When it comes to mobile technology, it seems things are moving slowly forward in North Korea. According to International Herald Tribune, mobile phones are becoming more visible in the country following the launch of a new network by Koryolink. The Koryolink system, named for an ancient Korean dynasty, started operating in December 2008, and as of mid-February it had more than 6,500 users.

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Kingston is inviting users to submit pictures or video clips taken from a camera phone as part of its Kingston Mobile Contest. Photos or short videos will be accepted through March 31, 2009, representing the following categories: dance/pose, fun pet tricks, travel/vacation and sports.

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Homes.com is joining the “iPhone wave” with a dedicated real estate search application. The free app is already available in the AppStore, allowing both homebuyers and renters to perform full-featured national property searches. Among the features included are possibility to

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This is getting ridiculous. I can understand there are some die hard Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) fans out there, but man, this gotta stop somewhere. Just when I thought I’ve seen everything, the iBoard came along. Yap, it’s the iPhone Skateboard, designed for skate folks who really, really, really love their iPhone.

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Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) II classic, The Oregon Trail, is set to hit the AppStore. So far, we’ve seen the popular game being released for the JavaME-enabled mobile phones and now Gameloft is planning to bring the legendary title to the iPhone, as well.

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Made famous for its absurdity, the iPhone’s lack of a conveniently removable battery has been one of the iPhone and iPhone 3G’s harshest critiques. With the iPhone’s power-needs draining full batteries in as little as a day, the lack of a removable battery is made even more apparent. But, there’s hope yet. A new Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) patent application hints at future iPhone with a universal rechargeable battery - one that you can actually remove and replace on a whim!

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Nova Media has recently unveiled iCON 431, a sleek 3G USB modem with memory stick functionality for Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) computers. The HSPA modem supports data transfers with up to 7.2 Mbps download and up to 2.0 Mbps upload, depending on the network’s capabilities.

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In order to promote its upcoming blockbuster, Warner Bros launched the Watchmen mobile website, teasing us a month before the movie hits theaters. The site is optimized to perfectly render on most modern mobile phones — featuring latest news, mobile content downloads, videos included.

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If you’ve jailbroken your iPhone, you’re probably familiar with Snapture, the camera application which goes beyond Apple (NSDQ: AAPL)’s built-in camera app. Now, we have another contender in this game. It’s called ClearCam and it’s developed by Occipital.

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We have no problem with Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) pumping out iPhone OS updates that measure in the hundreds of megabytes. In fact, the bigger the better - more features are never a bad thing. Except when those feature-packed update files are sitting around wasting space on your hard drive, as iPhone Atlas so helpfully points out.

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If you’ve been waiting and waiting for Flash to hit the iPhone, you’re not alone. Over the past few days however, some promising words have come out of the mouth of Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen. In an inverview with Bloomberg Television, he noted:

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Happy Super Bowl Sunday to all of the NFL fans out there. Who are you picking? Cards or Steelers? It’s a tough call for me, as the two teams are actually both favorites of mine. But if I had to make a pick and call the score… I’ll take the Steelers 33-17. Part of me hopes that is way off though, I think it’d be a great story for the Cards to pull it off. Anything can happen, we’ll see!

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Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is being sued yet again by an irate iPhone 3G owner in Northern California. Disgruntled iPhone 3G user Jason Medway filed a 14-page suit that includes himself and all iPhone 3G owners in California as part of complaint. In the suit, Medway alleges that Apple has continued to push iPhone 3G sales with the knowledge that Apple handset’s 3G data connection was faulty.

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Web browsing on the iPhone 3G can be an enjoyable experience. That is, unless you’re running late and need to hit up the web for some mission-critical information. It can be frustrating wasting precious seconds for your web pages to load all those images - 3G can bog down, on....

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The iPhone 3G has barely landed on Taiwanese shores and retailers are already lauding Apple (NSDQ: AAPL)’s success in cracking the island’s mobile market. According to sales reports, Apple has locked down a solid 2.2% of Taiwan’s mobile phone market.....

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