Filed under: Apple China Mobile announced at a news conference that it’s going after service for Apple in that country — it wants to host both the iPhone and the iPad in China for Apple. Currently, the iPhone service there is provided by China Unicom , but China Mobile has said that if the iPhone is ported over to its government-approved 3G service (similar, it seems, to the rumored deal with Verizon ), then China Mobile would be interested in offering both.
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China Mobile angling for iPad, iPhone service in China
Apple is alerting developers that they have just over a week to prepare iPad apps and get them submitted for review if they want them to be in the App Store on April 3.
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Apple to iPad devs: on your mark, get set, submit!
Filed under: Found Footage Urikane , an iPhone user with a LOT of time on his hands, has put together a (nearly) full alphabet using 540 apps . Each screen contains one letter — except for the W, which as our commenters point out, was skipped
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Found Footage: iPhone alphabet made from 540 apps
The FCC has had it with ISPs. For more than a decade, the agency has relied on ISP reports to get a picture of broadband speeds and availability in the US, and the results have been uniformly terrible.
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150,000 take FCC broadband speed test in first week
Reports have been swirling that Apple plans to ban screen protectors from its brick and mortar retail stores, but for the time being, the items seem to be plentiful throughout many store locations. Several Apple Stores we contacted Thursday afternoon assured Ars that there were currently “plenty” of screen protectors in stock, and did not indicate that this would change anytime soon
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Apple Stores still selling screen protectors, but not for long
We don’t like to stir up the nearly constant barrage of “so-and-so is getting the iPhone” rumors unless we’ve got a great reason to do so — and we’d argue that a Financial Times report involving statements from Deutsche Telekom’s CEO qualifies. The British rag was chatting up DT’s boss over the prospects of its American unit — T-Mobile USA — and stressed the company’s long-term commitment to turning around T-Mobile’s fortunes in the face of recent spinoff rumors , saying that it’s all about rapidly building out a speedy 3G network as part of an effort this year “to lay the foundation for future growth.” Here’s where it gets juicy: referring to the iPhone, the report goes on to say that “T-Mobile USA is hoping to start selling the popular smartphone later this year or next year” while focusing on Android in the meantime, as if Android is merely a stopgap measure to make it through to the singular device that can save America’s number four carrier from going down the tubes. It’s not clear whether FT got the chief exec making a statement to that effect on the record or it’s merely gleaning this knowledge from other rumors, but the only way this would be able to happen is if the next iPhone were to come in an AWS -compatible version — and that seems unlikely considering that AWS coverage represents a trivially small fraction of 3G subscribers around the world
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T-Mobile USA eyeing iPhone launch this year or next?
French company Stonetrip has announced today that it has created tools that will enable developers to create cool 3-D games and apps on Google Android phones. The ShiVa 3D engine for Android will be released in a couple of weeks
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Stonetrip’s 3-D game engine will bring high-quality games to Android phones
Apple both? publicly ?and? privately ?warned smartphone makers that it wouldn’t tolerate its intellectual property being infringed upon, and the company made its first move against Taiwan-based HTC earlier this month with a federal lawsuit and a complaint to the International Trade Commission .
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HTC: we’re ready for a big fight with Apple
