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WIRELESS

By using some fairly interesting IMEI collection, the folks at Mac Observer have found that Apple sold 10 million iPhones in 2008, reaching and potentially surpassing Steve’s original stated goal. By looking at phones sold over the last few months, Mac Observer’s “Apple Finance Board” found that the phone has gone through nine 1 million unit runs. Adding this to the known sales they found the total number was far above analyst expectations. (http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/10/06/apple-sold-10-million-iphones-in-2008 10/6)

After 6 months of not-quite-official availability for those of us with jailbroken iPhones, Fring, a free mobile Voice-over-IP service, has made its way to the App Store. With that, a day that some said would never come has arrived: Skype calls can now be made on the iPhone, no hacks required. (http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2008/10/03/fring-brings-skype-and-other-voip-services-to-iphone 10/3)

You’re looking at the BlackBerry Application Center, RIM’s answer to Apple’s App Store and Google’s Android Market. Same basic concept as the other two—you browse and buy applications that enhance your BlackBerry experience.  The Application Center—we’re running out of variants of the term “application store!”—is set to debut with the BlackBerry Storm software version 4.7. (http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/10/06/the-blackberry-application-center-is-rims-answer-to-the-iphone-app-store 10/6)

GameFly, which is perhaps most easily explained as the NetFlix of the gaming world, today launched a new version of their site specifically optimized for mobile handsets. (http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2008/10/06/gamefly-launches-mobile-optimized-site 10/6)