Apple announced record Mac sales and huge third-quarter earnings. Are we seeing a return to Apple’s glory days?   Apple has posted a 73 per cent jump in profit for its third fiscal quarter, which ended June 30. This is partly fueled by a record number of Macs being sold – 1.76 million were shipped during that time period. That rocketed ...

I bet some of you forgot about the iPhone.  No?  Well, for those that let one of the most exciting products of 2007 slip into your subconscious, the handheld should be launching in the next four to six weeks.  So, what’s the word from Apple?  Perhaps taking a page out of competitor Microsoft’s book, the Cupertino-based ...

The EU’s top telecommunications official has set a deadline for a unified mobile TV standard. At the mobile hardware convention CeBit last Friday, Viviane Reding warned the competing mobile broadcast standards that if they don’t get behind one the EU will choose for them. Reding wants to make government mandate a last resort but says they’re ...

For those who have absolutely no interest in family time, vacation getaways, or intimacy with the wife/girlfriend, the BlackBerry offers a phenomenal way of interrupting everyday life.  The device, produced by Canadian firm Research in Motion, possesses “push” email, a QWERTY keyboard, and complete phone abilities.  In essence, it’s ...

Will Apple's new iPhone do mobile VoIP? The answer now is affirmative, thanks to a new startup company called JaJah Inc and its clever new mobile VoIP service. The service is simple, if your Smartphone (including iPhone) can run a browser window simply connect to mobile.jajah.com and use its simple interface to make your call. The competition for ...

Symantec, the Pinkerton’s of the Internet who deal in frontier justice discovered a security flaw in Treo’s Palm OS. The smartphones Find feature can be accessed even when the Treo is locked down and requires a password. The Find feature can also be used to access an Edit window letting someone paste cut or copied data into a search field of a ...

Daylight savings time (DST) comes three weeks early this year, folks. DST will begin at 2am, Sunday, March 11 and will end a week later on Sunday, November 4. What does that mean to your mobile devices? Just as Y2K had us running about like decapitated chickens, this “new” daylight savings time is giving me the worst case of déjà vu. If you use ...

Is there a Zune phone in Microsoft’s future? That’s almost a certainty according to Chris Stephenson GM of Zune Marketing. Apple won’t go it alone converting its popular media player technology into a cell phone. Fans of the new iPhone say it stands to revolutionize the current genre of media phones. You can bet Microsoft will be looking closely ...

The struggle between Apple and Cisco over “iPhone” is getting nasty as Cisco appears to be announcing to the world it has no desire to let go of its ownership of the name. According to the NY Post, Cisco bought a full page ad in the NY Times to toot their horn over its upcoming iPhone, in case there was any doubt about where this war over the ...

Legal and bureaucratic issues have hampered 3G Mobile Networks in China. So, a research center in Shanghai called “FuTURE Project” plans to leapfrog 3G networks to go straight to 4G. Samsung of South Korea was first to pull off the first 4G Mobile network in Seoulduring a demonstration on a moving bus. Ki Tae Lee, president of Samsung’s ...