Etisalat has launched the iPhone 3G in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia through Mobily. The usual announcement schpiel, this time from Etisalat: Etisalat brings iPhone3G to the United Arab Emirates and to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia through Mobily in agreement with Apple. Introducing iPhone 3G. With fast 3G wireless technology, GPS mapping,…
Application Store for iPod Classic and iPod nano Launched – Notescasts.com
TimeStream Software, the leading developer of Notescast® titles, has announced the launching of Notescasts.com, a new Application Store for the iPod Classic, iPod 5th Generation and iPod nano. Notescasts.com is a digital download store which allows anyone to develop and post their own Notescasts or download a Notescast from a growing selection of free and…
And now a not-so-real Apple concept…
Having just posted on the Apple Knowledge Navigator, which was a real concept “back in the day”, now I turn my attention to something that tickled me on TheOnion.com – namely the new concept for the MacBook Wheel… <parody alert!> Now those of you that don’t go in for tech geek humour are not going…
Apple Knowledge Navigator!
Remember when concepts were concepts and Back to the Future was a movie? No? Well you don’t know 1987 very well then 🙂 Apple had a concept of a doobrie called a “Knowledge Navigator” – I defer to the Wikipedia explanation at this point: The Knowledge Navigator is a concept described by former Apple Computer…
Apple sued over iPhone graphics rendering tech
Apple is no stranger to lawsuits involving its uber-popular iPhone and iPhone 3G smartphones. Generally speaking, iPhone lawsuits have little merit and are usually brushed off as frivolous. But, there’s a specific type of lawsuit that has stung Apple in the past – the kind of lawsuit that claims patent infringement by the iPhone. Picsel…
Apple looking to keep iPhone jailbreaking protected by DMCA
Apple may have so far given the iPhone jailbreak community a good bit of leash to play with, but that doesn’t mean the iPhone maker is all for people opening up the iPhone’s filesystem to third-party code. Jailbreaking the iPhone serves to remove the any software protections put in place to keep users from modifying…
Apple’s iPhone Dominating Mobile Web Traffic
You can come up with numbers to show anything you want, really… 62% of people know that. But one metric has just come out that is very interesting. According to the folks over at AdMob (a very large, one of the largest mobile web ad networks), they have reported that Apple’s iPhone are clearly dominating…
Making a case for a new Apple TV
I want one. A new one. Not the current one (well OK, I do want that too), but a new upgraded one! Apple have been notoriously quiet on the Apple TV for more than a year, instead focusing on the phenomenal success that is the iPhone 3G, and iPod/MacBook refreshes. But is it possible,…
Is Safari really the fastest rendering browser for the InterWeb?
If you check out Apple’s webpages on Safari (http://www.apple.com/safari/download/), then you’ll see that they state Safari is “the fastest web browser on any platform”. I have to say, I disagree…. My quandary begins with porting away from IE a number of years ago – it had become some terrible bloatware, that was slow, and…
Apple Reaches 20,000 App Milestone in the App Store
What do you get when you build an awesome on-device App Store that reaps huge profits for developers worldwide? You get the Apple App Store, which has just crossed the 20,000 app mark! Congratulations to Apple and all of the hard working developers out there that have been busting their butts putting together fine applications…