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Apple’s iPad has been a tremendous success with mainstream consumer but the “magical” tablet is also gaining some corporate fans as Wells Fargo, SAP, Mercedes and even the White House are using the device for business purposes. According to a report by Bloomberg, the Apple iPad is being used by multiple businesses for things like…
The iPhone 4 drama continues as some frustrated users are looking for relief from the antenna problems with a new update. AppleCare says otherwise. Since launch, in case you’ve been living under a rock, many iPhone users have been seeing some huge drops in reception and highly attenuated data speeds when the antenna is touched…
One of my all-time favorite sequels, Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge, was announced to be heading to the iPhone & iPad a couple of months ago, and we even snagged some screenshots of the game’s new look. It looks like the day of the game’s release is finally upon us as the game has not…
Android 2.2 is fast. Stupid fast. Crazy fast. I’ve only been using it since Sunday, but I can say without hesitation that my Nexus One literally feels like a new mobile phone. I’m not alone in that regard. Ars.Technica performed the age old SunSpider, and the new school V8 Javascript benchmarks on both Android 2.2…
Well, the claws are out folks, as Lenovo’s head, Liu Chuanzhi, said Apple is missing out on the world’s most populous country because Apple CEO Steve Jobs “has such a bad temper and doesn’t care about China.” Well, Chuanzhi, I get the feeling you’ll soon have a chance to eat those words. To be fair,…
The European Union may enact policy that could force Apple to let web technologies like Flash on its iOS devices like the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. You just know Steve Jobs is gnashing his teeth over this. The Digital Agenda tackles multiple issues but one particular change may have a major impact on Apple…
Over the weekend, there was some iTunes fraud afoot thanks to nefarious AppStore developer who managed to hack iTunes and use some users’ accounts to download eBooks of his own making. Developer Thuat Nguyen apparently gained access to user accounts and used those accounts to fraudulently download eBooks of his own making. In doing so,…
We all know that the iPhone 3GS, and even the new iPhone 4, has always been capable of taking some amazing photos. Just take a peek over at some of the Flickr groups dedicated to these smartphones. Even then, some gear heads will whine and complain that their Nikon D5000 or Canon Rebel T2i cameras…
Are you wondering why your iPhone app is showing you Justin Bieber ads? Well, it looks like Apple iAd – the mobile advertising platform for iOS 4 – will be using data from the 150 million iTunes users to deliver targeted ads. This means the company will be culling the data from Apple iTunes to…
Earlier today, I wrote about how I thought it was cool that the U.S. government launched a website to keep track of all the mobile applications it offers. Well, it looks like our friends across the pond are doing a smarter thing and asking if these programs are worth the government’s time and money. The…