Ina Fried in Mobile on February 13, 2011 at 3:00 pm PT
At the outset of his first-ever trip to Barcelona for the big cellphone industry trade show, Foursquare’s chief executive sits down to talk about the future of his location-based service.
Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on January 19, 2011 at 6:00 pm PT
Walt answers readers’ questions on Internet access in hotel rooms, getting more hard-drive space and what to do with duplicate digital photos.
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Voices in News on October 6, 2010 at 6:21 am PT
A year after their Android-phone-toting peers, owners of Apple’s iPhone are
finally able to play around with Google Goggles, a Labs app that can identify and return relevant search results about certain objects (landmarks, logos, book and CD covers) as they are viewed through the phone’s camera. Goggles is now part of the Google Mobile App, available in the Apple App Store and supported on iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 running iOS 4 or above.
John Paczkowski in News on June 28, 2010 at 5:30 am PT
The launch of the iPhone 4 was Apple’s biggest iPhone launch to date and the company’s most successful product launch ever. Apple sold more than 1.7 million iPhone 4s in the device’s first three days at market.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on June 25, 2010 at 5:18 am PT
Apple’s new iPhone 4 is proving to be one hell of a brand-loyalty generator. According to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, 77 percent of iPhone 4 sales Thursday were upgrades purchased by existing iPhone owners.
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Juro Osawa and Daisuke Wakabayashi, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on June 24, 2010 at 12:00 am PT
Apple Inc. started selling the iPhone 4, the latest version of its wildly popular smartphone, on Thursday morning to teeming crowds of eager Japanese consumers – including some who waited three days to be among the first in the world to purchase the new handset.
The enthusiasm for the iPhone 4 in Japan, a country with notoriously finicky consumers and once considered nearly impossible to crack for foreign handset makers, underscores how Apple has rewritten the rules with the iPhone.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on June 22, 2010 at 3:09 pm PT
“This is really hot,” Apple CEO Steve Jobs said of the iPhone 4 when he unveiled it at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference earlier this month. And the pundits seem to agree. The first reviews of the device began rolling in Tuesday afternoon and they are largely glowing. After the jump, excerpts from a few of them.
Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on June 22, 2010 at 3:02 pm PT
Walt calls the iPhone 4 a major leap over its already-excellent predecessor, the iPhone 3GS.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on June 21, 2010 at 11:00 am PT
As promised, Apple (AAPL) released iOS 4 this morning, setting the stage for the Thursday launch of iPhone 4. The update, available for the iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS and iPod touch, brings a number of new features to the devices, among them, multitasking, a unified email inbox and support for app folders. Rolled out along […]
John Paczkowski in Mobile on June 10, 2010 at 5:12 am PT
AT&T’s iPhone-exclusivity deal is nearing its end. And when it gets there, Apple will bring the device to a new U.S. carrier. But it’s not going to be Verizon. It’s going to be T-Mobile. That’s the theory put forth by Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu, who argues that the carrier is a more likely candidate than Verizon because its network wouldn’t require Apple to build a separate iPhone to support it.