And so it begins.
Let’s jump in the Wayback Machine and set our coordinates for June 11, 2007. Apple had just announced something called the “iPhone” and with it, an “innovative new way to create applications” for the device.
The premise was simple: In lieu of an actual app store, Apple urged developers to “create Web 2.0 …
Professor Dennis Galletta has been teaching a summer course at Harvard on Human Factors in Information Systems Design. As part of it, his students conducted some usability testing of the iPhone 4, Samsung’s Windows Phone 7-based Focus, HTC’s Android-based Thunderbolt, and RIM’s BlackBerry Storm. They had people who hadn’t used …
Amazon.com sells many things.
Its U.K. website, for instance, sells something called a “Military Police Telescopic Tonfa” that looks an awful lot like a night stick and—wouldn’t you know it—is at the top of the “Movers and Shakers in Sports & Leisure” with a whopping 41,341% sales increase over the past 24 hours (as of 5pm …
Apple has been granted a preliminary junction against Samsung, ruling that Samsung’s 10.1-inch “Galaxy Tab” Android tablet be pulled from store shelves “across all of Europe and except the Netherlands,” reports the Telegraph.
The injunction was granted by a judge in Germany, yet is enforceable elsewhere since it’s “possible to apply …
Well, here’s one growth industry in the middle of our dire economic straits: According to a new survey of sales revenue provided by more than 2,000 publishers in the U.S., book sales are rising, with e-book revenue growing a surprising 1,274% between 2008 and 2010.
Revenue on e-books reached $878 million in 2010, with sales hitting …
With Lion’s digital-only release, someone apparently forgot to send Steve Jobs the security memo about single-points-of-failure being a definitively bad thing. Well no longer: Apple just released something called a “Lion Recovery Disk Assistant” utility that’ll let you do…okay, frankly what you already could, but if you’d rather not …
So these Windows-based “ultrabooks” we’ve been hearing about recently should be making their way to consumers in time for the holidays. The promise: MacBook Air-like design and portability, but with cheaper price points and, of course, Windows.
(MORE: The Race to Beat the MacBook Air Is On)
And while we’ve seen a teaser image of …
Remember IBM? You know, the company that built a computer that clobbered a couple of all-time Jeopardy champs earlier this year? I know, IBM’s not exactly Apple in terms of its consumer branding, but they do still make a bunch of stuff for mostly business types. Like…okay, I can’t think of anything off the top of my head either, but …
The FBI has released a free iPhone app that can be used if your child goes missing. Called “Child ID,” the app “provides a convenient place to electronically store photos and vital information about your children so that it’s literally right at hand if you need it,” according to an FBI press release.
The release continues, “You can …
My wife ran the Boston Marathon a few years ago. More impressive than that, I jumped in and ran the last four miles with her. Me! Four miles! I know! More than the actual race day, though, I remember her having to train during one of the crappiest, dumpiest Boston winters in recent memory—to the point that she basically had bronchitis
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The New York Times launched Beta620 yesterday, its public testing ground for new and upcoming features for the NYTimes.com website, almost a year after it was originally expected.
Named after the home of the Times (620 Eighth Avenue in New York), the site—found at beta620.nytimes.com—launched with seven different projects to be …
How best to smuggle iPads and iPhones across the border? Until recently, a crossbow, a spool of high-test fishing line, and some good old fashioned gumption ostensibly proved to work pretty well.
As the story goes, smugglers stood on an upper-level balcony of a high rise building in Shenzhen and used a crossbow to shoot fishing line
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