Among the announcements from Apple’s press event yesterday, we heard about the new Mac App Store. If you’ve ever downloaded an app to an iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad, you’ll feel right at home with this. The Mac App Store will be rolled out within 90 days, according to Apple.
Unlike with Apple’s mobile devices, you’ll still be able to …
Some people will never give up their iPhones. Or their Android phones. Or their BlackBerry phones. Or whatever. Windows Phone 7 will appeal to those people as much as any other platform that competes with the one they love.
Those people constitute a tiny sliver of fiercely loyal customers, though. For anyone else either …
Apple CEO Steve Jobs took the stage today to announce the new iLife ’11 software suite, FaceTime availability for Mac users, Apple’s upcoming operating system “OS X Lion,” and new 13.3- and 11.6-inch models of Apple’s ultraportable MacBook Air notebooks. Here’s a look at what’s new.
iLife ’11
Apple has updated its iLife …
Apple is holding its Back to the Mac media event today at 1:00 PM, Eastern. We could all wait patiently for the company to announce whatever it’s going to announce, or we could go the fun route and engage in wild speculation.
Here’s a look at what’s rumored to be heading our way today.
Mac OS X Lion
Apple’s been using cats …
Our long wait for US pricing on Samsung’s 7-inch Galaxy Tab Android tablet is now over. Samsung and Verizon have announced that it’ll cost $600 out the door with no contract. Data plans using Verizon’s 3G network can be added on a month-to-month basis starting at $20 per month for 1GB of data.
Verizon will be selling the Galaxy …
HP is putting its acquisition of Palm to work with the Palm Pre 2 handset, which is due out in France this Friday and headed to Verizon “in the coming months,” according to the press release.
The phone will be the first to run the webOS 2.0 interface, which sports a similar look and feel to the original but adds multitasking, HTML5 …
Apple CEO Steve Jobs was on his company’s fourth quarter earnings call last night. It was a rare appearance but Jobs said, “I just couldn’t help dropping by for our first $20 billion quarter.” He also couldn’t help taking a few shots at the competition—specifically RIM, (makers of the BlackBerry handsets) and Google’s Android …
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Verizon’s plan to offer tiered data packages may go into effect this month already, according to internal documents apparently leaked to Engadget.
The good news is that it looks like Verizon will be sticking with a $30 unlimited data plan for smartphones, while also offering a $15 plan that provides 150MB of data and 10 cents per …
Over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal published a story concerning the inadvertent passing of Facebook users’ personal information between popular third-party Facebook applications and several outside marketing agencies and data-gathering firms.
Every Facebook user is assigned a unique, non-identifying, numeric “user ID” that’s …
Sprint has announced that it’ll be selling the BlackBerry Style starting October 31st. The phone will cost $99 with a two-year contract and after a $100 mail-in rebate.
The handset combines a flip phone form factor with a full QWERTY keyboard and will run Research in Motion’s new BlackBerry 6 operating system.
The form factor and …
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