Windows Phone 7 was and is Microsoft’s last chance to catch up with the big boys that are Apple and Google in the smartphone race. A few years in the making, and sporting a brand new interface, Microsoft is throwing nearly a billion dollars worth of advertising behind Windows Phone 7 to help it hit […]
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Comments Off on SkyFire nets developers over $700,000 in just one weekend
Earlier this week we gave Apple’s app review team props for accepting into the iTunes App Store Skyfire, an app which enables users to watch Flash video content on their iOS device. The app works as a layer on top of Safari as Skyfire’s servers convert Flash video into HTML 5 video whereupon it’s then […]
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Comments Off on Apple and Twitter strike deal over Ping/Twitter integration
Twitter today announced that it would be integrating Ping, Apple’s social networking service in iTunes, with Twitter. Users will now be able to share musical discoveries, song previews, and links to purchased and downloaded music from iTunes right into their Tweets. On Ping you can easily link to your Twitter account to instantly find Ping users […]
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Comments Off on “Don’t believe everything you read” – Jobs responds to report that AirPrint was pulled from iOS 4.2 update
One of the most anticipated features in Apple’s upcoming iOS 4.2 update is AirPrint, technology which allows users to wirelessly print documents from all iOS devices (iPhone, iPod Touch, and the iPad) to any local printers which support the feature. In typical Apple fashion, there’s no need to install drivers or download software. Yesterday a […]
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Comments Off on Gizmodo lampoons Samsung Galaxy Tab – “A Pocketable Train Wreck”
With the holidays fast approaching, iPad competitors will coming out of the woodwork and flooding malls across the land with tablet devices sporting second rate software and sometimes clunky hardware. The Samsung Galaxy Tab, however, was supposed to be different. A true iPad competitor, it was dubbed. And now it appears that such assertions were […]
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Comments Off on Apple did NOT acquire Wi-Gear
Earlier this week it was reported that Apple scooped up Wi-Gear, a San Francisco based company known for their premium A2DP stereo headphones as well as a Bluetooth 2.0 adapter for older iOS devices. The news, since proven to be false, prompted many to speculate that Apple was planning to manufacture its own stereo Bluetooth […]
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Confirming rumors, Sprint announced on Wednesday that its ZTE Peel case will hit stores on November 14th. The Peel Case is designed to fit snug around an iPod Touch and provides Touch users with web access via a 3G connection – a nifty little service for when those free wi-fi networks are hard to come […]
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