iPhone's reach expands into Nordic states
Swedish mobile firm TeliaSonera has struck a deal to bring the device to seven countries in the region later this year.
In addition to Sweden, the company has operations in Norway, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. No specific date has been set. Either way, it expands the device's reach to much of Europe.
International payment bug leads to PayPal horror show
A simple bug with a drop-down menu on PayPal has been preventing international transactions for over twelve days, and users are understandably upset.
"One Time Purchases" between countries remains functional, however, when on the "Subscription Checkout Page," PayPal customers cannot choose their country when entering credit card information during checkout.
Sprint says 5 GB per month should be enough for most
After last week's news that Sprint confirmed its plans to implement a 5 GB per month overall use cap for its mobile broadband service, the company has seen a flurry of negative comments, and last weekend attempted a clarification.
"The vast majority of our current users (about 99.5%) shouldn't be affected" by the usage cap, reads a statement to BetaNews from Sprint public relations manager Roni Singleton over the weekend. "Whether it's the 300 MB roaming limit or the 5 GB limit on total data usage, that's enough data to meet the regular monthly usage habits of almost all of our customers."
Borders Group reopens its independent online bookstore
With Kindles back in stock, Amazon drops price of ebook reader
Amazon has struggled to keep up with orders for its Kindle electronic book reader since the device debuted just before Thanksgiving, but with inventory back on hand, the retailer has lowered the price by 10 percent.
Wait times for customers to receive their Kindle sometimes reached months, leading Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to publish an open letter on the company's homepage in which he apologized for the delays. "We didn't expect the demand that actually materialized," Bezos wrote in March.
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 now scheduled for Q3
The next builds for Microsoft's forthcoming Web browser generation may already be ready, but the company wants to give publishers some time to prepare, in case their Web sites end up looking somehow storm-damaged.
The next public preview of Microsoft's upcoming Web browser will be available in the third quarter of this year, according to a public blog post from a senior account manager in New Zealand named Nick Mackechnie yesterday morning.
Adobe releases time-sensitive betas of Creative Suite 4 tools
The latest betas of Adobe's Dreamweaver, Soundbooth, and Fireworks tools are now available for free download. But unless you already own CS3, they'll only give you a brief peek at the product, before the 48-hour self-destruct timer goes off.
Registered owners of Creative Suite 3, however, will be allowed to use these betas until the release of CS4, which currently has no release date. However, unless Adobe has some kind of registration system built into those betas, they may need to be installed on production systems alongside CS3.
And so it begins: The Windows 7 marketing push
Microsoft is speaking on the record about Windows 7 for the first time, though the message is controlled and diluted. The important takeaway is that the next Windows operating system will not be a major overhaul to Vista.
This morning, Microsoft officials have begun to speak publicly about the edition of Windows that follows Vista, as a real product whose development is under way. But just like the last go-round, what they're saying mainly revolves around the fact that they're speaking publicly.
Yahoo delays its board meeting again as one director steps down
To give itself more time to prepare for a fight against Carl Icahn and his "dream team" of alternate board directors, Yahoo has apparently indefinitely delayed its shareholders meeting. One director, however, is preparing for something else.
A draft of a proxy statement filed by Yahoo this morning with the US Securities and Exchange Commission omits the date of its upcoming shareholders meeting, which had been scheduled for July 3. The omission -- specifically, its replacement throughout the text with the symbol [1] -- indicates the date is being delayed once again.
Crowdspring develops a virtual marketplace for artists
The Web 2.0 concept has impacted the creative sector yet again with Crowdspring, a marketplace for graphic design, illustration, and art professionals.
Users of the site can be categorized into "Buyers" and "Creatives," and the former group posts projects that they need to have completed, and how much they will pay for the results. Once posted, the "Creatives" can then see what is needed, and work on providing it. From there, the buyer can choose from the submissions which product best suits his needs, and pay the creator the advertised sum.
Only in New York: 'Wireless' meets 'barbecue'
After first turning heads at CES with gizmos like InstaForecast and Professional Weather Center, Oregon Scientific is heating up fast with devices ranging from the Multi-Room Climate Monitor to the Talking Wireless BBQ/Oven Thermometer.
NEW YORK CITY (BetaNews) -- The InstaForecast i300 and i600 are portable gadgets that display live weather forecasts from all over the globe, syncing up with a PC to to haul in the data from the Web.
CEO of ID theft protection service under fire after his SSN is misused
The man behind an online fraud and identity theft prevention service is being sued in multiple states over his stance that customers' identities will not be stolen.
LifeLock was designed and marketed for several years as the one-stop shop to identity protection, with the company alerting you if someone tried to apply for a credit card or similar action using your personal information. Although most citizens are willing to try to monitor their own activities using various credit bureaus, LifeLock provides the service for $10 per month, and will pay up to $1 million to each member if his identity is stolen. The service does not protect against fraudsters using stolen SSNs on job applications or for medical benefits.
Twitter's users up in arms over lack of service, policy enforcement
Whether it's Twitter's apparent affinity for being down more than it's up, or "twitterers" claiming the site's not enforcing its terms of service, the site is getting an awful lot of flak lately.
In fact, the criticism is becoming so loud that the company decided this week to tackle the public's concerns head-on. It seems the service's quickly attained reputation for unreliability may actually have become the defining element of the "Twitter experience."
Mobile VoIP network makes a new play for iPhone users
Apple iPhone owners now have the ability to make low cost international phone calls using an existing Web-based "Virtual Mobile Network," whose proprietors hope there's a market out there for iPhone users on a budget.
Morodo's MO-Call iPhone users are able to place calls to other phone numbers using the Safari browser. Each international call is redirected through the MO-Call network, eliminating international roaming charges for mobile phone users.
TomTom plans a new $300 midrange GPS
At a holiday CE show in NYC yesterday, BetaNews learned TomTom is readying a mid-range GPS device called the XL 330 that will offer most of the features of its high-end GO 930, at a much lower list price of $299.95.
NEW YORK CITY (BetaNews) -- IQ Routes and European maps are just about the only features of the GO 930 -- which sells for around $500 -- that won't appear in the XL 330, said Tasia Hurt, a TomTom in a meeting with BetaNews at this week's Holiday Gift Guide Show.
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