Steve Ballmer Compliments Apple On The iPhone !!!

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 →

Is Flash A Goner In The Future? What Will Happen?

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 →

iTunes App Store: 13 New Countries Added

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 →

Future Of Flash in iPhone/iPad? “Old Technology”, Says Steve Jobs

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 →

Top 10 Most Hyped Gadgets Of All Time

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 →

Google’s Nexus One Doesn’t Sell

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 →

Steadicam For iPhone. What’s A Steadicam (Merlin), Anyway?

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 →

Apple Q1 2010 Financial Statement: Fantastic Result!

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 →

Facebook For iPhone Updated To 3.1 With Push Notifications

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 →