T-Mobile has been airing some ads making fun of the iPhone 4’s horrible service on AT&T. Lucky for Apple, Verizon just announced that they would be offering an iPhone 4 as well. T-Mobile has fought back with the below ad that makes both AT&T and Verizon look a bit unattractive and slow. These ads are obviously mimicking Apple’s old “I’m a PC” ads which mocked the popular stigmas related to Windows PCs of the time. …
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Microsoft to Meet with ChevronWP7 Team Next Week
You may have heard about the ChevronWP7 team and how they’ve been able to unlock certain parts of Windows Phone 7 for sideloading applications without using the Windows Phone 7 marketplace. Brandon Watson of Microsoft recently tweeted that he is looking forward to meeting with the ChevronWP7 team next week. We knew that they were communicating, but didn’t know a meeting had been scheduled. We don’t know exactly what the meeting is about, but Brandon …
Continue readingOld School Games Coming to Windows Phone 7
Caught on video at CES were a few old retro games that Microsoft is bringing to Windows Phone 7 as Xbox Live games. This is all part of the “Game Room” platform that you may be familiar with on Xbox/PC. The Windows Phone 7 Game Room will start off with three Xbox Live enabled retro games; Centipede, Asteroids Deluxe and Shao-Lin Road. Unfortunately there’s not an actual room that your Xbox Live avatar can walk …
Continue readingMultiplayer Rock Band Game Coming to Verizon LTE Smartphones
At Verizon’s CES 2011 4G LTE press conference today, Electronic Arts announced a cool new game for Verizon LTE smartphones. It’s a version of EA’s “Rock Band” where you can connect with a number of friends no matter where they are and each person can play a different instrument in the game in real time. For example, one person can play bass, another can be on the drums, another on guitar, and another on vocals. …
Continue readingSkype To Acquire Qik
Two of the coolest smartphone applications for video broadcasting and voice-over-IP uses have always been Qik and Skype. Well, Skype has just made a deal to aquire Qik. Skype has never been very good at video calls on mobile devices, but Qik has always had some great video broadcasting features. Heck, we used Qik to live-broadcast the Sprint Palm Pre launch event using a Windows Mobile Palm Treo Pro back in 2009. It even let …
Continue readingWill NFC Make Electronic Pickpocketing Even Easier?
I recently saw a news broadcast video from Channel 3 in Memphis Tennessee demonstrating how easy it is for a hacker to simply walk around a crowded area and pick up credit card numbers or passport information from random people who happen to have credit cards with RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) chips in them. Apparently, with a $100 credit card reader and a $200 netbook PC, an RFID can be hacked just by getting close …
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