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Welcome back to InterrupTech.  Catch up on the week’s most important tech stories in a hurry.  We cover Take Two’s $20M settlement, Apple’s 09/09/09 event, the GMail fail, Skype gets sold, and plenty more. Continue Reading »

Microsoft’s new Windows Mobile cell phone OS is set to be available in new smartphones starting October 6, 2009, a little over a month away.  The new OS is supposed to have an easier UI, superior browsing capabilities, Windows Marketplace for Mobile, and a way to back up all phone… Continue Reading »

Sprint has announced it will release the highly anticipated HTC Touch Pro2 on September 8th.  The handset features a 3.6” WVGA touchscreen, full QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi, world-roaming, and runs Windows Mobile 6.1.  As with most Sprint phones it also offers SprintTV, Sprint Navigation and NFL Mobile Live all at 3G… Continue Reading »

Handago announced today, as part of its bi-annual Handango Yardstick, that BlackBerry has taken Windows Mobile’s place as the dominant platform in its content catalog for smartphones for the first time.  44% of all apps sold in the first part of this year were for BlackBerry phones.  The 5 best-selling… Continue Reading »

Get caught up in a hurry with InterrupTech.  You won’t find endless chatter here.  We’ve got a timer to move things along.  This Week: Apple has two tablets? Windows Mobile to have two version? Navigation apps everywhere More navigation The Garmin Nuviphone is coming.  No, really. Sony revamps the PS3.… Continue Reading »

This is rich.  The very man whose job it was to encourage developers to create new and cool applications for Windows Mobile recently converted to an iPhone.  Why?  Apps. The only feature now touted by Apple’s advertising for their iPhone platform is third party applications and it seems to resonate… Continue Reading »

Today, DigiTimes is reporting news given to them from a Taiwanese handset maker.  The news is Microsoft is working on a two pronged strategy to combat Apple’s iPhone OS on the high end and Android on the low end.  The news seems to be in line with what we’ve heard… Continue Reading »

Look how easy it is!  Behold, all the hard work building an iPhone app can be ported over to the hot, new and exciting Windows Mobile OS from Microsoft.  In as little as three steps, developers can reap the joy, riches and camaraderie that comes from being part of the… Continue Reading »

For all the time we’ve been using cell phones, we’ve never had to worry about someone else trying to control them, unless they steal them, that is.  It’s just not something one would think about, especially not when using the iPhone.  Apple has a history of security with its desktops,… Continue Reading »

Being stuck on Windows Mobile right now isn’t exactly the most exciting part about owning a cell phone.  The OS is clunky, old, and just not as good as some of the others out there, for most people at least.  Not to mention the fact that the web browser that… Continue Reading »