Posted by Jonny on November 14th, 2008 under Apple, News
O2 continues in its attempt to position itself as the coolest, most music-focused mobile carrier, with news its London venue, the O2, will host Elton John’s annual New Year’s Eve Party
This Monday 17th November tickets for Elton John’s New Year’s Eve Party go exclusively on sale to O2 customers before going on sale to the general public on Monday 24th November at 9am.
Elton John has been wowing audiences with his Red Piano show in Las Vegas since 2004 and Elton John’s New Year’s Eve Party will see him perform his greatest hits at the biggest party in town.
Posted by Jonny on November 14th, 2008 under Apple, News
Apple seems set to unleash its iPhone in Thailand and China, though the latter launch may be delayed until 2009 on the basis that the company recently reduced its manufacturing orders for the device.
True Move, Thailand’s third largest mobile operator, has announced a deal with Apple to distribute the iPhone 3G in the country, according to Reuters.
Rival carriers AIS and DTAC remain in talks with Apple, as the deal is non-exclusive, the report explains. There’s already an estimated 100,000 unlocked iPhones in use in Thailand, a second report claims.
Posted by Jonny on November 13th, 2008 under Apple, News
Radio shows from 62 US stations are now available to iPhone and iPod Touch owners running the Radiolicious application following a landmark deal between developers, MySimBook and US radio network, Regent Communications.
Regent owns and operates 62 stations (50 FM and 12 AM) clustered in 13 markets in Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, and Texas.
Now Regent’s 57 existing internet radio station streams will be made available through Radiolicious. Regent is the first major radio group to contract for all of its streaming stations to be available through the application.
Music Ally will this month pitch two world class speakers against each other in a unique mock-trial on the promise of the mobile music industry.
Titled “Mobile Music in the Dock” the event promises to put the claims made by the mobile industry about mobile music on trial. Speakers will be Mobile Entertainment Forum chairman Ralph Simon and Sibelius Software’s Jeremy Silver acting as defence and prosecution respectively.
Posted by Jonny on November 8th, 2008 under Apple, News
Way back we warned that you should expect a wave of iPhone applications from musicians promoting new albums, now Fall Out Boy has joined Snow Patrol, Pink, David Cook and the Nine Inch Nails in making a music-focused pitch at fans using the Apple device.
Posted by Jonny on November 7th, 2008 under Apple, News
The price of Blu-ray players and discs seems set to fall this season, as those involved seek to take the format into the mass market - meanwhile that market’s changing, with consumers flocking to sign-up to location-based social networking services for their mobile phones, a pair of ABI Research reports claim.
“Blu-ray vendors and dealers are starting to realize that for Blu-ray to become the next DVD, they need to lower player prices in order to generate interest and build volumes,” said ABI Research principal analyst Steve Wilson.
Posted by Jonny on November 7th, 2008 under Apple, News
Coming at you from Gameloft, Guitar Rock Tour is clearly part of the new wave of music-focused games for mobile, and it’s now available for your iPhone, as well as literally hundreds of other mobile phones.
Posted by Jonny on November 7th, 2008 under Apple, News
This is surely an iPhone/iPod product that’s so insane it’s almost sane - we’re both compelled and repelled by these new winter warmers.
Etre has introduced gloves for use with touch-screen devices, and they’re not finger-less, oh no - if you look at the image you’ll see they have two fingers (thumb and index), so you can keep the rest of your digits warm while tapping your digital device.
You got to give them a point for entrepreneurial zeal, I guess, “Etre Touchy gloves seek to fill the gap left between normal pairs of gloves and fingerless pairs of gloves. While normal pairs of gloves keep your hands warm and dry, they aren’t compatible with modern touch-screen devices, which only respond to skin-on-screen contact.”
Posted by Jonny on November 3rd, 2008 under Apple, News
The cat and mouse game between Apple and the iPhone hackers just keeps playing, with those crafty coders over at the iPhone Dev Team informing us that they’ve managed to jailbreak Apple’s unreleased future software patch for the mobile gadget.
The developers wrote: “The second beta of firmware version 2.2 has been out for a few days. It looks like Apple still doesn’t have a fix for devices already prone to the pwnage jailbreak and unlock.”
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