Archive | October, 2009
Driving a car remotely using an iPhone – there’s an app for THAT?!
And you thought starting your car with your iPhone was impressive? You ain’t seen nothing yet. Students and researchers in the Artificial Intelligence Group at the Freie University of Berlin are pushing “there’s an app for that” to new extremes. In the video below, students hooked up a Dodge Caravan with two omnidirectional video cameras, […]
Continue reading...The Apple tablet that never was
29. October 2009
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Michael Arrington of TechCrunch has the inside scoop on a little-known Apple project called the Apple Pen Mac, an Apple tablet project whose humble beginnings stretch back all the way to 1990. The Pen Mac, Arrington writes, “was a fully functional Mac computer with a pen based touch screen.” It’s described as being smaller than […]
Continue reading...Psystar and Apple continue to battle it out in court
29. October 2009
Last Friday, both Apple and Psystar filed motions in opposition to the other sides motion for summary judgment. After pouring through all of the pertinent motions, and digesting all of the non-redacted exhibits, it seems abundantly clear that Psystar is grasping for straws. Below, I’ve highlighted the arguments presented by each party. If you recall, […]
Continue reading...Droid v. iPhone 3GS in a battle for Wi-Fi supremacy [Video]
28. October 2009
Engadget put the much heralded Motorola Droid vs. the iPhone 3GS in a battle for WiFi supremacy.
Continue reading...Apple Stores begin transition from EasyPay to iPod Touch
28. October 2009
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ifoAppleStore reports that Apple has begun transitioning from the EasyPay portable devices it currently uses to conduct on the spot sales to an iPod Touch with an attached scanner running point of sale software. First, the iPod touch scanner will allow employees to capture data from products that have multiple barcodes using a single pass, […]
Continue reading...Developing for the iPhone v. developing for BlackBerry
28. October 2009
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Toktumi has an interesting article up discussing the disadvantage RIM is faced with as it attempts to position its app world to compete with Apple’s wildly successful iTunes app store. “Having recently developed versions of our popular Line2 app for both the iPhone and Blackberry platforms, I can tell you one major reason for RIM’s […]
Continue reading...Demo of Windows 7 on Japanese TV show is a big fat FAIL [Video]
28. October 2009
Windows 7 has gotten a lot of favorable reviews thus far, but when a Japanese TV show tried to demo the new multi-touch capabilities of Microsoft’s new OS, well, let’s just say it resulted in a big fat FAIL.
Continue reading...Psystar’s Rebel EFI software is more trouble than it’s worth
28. October 2009
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Late last week, Psystar announced that it would be releasing software (Rebel EFI) designed to enable any PC user to install OS X on non-Apple hardware. But actually downloading the software and getting it to work is an entirely different story. Wired writes: “All you need to do is download a small file (7.6MB) and […]
Continue reading...iPhone games starting to take advantage of iPhone 3GS power
28. October 2009
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The iPhone 3GS is a lot more powerful and significantly faster than its predecessor, and since being released this summer, apps that take advantage of the improved internals are finally starting to trickle into the iTunes app store. Kotaku reports: Gameloft’s Asphalt 5 is one of those games. While the racing title will play on […]
Continue reading...Google announces free turn-by-turn app for Android, will the iPhone be next?
28. October 2009
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Google announced today that it plans to bring turn by turn directions via Google Maps to devices running Android 2.0, and it will include features such as voice recognition, live traffic data, satellite view, and search capabilities via names of business and landmarks, address’s be damned. You can check out a video preview of the […]
Continue reading...Jim Cramer raises Apple stock target to $300, actually raises some good points
28. October 2009
Before Apple released its record breaking earnings report last Monday, Jim Cramer noted on his “Mad Money” TV show that Apple’s earnings would disappoint, and that investors should prepare themselves to “buy Apple on weakness on Tuesday morning.” Apple’s earnings, of course, blew analyst expectations out of the water, and in the following few days, […]
Continue reading...Apple fanboy spoofs Verizon’s anti-iPhone commercial [Video]
28. October 2009
Round 1: About a week ago, Verizon launched a commercial pointing out all the features that the iPhone doesn’t have but that the upcoming Motorola Droid will have, such as a 5 megapixel camera and “widgets”, whatever that means. And adding insult to injury, if you want to call it that, Verizon laced their commercial […]
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29. October 2009
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