Rene Ritchie of iMore.com reports that “sources who have proven accurate in the past” are saying that the new iPhone will be announced on Wednesday, September 12.
The rumored “iPad Mini” and new iPods will come along for the …
Why Smartphones Won’t Be Replacing Wallets Anytime Soon
While there are some technological and organizational hurdles holding back the advent of mobile payments, there’s another, more basic problem that’s likely to slow the rise of the smartphone wallet.
via Smartphones Unlikely to Replace Wallets, Cash Anytime Soon | Moneyland | TIME.com.
3 Ways Apple Sets Itself Apart from the Competition
Tim Bajarin is the president of Creative Strategies Inc., a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm in Silicon Valley. He contributes to the “Big Picture” opinion column that appears every Monday on …
OS X Mountain Lion and Airplay Mirroring: Time to Cut the Cord?
With Airplay Mirroring now part of OS X Mountain Lion, you’re going to hear a lot of people claim that OS X is now a cord-cutting tour de force. The iPad and iPhone 4S already had it, and now your Mac does, too.
In reality, …
Video: Electric Unicycle Racing Proposed as Olympic Sport
This is the story of one man’s attempt to get electric unicycle racing accepted as a new and exciting Olympic sport. Check out Solowheel.com for more information about the “electric, one-wheeled, self balancing transportation …
Tablets: 12 Uniquely-Designed Keyboards, Docks and Cases
When it comes to tablets, there’s no shortage of keyboards, docks and cases floating around. Here’s a look at a dozen that stand out.
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Apple Buying into Twitter: Neither Likely nor Implausible
We already know that Apple is a Twitter fan. It’s baked the social network into both of its operating systems, OS X and iOS, in a manner that’s a departure from its tradition of building every possible aspect of its products …
“I wish I could say that today’s outage could be explained by the Olympics or even a cascading bug. Instead, it was due to this infrastructural double-whammy.”
Google Handwrite Pits Mobile Search Against Your Withered Penmanship
Remember handwriting? It’s back.
Google has rolled out a feature called Handwrite that works with smartphones and tablets through a simple settings tweak – there’s no app that needs to be installed, in other words.
Cruise …
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I’m Interviewing Ken Segall, Author of Insanely Simple, Next Tuesday
Lots of people–too many people, really–have written books that attempt to explain what made Steve Jobs’ Apple so remarkable. Author Ken Segall has some advantages others don’t: As Jobs’s ad-agency creative director for more …
Is Windows 8 Really a ‘Catastrophe’ for Content Creators?
Valve Software bigwig Gabe Newell has his long knives out and he’s slashing in Windows 8’s direction, going so far as to call Microsoft’s imminent operating system makeover a “catastrophe.”
It’s not the first time for Newell, …
How Low Can Facebook Go?
Facebook shares have fallen 36% since the IPO, which generated $9 billion for company insiders. “It has become a show-me story,” one analyst said.
via Facebook, Newly Public, Falls 11% to New Low on $157 Million Loss | Business | TIME.com.