Optus and Apple has announced that they will bring the iPhone 3G to Australia on July 11.
10/06/2008
Greenpeace has slammed Apple for “missing an opportunity to reinvent its new 3G iPhone in green”.
15/07/2008
National broadband company Internode has added free and seamless access to advanced services such as push email and Google Maps for any iPhone using an Internode Wireless hotspot.
18/09/2008
According to The NPD Group, Apple’s iPhone 3G overtook the top-ranked Motorola RAZR as the leading handset purchased by adult consumers in the US in the third quarter (Q3) of 2008.
26/11/2008
Apple Inc.'s stock price hit a new record high in trading after the company's fiscal Q3 report bested analyst estimates and revealed a whopping 73% year-over-year profit growth.
27/07/2007
A Nordic Semiconductor 2.4GHz nRF24L01 transceiver located in a thumbnail-sized steering wheel remote allows playback control of MP3 audio streamed through a car’s existing audio system via its auxiliary-in audio port.
04/04/2008
Apple Inc. is once again being bitten by Greenpeace, this time for materials used in the high-demand iPhone handset.
17/10/2007
Mobile Wi-Fi usage is increasing due to a new generation of Wi-Fi enabled smart phones claims AdMob, an advertising company that tracks mobile metrics.
20/01/2009
The Bromine Science and Environmental Forum (BSEF) is turning the tables on Greenpeace, questioning the environmental group’s comments on the use of brominated flame retardants (BFR) in electronics. Greenpeace has been targeting electronics manufacturers that use BFRs for fire prevention in their products, including Apple and Microsoft. BSEF claims that such targeting, however, is irresponsible as BFRs discourage the fire danger electronics can pose if they overheat.
17/12/2007
A surge in early adoption of the new G1 mobile handset - the first to incorporate Google’s Android open mobile computing platform – indicates Apple’s iPhone may have a challenger for the title of trendiest mobile device, according to analysts WebTrends.
12/11/2008
Global Android smartphone shipments will grow 900 percent in 2009, say analysts Strategy Analytics. Healthy support from operators, vendors and developers is driving adoption.
20/05/2009
The great appeal of the capacitive touch-screen interface – pioneered by Apple’s iPhone - led many in the mobile phone industry to conclude that they had seen the future of most mobile handset displays.
14/01/2009
In the next five years, the nature of mobile phones will change radically, reports analysts In-Stat.
04/02/2009
Worldwide GPS smart phone shipments will grow 34 percent from 57 million units in 2008 to 77 million units in 2009, says analyst Strategy Analytics.
05/08/2009
The microcomponents segment of the IC industry has become a mixed bag of market conditions this year for microprocessors (MPUs), microcontrollers (MCUs), and digital signal processors (DSPs), according to market research firm IC Insights’ mid-year update to its McClean Report, which breaks down the US$56 billion microcomponents market segment.
27/08/2007
Asia Pacific semiconductor sector revenue is forecast to reach almost US$160 billion in 2008, a 6.4 per cent increase from 2007 revenue of US$150 billion, according to the latest projections by Gartner, Inc.
04/09/2008
Telsyte’s latest research into Australia’s smartphone market reveals that the country’s annual smartphone shipment has grown by almost 40 times from five years ago and that nearly three in 10 mobile phones sold this year will be smartphones.
24/10/2008
Shipments of GPS-enabled mobile phones will slow in 2009, but will still manage to post year-to-year unit growth through the current economic downturn, according to a recent market study by ABI Research.
02/02/2009
As the worldwide MP3 market matures, with shipment growth of only 5 percent in 2009, competitors are scrambling to add features such as touchscreens and Wi-Fi connectivity to stimulate demand reports analyst In-Stat.
11/08/2009
The high R&D costs involved in developing a new mobile OS – and building an ecosystem around it – could potentially consolidate the smart phone OS market, according to analyst Strategy Analytics.
11/08/2009