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Yesterday, President Obama met with Steve Jobs to talk technology and economics. Today we’re seeing images of Mr. Obama signing Jobs’ finest creation – the Apple iPad. And taking a look at the crowd gathered around him (especially the girl with the ZOMG face), it looks like our President has a slight edge over Steve…
Some quick iPhone 4 case news for ya here. This one comes to us from the good folks at CAZE. They’ve just released a brand new case for the iPhone 4 called ‘ThinEdge’. Available in four colors (black matte, white matte, blue shiny matte and pink shiny matte), it looks a heck of a lot…
Strategy Analytics, an analyst firm that keeps a running tally of how everyone is doing in the mobile industry in terms of unit shipments, took out their abacus, punched some numbers, and found that 77 million smartphones shipped during the third quarter of this year. That’s up 78% compared to last year. The biggest “winner”…
Get ready to waste a lot of time because Zynga has brought its Farmville juggernaut to the Apple iPad. The Farmville app hit the iPhone earlier this summer and the Apple iPad version features a few enhancements to take advantage of the larger screen. It’s labeled as “HD” and it does look noticeably better on…
We know that Apple is bringing iPhone features to the Mac but it looks like the FaceTime on Mac feature may have a small security flaw. Once you’ve logged in to FaceTime on the Mac, other people can monkey with your Apple ID or change your passwords while FaceTime is still running. There’s also reports…
While Nokia is suffering a mass exodus of execs and its latest flagship – the N8 – received horrid reviews, it’s still managing to outsell Apple’s iPhone 2 to 1 in terms of smartphones. Of course, this isn’t a surprise since the Finnish company has a tremendous global presence and is the world’s largest mobile…
AT&T has posted one killer quarter thanks to the Apple iPhone. We already knew that Apple had strong numbers after getting news from its earnings call that it sold 14.1 million iPhones over the summer. Now AT&T is announcing that it activated 5.4 million iPhone smartphones during that time. These numbers are a record in…
This morning I was excited to find a new version of Angry Birds in the iTunes store. It’s a Halloween special edition that’s available only for iOS. Of course, there were no surprises here as it was announced yesterday that the new version of the game would be arriving today. What do I think so…
Recently, a colleague of mine tipped me off to a new sleeping aid for iOS. Well, not an aid exactly, but an app that measures your sleeping patterns, and analyzes the data to determine the best window of time for you to wake up. Called ‘Sleep Cycle‘, so far I’m having nothing but success, and…
If you’re as much of a fan of retro-games as I am, you’ll remember my post from the other day about Martin Kool, and his ‘Quest’ to bring classic Sierra games to the iPad. Well, since that first post, Martin has been in touch with me, and he tells me that his work on Space…