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Worldwide sales of phones reached nearly 305 million in the second quarter, 11.8 percent over the same period last year, according to research released by Gartner. While that reflects that there are some bright spots, growth was tempered by economic slowdowns in some regions. In mature markets like Europe and the US, buyers are favouring mid-tier phones over high-end devices, the researchers found. Also, fewer people are choosing to replace their phones as high fuel and food costs compete for dollars.Economic trouble in many regions of the world is slowing down mobile phone sales, presen...

Latest News

Nokia widens mobile phone market share lead

Worldwide sales of phones reached nearly 305 million in the second quarter, 11.8 percent over the sa...

Nancy Gohring | Aug 29, 2008

Movies now on Aussie iTunes

The wait is over for users of the Australian iTunes Store who've been looking longingly at the movie ...

Matthew JC. Powell | Aug 14, 2008

HSBC eyeing iPhone

At the moment, Research In Motion's BlackBerry is very much the dominant player in the corporate smar...

Matthew JC. Powell | Aug 14, 2008
Latest Reviews

BtBx: serious music app for iPhone

It's coming up to two months since the iPhone 3G launched in Australia. Over that time I've been kee...

David Holloway | Aug 26, 2008

Remote app brings it all together

If you've dreamed of decking out your house with one of those fancy Sonos sound systems think again....

Danny Gorog | Aug 19, 2008

Iris 1.0

It’s a challenging world when you set out to review a newish image editing application and you sudde...

Barrie Smith | Aug 6, 2008
iPhone Central

iPhone 2.0.2 update released

Two weeks after releasing iPhone OS 2.0.1, Apple today updated the iPhone software to version 2.0.2. ...

Dan Moren
Aug 19, 2008

iPhone Apps mean business

Apple's built its new-found market strength largely on the cachet it's been able to build with consu...

Anthony Caruana
Aug 12, 2008

IceTV hits the App Store

Australian free-to-air television guide IceTV is now available via the iTunes App Store for people to...

Matthew JC. Powell
Aug 8, 2008

NetShare questions answered?

Nullriver, the developer behind the only known iPhone 3G tethering software for Mac, say it has now ...

Jonny Evans (Macworld UK)
Aug 7, 2008

Latest Help

Beginners start here: Managing large updates

An ongoing topic of discussion for Mac users is the ever-increasing size of updates, both for the Mac...

Sean McNamara | Aug 14, 2008

OpenCL: What you need to know

Apple was stingy with details about Snow Leopard when it briefly previewed the next version of OS X ...

Peter Cohen | Aug 7, 2008

DNS flaw: what you need to know

On July 31, 2008, Apple released an overdue patch for a major vulnerability in the way Mac OS X Serv...

Glenn Fleishman and Rich Mogull | Aug 5, 2008
Latest blogs

Innovative Technology Schools?

This year must go down for me as "Conference Year". I've been doing some counting and I reckon that ...

Martin Levins | Aug 24, 2008

iPhone winners!!!!!

Owing to a total lack of vocal chords on my part, this week's podcast is not going to happen. The goo...

Matthew JC. Powell | Aug 22, 2008

Digital Wrongs Management: When games stop being fun

There's nothing wrong with protecting your intellectual property if you're a business. On the other h...

Alex Kidman | Aug 20, 2008
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