When Apple introduced the iphone, it shook up the cell phone business. Now, with the looming launch of a tablet-style computer, Apple could pose an even tougher challenge to established players in the video game business. (Jan. 26)
EXovault makes metal iPhone cases in Brooklyn, New York. If that statement doesn’t grab your attention then you might as well stop reading right now. With the majority of iPhone cases being made of hard plastics or grippy rubber materials, metals cases are something you don’t see every day. Metal, or other more exotic materials, [...]
Looks like cloud iTunes, a web-based iTunes software that’s allegedly in the works, is coming along pretty well. In the past three months Apple has enabled browser-based previews for iTunes music, TV shows, movies, and iPhone applications via a dedicated iTunes Preview section of its homepage. Earlier this week, the company has activated the itunes.apple.com [...]
Meebo has finally released a free native IM client for the iPhone and iPod touch. Even though it lacks the advanced stuff of rival apps, the basics Meebo does pretty well. In addition, it connects you to virtually every IM network you could think of. Mountain View, California-based startup Meebo, Inc. launched five years ago. [...]
A 16.2MB app download over 3G. When Steve Jobs unveiled the App Store as an exclusive one-stop shop for third-party iPhone applications on March 6, 2008, he “forgot” to tell us about a 10MB per-app 3G download limit. We later learned we can download an app of any size over WiFi only. The limitation was [...]
Apple may not have to worry about the Nexus One or the Droid overtaking sales of the iPhone, but it should worry about Android handsets in general. During a Mobile World Congress keynote, Google’s Eric Schmidt stated that 60,000 Android handsets now ship every single day. If you scale that up it means 5.4 million [...]
In times when product data could mean millions of dollars to competing companies, it stands to reason that large technology businesses, like Apple, would want to go to great efforts to keep such data secret. That is why it should be no surprise that Apple has taken the extra effort to block certain records from public scrutiny ahead of [...]
Gorillacam Swings In With Bunches of Tasty Photo Features Without Apple headlining, Macworld 2010 was proclaimed a snoozefest before it even started. Now it’s over and we’re all left to sift through the various blog posts and news articles coming from reporters on the scene — which are decidedly fewer in number and weaker in [...]