Friday, 16 May 2008
Google has native iPhone apps ready
Philip Michaels, Macworld.com
You won't have to wait long for more Google apps like Maps on your iPhone. "We expect to have (iPhone) applications at Day One," said Vic Gundotra, Google's vice president of engineering.
Friday, 16 May 2008
Battlestations: Midway set for 27 June
Jonny Evans
Feral Interactive will ship Eidos' acclaimed action strategy title, Battlestations: Midway on 27 June.
Friday, 16 May 2008
Singapore Airlines offers iPod/iPhone integration
Jonny Evans
iPod and iPhone integration will commence with Singapore Airlines' A345 non-stop flights from Newark - Singapore on May 15, and on the carrier's Los Angeles - Singapore non-stops from August.
Friday, 16 May 2008
iPhone already international
Jonny Evans
The iPhone is among the top tier smartphone clients to an international ad network, with statistically-significant requests from many countries where device isn't on sale yet.
Friday, 16 May 2008
Orange to offer iPhone in 12 more countries
Jonny Evans
Orange will offer iPhone in Austria, Belgium, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Jordan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland and Orange’s African markets later this year.
Friday, 16 May 2008
iTunes album sales at record high
Jonny Evans
The Official UK Charts Company releases preliminary figures which reveal sales of albums online have hit record new highs, after years in which digital sales have favoured single track purchases
Friday, 16 May 2008
Kangaroo TV set for autumn
Jonny Evans
The Kangaroo online TV joint venture between the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 seems set for launch this autumn.
Friday, 16 May 2008
Apple plots new MacBooks for Q3?
Jonny Evans
Apple seems set to ship new model MacBooks in the third quarter of 2008, a report claims, citing Taiwanese tech industry "sources".
Friday, 16 May 2008
Apple prosecutes Atico over iPod accessories
Jonny Evans
Apple has requested a jury trial and an injunction to stop Atico from selling infringing products in the US, according to legal documents filed with the courts and reported by Bloomberg,
Friday, 16 May 2008
Apple takes two D&AD Awards
Jonny Evans
Apple's iPhone and iMac both win major recognition, taking Black Pencil awards at the D&AD awards last night.
Friday, 16 May 2008
Fujitsu improves e-paper's slow screen speed
Martyn Williams
Fujitsu has developed an e-paper display that only refreshes the parts of the screen that need it thus speeding up the display of new screens
Friday, 16 May 2008
PhoneView 2.0 ships, improves Notes
Jonny Evans
PhoneView lets iPhone and iPod touch users access media on their device, enables mass storage and improves the Notes and archive functions
Friday, 16 May 2008
Yahoo tells Icahn its own board knows best
James Niccolai
Yahoo has responded to investor Carl Icahn's threat to take control of Yahoo's board and force it back to the negotiating table with Microsoft.
Friday, 16 May 2008
German iPhone sales 'meeting expectations'
Jonny Evans
Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile has sold 100,000 iPhones in Germany so far, company says sales are "meeting expectations".
Friday, 16 May 2008
Yahoo Search Monkey opens to all developers
Juan Carlos Perez
Yahoo is opening up its Search Monkey developer platform to all developers after a few weeks of beta testing.
Thursday, 15 May 2008
Comcast to buy Plaxo
Stephen Lawson
Plaxo to be acquired by US TV, broadband data and phone services giant as part of social networking push on the part of future new owner, Comcast.
Thursday, 15 May 2008
BurnAgain FS 1.0 for Mac OS X ships
Jonny Evans
Freeridecoding has introduced BurnAgain FS 1.0 for Mac OS X, a utility which supports CD/DVD multisession burning on Macs, making it possible to change the content of a data CD or DVD simply using the Finder.
Thursday, 15 May 2008
Free WiFi on Midlands buses
Jonny Evans
Red Arrow buses to offer free WiFi on commuter coaches running between Nottingham and Derby, introduces the first eight so-enabled vehicles.
Thursday, 15 May 2008
SingTel, StarHub for iPhone Singapore?
Jonny Evans
Singapore may see the iPhone made available from two operators, local report confirms, as SingTel boss says market lead helped it secure a deal to provide the device in the local market
Thursday, 15 May 2008
Music industry research warns of shrinking download market
Jonny Evans
The percentage of music fans regularly buying music downloads fell from 16 per cent in 2006 to 14 per cent by the end of 2007, research claims.












