Yay! Apple Sells 1 Millionth iPhone. In. Just. Seventy-four. Days.
All I can say is Wow. It’s amazing.
Apple Sells One Millionth iPhone
CUPERTINO, Calif., Sept. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Apple(R) today announced it sold its one millionth iPhone(TM) yesterday, just 74 days after its introduction on June 29. iPhone combines three devices into one-a mobile phone, a widescreen iPod(R), and the best mobile Internet device ever-all based on Apple’s revolutionary multi-touch interface and pioneering software that allows users to control iPhone with just a tap, flick or pinch of their fingers.
“One million iPhones in 74 days-it took almost two years to achieve this milestone with iPod,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We can’t wait to get this revolutionary product into the hands of even more customers this holiday season.”
Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital media revolution with its iPod portable music and video players and iTunes online store, and has entered the mobile phone market this year with its revolutionary iPhone.
Cingular wants you to switch to the network with the fewest dropped calls. In Singapore, there’s always this part of the MRT tunnel that calls always dropped for me. Five years ago, it is this year, today it’s still this way. I wonder if anyone complained about that. It would be really cool if they get it fixed. I think it’s somewhere at the Tiong Bahru MRT tunnel area.
Cingular “2 Day Rule” - BBDO Atlanta (2007)
I still don’t like Cingular’s new tagline, it just sounds lame to me.
It was presented during Nokia’s GoPlay event this morning as a glimpse into the future of Nokia interface design. I shan’t call it copying iPhone since the only thing that’s remotely similar is actually the touch-screen. Apple didn’t invent touch-screen too.
Nokia’s iPhone
“All these experiences so elegantly simple - it’s what Nokia always has and always will deliver.” (more…)
Did you know that SMS started in 1992 by Acision and today most of us can’t live without it. So happy birthday SMS!
15 Years of the SMS
The mobile phone industry is today celebrating the 15th birthday of the Short Message Service Centre (SMSC), the principal application behind text messaging first brought to market by Acision in 1992. The first ever SMSC was introduced as a product designed primarily to deal with the demands and improve reliability of a developing mobile industry, and in that year the first of many deals was signed with Telenor.
Despite the rapid evolution of the mobile market, SMS is still the most important value-added service for operators. For operators looking to provide subscribers with robust messaging services, today’s mix and match platform means they can specify SMS capacity to meet their requirements. It is this scalability that makes the SMSC cost effective and adaptable to both growing and mature markets. Even in the most developed markets, such as Western Europe where SMS service penetration has reached 90%, SMSCs are vital to operators seeking to differentiate themselves through high-quality enhanced messaging services.
Police cheated girl, 4, of her trust! Okay, but I guess that is done with necessity.
Girl, 4, called 911 nearly 300 times
CARPENTERSVILLE, Ill. - Authorities tracked down a 4-year-old girl who called 911 nearly 300 times last month by offering to deliver McDonald’s to her suburban Chicago apartment.
Unbeknownst to her mother, the girl used a deactivated cell phone to call dispatchers 287 times in June sometimes as often as 20 times a shift.
Dispatchers heard the child’s voice but could only track the phone’s signal to the apartment complex.
So authorities used a ruse to pinpoint her.
“We asked (the caller) what she wanted. She said she wanted McDonald’s,” said Steve Cordes, executive director of QuadCom’s emergency center, which covers Carpentersville.