Archive | May, 2009
Is Apple working on a kickass camera device?
Seth Weintraub over at Computer World seems to think so. This camera won’t be a point-and-shoot as much as it will be a digital photography computer. Frankly, it isn’t hard to imagine the hardware. Imagine an iPod Touch with a good camera and lens. That’s about it. There have been some findings recently that back […]
Continue reading...Report: Apple to release $500-$700 tablet
21. May 2009
Despite its current popularity, Apple has repeatedly said that it has no intention of entering the netbook market. Interim Apple CEO Tim Cook has even taken the opportunity at 2 consecutive Apple earnings conference calls to disparage netbooks for having tiny screens, crippled software, and cramped keyboards. And on top of that, the margins on […]
Continue reading...Updated Kindle app enables landscape viewing and more
20. May 2009
Owners of Amazon’s Kindle app for the iPhone should be pretty thrilled with a recent update that now allows them to view content in landscape mode. Previously, content was only viewable in portrait mode, which for some people made reading more of a chore than a pleasant experience. In addition, the Kindle app now lets […]
Continue reading...iPhone marketshare more than doubles in 1Q 2009
20. May 2009
Apple’s share of the smartphone market more than doubled in the first quarter of 2009 compared to the same quarter a year ago, according to recent data released by Gartner. In the first quarter of 2008, the iPhone had a 5.3% marketshare with 1.7 million units sold. One year later, the iPhone had a 10.8% marketshare […]
Continue reading...Sprint CEO predicts Pre shortages early on, we disagree
20. May 2009
Sprint CEO Dan Hesse, who you might remember from those black and white Spring commercials, recently had this to say about his company’s advertising efforts, or lack thereof, regarding the upcoming Palm Pre. We don’t intend to advertise it heavily early on because we think we are going to have shortages for a while. We […]
Continue reading...Old Apple ad captures the swinging lifestyle of the 70’s
20. May 2009
Apple advertising sure has come a long way. Long before Justin Long and the infamous dancing iPod silhouettes, there was a naked guy just hanging out in the jungle, equipped with only an Apple II to hide his shame. The following ad is from 1980, and interestingly enough, we called the 800 number listed below, […]
Continue reading...“Get into a car crash? There’s an app for that” Nationwide Insurance comes out with iPhone app
19. May 2009
“Have you just gotten into a major car accident, and need to jot down a variety of important information? Well, there’s an app for that” This is actually pretty clever. Nationwide Insurance has an iPhone app that takes care of all those pesky, yet important, details that are necessary to keep track of if you […]
Continue reading...Have quirky fun with your photos with new iPhone app “Face Fun”
19. May 2009
Apple isn’t the only company having fun with face detection. An Italian software company called Ab2Labs has come up with a pretty fun and funky iPhone app called “Face Fun” that can detect a person’s face from a given photo, and then places it in an out of context scenario such as being on the […]
Continue reading...Palm Pre rebate flying under the radar, and why the Pre won’t sell out
19. May 2009
Isn’t it funny how people craft all sorts of fancy graphs depicting the supposed real cost of the iPhone over the lifespan of a 2 year contract, but the fact that you’ll have to shell out $300 bucks to get the Palm Pre has flown under the radar? Sure, there’s a $100 mail-in rebate, but […]
Continue reading...Apple poised to sell Macs at Walmart?
19. May 2009
Barron’s reports: Apple could eventually sell some Macs in Wal-Mart stores, “which could significantly increase distribution and unit shipments,” Barclays Capital analyst Ben Reitzesasserted in a research note this morning. “While we don’t expect an immediate impact this year and believe Apple would need to reposition its line-up first, we believe that closer ties to […]
Continue reading...Japanese University to measure student attendance via GPS enabled iPhones?
19. May 2009
A Japanese University in Tokyo is taking an interesting, if not downright Big-Brother, approach to monitoring student attendance. All students at Aoyama Gakuin University will receive a free GPS enabled iPhone, which will allow school administrators to see which students are in school and which are not. The faculty began providing Apple iPhone 3Gs to […]
Continue reading...Rumor: Full specs and release date of Apple’s next iPhone revealed
19. May 2009
With Apple’s WWDC about 3 weeks away, the rumor mill is in full effect. According to AppleiPhoneApps, they were approached by someone with connections to Apple’s hardware development team who divulged that the next iPhone model will be released on July 17, 2009. This supposed source also dished out the specs of the next iPhone model. Some […]
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