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Following up on Miso’s DirecTV partnership, entertainment check-in app GetGlue is getting on board with direct linking to set-top boxes too. Now the GetGlue iPhone app can detect DirecTV on the same Wi-Fi network, pair up with it, and offer quick access to check-ins with whatever you’re watching at any given moment. On the iPad,…
According to a new research from the mobile ad network Greystripe (PDF link is here), there’s a link between iPad and travel. To put this into numbers, 67% of iPad users are frequent travelers, using their shiny tablet for everything from booking flights, to getting directions, to finding the best local restaurant. What’s more, iPad…
We’ve been hearing about Facebook’s iPad app for quite some time and now Mashable has learned it will be unveiled at Apple’s iPhone 5 launch event on October 4th. What’s more, the social network will also introduce a revamped iPhone application and possibly an HTML5-based mobile app marketplace. The last part is not confirmed but…
Well, it looks like Google has taken another bite out of Apple, with its recent hiring of a Facebook iPad developer Jeff Verkoeyen. This brings to question if this move is from the long delayed release of the Facebook iPad app, which all users have been waiting for seemingly forever. It turns out that the…
Update: The JP Morgan report doesn’t take into account a new plant going up in Brazil, which may off-load Foxconn’s production by around 25%. Apple is allegedly cutting orders for iPad 2 parts by as much as 25% for the fourth quarter, says one report from JP Morgan, which indicated parts suppliers received fewer orders…
Under layers of source code, the fate of Apple products has been discovered. Right now the fastest processor in an iOS device is Apple’s 1 GHz dual-core A5 chip, which is found in the iPad 2. The company is expected to unveil the iPhone 5 soon — say, October 4th — with that same processor.…
Today is September 20th which means in the console world, specifically the Xbox 360, Epic Games’ Gears of War 3 is now officially for sale. Gears of War Nation has been awaiting the last game in the Gears of War series for three long years, and today many people took off sick from work, quit…
Arrrrgh! Avast! Uh… shiver me timbers, walk the plank, and Davey Jones’ Locker! Poop deck! Poooooop deeeeeeeeck! OK, I believe I got all of the immediate pirate talk out of me, so let’s get on with the news. Today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day which, as its name suggests, requires you to go about…
Apple is without question the overlord of the tablet world with its dominance over the competition, and for that reason, an early release of its updated version of the iPad (this year) may not be necessary. For months now, predictions of an early iPad 3 release have swirled around the internet, suggesting a thinner and more efficient battery…
iPad compatible arcade cabinets are nothing new. We’ve already seen ThinkGeek’s iCade and later on Atari’s gaming controller. Taito thinks there’s still space in this market niche, hence it decided to launch a Space Invaders themed iPad arcade cabinet in Japan. The so called InvaderCade will be released on October 11th where super-eager gamers will…