Industry News
2009
Mar. 13th
- Apple Launches Talking iPod Music Player
- Apple on Wednesday introduced a new version of its lower-end iPod Shuffle that's half the size of previous models and can speak artist, song, and playlist names.
2009
Mar. 5th
- Ahead of the Bell: Palm shares tumble on outlook
- NEW YORK—Shares of smart-phone maker Palm Inc. fell in Wednesday premarket trading after the company said it expects a steep slide in fiscal third-quarter revenue, hurt by flagging demand for its older model phones.
2009
Feb. 24th
- BlackBerry Outshines Apple iPhone In Fourth Quarter
- According to recent numbers from research firm IDC published by The Industry Standard, BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) Ltd.'s U.S. smartphone market share rose in 2008's fourth quarter to 47.5 percent...
2009
Feb. 19th
- Creative Labs Zen Micro Photo 8GB, Orange detail information
- Music to enjoy, photos to share. Creative's Zen MicroPhoto with colour display is the MP3 player for music and photos. Optimised for use with Windows XP and Windows Media Player 10, it stores 4,000 songs...
2009
Feb. 12th
- Dead Rising 2 coming to Xbox 360, PS3, PC
- Capcom has officially announced Dead Rising 2 for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and Windows PC. The follow up to Dead Rising, the highly rated Xbox 360 title from 2006, Dead Rising 2 will feature the same type of survival horror gameplay but in a new location: Fortune City.
2009
Feb. 6th
- Review: Nokia 5800 XpressMusic
- The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is a quad-GSM/EDGE smartphone, with support for HSDPA at either 900/2100 (EUR/World) or 850/1900 (US/CAN). The version we received for the review is the world version, so we couldn't test its 3G ability here in the US.
2009
Jan. 21th
- Microsoft Plans to Continue Zune Hardware, Embrace Other Platforms
- Several publications have taken Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's assertion that software is a big part of Zune's future to mean that Microsoft plans to abandon Zune hardware.
2009
Jan. 17th
- BlackBerry Curve 8900 Live On T-Mobile Site; Business Pricing Revealed
- The BlackBerry Curve 8900, also known as the BlackBerry Javelin, is now listed on T-Mobile's site, but buyers wanting to get their mitts on the long-awaited smartphone still have to wait.
2009
Jan. 9th
- Microsoft's Bach: We'd do Zune differently
- I tuned into Thursday's conversation between Microsoft's Robbie Bach and financial analysts at CES. Bach is the president of the company's Entertainment and Devices division, which includes Xbox, Windows Mobile, retail channel relationships, and most of the other fun stuff.
2008
Dec. 28th
- Get more iPhone games out of that iTunes gift card
- Presumably at least a few of you have gotten iTunes gift cards and gift certificates as part of your holiday spoils. Here are a few suggestions for iPhone and iPod touch games that I think are great deals right now, because they're available at sale prices for a limited time.
