According to a rumor reported by Boy Genius Report yesterday, Apple is prepping to launch its new iPhone in the beginning or middle of August, instead of its annual September event. Added with "a radical new case design for the upcoming iPhone,” the new iPhone will be distinct from its predecessor.

Following the success of NYC BigApps competition, the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) and the New York City Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT) in partnership with Challenge Post, launches the NYC BigAppsApps Ideas Challenge, a competition for the public to submit new ideas for web, desktop, or mobile applications that would ...

Nokia has high hopes for the release of Windows Phone 7 this year, but it has given us something to get busy with while waiting. The mobile giant introduced its MeeGo-powered N9 smartphone. The new device is stunningly beautiful, but knowing that Nokia’s core focus is actually Windows Phone 7, it’s hard to give this ...

Android’s market has peaked last March, and now its share is starting to regress. And where does the market go? Probably to iPhone which is experiencing an increase of US smartphone shares by 12.3 percent to 29.5 percent while Android’s share in the US dropped from 52.4 percent to 49.5 percent. The correlation of these ...

SageTV was recently acquired by Google, and many expected that it’s the DVR that the search giant wants. However, SnapStream Media founder Rakesh Agrawal would beg to differ. “I consider it impossible that Google acquired SageTV so they could add native DVR capabilities to Google TV (remember, Google already manages the program guide, channel changing, ...

Smartphones are gorging more data, causing data usage to search by 89 percent compared to last year, reveals a Nielsen report. An average smartphone user’s data consumption in the past 12 months has vaulted from 230 MB in Q1 2010 to 435MB in Q1 2001.

Microsoft acquired internet telephony company Skype for $8.5 billion, given the FTC’s go signal. About the same time, the Skype Journal reported that some of the company’s executives have left or are relieved. “Skype senior staff David Gurlé, Christopher Dean, Russ Shaw, Don Albert, Doug Bewsher, and Anne Gillespie are leaving Skype or have left,” ...

Another gaming website has been breached. Sega reported that the hack exposed “names, birth dates, e-mail addresses and encrypted passwords” of some 1.3 million users. However, unlike Sony, users of the “Sega Pass” network have encrypted passwords. This is not a guarantee that the passwords are bullet proof, but they are harder to bypass compared ...

Google has always dismissed allegations of a direct competition with Microsoft, and that seemed believable till Chromebook crash landed right in the middle of Microsoft’s pool party. It runs on its own browser-based operating system ChromeOS, immediately making it a competitor of Windows. ChromeOS is Linux-based and had been under development since 2009. There are ...

Sony’s peculiarly labeled subscription multimedia service Qriocity is offering unlimited music to Android, immediately competing with the mobile music service of Google itself. Dubbed as Music Unlimited, it has two monthly subscription models at $3.99/£3.99 for basic and $9.99/£9.99 for premium. It is already being offered on Sony devices such as Blu-ray players, Playstation, PSP ...