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Shortly after I published my brief look at the new Animal Planet iPhone app, the good folks at Discovery Communications came a knockin’ at my door again. This time around, they wanted to tell me about a game they’ve been running online for some time (it’s been on Discovery Kids online for almost 10 years…
Apple has been awarded two design patents that cover the animated portions of the graphical user interface of iOS. The patents were originally filed three years ago and cover Apple’s popular slide to unlock and its keyboard letter popup feature which facilitates touch typing by enlarging the letter that you are typing. The two features…
It looks like you’ve lost a mobile music option, as the Grooveshark app for the Apple iPhone has been removed due to a potential copyright issue. In a blog post, Grooveshark said: Earlier this afternoon, Apple sent us a letter notifying us that, due to a complaint they received from Universal Music Group UK, Grooveshark…
If you’re sick of using the Apple iPad default mail client, you’ll be happy to know that Yahoo has revamped its web version to play well with the “magical” tablet. According to Yahoo, the new version for the Apple iPad rocks because: Faster and more reliable: If you’re offline, Yahoo! Mail uses local caching capabilities…
Amidst all the rumors about the CDMA iPhone, one of the most controversial is the insinuation that the CDMA version of Apple’s popular smartphone would offer improved hardware, including an internal antenna and a faster 1.2 GHz processor. While we can’t comment on the validity of the processor rumor, we can relay the information from an…
You’ll soon be able to keep track of Ari, Turtle, E and the rest of the gang on the go because HBO said it will be bringing its content to mobile devices and the Apple iPad soon. According to sources close to The Wrap, HBO plans to take that “home” out of “Home Box Office”…
Vimeo wants to make it easier to watch online video on your Apple iPhone, iPad and Android phones and the video-sharing site has introduced a hybrid Flash/HTML5 player which will detect what device you’re on and give you the appropriate format. The company has been working on the new version for at least five months…
Remember when Apple signed that licensing deal with Liquidmetal Technologies, the company that made some space-age metal alloys? The one that helped Liquidmetal relieve itself of an $11 million dollar debt? Well, while we’ve been sitting here thinking of Terminators and transforming iPhone smartphones, apparently Apple has already begun with a new product that puts…
All you bookworms are going to get some digital love, as the Barnes & Noble Nook e-reader software is now ready to go for the Apple iPhone, iPod and iPad. This app enters an increasingly-crowded market for digital book buying. This is an update to a previous app and it has been re-branded under the…
Although we’ve had the luxury of owning the iPhone 4 for nearly two months now, not everyone has been so lucky. For China Unicom customers, it must have been a long wait, but the iPhone 4 will be hitting the carrier next month. While there have been issues with selling Wi-Fi capable iPhones in China…