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Major Decline In TV Ratings Linked To Apple iOS App Use: Nonsense Or Part Of A Larger Problem For The TV Biz?
How did that silly song go? TV killed the radio star? First off, try telling that to Ron Bennington. Second off, whatever. Now we’re getting word that Apple, thanks to…
Foxconn: All This Treating Our Workers Better Will Result In More Expensive Phones
Ah, capitalism. It looks like the value of manufacturing in China is slowly going down as companies like Foxconn are forced to treat employees like human beings. What does that…
Today the US Patent and Trademark Office approved a patent Apple filed in 2008, which, get this, prevents users from sending or receiving “objectionable” text messages. The patent’s official title?…
An Improved Grooveshark iPhone App Hits The App Store – On Cydia, That Is
Exclusive -When Jason tried out online music streaming startup Grooveshark’s iPhone app in July 2009, he wrote that it was great but that he “wouldn’t expect this to pop up…
Having fully conquered the United States of America, forever changing the way our democracy works, Apple has now set its sights on South Korea. Apple has submitted its magical and…
Now For Sale On Apple's iBookstore: Microsoft Press, O'Reilly Media Books
Starting today, O’Reilly Media will be selling some 600 titles in Apple’s iBookstore, along with almost 150 more from (yes, ironically) Microsoft Press, whose books are sold and distributed by…
Wow, With Windows Phone 7, Did Microsoft Actually Bring A Gun To A Gun Fight?
Like any good Apple fanboy, when I first heard that Microsoft would be rebooting their mobile strategy a couple years ago, I snickered. I’m sure I made some sarcastic remark…
The latest knock-off from China is the iPhonc – a curved back mobile phone that looks good up to a point. Details are non-existent, but you probably don’t want to…
Forget Sunday Night Football, Viewers Pile Into iPhone's Social Apps
What does The Mentalist, NCIS Los Angeles, Sunday Night Football and CBS Undercover Boss have in common? None of them are as popular as iPhone’s social games on the Flurry…
Windows Phone 7 Launches With 10 Phones Across 30 Countries: So Much For Keeping Things Simple
Today’s all about Windows Phone 7 (for better or worse). Microsoft is in New York showing off the goods, and Greg and John are there getting the goods. What I…
Apple Will Take A Pass On 4G Networks For The iPhone In 2011— Sorry Verizon and AT&T
Back in August I broke the news that Apple was lining up a component purchase of several million chipsets from Qualcomm for a CDMA-powered Verizon iPhone due in January. Last…
Carol Bartz: Facebook Is Creepy, Apple's iAd Won't Work, And More Gems
The love/hate relationship between Yahoo’s CEO and the rest of the world continues. Carol Bartz was recently interviewed by USA Today, and couldn’t help being her eloquent self again. To…
Some pictures purporting to show the next-generation iPad have surfaced, showing what appears to be a second dock connector port. The second port isn’t entirely without precedent — some patents…
The Impeccable Timing Of The Verizon iPhone Rumors
The Verizon iPhone rumor is as old as the iPhone itself. So whenever anyone trots it out, you take it with a grain of salt. It’s like The Beatles coming…
Low supplies of aging Apple models have traditionally indicated a hardware refresh, and the latest herd to run thin is the great wild MacBook Air. Few retailers have any, and…
Apple Gets Around To Patenting Cover Flow And The Magic Mouse
Pop the champhers because Apple just got its patents for Cover Flow and the Magic Mouse as well as for Time Machine. PatentlyApple has all the details but what I…
Just Kidding: No Prototype iMac Touch Parts Being Shipped After All
Last week, we heard from Digitimes that Sintek Photronics was shipping some early samples of extra-large capacitive touchscreens to Apple for the rumored touchable iMac. As it turns out… not…
Microsoft Builds Microsoft Store Across From The Apple Store In Mall Of America
While many will say that Microsoft’s decision to build an MS store across from the Apple Store in the Mall of America is kind of a douche move, it’s really…
Good news for Mac gamers: Left 4 Dead 2 is coming tomorrow. If you already own it for the PC, you will own it on the Mac. If you don’t…
Another Indirect Android Lawsuit As Microsoft Sues Motorola. This Is Getting Out Of Control
Here we go again. It seems like a week can’t go by now without some company suing another company over some lame software patent. The latest is Microsoft which today…
Beer Gardens NYC iOS App Helps NYers Find Beer Gardens In Time For Oktoberfest Fun
It’s October 1, which means that you’re average American think Oktoberfest has started. Not true: Munich’s Oktoberfest begins in mid to late September and lasts through October. A minor technicality…
Apple Settles Lawsuit Over Online Music Distribution Patent
Back in May, a patent troll called Sharing Sound sued a host of companies, alleging that all of them infringed on a (ridiculously broad) patent for online music distribution. Targets…
We’ve tried the avoid the majority of iPad mounting solutions, but this one is just too good to pass up. The iArm car mount keeps your iPad where you want…
Apple Forced To Temporarily Close Beijing Store To Ward Off Grey Market Re-sellers
Here’s a fun story out of China, the home of fun stories. It’s also the home of, like, many, many grey market iPhone re-sellers. It used to be that Apple…
Tell You A Secret – Even With Facebook Integration, Ping Will Still Be A Disaster
Much has been said about Apple’s foray into “social networking” (at least into what they consider that term to entail) with the introduction of Ping, part of the company’s iTunes…
The new nano has been stripped of its camera, squashed down into a square, and given a touchscreen. Not only that, but the $149 Nano reportedly only costs Apple a…
Polish site AppleMania.pl [Polish] is getting a cease and desist from good old Apple for potentially infringing on Apple’s delicate trademarks. Use of the logo APPLEMANIA and Apple http://applemania.pl/ infringes…
Like The Ping Sidebar, iLike Founder Hopes Apple Copies Mission Of Helping Small Artists
If the new Ping sidebar that was launched today as a part of iTunes 10.0.1 looks familiar, perhaps it’s because you’ve been using the iLike Sidebar — an iTunes (and…
Ping Now Works With Your Actual iTunes Library. This Is A Thousand Times Better
It launched with much fanfare, but I don’t think it was unreasonable to call Ping a dud out of the gate. While pretty much everyone initially signed up to try…
Could There Be A Better Advertisement For The iPad?
Apple, no doubt, has a history of creating commercials that resonate with consumers. And with the recent Facetime ads, Apple has taken it one step further, appealing to the human…