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iPhone 4 pre-orders for Verizon customers went live slightly before 3 am and we were right in the middle of this iPhone-fueled buying frenzy. Thankfully, Verizon was prepared and the servers handled the initial load with ease. The process for ordering was exactly as was expected. You need to verify your status as a Verizon…
Apple has notified newspaper, book and magazine publishers that, as of March 31st, they must offer their content as an in-app purchase or risk being rejected from the App Store. This requirement comes hot on the heels of the rejection of the Sony Reader application from the Apple App store. According to the New York…
The Verizon iPhone 4 reviews are hitting the news wire and the overall response to Apple’s CDMA variant of it popular smartphone is overwhelmingly positive. As expected, the hardware is nearly identical to the current GSM version sold by AT&T and other carriers worldwide. The biggest difference between the two handsets is a slight re-positioning…
Reuters is reporting that a prototype of the Apple iPad 2 was at The Daily unveiling this morning in New York City. The article cites an unnamed source which said the iPad 2 prototype at the event had a “front-facing camera at the top edge of the glass screen.” Another unnamed source confirmed that the…
The Verizon iPhone 4 is so close that you can almost taste it. Tonight, pre-orders will start for existing Verizon customers at midnight PST, or 3 a.m. EST. However, on February 10, everyone will get their chance to nab the CDMA iPhone. But it won’t be Apple and Verizon alone dishing out the smartphone –…
Its market share may have succumbed to Android recently, but iOS still manages to eat up two percent of the world’s total web traffic according to Net Applications. Apple’s mobile operating system is surpassed only by Windows and its very own Mac OSX for global web traffic rankings. According to the survey, Windows takes up…
We’re hoping and expecting to hear from Apple on the iPad 2 now, but until then, feast your eyes on the puppy above – an LCD display believed to be for the iPad 2. How exciting is that?! OK, perhaps it’s not really all that riveting, but a few details are revealed about the upcoming…
The Daily iPad newspaper just went live in the App Store and this is one of the first, high-profile publications we’ve seen that has been created specifically for tablets. Is this the next step in journalism or just old media companies trying to shove their old business models on new technology? Read on to get…
The future of publishing seems to be a mostly digital world, with magazines and other periodicals hitting the Apple iPad. The Daily, an iPad-only newspaper by News Corp., is launching today and an event is being held in New York City to herald its arrival. The event is streaming live on The Daily’s website, and…
You can almost smell the fear in AT&T as the day many of us have been waiting for draws near. Tonight at midnight PST and 3 a.m. EST, the Verizon iPhone will go on pre-order for existing customers. Next week, on February 10, the general public can stake their claim on the CDMA Apple smartphone.…