Archive | February 1st, 2011
Intel announces bug in 6-series chipset
Intel on Monday announced that it found a bug in the company’s upcoming 6-series chipset. As part of ongoing quality assurance, Intel Corporation has discovered a design issue in a recently released support chip, the Intel 6 Series, code-named Cougar Point, and has implemented a silicon fix. In some cases, the Serial-ATA (SATA) ports within […]
Continue reading...iOS devices account for 2% of worldwide web traffic
1. February 2011
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AppleInsider reports: Net Applications on Tuesday published the results of its latest worldwide browser market share findings. The numbers show that in the month of January, Apple’s iOS mobile operating system and the Mobile Safari browser cracked the 2 percent barrier for the first time. iOS, which runs on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, […]
Continue reading...Eric Schmidt scoffs at the notion of taking over as Apple CEO
1. February 2011
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With Steve Jobs on medical leave and Eric Schmidt no longer the CEO of Google, some fools have been suggesting that Schmidt might be a good CEO for Apple down on the line. Though Schmidt had previously served on Apple’s board of directors, he left on somewhat shaky terms in light of Google entering the […]
Continue reading...HP to hold WebOS media event on February 9, will likely announce 3 separate tablets
1. February 2011
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On February 9, HP is holding a press event where they will by all accounts announce a slew of webOS-based tablet devices. Rumor has it that HP will release a total of 3 tablets with slight hardware differences across each model. The consumer model (codenamed Topaz) will reportedly bear a striking resemblance to the iPad, […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs and the original spinning beach ball of death [Photo]
1. February 2011
There’s nothing more frustrating to a Mac OS X user than the dreaded spinning Beach Ball of death. Steve Jobs, though, doesn’t seem to mind at all. Pictured above is a young Jobs kicking around a Beach Ball at a 1987 NeXT company retreat. The spinning beach ball of death, which is technically referred to […]
Continue reading...How many AT&T iPhone owners will take the Verizon plunge?
1. February 2011
In just a few days, the iPhone will arrive, for the first time, on Verizon and will mark an end to a three and a half year exclusivity agreement between Apple and AT&T. During that time, AT&T experienced a number of well-publicized growing pains as the company struggled to keep up with the voracious appetite […]
Continue reading...Netgear CEO Patrick Lo puts Steve Jobs and Apple’s closed ecosystem on blast
1. February 2011
If you’ve never heard of Patrick Lo, don’t worry – neither did we until this morning. As it turns out, Lo is the global chairman and CEO of Netgear, a San Jose-based company that manufacturer routers and a range of other network appliances. So yeah, odds are that you’ve probably seen a Netgear product or […]
Continue reading...T-Pain’s favorite 3 iPhone apps
1. February 2011
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Autotune master T-Pain, he of the popular “I am T-Pain” app from Smule, briefly runs down his favorite three iPhone apps – Angry Birds, Shazam, and the Delta App, because as you well know, playa gotta get those Sky Miles! via TUAW
Continue reading...Spam text message kills Russian suicide bomber prematurely
1. February 2011
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This past week, a suicide bomber killed 35 people at Russia’s largest airport. Now comes word that the same terrorist group behind last week’s atrocity had similar plans to detonate a large bomb in Moscow on New Years Eve only to have their plans foiled when the suicide bomber blew up prematurely after receiving a […]
Continue reading...Apple puts the kibosh on content purchased outside of iTunes
1. February 2011
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The New York Times is reporting that Apple has informed application developers like Sony that they will no longer be able to sell content like e-books within their apps as a means to circumvent the iTunes App Store. Apple rejected Sony’s iPhone application, which would have let people buy and read e-books bought from the […]
Continue reading...Microsoft shipped 2 million Windows Phone devices last quarter
1. February 2011
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Less than a month ago, Microsoft VP Achim Berg disclosed that Microsoft had shipped 1.5 million Windows Phone devices to carriers. As for how many people actually purchased a Windows Phone device, well, Berg wasn’t as forthcoming. Early last week, Microsoft released their earnings from the quarter gone by and announced that Windows Phone shipments […]
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1. February 2011
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