expect a resurgence in the talks on expanding the rating system in the country from being limited to MA15 to going as high as R18 .

Saul Hansell / Bits:
Google Changes Home Page, Adding Link to Privacy Policy  —  The word “privacy” now appears on Google's home page, with a link to the company's privacy policy.  —  With that one word, the Web search giant heads off the growing controversy over whether its previous practice ran afoul of a California law …

Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds

It looks like Motorola and Verizon are getting ready to take a third crack at the Q9 form factor, following up the Q9m and Q9c -- and this time around, there's a little something extra in store. On top of the EV-DO Rev. A radio, the so-called "Napoleon" (codename, of course) features GSM, because -- surprise, surprise -- businesspeople who use Windows Mobile devices tend to do just a bit of traveling. It looks like Moto has taken this opportunity to give the Q9 meme a little nip-tuck job, too, with a rounded body and a tastefully-applied ring of chrome around the top edge. They've even tossed in a fingerprint scanner for good measure, a tip o' the hat to the suits who'll undoubtedly populate the upper 90 percent of this sucker's client base. No word on a release date or price, but can we cautiously submit a thumbs-up for the design direction here?

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EMI, in the midst of its own management reorg, has settled its ringtone royalties lawsuit with Infospace, though the terms were not disclosed. It did disclose the settlement in an SEC filing late yesterday. Infospace was sued by the music label in early 2007, to the tune of $100 million for underpaying royalties on using its music for ringtones. At that time it alleged that Infospace and its then-subsidiaries Moviso and Premium Wireless Services had been underpaying royalties and selling ringtones for songs to which they held no licensing rights...EMI's publishing also alleged InfoSpace (NSDQ: INSP) was selling expressly restricted songs, such as John Lennon's "Imagine," and selling ringtones in worldwide markets where it had not been granted license. Since then Infospace has closed down or disposed off its mobile content related businesses.

EMI changed some parts of the lawsuit in August, and asked for lower damages. Infospace had filed a counterclaim. According to the SEC filing: "The EMI Parties charged that the Company breached two ringtone license agreements by underpaying royalties and infringed the EMI Parties' copyrights by making unlicensed use of the EMI Parties' works. The EMI Parties claimed in excess of $10 million in damages for the alleged breaches of contract, and claimed statutory damages for alleged copyright infringement of 'many millions' of dollars. The Company denied the EMI Parties' allegations and counterclaimed for no less than $1.5 million based upon the EMI Parties' alleged breach of contract and tortious interference."

As for the settlement: "The Settlement Agreement concludes the EMI Litigation, and InfoSpace does not expect that the settlement reached with the EMI Parties pursuant to the Settlement Agreement will materially and adversely affect the Company's business or results of operations."

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Philips again was present enlivening the cellular phone market with launching the new clamshell cell phone, the Xenium 9@9r. The flip cellular phone have elegant nuances this indeed did not serve some features just that was special but the existence of available features also did not disappoint and lose to the other cellular phone. For [...]

In the second part of a two-part series, the authors discuss massively parallel strategies for numerically solving wave propagation in heterogeneous media.

I just wanted to share this short and funny homemade clip featuring Boba Fett going wild in a Flashdance. Video after the jump.

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