∞ Sprint prepares for iPhone 4

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Erica Sadun for TUAW.com The briefing reportedly told the sales team that Sprint will begin offering the iPhone 4 in October 2011 (next month) with standard Sprint data plans; they will include a $10 data smartphone premium that is not … Continued

∞ Shadowgun third-person combat game coming to iOS on Sep. 28

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Madfinger Games announced Tuesday that Shadowgun is slated for a September 28 release. The game is a third-person tactical combat shooter featuring remarkable console-quality graphics. Shadowgun is a futuristic shooter set in the year 2350. The game follows the adventures … Continued

∞ EA includes teen girl in NHL 12 roster

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The Globe and Mail: Starting this week, 14-year-old Lexi Peters will be stick handling past men twice her size as she plays in the starting lineup for the Buffalo Sabres. Or the Vancouver Canucks. Or any NHL team the 90-pound … Continued

∞ China a top priority for Apple

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John Paczkowski: Apple’s decision to make China top priority in its global expansion is proving increasingly prescient. The company’s four Chinese outlets are already among the most heavily trafficked Apple stores in the world. And they generate blockbuster sales and … Continued

∞ Pixelmator [Sponsor]

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Many thanks to Pixelmator for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed. Pixelmator is the beautifully designed, easy-to-use, fast and powerful image editing app for Mac OS X that has everything you need to create, edit and enhance your images. With tons … Continued

∞ New QNX BlackBerry has no email or calendar

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Gizmodo: BlackBerry sales have been in the toilet, so RIM has been scrambling to get their much-anticipated first QNX-based phones to market. Very smart. But they may be pushing them out without BES/BIS email/calendar calendar support. That would be unfathomably … Continued

∞ Arrington 'decided' to leave TechCrunch

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AllThingsD: He was replaced by longtime TechCrunch editor Erick Schonfeld. The company’s statement said that the high-profile blogger had “decided” to move on, which was adecided understatement, given the negotiations between the pair sometimes approximated a cage match. “You can’t fire … Continued

∞ Bob Seger comes to iTunes, finally

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Detroit Free Press: “It’s probably the best delivery system ever invented, but the industry gave up a lot of quality to have that system,” [Seger manager Ed ‘Punch’] Andrews said. “At some point, if this is what everybody is accepting, … Continued

∞ Dropping 'the' when describing products

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Geoffrey A. Fowler And Yukari Iwatani Kane for WSJ: Nintendo Co.’s website shows gamers “what Wii is all about.” As far back as 1984, Apple Inc. said in a commercial that it would “introduce Macintosh.” Today, an Apple video enthuses: … Continued

∞ AT&T responds to Justice Department

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Smartphone Boss: “Without this merger, AT&T will continue to experience capacity constraints, millions of customers will be deprived of faster and higher quality service, and innovation and infrastructure will be stunted. If this transaction does not close due to Plaintiff’s … Continued

∞ This week in podcasting on The Loop

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Jim Dalrymple and Peter Cohen were featured on several podcasts this week. If you’re interested in hearing them share their opinions on various topics, here’s where you can find them.

∞ Bungie returns to the Apple fold, sorta

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Bungie is the video game developer behind the legendary Halo franchise, so when it makes a move, gamers and game industry analysts tend to pay attention. Now the company’s turning its sites to mobile and social gaming with a new … Continued

∞ PS3 gamers selling systems, games

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The PlayStation Network has been out for more than three weeks after hackers broke in to the system and made off with personal information about tens of millions of user accounts. Now gamers are taking out their frustration by selling … Continued

∞ Google vs. Apple on fragmentation

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Google is unifying its smartphone and tablet operating systems into the ridiculously-named “Ice Cream Sandwich” release, due out late this year. The company is also offering veiled promises of future compatibility for new devices, but that doesn’t erase two years … Continued

∞ Sony delays PSN restart, citing more security problems

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Sony’s PlayStation Network still isn’t online, missing Sony’s own deadline to get the service running again. The company admits it underestimated the extent of its security malfunction after discovering almost 25 million more users with exposed information. “Sony discovered that … Continued