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Today’s Apple “Lion” event was supposed to show that the company is more than just its iPhone and iOS products but it is clear that Apple eventually plans to have its iOS and Mac OS products to be very similar. Apple will be integrating features from the iPhone and iPad into the next version of…
Today, Apple announced that FaceTime is headed to the Mac, but it leaves me wondering – will people use it more or will the feature remain a novelty? I’ve had my iPhone for who knows how long now and I’ve used FaceTime twice, maybe three times since pulling it out of the box. The first…
Angry Birds fans on iOS have something special coming to them for the Halloween holiday. Rovio announced on its Twitter account that there will be a special version of its hugely popular game in an update that will become available on October 21, just 10 days before Halloween. However, it’s only going to be updated…
An Acer executive reportedly downplayed the Apple iPad and said people would “return to their senses” and move back to traditional computers and laptops. Acer Chairman JT Wang also said that many in the press have been mesmerized by the positives of the Apple iPad but haven’t really focused on the negatives. For example, he…
Listen up rebels and anti-establishment fiends, PwnageTool 4.1 is now up and running thanks to the iPhone Dev-Team. The biggest news in addition to the usual iPhone/iPod hacks is the addition of the Apple 2G jailbreak. Of course, like all jailbreaks of late (including both limera1n and greenpois0n), this is also untethered. Here’s what the…
I just wanted to give you Apple iOS users a friendly reminder that the company will be streaming its Lion event today from its website. You’re going to need an Apple product to view this and this includes Mac computers, iPhones, iPod touch units or the iPad. The company did a similar thing when it…
The Retrevo 2010 Gadget Census has been conducted, and the results are in. Very interesting results I might add. As you can see from the infographic above, the spread of iPhone, Android and BlackBerry users is quite varied, with Android taking hold in the heart of the nation… and for whatever reason, the coasts seem…
A series of photographs leaked by blogger Richy Rich reportedly reveals the rumored CDMA iPhone. These images supposedly originate from an unnamed repair shop within Vietnam and show the Apple handset with a test operating system. This OS is reportedly similar to Inferno, another testing environment that was spotted on a pre-release iPhone 4 earlier this…
Remember Apple’s conference call the other day where CEO Steve Jobs took a few swings at 7″ tablets, which included RIM’s upcoming PlayBook? Specific to BlackBerry, Steve Jobs said: “We’ve now passed RIM. And I don’t see them catching up with us in the foreseeable future. They must move beyond their area of strength and…
During Apple’s fourth-quarter conference call yesterday, CEO Steve Jobs ripped into the competition. In particular, he criticized Google Android for being too fragmented and said the “open” label doesn’t mean a thing if it means that end users and developers have to suffer through a poor experience. Google’s Andy Rubin, who is a key figure…