With the Apple event just two days away, the web is running rampant with rumors. Today’s is a real doozy, as Bloomberg speculates that T-Mobile will get the iPhone this summer with all additional U.S. carriers getting the phone in rapid succession in the following months.
This latest unsubstantiated bit of intel comes by way of Tim Horan, a telecommunications analyst at Oppenheimer & Co. He asserts that not only will AT&T lose exclusivity come mid-year, but T-Mobile, Verizon, Sprint and Clearwire will all jump on the iPhone bandwagon soon thereafter. “We believe AT&T’s iPhone exclusivity arrangement with Apple will be expiring by mid-2010,” Horan writes. Full story...
We’ve witnessed publishers drooling over the Apple iPad’s form factor before the darn thing was even announced, with Time Inc.
Foursquare might’ve been last year’s breakout app at SXSW, but it looks like this year’s conference had a much more profound impact on the service’s growth.
Earlier today, FTC commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour cited Google Buzz’s “irresponsible conduct” at launch as an example of how companies are being too careless with consumer privacy and online data.
Today, RIM is opening up the BlackBerry Push Service to all BlackBerry developers.
Push notifications let applications notify users of an alert or new message in real-time.
Suspected Italian mafioso Pasquale Manfredi was apprehended in the southern region of Calabria thanks to his Facebook contacts.
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The Nexus One carrier rollout continues! Sprint has announced that the flagship Android phone will be coming to its network “soon.
It’s been anticipated for a while now; Verizon just officially released information on the specifics of what Verizon Droid owners will have to look forward to in the upcoming Android 2.
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