This is almost breaking news, because when Apple announced the iPhone, Steve Ballmer laughed at it. Now, a different choice of words are coming out of Steve Ballmer’s mouth, about the iPhone, when he said at a speech at the University of Washington: “Apple’s done a very nice job that allows people to monetize and … Read more →
Like the “Hello” ad for the iPhone premiered at the Oscars some years ago, an iPad ad now also appeared for the first time, at the Oscars. The background music in the ad is “There Goes My Love” by The Blue Van. I’m sure the song can be found in the iTunes Store if you … Read more →
TUAW reported yesterday how a report indicates the initial iPad demand to be greater than iPhone’s. It’s Mike Abramsky from RBC Capital Markets who conducted a survey of 3,200 people and found that 13% are likely to buy the $499 iPad. The interest for iPhone was at 9% prior to it’s launch in 2007. Read … Read more →
Google just finished taking over On2 Technologies and their video format, VP8, so Free Software Foundation (FSF) sent an open-letter to Google where they encourage Google to release VP8 as an open-source format and also use it themselves on YouTube. By doing that, Google will “free” the world from patented and proprietary formats such as … Read more →
TUAW reports today that Apple announced through iPhone Developer News that the iTunes App Store is now available in 13 more countries: “You can now distribute your apps to more customers with the addition of App Store support in Armenia, Botswana, Bulgaria, Jordan, Kenya, Macedonia, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Niger, Senegal, Tunisia, and Uganda.” If you’re … Read more →
Yada yada yada, the iPhone doesn’t support Flash. Everybody knows that by now. If you follow Apple, or just tech news in general, you will also know that their new soon-to-be-released iPad doesn’t support Flash either, as Steve Jobs (by accident, I guess) demonstrated during the iPad keynote presentation. Personally I don’t care about Flash. … Read more →
PC World combined a list of what they believe are the top 10 most hyped IT products of all time: 1. Apple iPad As Steve Jobs showed at his keynote presentation when announcing the iPad, “The last time there was this much excitement about a tablet, it had some commandments written on it” – The … Read more →
Bill Gates was impressed by the iPhone when Apple first announced it but he’s not quite as impressed by the iPad. When asked, he said it’s not like he thought “Oh my God, Microsoft didn’t aim high enough”. He thinks the iPad is a nice reader, but nothing he looks at and wished Microsoft would … Read more →
By now it’s no surprise to anybody that the iPhone doesn’t support flash and that the new iPad is not going to do so either. Steve Jobs even demonstrated it (by accident?) at the iPad presentation keynote when he browsed to a newspaper website (I can’t remember if it was WSJ or NYT) and flash … Read more →
The “usual way” of selling mobile phones in the US is through the ntwork providers along with a contract of up to 2 years. Google went in a completely other direction when selling their Nexus One phone online at google.com/phone instead of using the network providers to sell it. Flurry Analytics estimates a total sale … Read more →
Tiffen, a company that makes lots of different things for photographers ranging from filters to camera bags to steadicams and so on, recently announced a steadicam for the iPhone. A steadicam is a device that you attach your camera to, in order to achieve better looking video. The quality of the actual video footage doesn’t … Read more →
I’m 95% sure that by now, you’ve heard about the new Apple iPad. If you haven’t (how could you not?), you can check it out at Apple’s iPad section. What I think about it? Well, it certainly looks interesting and I would love to try it out. But I don’t plan on getting one. First … Read more →
Bad news first: The only bad thing to report from Apple’s Q1 earnings 2010 was a decrease in iPod sales by 8%, but still a total of 21 million iPod’s sold in Apple’s Q1 fiscal year (which is actually Q4 of 2009). The good news: Apple sold 8.7 million iPhones during that quarter, an increase … Read more →
You are probably already aware of the Apple event on Wednesday the 27th of January. Lots of rumors going around on what to expect from the event and the only thing Apple is telling us, is “come see our latest creation”: The site, BoyGeniusReport, claim to have received a screenshot from the new iPhone OS … Read more →
GTA, Chinatown Wars, just hit the App Store and is available for iPhone and iPod Touch. It’s a $10 ‘investment’ that will guarantee you some interesting game time. I bought it and tested it – just so you wouldn’t have to in case it sucked. So far, it’s really great and worth every penny. In … Read more →
One of the most popular applications for iPhone and iPod Touch, Facebook, has just been updated to version 3.1 and now includes the long awaited Push Notifications. Receiving the push notifications on your iPhone does not necessarily require that you have “Push” enabled, as this usually drains your battery rather quick. I have mine set … Read more →