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Just because you don’t attend, it doesn’t mean you can’t win. Take Apple for instance. Last year, Steve Jobs was named the “Mobile Personality of the Year” and this year the iPhone 4 took the Best Mobile Device award. Needless to say, Apple wasn’t at the show neither this nor last year. Judges said that…
We’ve been on the ground at the Mobile World Congress 2011 and I got a chance to hop aboard a boat to check out the CyWee Air Shuttle, a wireless video streamer for the iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and other Apple products. Why was I on a boat? I have no idea but check out…
The anticipation had been building for years and the hype reached an all-time high when it became official, but did the Verizon iPhone 4 fail to meet sales expectations? We knew that pre-order sales were impressive and that Verizon set a new first-day sales record. Figures from the pre-orders are rumored to be just over…
Earlier this week couples around the world celebrated the artificial holiday known as “Valentine’s Day”. In America the 14th of February is also “National Condom Awareness Day” because couples tend to … you know … share a soda pop down at the corner diner. In order to celebrate both holidays the city of New York…
The iPhone 3GS is an aging beast, but still a very capable handset nonetheless. AT&T and Apple are both selling the device for $49 with a new contract, and have been for some time now, but it doesn’t seem like folks are aware or perhaps they’re just bombarded with iPhone 4 news and ads. AT&T…
The Apple App Store subscription service may be a boon for newspapers and magazines publishers but not all content companies are happy with the 30% cut that Apple will be taking from subscription services on iOS. Rhapsody is already saying that it won’t abide by this fee and that it may have to drop iOS…
Apple has introduced a subscription service for its App Store and this will offer app makers and publishers a way to reach the more than 100 million iOS users on a recurring basis through the App Store. The move will give Apple a 30% cut of subscription services sold through the App Store and it…
Valentine’s Day is here once again, and this writer, unfortunately, will most likely spend the night at the gym trying to prepare for the rapidly approaching summer. For those of you in a similar boat, you should know that there are plenty of iPhone apps to help you seek out singles in your area and…
The iPhone has always taken some pretty amazing photos, but only recently – with iOS 4 – did it allow digital zoom. Even then, using digital zoom can produce some pretty awful results: images tend to get pretty noisy or blurry, especially if you’re not holding your phone perfectly still. With a crazy telephoto zoom…
It’s no secret that Samsung is a huge company. Forget about their mobile phones for a second, and think about all of the other things they make. From kitchenware to the memory chips that store the naughty photos you take of your girlfriend and share with your closest friends, Samsung touches damn near everything. We’re…