Archive | April 12th, 2011
Windows App Store looks remarkably like iOS and Mac App Stores
New photos of the Windows App Store have surfaced and they show a remarkable resemblance to an app store you might already be familiar with. We know Microsoft is fighting tooth and nail to prevent Apple from trademarking the phrase ‘app store’, but copying the entire look and feel in an effort to prove the […]
Continue reading...Microsoft: Protecting the Windows monopoly at all costs
12. April 2011
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Microsoft’s tablet strategy remains in shambles. The HP Slate was essentially a bust on arrival, only to be followed up by the news that HP was abandoning Microsoft altogether in light of its $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm and its heralded WebOS. So what’s Microsoft to do? It’s not working on an iOS style version […]
Continue reading...AirPlay Private Key uncovered
12. April 2011
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Developer James Laird recently reverse engineered the AirPort express private key and released an open source AirPort Express emulator that allows third party hardware to stream music from iTunes and certain iPod models. My girlfriend moved house, and her Airport Express no longer made it with her wireless access point. I figured it’d be easy […]
Continue reading...92% of Clorox employees choose iPhone over all other smartphones
12. April 2011
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While BlackBerrys were once ubiquitous, if not downright necessary in the halls of corporate America, the advent of the iPhone changed the way employees use and interact with their smartphones in a fundamental way. While the BlackBerry may be the consummate email device, employees today want their work phones to offer the same benefits afforded […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs iPhone introduction with Mike Tyson’s Punchout theme music [Video]
12. April 2011
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We were bored and decided to see what Steve Jobs’ original iPhone introduction would sound like set against the theme music from the NES classic, Mike Tyson’s Punchout. If the iPhone is Mike Tyson, would that make Android Buster Douglas? Or maybe the iPhone is Manny Pacquiao and Android is Floyd Mayweather?? Okay, enough Boxing analogies. Enjoy […]
Continue reading...Apple not planning to release iPad 3 this year – Report
12. April 2011
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Despite rumors and speculative reports that Apple was planning to release two iPad models in 2011 – the iPad 2 this past March and an iPad 3 this September – it appears that that isn’t the case. Citing component partners, Digitimes is reporting that Apple has yet to provide its partners with any manufacturing information […]
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12. April 2011
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