Archive for March, 2009
Lenovo steals Apple’s iPhone design for “oPhone”
China leads the world in intellectual property theft, and Apple’s IP is a juicy target. But usually rip-off counterfeits are produced by disreputable, back-room shops and illicit factories nobody’s ever heard of. Now, it appears, that international computing giant Lenovo is getting into the act. The company’s new Android handset is called the oPhone, and […]
No commentsApple and AT&T slapped with lawsuit over slow 3G
Apple and AT&T have been sued for lying about how fast Internet connectivity is on an iPhone. Again. A guy named Damone Dickerson is filing the lawsuit in multiple states, and charging the company with: “Negligence, Breach of Express Warranty, Breach of Implied Warranty of Merchantability, Unjust Enrichment, Negligent Misrepresentation, Violation of the New Jersey […]
No commentsiPhone App boosts radio audience by 15 percent
An iPhone app that I highlighted in a recent column (”Why global is the new ‘local’“) has actually increased the number of listeners for Clear Channel Radio by 15 percent.
Original post by Mike
No commentsDockers Ad for iPhone Uses Accelerometer
A new, gimmicky ad from Dockers responds to shaking of the iPhone. According to AdvertisingAge magazine, the ad will appear in the iPhone games “iBasketball,” “iGolf” and “iBowl” and the lifestyle application iTV between game levels. In the ad, a “free-style dance expressionist” named Dufon is standing there wearing Dockers, of course. He’ll dance only […]
No commentsApple’s Big Blunder: Losing the E-Book Market
Amazon’s new Kindle for iPhone application shipped this week. The software lets you read any of Amazon’s 240,000 Kindle books on an iPhone much like you would on an over-priced Amazon Kindle. Unfortunately, the launch exposes Apple’s biggest blunder since the Apple Newton: They forgot to dominate the e-book market. And I’m not alone in […]
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