Now that we’ve got this iPhone-not-5 business out of the way, eyeballs are back on Amazon’s Kindle Fire over a leaked sales report. Here’s the report’s short version: People are preordering the thing like mad.
Take with a pinch or two of sodium—the report comes from a tech blog dubbed Cult of Android, after all—but word is would-be
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Hands-down, my favorite part of an Apple announcement’s aftermath is the brief respite we get from all the rumors. They’ll start back up soon enough, but here’s a look at what never quite panned out this time around.
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1. The Name
Rumors of an iPhone 4S and …
A moment of silence, please, for Microsoft’s Zune, which has ceased production at the tragically young age of four. The company announced yesterday that it “will no longer be producing Zune players,” although services and warranties for existing players will be unaffected by the decision.
The first Zune players, developed by Microsoft …
Media, meet blame game, a game in which excitable tech bloggers pronounced Apple’s iPhone event the iPhone 5’s official coming out party, only to discover the iPhone 5 doesn’t exist, or that it’s been replaced by—gasp!—a 4S impostor.
Let’s get one thing straight. There’s never been an iPhone 5. Apple never mentioned it, never …
Amidst the iPhone 4S news today, Apple unveiled some slight adjustments to its line of iPods. The iPod Shuffle and iPod Classic models remain unchanged (despite earlier whispers that the click-wheeled iPod Classic may be put to sleep indefinitely), while the iPod Nano and iPod Touch models have seen a handful of software tweaks alongside …
To upgrade or not to upgrade? That is the question. And if you don’t own an iPhone but you’re thinking about getting one, you may wonder what the differences are between the two versions other than the price gap.
(MORE: Apple Announces iPhone 4S: Old Design, New Specs, Siri Assistant)
Here’s a rundown of the specs:
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At one point during today’s Apple “let’s talk iPhone” dog and pony show, all the live blogs paused and I wondered whether Apple had unveiled its super-secret Cupertino mothership and blasted off. But no, today turned out to be all about the iPhone 4S, iCloud, iOS 5 and an incredibly clever-sounding voice recognition app dubbed …
Apple’s next smart phone is the iPhone 4S. On the outside, it looks just like the iPhone 4, but as Apple said at its press event on Tuesday, it’s the inside that counts.
The iPhone 4S uses Apple’s dual-core A5 chip, the same one found in the iPad 2. Apple says the iPhone 4S is seven times faster than the iPhone 4. Battery life has been
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Well this is mighty interesting. A page for one of the Apple retail stores in Japan is touting the “iPhone 4S” as appearing October 14 starting at 8:00am. Google’s translation is a bit rough and there’s no telling if Apple’s going to pull the page anytime soon—it doesn’t actually go anywhere interesting when you click on the “Learn …
Not content with simply partnering with ABC News yesterday for a revamped news service that includes multiple new web series, Yahoo continues to recreate itself with the launch of Yahoo! Screen, a new video hub that turns the internet into something closer to television, with multiple channels filled with thousands of videos and …
If the price of digital books has ever struck you as seeming too high, you’re not alone. Digital booksellers and major book publishers alike are facing no less than 17 class action lawsuits alleging digital price fixing.
The initial lawsuit, against Apple and five publishers, was filed in California in August, and followed the next …
A patent troll who could potentially sue any Wi-Fi user is broadening its attack to include hotels, but is leaving individual users alone for now.
The firm, Chicago-based Innovatio IP Ventures, has already sued department stores, restaurants and coffee shop chains for offering Wi-Fi to their customers. The next wave of lawsuits …
