Phones

iPhone will be controlled environment

Steve Jobs has revealed further information on how open or accessible the iPhone will be to developers, and the news isn’t great. While Jobs stated that Apple would be releasing new applications to run on the iPhone, he confirmed that they would be operating a tightly controlled environment to maintain a high level of [...]


Cisco sues Apple over iPhone trademark infringement

Only yesterday we had been reporting on extensive negotiations between Apple and Cisco over the use of the iPhone trademark. A preprepared statement from Cisco yesterday implied that talks had been proceeding well and that they were expecting the receipt of a signed document from Apple on Tuesday.
Clearly something has gone wrong. On [...]

Apple and Cisco agree on iPhone trademark

According to MarketWatch, Apple and Cisco have agreed on the terms of use for the trademark of iPhone.
Only a matter of days ago Cisco subsidiary Linksys announced a new suite of iPhones that featured built in Skype support. This action prompted speculation within the tech sector on whether the iPhone would be announced at [...]

Apple iPhone

The long wait for the Apple iPhone officially ended today at MacWorld when Steve Jobs announced details of the new Apple iPhone. And yes, you did read that correctly. Despite Linksys recently launching the WIP320 under the iPhone name, Apple are calling their smartphone the iPhone. A products of years of development [...]

Nokia and Skype partner on N800 Internet Tablet

Nokia and Skype announced a partnership at CES that will see Skype embedded in Nokia’s N800 Internet Tablet.
The previous version, the N770 Internet Tablet, was largely ignored and considered a geeky toy. But when Nokia announced support for Jabber and Google Talk it started to gain some traction as a proper phone.
The introduction of [...]