Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET The New York Post is now blocking iPad owners from accessing its Web site through mobile Safari, trying to instead force them to download and use the paper’s own iPad app. iPad-owning New Yorkers looking for their daily Post fix online will see nothing but a message directing them to download …
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20 June
Nokia hints at touchscreen Series 40 phone with 1GHz chip
Nokia may soon launch a touchscreen phone that runs the Series 40 operating system, and packs a 1GHz processor, full Qwerty keyboard and the company’s ClearBlack display technology. That’s according to Nokia’s manager of marketing services in Argentina, who let slip a tweet over the weekend and then retracted it — but not before Engadget captured a screenshot. We’re slightly baffled by the …
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20 June
Verizon to deploy tiered data plans July 7
Sign up for those data plans now, Verizon Wireless customers, as the carrier will replace its unlimited options with tiered services as early as next month. According to information passed to Droid Life today, Big Red will begin providing three options to customers on July 7: a 2GB plan at $30 per month, a 5GB plan at $50 per month, …
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20 June
Nokia unveils N9, sees Windows Phones in 2011
Nokia CEO Stephen Elop said that he has increasing confidence the company will ship its first Windows Phones this year, though significant volumes won’t come until next year. “We have shifted our organization,” Elop said, speaking at the Nokia Connections event in Singapore. The event was also broadcast over the Internet. “We have a new strategy and we are focused …
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20 June
Nokia’s new ‘market disruptor’ device to be revealed on 21 June
Nokia may unveil a new game-changing product tomorrow, according to a rather secretive invitation received by IT Wire. There are so few details about what’s planned that it makes Apple look like an open, transparent company. All we can glean is that a “new market disruptor” will be demonstrated in Australia by Nokia’s product and technology marketing manager Kurt Bonnici, …
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19 June
Optus begins selling Motorola Xoom
Optus announced the newest member of its tablet computing range last week, the Motorola Xoom, and its pricing plan for the tablet. Australia’s number two telco will sell the Xoom on either a 12-month Data Cap Plus plan with an upfront hardware cost, or a 24-month contract with subsidised payments spread out over each month of the contract. Data Cap …
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19 June
Foxtel coming to Telstra T
Telstra is rolling out the first stage of its Foxtel on T-Box service from Sunday, 26 June. Available initially to BigPond cable broadband customers in Foxtel metro areas*, it is expected to be more widely released to ADSL households in two months’ time. Though it doesn’t have all the HD content of the full Foxtel service, there will be 43 …
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17 June
Ask Maggie: The promise of an unlocked iPhone 4
The iPhone is unlocked and set free in the U.S. So does this mean that T-Mobile and Sprint Nextel customers, who have been awaiting an iPhone to call their own, will finally get their hands on one? In this week’s Ask Maggie column I answer this very question. I also offer some advice to another reader about whether he should …
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17 June
Apple, Intel could raise ante in Google’s play for Nortel Patents
Earlier this week Nortel postponed the bankruptcy auction for its collection of 6,000-plus wireless patents by seven days, citing a “significant level of interest” in them. Now the source of that interest has been identified: Intel, Ericsson AB, and patent risk solutions provider RPX, who’ve all been accepted as qualified bidders in the June 27 auction. Also qualified as a …
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17 June
HTC Desire to lose some apps for Gingerbread update
The Desire will see a stripped-down version of Sense as part of the Gingerbread update. HTC HTC Desire owners had a slight scare this week when HTC stated via its U.K. Facebook page that the popular smartphone would not get an Android 2.3 Gingerbread update. Considering the Desire is barely a year old, the news came as a surprise to …
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