Archive | August 14th, 2009
Palm Pre sends user info, including location, back to Palm on a daily basis
It came to light this week that the Palm Pre sends an array of user information back to Palm HQ on a daily basis. Specifically, Palm Pre users send the following information back to the mothership every 24 hours. 1) Installed Apps 2) Crash Logs 3) User Location (via GPS) 4) And finally, a list […]
Continue reading...Microsoft bribing iPhone developers to port apps over to Zune/Windows Mobile?
14. August 2009
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A few days ago, Microsoft put up a series of web postings which detail one iPhone developer’s experiences in porting an iPhone app over to the Windows Mobile platform. The underlying goal, of course, was to showcase just how simple and seamless the process is and to convince other developers to see the beauty in […]
Continue reading...Why yesterday’s Apple tablet rumor makes no sense at all
14. August 2009
Yesterday afternoon, Brian Lam of Gizmodo published a few interesting details about Apple’s upcoming and mythical tablet. Supposedly, a source with first-hand knowledge about the device contacted Lam out of the blue and gave him some down and dirty details about the as of yet un-announced product. “The device, which I’ve held mock ups of, […]
Continue reading...Moron shoots iPhone 3GS with 9mm handgun, then sets it on fire [Video]
14. August 2009
Well this certainly takes anti-Apple sentiment to the next level. While some folks have self-righteously chosen to protest Apple’s app store policies by abandoning their iPhones, one disgruntled iPhone user went to the extreme (a’la Harold and Kumar) and decided to put a few bullets into a new 16GB iPhone 3GS, before dousing it with […]
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14. August 2009
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