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If you thought Facebook Places was scaring the heck out of Foursquare and other check-in services, they’re not letting on yet. Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley is actually firing a few shots across the bow and said he is not impressed with the new location-sharing service. “I have now had a chance to play around with…
The Apple iPhone 4 does a lot of things well but it still doesn’t play that nice with Google Calendar and the Gmail experience isn’t as good as on Android. Google is trying to correct that though and it has just multiple new improvements to its Google Mobile app for iOS products. The first new…
If you’ve got an iPhone 3G kicking around as your daily driver, or as part of your mobile arsenal… chances are you’ve been waiting on Apple to fix iOS 4 for you. iOS 4 and the iPhone 3G don’t get along. It’s a fact. If you’ve upgraded, you’ve no doubt noticed the terrible kick in…
ID8-Mobile, the company that acquired Newton Peripherals in April of this year, announced a new member of the MoGo line of products – MoGo Talk XD for iPhone 4. As you can see for yourself, basically it’s a new MoGo Bluetooth headset/case optimized for the latest Apple’s handset, which ID8-Mobile also calls an “integrated smart…
The beauty of having a camera on your Apple iPhone is twofold: you can capture candid moments wherever you are and it’s likely that picture quality will be pretty good considering the camera on the Apple smartphone is one of the best you’ll find on any handset. However, sometimes we miss some of the better…
There’s a new augmented reality (AR) app for the iPhone, called Augmented Driving, that turns your dash-mounted iPhone into a heads-up display (HUD) for your car. It’s one of the coolest implementations of AR that we’ve yet seen for the iPhone, but it’s also quite possibly the most pointless augmented reality app as far as…
It doesn’t look like Facebook Places is killing Foursquare just yet, as the check-in startup said it has seen its largest number of new signups the day after Places was introduced. “Just heard from The @HarryH that today was @foursquare’s biggest day ever in terms of new user signups,” Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley tweeted. This…
It’s not really much of a surprise, but Apple is in the process of shutting down the Quattro Wireless ad network it purchased in order to focus on iAd for the Apple iPhone and iPad. Apple spent about $275 million to buy the multi-platform mobile advertising network but it recently sent a letter to Quattro…
Remember that Vodafone UK’s iPhone 4 offer on Pay As You Go? We didn’t liked it much, but apparently many people did. I assume the idea of signing a 12-24 month contract isn’t appealing to everyone, hence we’ve seen Vodafone clearing out its iPhone 4 stock for that particular offer. Best of all (for Vodafone…
Apple is usually adept at keeping their unannounced products locked down until the company is good and ready for an official launch (iPhone 4 debacle notwithstanding, of course), but no amount of secrecy can keep hardcore fans from discovering hints of a new smartphone and iPad in some USB configuration files. Today, we’re hearing that…