The next iPad hasn’t even been officially announced yet and there’s already some loose talk about yet another iPad hitting shelves later in the year.
Whether he meant it or not, the spark was lit by John Gruber, a blogger with access to sources inside Apple.
In a post reflecting on yesterday’s HP TouchPad announcement, Gruber …
The once-rumored Facebook phone is coming (and it’s actually two phones). As the most recent rumors correctly indicated, the handsets come from London-based INQ Mobile and are “the result of close collaboration with Facebook,” according to the company’s press release.
The INQ Cloud Touch will be the first phone out of the gate. It’s …
Verizon made the first successful VoLTE (Voice Over LTE) commercial call in the world yesterday morning, the system that is one of the candidate 4G networks. The mobile communication standard will allow people to surf the web and use other phone functionalities while talking on the phone. Though the first call – made in Basking Ridge, …
Today is the day you’ve been waiting for iPhone customers: AT&T is offering free mobile-to-mobile calls to qualifying customers. (Nothing is suspicious about the company launching this new plan today… nothing at all.)
“Mobile to Any Mobile is an exciting offer that will keep our customers connected to the people they want to talk …
At long last, the day has come–the Verizon iPhone went on sale this morning at 7 a.m. at Verizon and Apple stores, Best Buy and their respective websites. It’s been a long road for Verizon to get here, but it’s finally happened. While you wait in line to get a shiny new iPhone, why not mull over the difference between the AT&T and …
It’s been expected since the launch of The Daily, but now it seems that Apple’s plan to offer one-click magazine subscriptions may have hit an unexpected barrier: The magazine publishers themselves.
The problem is apparently where customers will be allowed to subscribe. Apple, obviously, is pushing iTunes, whereas publishers prefer …
When Michelle Obama told the Today Show this morning that 12-year-old Malia and 9-year-old Sasha are too young for Facebook, it got us thinking about Facebook’s policies and age restrictions. What’s Facebook’s policy, anyway, and what are they doing to enforce it? What are the dangers of being underage on Facebook? Read on for …
Apple, Android, and now HP—the tablet wars are about to get really interesting. HP’s going after an Apple-like ecosystem with its phones and tablets all running on the same software platform, Palm’s “WebOS” (HP bought Palm last year, if you recall).
Here’s what was announced today:
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Former head of Microsoft’s business division, Stephen Elop is now the CEO of Finnish cellphone maker Nokia. While he’s been in place since late last fall, Elop’s latest company-wide memo portrays a hard, cold, long look in the mirror at a company that once dominated the cell phone industry but is now “not even fighting with the right …
If you enjoy Google’s online translation services, there’s now an iPhone app that will bring that functionality to the smartphone. The free app will translate 57 languages by text input and 15 languages by voice input, according to the official Google blog. Your translation can also be spoken out loud in 23 different languages, using the …
Amazon is giving their Kindle a makeover with a little something old and lot of somethings new.
First, the throwback. The most buzz-worthy change coming in the latest update is the addition of “real” page numbers, a quiet homage to the e-reader’s predecessor. By popular demand, the 3.1 version software will display the page …
The mysterious clan of “people familiar with the matter” have told the Wall Street Journal that the next version of the iPad is being built. These people move around only at night, using darkness as their cover. Their identities are unknown to the public but it’s likely that they sleep in king-size beds and use linen napkins even when …
