Michelle Megna

eBay sellers today will be able to access third-party applications for the first time as the e-commerce giant opens its app marketplace. The third-party apps offered through the store are aimed at eBay sellers, and provide tools for them to manage and streamline their online businesses. The apps run on eBay’s Selling Manager and Selling […]

Turn-by-turn navigation is here for the iPhone, now that GPS firm TomTom’s iPhone app is available in the Apple App Store. The TomTom app costs $99.99 and uses the GPS chip inside the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone 3G and 3G S to provide real-time navigation to users — essentially folding most of the features of […]

Online forums have lit up with complaints from owners of the iPhone 3G who say that the handset’s Wi-Fi function was disabled after they upgraded to the new OS 3.0. Numerous users are claiming that after upgrading, their iPhone either can’t maintain a Wi-Fi connection, or that it doesn’t download data once it does connect, […]

Apple and AT&T are facing a class-action lawsuit that claims the two companies misrepresented the iPhone’s ability to support MMS messaging. The suit, recently filed in Louisiana district court under the Unfair Trade Practices Act, alleges that both companies advertise the ability of the iPhone 3GS to support MMS but the feature is not yet […]

Online forums have lit up with complaints from owners of the iPhone 3G who say that the handset’s Wi-Fi function was disabled after they upgraded to the new OS 3.0. Numerous users are claiming that after upgrading, their iPhone either can’t maintain a Wi-Fi connection, or that it doesn’t download data once it does connect, […]

The new consumer phenomenon of smartphone app usage is expected to keep growing at a rapid clip, with downloads tripling over the next five years. But with that growth comes challenges for the mobile industry as competition heats up. Downloads from all app stores will reach 6.67 billion applications by 2014, up from two billion […]

After a much-hyped start, sales of the Palm Pre are beginning to fall short of earlier projections, causing one analyst to backpedal on estimates and downgrade the company in a research note issued Thursday. Palm Pre sales fell from 200,000 units in June to 100,000 in July, with this month slated to be lower than […]

Sony is aiming to take on the Amazon Kindle with an upcoming wireless e-book reader that could be unveiled later this month and through adopting the open standard ePub format for its digital bookstore. Valerie Motis, a Sony spokesperson, confirmed that the electronics giant has a wireless e-reader in the works. The company also is […]

Apple is trying to assuage some developers frustrated with the company’s App Store approval process by reaching out in e-mails sent by its top marketing exec — an unprecedented move. For the second time in a week, Phil Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide product marketing for Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), e-mailed a developer venting about […]

Smartphones represent the fastest-growing segment of the mobile market with Apple posting big gains in worldwide market share. But analysts are taking note of the tepid sales for the Palm Pre, the latest iPhone contender Forty million smartphone sales worldwide in the second quarter, a 27 percent gain from the same period last year, show […]

Social networking giant Facebook has begun testing a trimmed-down version of its site that loads faster and is targeted at countries where broadband is limited. “Facebook Lite” is similar to the site’s mobile version, which enables members to make comments, accept friend requests, post messages and view photos and status updates. The site — currently […]

E-commerce sales continue to suffer, with online retail spending pegged at $30.2 billion, down one percent compared to a year ago — only the second quarter on record where e-commerce spending has been lower than the same quarter the previous year, according to comScore. The fastest-growing category in the second quarter of 2009 when compared […]