John Martin, who according to his LinkedIn profile was Vice President of iPhone and Mac Internet Services at Apple from August 2005 to September 2008, is joining Nokia to head up the group working on Maemo and Maemo based devices according to the Finnish publication Talous Sanomat. Martin has worked in a huge variety of…
Former Apple Newton developer rehired by Apple, is now Vice President of Product Marketing
The Apple Newton, for those of you who can’t remember the 90s thanks to popping too many extasy tablets at raves, was a PDA (personal digital assistant) operating system developed by Apple while Steve Jobs was busy working at NeXT; read more about the Newton platform on Wikipedia, and the devices that ran them known…
TomTom iPhone Car Kit gets priced at $120
Following on a UK leak that revealed the TomTom iPhone Car Kit’s pricing at €99.99, TomTom has nipped US pricing rumors in the bud with a press release confirming a $120 price-point for the US. The press release (find it here) isn’t filled with the usual marketing fluff we’re used to seeing, it just gets…
iPhone Busts Through to #1 on 2009 CoolBrands List
Apple has dominated the 2009 CoolBrands Rankings. With 3 of the top 5 brands belonging to Apple, the boys and girls down in Cupertino have to be pleased. The shortlist for the CoolBrands Rankings are compiled by 2,500 voters. From there, the final 20 brands are voted on by a panel. Interestingly enough, Aston Martin…
Apple: 2 billion applications downloaded, 85,000 apps total, 50 million iPod Touch + iPhones out there
Apple has just released a number heavy press release, here is what you need to know: Between the iPhone and the iPod Touch, there are now over 50 million devices on the market that run Apple’s iPhone OS There are more than 85,000 applications in the Apple App Store Over 2 billion applications have been…
Robotvision – Bing-powered Augmented Reality for iPhone
Now that the iPhone OS 3.1 is officially official, the iPhone 3GS is free to play around with all sorts of cool AR apps. One of the coolest new augmented reality apps for iPhone is Robotvision. The iPhone AR app uses Bing’s new Bring iPhone SDK to help iPhone 3GS users to find nearby Tweets,…
AT&T confirms iPhone MMS coming Friday morn!
It’s been a long and winding road for AT&T and the iPhone. The iPhone initially launched without any 3G support. The iPhone 3G solved that problem, and added GPS. Most recently iPhone 3GS finally added video recording and a magnetic compass. Come Friday (September 25th) morning, AT&T will at long last flip the switch on…
TomTom GPS iPhone 3GS car kit available for pre-order in UK
TomTom’s GPS-boosting car kit for the iPhone 3GS was supposed to make the TomTom iPhone navigation app as fast and accurate as any stand-alone GPS navigation device on market. Unfortunately, TomTom’s iPhone app was launched on the AppStore before the TomTom car kit was ready to ship, and then it was delayed. That left many…
Consumers see Palm Pre as best alternative to iPhone 3GS
Quick, what’s the first smartphone to come to mind as the best alternative to the iPhone 3GS? If you’re like many consumers, you probably answered “Palm Pre.” A new report from Interpret highlights the Palm Pre’s success in climbing the mindshare-ladder, especially since Palm Pre sales volume isn’t exactly mindblowing. According to the study, the…
More Screenshots of BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac
Some of you in the cross-section of Mac/BlackBerry users have been slobbering over the screenshots of Desktop Manager for Mac since the June announcement. Well, how about some fresh eye candy? Functionally, it doesn’t seem like there’s much new going on – sync contacts, media, backup data, manage applications, yadda-yadda. The newish feature in this…