The 3G iPhone will be out soon, and Motorola and Nokia fanboys are
scared, so the false stories are starting.
A totally bogus (no url, let alone a rumor url) story
of short battery life.

Interesting. It seems like Apple is willing to give up its payments from
carriers in order to jump start sluggish iPhone sales. This has already
happened in Italy, and will likely happen in France and Germany as well.
If they did this in the U.S., it would put the squeeze on all ...

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FlyTunes adds AccuRadio in the mix; Goes from 160 channels to almost
500!
Today, April 19, 2008, 16 hours ago | dusanb
Just as we reported that FlyTunes has added more than 100 new channels

Visual Search Engine Coming to iPhone in June
Yesterday, April 19, 2008,
Evolution Robotics ViPR visual search technology is coming to the
iPhone this June. ViPR allows to take a photo of any movie, CD or

It appears that the new June iPhone will be so improved that the
current models will be unsaleable. Also there is a small possibility
that the iPhone will appear on other networks like Verizon, Sprint,
Altel etc. after June 2009 in the USA. Apple will drop its

Q: Why is charging of Motorola phones so slow on the travel charger?
A: The standard travel charger packaged by Motorola with many current
phones puts out insufficient power for fastest possible charging and for
continuous use while charging.

Here is an interesting piece of technology that would make Dick Tracy
proud. The World's First Quad Band Windows Mobile OS Wrist Watch
Mobile Phone Begins Shipping April 25th.
http://mobilitytoday.com/news/008469/WM_phone_watch

According to an AT&T filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission
today, the carrier is looking to rid itself of 1.5-percent of its
current employees, with many of the losses from management levels.
The news comes in advance of AT&T announcing its quarterly results,

http://davidchartier.com/blog/2008/04/17/screenshot-of-atts-new-iphone-portal-fo
r-starbucks-hotspots/
According to David, AT&T is giving [all] WiFi users 2 free hours of
access per day. But AT&T didn't stop there -- they designed an iPhone-
specific portal to sign onto the service. ...

VoIP and iPhone together at last - fring launches iPhone VoIP client
Well it looks like leading VoIP provider fring has managed to beat out
the competition by launching the first ever VoIP application for the
iPhone.

While speaking on the subject of internet video content and it's
possibilities as a new viable format for mass media, Walt Mossberg went
on record as saying the 3G iPhone will be released "in 60 days." It's
not yet known if he actually has one or not, but he does get to test new

Handwriting Recognition for iPhone Now Available
Today, April 16, 2008, 4 hours ago
Holy Egg Freckles! A third-party developer has released handwriting
recognition software for the iPhone. Similar to Graffiti, the classic

iPhone gets some AOL Mobile Search love
I know I know, you can not make these things up. But that is the title
of a news release on the INFO MOBILE web site today. Here is what they
have to say about giving specail treatment to the iPhone.

GOD IT'S FAST!
Mozilla has set its sights on the mobile browser experience and has
setup Fennec (code name for Firefox 3 on mobile tablets) to the
developers across the planet to make it the best web browser for mobile