At first I was skeptical over contact with a sketchy source claiming to have a video of T-Mobile’s highly anticipated G1, Google Android phone in action. The spy video turned out to be authentic along with a few not-so-spy shots included. I was told by the source known only as Jack L, that another video [...]

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In August, a programmer named Alex Sokirynsky wrote a clever app to let iPhone users stream or download podcasts straight from their phones. (Ordinarily, the iPhone can play only the podcasts you’ve downloaded through your computer.) Sokirynsky submitted the program, called Podcaster, for inclusion in Apple’s iPhone App Store—the only way for third-party developers to [...]

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T-Mobile pulls itself out of trouble waters by erasing a 1 GB data cap from its service policy for the new G1 smart phone, the first mobile and wireless device based on Google’s mobile operating system. Such a cap could put a crimp in the G1’s ability to deliver the very Web services consumers look [...]

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