3 days ago

AppleInsider Known for thinking outside the box, electronics maker Apple Inc. is now apparently working on an in-the-box concept that could provide power to iPods, iPhones and other electronics devices still inside their retail packaging, allowing them to display demo videos and receive firmware updates while hanging unopened on a shelf (Read More)

2 days ago

Digital Daily Palm (PALM) seems to have satiated pent-up early demand for its new Pre smartphone, constrained supplies be damned. In a pair of investor notes issued today, analysts at Pali Research and JP Morgan say that sales of the Pre have tapered off to a point where supply and demand are roughly in parity. (Read More)

2 days ago

TechCrunch An internal AT&T memo that was leaked today is full of very impressive number regarding the iPhone 3GS — numbers that once again show why AT&T’s exclusive contract with Apple to sell the iPhone in the U.S. is so important.The iPhone 3GS’s launch gave AT&T its best sales day at its retail stores — ever, its second largest tr (Read More)

3 days ago

The Guardian Network already has Apple's iPhone and move would strengthen its position in UK smartphone marketAmerican gadget group Palm will next week confirm that it has signed a deal with O2 which will see the mobile phone network become the exclusive UK partner for its eagerly awaited Palm Pre handset.The Pre, which went on sale in (Read More)

5 days ago

SFGate: Technology What better way to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Sony's iconic Walkman than to ask a teenager for some feedback on the device? The BBC couldn't think of one, and neither can I. I like to imagine that the experience was similar to an archaeologist... . (Read More)

5 days ago

TechCrunch URL shortener and analytics service Bit.ly has been working on a new set of products, being referred to as “Bit.ly Now” internally, which will define the next stage of the company’s growth. The company confirmed these plans to us today. The services will include both a destination website as well as a distributed service vi (Read More)

5 days ago

TechCrunch Disclosure: I have not bought an iPhone 3GS — I’m still unsure if I will. Apple gave me a review unit to play with for 60 days.I’ve had the new iPhone 3GS for a little over a week now. Using it day-to-day over the course of that time, I have a pretty good feel for it. A good enough feel to answer the question that every sin (Read More)

Jun 24, 2009

TechCrunch “You know the beautiful thing: June 29, 2009, is the two- year anniversary of the first shipment of the iPhone,” Elevation Partners (which owns a huge portion of Palm) co-founder Roger McNamee told Bloomberg in March. “Not one of those people will still be using an iPhone a month later.”We’re 5 days away from that milestone (Read More)

Jun 10, 2009

NewTeeVee This week Apple embraced adaptive bitrate streaming over HTTP at its developer conference in San Francisco. It will be available with the new iPhone OS 3.0 on June 17 and in September with the new version of QuickTime for Mac OS X Snow Leopard.After the Apple presentation Monday, we chatted with one of only a couple develop (Read More)

Jun 22, 2009

The Register Unites browser with self-delusionFail and You Last week, in a bold attempt at being relevant again, Opera Software unveiled Opera Unite, which is marketese for "web server inside a web browser." The less obvious news tidbit from the release is that Opera Software is evidently still alive, and it's only when you've been clut (Read More)

Jun 22, 2009

Crunch Gear Every day the Internet pays lip service to the “apps” “yanked” by Apple. But what happens when something Apple does in the SDK shuts down an entire type of app, namely the camera apps that added interesting new functionality to the phone?Jared Brown write Quick Shot, a camera app that added a number of cool features to the (Read More)

Jun 21, 2009

Submitted by Jonprice: If you have Unltd. Data bolt on, or are on the iPhone contract, they cannot charge you without warning you via SMS first. If they detect what you are doing, they give you 48hrs to stop doing so, or your data will be terminated for the rest of the month.... THAT IS o2's policy.... i work for O2 customer services in Glasgow. (Read More)

Jun 21, 2009

The Next Web I disagree with MG Siegler (TechCrunch).His conclusion after one day with the latest iPhone, the 3G S (where according to Apple the “S” stands for “Speed”), is that “iPhone 3G V for Video” would have been the better name.I second the part where Siegler predicts that the new video recording and publishing features might have (Read More)

Jun 20, 2009

ReadWriteWeb Doyle Brunson is seventy six years old and he says he was up late last night in Vegas. He's in a $10k game on the 24th day of the World Series of Poker and he just sent out a Tweet. "Still in 10k split," he said. "Didn't sleep much but feel OK...." Is that an intimate look inside the minute by minute, high-stakes life of (Read More)

Jun 21, 2009

Engadget Now that we know the iPhone 3G S and the Palm Pre share extremely similar 65nm ARM Cortex A8-based internals, it's time to break out the stopwatches and see how these blood brothers stack up. Anandtech has the first head-to-head tests we've seen, and it seems like the 3G S has the slight edge, loading a series of web pages (Read More)

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