In light of what has become a PR nightmare over the faulty reception issues of Apple’s iPhone 4, could the tech giant be considering a recall? PR experts say it’d better.
In a recent Cult of Mac post, PR experts outline the dangers of Apple continuing to skirt the recent accusations of a bad antenna design, especially after …
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GE has come up with an iPhone app that’s supposed to help you decide which bulbs will set a particular mood for a particular room or space that you may or may not inhabit. Snap a photo of said room using your iPhone and swipe one way or the other to establish the right moooood and GE will tell you …
Is Apple lying about its reception glitch?
Not only did Consumer Reports magazine announce today that it can’t recommend Apple’s iPhone 4 because of faulty reception, the report also calls into question Apple’s recent explanation of the problem as a calculating problem. “When your finger or hand touches a spot on the phone’s lower …
Did you purchase a Time Capsule between February 2008 and June 2008? Does it struggle to power on or shut down after it fires up? Wait a second. If you’ve been sitting on a Time Capsule that isn’t able to power on then you’re what TLC or whatever channel would call a hoarder. In the event that you still have said Time Capsule with a …
NewTeeVee has apparently been tipped off by “sources” that Apple will not only release a new Apple TV but that streaming TV show rentals are also on the way. Apple’s waning interest in one of its own products that Steve Jobs calls a “hobby” for the company could be turning itself around to compete with Hulu and …
ComScore has just released its numbers for May for U.S. smartphone owners over the age of 13. Wait. What does a 13-year-old need a smartphone for? According to comScore, 49.1 million Americans owned a smartphone from February to the end of May, which is an 8.1 percent increase from the previous three-month period ending in …
There’s a rumor swirling about that a revamped iPod Touch may be in line for Apple and that this particular model would feature a 5-megapixel camera on the back capable of shooting HD video and a front-facing camera that’s capable of FaceTime video chatting.
Good, great, grand. Regardless of whether or not the rumor is true, here’s …
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Apple is currently dealing with the public fallout from the discovery that someone had hacked iTunes accounts to fake purchases for 41 of his comic apps in the bookstore – comic apps that were, themselves, stolen intellectual property. The trail began with the discovery this weekend that 41 out of Apple’s top 50 book apps belonged to …
The gents at Ars did a little JavaScript testing on Google’s Android 2.2 versus Apple’s iOS4 to see which platform had a speedier Web browser. Based on SunSpider and V8 benchmarks, Froyo blew the doors off iOS4 and Éclair. According to said benchmark tests, Froyo is nearly three times faster than Éclair and three times better …
According to Apple, the root of the well-documented iPhone 4 reception issue has been identified and “it is both simple and surprising.” The formula with which Apple calculates how many bars should be displayed is “totally wrong.” So, when your iPhone 4 says you have 4 bars of reception, you might actually only have one or two. …
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Yahoo! has just made available apps for Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger and Yahoo! Search.
Also, Yahoo! Mail and News have been HTML5 optimized for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
That is all.
Press release after the jump.
