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It’s 3:15 PM. Do you know where your kids are? Did they leave school already? Are they home yet? You accidentally dropped your shiny, expensive smartphone. Where is it? Did you make it easy for the lucky discoverer to return it? Your friend just spilled a beverage all over the table. The same table that…
Given the years of speculation and dreaming, we knew the Verizon iPhone was going to be big. In fact, Verizon says that the Apple smartphone helped set a new record in first day sales for the carrier – its biggest ever. Pre-order stock was completely sold out, and there are plenty of customers and would-be…
An event calendar for the Moscone Convention Center suggests Apple’s annual Worldwide Developer’s conference will be held in early June. The calendar has a reservation for an unnamed meeting in Moscone West that is listed as a convention/tradeshow. Apple has held WWDC in Moscone West in the past. The calendar listing is a five day…
Folks living or visiting the New York Tri-State area can now book a car service via GroundLink from the comfort of their iPhone. No longer will you have to call a car service or black car company and wonder if your car is actually on its way. Thanks to the GroundLink app, you can order…
There’s a new application for iCatholics out there. Called Confession: A Roman Catholic App, it is apparently the first of its kind to be approved by the Catholic Church. The Pope himself may’ve not seen the app, but that hasn’t stopped bishop Kevin Rhoades from granting it an imprimatur, which is the official endorsement from…
In classic style, iFixit took apart a Verizon iPhone and studied what makes it tick. While most of the report was standard fare, the teardown analysis does reveal a few surprises, including the presence of a Qualcomm MDM6600 baseband chip. It is a Verizon smartphone and a Qualcomm CDMA chip was expected, but the presence…
It’s been nearly a month since Verizon and Apple announced that a CDMA iPhone was coming, and today it appears that many customers are receiving their devices. Reviews came in last week and it seems that there was nothing but praise for the Verizon iPhone – data connectivity was fine and phone calls didn’t drop.…
TeleNav GPS application will be available for Verizon Wireless’ iPhone 4 users on launch, offering a free month of turn-by-turn navigation for the first 30 days. After the trial period ends, users can continue using the service for $2.99 per month or $21.99 per year. Alternatively, you can choose to use only GPS map and…
The second generation of Apple’s iPad will come out in 2011, that much we know for certain, the key questions we’re aching to find the answers to are: when will it be announced, when will it ship, how much will it cost, and what’s going to be so different about it compared to the first…
League of Evil is a brand new action platformer made for the iOS-powered devices. The twist is in the use of retro pixel-art graphic which make the game look old-school-ish, bringing back nostalgia in some of us (ok that’s just me). In addition to graphics, there’s also the same/similar kind of in-game music to make…