If you don’t know who Hudson Soft is, and especially if you don’t recognize that iconic bumble bee on sight, you’re either new or you’re not a gamer. Most of you will probably remember them as the creators of venerable yet ageless Bomberman series of games, which they created initially for the Nintendo Famicom [...]

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Now that it’s all over and done with, we can sit back with leisure and reflect upon the last few months since talk about the 3G iPhone began. There have been two and a half metric butloads of rumours over the last few months, many of them obviously specious, some passable, and others being [...]

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According to Apple’s Canadian site, the iPhone is available to buy at both Rogers and Fido outlets. I’m sure this is rather startling news to Ted Rogers, and indeed just about every Rogers employee. When my wife told me about this and I checked it out for myself I went and checked the [...]

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You may remember during Macworld ‘08 that venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers created a $100,000,000 “iFund” to inspire and fund third party iPhone development. Now it looks like they’ve just announced the first companies they plan to be funding: Pelago and iControl Networks.
Pelago’s first application out of the gate is Whrrl, which [...]

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Ready for back to school?  Yeah, I know, those of you who attend only just got out, but that doesn’t matter to Apple, who are starting their Back to School promotion on June 2nd — that’s tomorrow, for those of you who have already lost track in your summer holiday reverie.  Last year’s promotion offered [...]

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Ordinarily, Mobile Safari is limited to a maximum of 8 pages open in their own windows.  However, iPhone in Canada’s iPhone Fan has written a method to overcome this limitation in a roundabout way:
Everytime I click on a link within the Mail app, it will launch Safari and a new window will appear. It seems [...]

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Rogers Communications, Inc., the parent company of Rogers Wireless, is expected to prosper, despite fears of competition from potential new upstarts generated by the Canadian Radio and Television Commission’s wireless spectrum auction.
Though Rogers’ stock took a significant 8.3% tumble last November when the CRTC laid out the rules for the auction, which reserved 40% of [...]

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Google Maps is cool. It’s pretty awesome having the world in your hands. Sometimes though I wish it worked more like Google Earth, with all the great social tagging and imagery and Wiki links. It’s not like the iPhone doesn’t have the hardware to do it, right?
That’s the thinking behind Colorado startup [...]

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Folks, to start with I’d like to step off topic for a moment apologize for the slow news weekend. Jody’s been off on some personal things, and me, I had more or less a writeoff weekend that kicked off with a broken bed, and subsequently, a drill that decided it would also break down [...]

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Spanish iPhone hopefuls, get your wallets ready. Mobile development and consulting firm Sevenclick is reporting that Iberian cell carrier Telefónica Movistar took the opportunity at the Professional Communications Congress 2008 held at the university of Zaragoza, to officially announce the deal they have inked with Apple. According to the terms of the deal, [...]

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Taking things on a lesser-important note, it has recently been posted that Solid Snake was found sporting the latest and greatest now-called iPod Classic from Apple. Cool!
Check out some high-resolution images of the front and back of the iPod spotted in Metal Gear Solid 4 here. (Front view/Rear view)
As neat as it is to see [...]

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On the one hand, Apple very much wants to make OTA (over-the-air) downloads of iTunes content through the iPhone. With the 3G iPhone 2.0 likely looming just weeks away, it only makes sense to take what can already be done with WiFi and make it deliverable over EDGE and HS(D)PA networks as well, whether [...]

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If there’s one thing you can count on Japan for, it’s endless reams of odd, strange, and downright bizarre design concepts. Especially when it comes to concepts that combine multiple, often disparate functions into one big, usually wearable ball of weird.
The latest thing to become fashionable in the land of the rising sun is [...]

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In case you iPod Touch users (and I’m one of them) were feeling a little snubbed by all of the iPhone-oriented goodies, then this one is just for you: The QDOS (no affiliation to the Sinclair QL operating system) Sound Frame doesn’t seem like much more than your average mild-mannered dock. It may even [...]

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