So you’re using OS X Lion’s nifty new application brain-center, Launchpad, maybe in spite of your inclination to view it as a pretty wall of semi-redundant iOS-style buttons. Hey, it’s more satisfying than selecting ‘Go – Applications’ from Finder, or popping Stacks off the dock by way of an Applications folder shortcut.
But if you’re …
It wasn’t enough to surpass the U.S. government with a whopping $76 billion in cash reserves, now Apple’s been declared the world’s largest smartphone manufacturer as well. It must have something to do with that mobile phone they make. What’s it called again? The i-Something?
Yep, that. And according to Strategy Analytics, it pushed …
I know, you generally love Lion, but you also sometimes hate Lion and wish it would just settle down and respect your commands, several of which probably involve getting it to behave like its predecessor. We can help, or at least point out some of your options, say you’re partial to Apple’s prior cat.
The following tip sheet isn’t an …
Buckle up, we may be entering the first slump in what could turn out to be a bumpy growth ride for Google+, Google’s slim and scrappy social-networking response to Facebook. According to analytics firm Experian Hitwise, the average time users spent on the fledgling service fell last week in the U.S.
Time to sound a collective ruh-roh? …
Apple’s known for taking principled stands on all sorts of issues, and now it’s taken another by pulling iTunes from the “Christian Values Network.” CVN, which operates shopping portal CVG.org, raises money for various religious groups through product purchases at over 600 participating companies (including Apple). Think Target, Avon, …
Pulled out your e-wallet and deposited $30 in Apple’s coffers for a digital copy of OS X Lion? Patiently (or not so patiently) sucked all 4GB down and rolled through the upgrade process with all your applications more or less intact and functional? Figured out that a lot of the changes you don’t like (say, auto-disappearing scrollbars, …
Of all the questions you might conjure for Apple’s coolheaded retail store employees, here’s one you (and they) probably haven’t considered: What does it take to get booted from an Apple Store?
Walking in with a dog? Ordering a pizza and having it delivered to the second floor? Taking your (very tall) wife on a “romantic” date? …
It’s goodbye T-Mobile, hello Verizon at RadioShack HQ this morning. The scrappy consumer electronics chain says it’ll sever its profit-starved relationship with T-Mobile and take up with mobile giant Verizon Wireless instead. While RadioShack reported a sharp decline in second-quarter profits, news of the Verizon deal sent company shares …
Ready for something like Mozilla’s Firefox on your mobile phone? Okay, you can already get that if you’re an Android user. So how about something like Firefox running in its own Mozilla-crafted mobile operating space?
Heads up Apple and Google, it sounds like the company that wrapped a fox around a globe (and a browser around much of …
It looks like Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Google and the Wall Street Journal all have one thing in common: they’ve been forced to comply with Apple’s controversial App Store rules. What’s more, Google’s apparently said to heck with it, and yanked its app from the store entirely.
Onward, tangled web! Recall the controversy in February, …
Oops, it looks like you can’t buy the Nintendo 3DS direct from Amazon anymore, thanks to either a sales goof or some sort of actual manufacturing glitch. Nintendo’s notorious no-glasses 3D games handheld is officially not for sale from the site at this moment.
You can still grab it from third-party resellers, like Target, of course, …
Things are looking grim and grimmer for Canada-based Research in Motion, who said today they’d slash 2,000 jobs to counter sales declines. “Slash” would be the correct verb, too, since 2,000 equals roughly 11% of RIM’s global workforce, reports Reuters.
The logic behind the job cuts: RIM says it’s zeroed on “eliminating redundancies …