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Friday 22 April 2011

Verizon Says Next iPhone Will Be A World Phone [ 22-04-2011 18:56 ]

Author: Irina Turina Source: Barrons Translation by: Paul Smith

American network Verizon recently announced that they had sold some 2.2 million iPhone 4 handsets since getting the handset and whilst that's great news for them their CFO Fran Shammo has been a bit more loose lipped with information of interest to the rest of us. Namely the CFO let it be known that the next iPhone will be a world phone:

The fluctuation, I believe, will come when a new device from Apple is launched, whenever that may be, and that we will be, on the first time, on equal footing with our competitors on a new phone hitting the market, which will also be a global device.

In other words the next iPhone looks to be a dual GSM-WCDMA/CDMA-EV-DO handset for use on any network on the planet. There have been rumblings about a dual mode iPhone for a while now and indeed the Qualcomm chipset that is used in the present iPhone Verizon are selling is capable of both GSM and CDMA support, but Apple have chosen not to use that functionality.

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RIM Announcing Just One New Phone At BlackBerry World? [ 22-04-2011 18:48 ]

Author: Ivanov Konstantin Source: BGR Translation by: Paul Smith

Boy Genius Report are citing two separate sources (unnamed) as saying that RIM are planning on announcing just one new handset at BlackBerry World next week. The handset in question is the BlackBerry Bold Touch, but remember that RIM are thought to have several handsets in the works right now, most estimates placing the number at half a dozen or so. All those handsets are thought to be on the cards for release between June and September of this year so announcing just the one at the single biggest BlackBerry event in the world seems odd to say the least. Boy Genius Report further states that the decision to announce just a sngle handset was a last minute decision, but they, like the rest of us, can't see the logic behind it.

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Greenpeace Scold Apple, Praise IBM For Green Policies [ 22-04-2011 18:28 ]

Author: Serge Novikov Source: 9to5Mac Translation by: Paul Smith

Greenpeace has been ranking various tech companies according to how green they are and whilst some like IBM came in for praise, others, like Apple, came in for some sharp criticism. To be fair Greenpeace did praise Apple's efforts to increase transparency in moving towards more ecologically friendly practices, but criticism was levied for Apple's decision to construct a new data centre in North Carolina at the cost of $1 billion. The data centre will use the same energy as 80,000 average American homes.

Apple’s decision to locate its iDataCenter in North Carolina, which has an electrical grid among the dirtiest in the country (61% coal, 31% nuclear) indicates a lack of a corporate commitment to clean energy supply for its cloud operations. The fact that the alternative location for Apple’s iDataCenter was Virginia, where electricity also comes from very dirty sources, is an indication that, in addition to tax incentives, access to inexpensive energy, regardless of its source, is a key driver in Apple’s site selection.

You can see the table with the rankings below. Note the low marks for Facebook and the across the board failure for Twitter. IBM was the best of the bunch according to Greenpeace, saying that it "should be recogised for its ongoing and comprehensive plan to reduce remissions, in addition to driving significant gains in IT efficiency."