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 …
It’s Tuesday! Time for some handpicked gadget deals.
Refurbished Nook Color: $149 at Buy.com
Barnes & Noble would like you to pretty please forget about the $199 Kindle Fire that’s coming out in mid-November and, as such, you can get your hands on the Nook Color e-book reader/tablet for just $149. This is a refurbished unit …
Well there went the Kindle Touch 3G’s appeal straight out the window: Amazon now admits that while its upcoming touch-based Kindle will indeed be 3G-enabled, the places it’ll be allowed to visit along the information superhighway are actually not so super.
Where can the Kindle Touch go? Try the Kindle Store, no surprise, and—wait …
The iPhone 4, announced in early June of last year, will meet its replacement today as new Apple CEO Tim Cook and associates take the stage at company headquarters to unveil what’s been the subject of rumors and speculation for the better part of a year.
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With the Wall Street Journal reporting that Sprint essentially bet the company on the iPhone, it’s suddenly obvious why T-Mobile isn’t getting its own iPhone anytime soon.
Sprint reportedly committed to purchase 30.5 million iPhones over the next four years–an estimated $20 billion value–whether consumers buy them or not. It’s a …
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Sprint, the nation’s third largest wireless carrier, has agreed “to purchase at least 30.5 million iPhones over the next four years—a commitment of $20 billion at current rates—whether or not it could find people to buy them.” That’s according to oft-quoted “people familiar with the matter,” …
Napster’s long, troubled life is finally coming to an end, with Rhapsody acquiring the service’s subscribers and assets from Best Buy. The Napster brand will be phased out as part of the deal.
Napster was best known for its early run as a peer-to-peer music sharing service (read: a way to download pirated MP3s) before the advent of …
Netflix may dominate the streaming video market, but there’s some surprising good news for Hulu from the MIPCOM conference in Cannes. The streaming video audience seems to be moving firmly in the direction of catching up on television rather than watching movies. Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos revealed the information at the …
