Items tagged with 'Apple'
AT&T Loses First Verizon Ad Battle
AT&T has lost the first battle in its fight against Verizon's anti-ATT-network ads. The company has sued Verizon, saying the maps and statements made in the latest Verizon ads confuse consumers. At issue in the lawsuit, the maps (above) compare Verizon and AT&T 3G coverage. AT&T says that the maps are interpreted... Read More
Plotting Out Black Friday Attack Plan? Yeah, There's An App For That
Black Friday. It's a name that was once only known by savvy shoppers who scoured the Internet for deals, but now it's a household holiday in America. Everyone from tweens to grandmothers will be waking up early on the day after Thanksgiving in order to fight the crowds and attempt to snag those too-good-to-be-true deals... Read More
iPhone Home Button Earrings Mark You ... As A Major Fangirl
... or major fanboy, we suppose. Problem is, this has to be something for the ultimate geek. And the thing is, we normally associate that term with a guy. This isn't exactly a nice small stud a guy can wear. They are iPhone Home Button earrings. Besides the obvious question, which is who would wear these, there's... Read More
PhoneSuit Primo Extended Battery Clips Into Your iPod/iPhone Dock Connector
Let's face it: the iPhone is a fantastic smartphone, but the battery within isn't exactly the greatest. Heavy web users will understand that the battery typically dies before your full day is done, leaving you to carefully select when and where to use that precious final 20% of battery. A few extended cell options are out... Read More
AMEX Digital Upgrade Kit Adds Blu-ray To iMac or Mac mini
Apple makes a lot of fine products, but what they don't do is offer true media PC solutions. One of the main reasons is that the company refuses to acknowledge the existence of Blu-ray. None of Apple's machines offer Blu-ray as an option, so anyone hoping to use their machines as the centerpiece of a home cinema system... Read More
What Happened To Apple's Software Quality?
Apple is a funny beast. We say "beast" because it's hard to deny that this company is ripping through the tech world like no other that we've seen in the last decade. Our television programs are laden with Apple ads poking fun at Windows and seducing you into buying yet another iPod, and every quarterly earnings report... Read More
What Happened To Apple's Software Quality?
Apple is a funny beast. We say "beast" because it's hard to deny that this company is ripping through the tech world like no other that we've seen in the last decade. Our television programs are laden with Apple ads poking fun at Windows and seducing you into buying yet another iPod, and every quarterly earnings report... Read More
HD Radio Comes To iPod touch and iPhone Via Gigaware In-Line Control
HD Radio has been around in the United States for a few years now, but it is still struggling to gain mass adoption. Part of that has to do with the general decline of radio listening in general, as more and more individuals turn to their portable media players, iTunes accounts and subscription services. That said, one... Read More
Jailbroken iPhones Get "Rickrolled"
Jailbroken iPhone owners, you've already been warned this week with a different hack. This one uses the same "vulnerability" to "rickroll" the homescreen of jailbroken iPhones. To "rickroll" someone is to intentionally redirect them to a video of "Never Gonna Give You Up" from one two-hit-wonder 80's pop "superstar" Rick... Read More
Orb For Mac Streams iTunes Content To Any Device (For Free)
You may not realize it at first glance, but this software release is probably one of the year's biggest for the Mac. We know, Snow Leopard was cool, but this is just fantastic. Orb is widely known as one of the best media streaming applications for Windows, and while an iPhone app came out last year that allowed iPhone... Read More
Apple's App Store Goes 100,000 Deep
Talk about an unstoppable force. Apple's App Store essentially revolutionized the smartphone world, and every phone since has attempted to either match its great functionality or undercut it in price. Regardless of whether you like the phone or not, you can't say the iPhone hasn't turned the mobile world on its head. Granted,... Read More
New iPhone App Cures Fear Of Flying: What Can't This Thing Do?
Scared of flying? Would you rather drive 20 hours than hop in the sky for 3? You're obviously not alone, and now it looks like Virgin Atlantic is hoping to help those of you out who can't quite come to grips with soaring in the friendly skies. But we're not talking about fear training or something like that, we're talking... Read More
UPS Targets iPhone Users With New App
A new shipping application from UPS lets you track and ship packages, locate a UPS store using GPS, and more from your iPhone or iPod Touch. The free shipping app joins other UPS-enabled solutions for Apple users. In fact, NRG Software, a UPS Ready strategic provider, recently added NRGship Mac to its shipping software... Read More
Adobe Blames Apple For Lack Of Flash On iPhone
Adobe has tried a number of things in its attempt to get Apple to break down enough barriers so the company can get Flash ported on to the iPhone and so far, nothing has worked. In Adobe's latest attempt, the company is spelling it out to you, the user, as to why you can't get Flash on your favorite handset. Previously,... Read More
China Unicom Begins Sales of Wi-Fi Crippled iPhones
The iPhone has finally reached China, or rather, the iPhone has finally officially reached China. There were plenty of unlocked iPhones invading China's GSM networks, but only Friday was it on the China Unicom network legitimately. The first shipments manufactured for China Unicom, however, are missing wi-fi. It wasn't... Read More
Apple TV Gets 3.0 Software Update With iTunes Extras/iTunes LP Support
The Apple TV. Remember that? Yeah, that's Apple's little hobby device, or so it said once upon a time. And it's treating it exactly like a hobby, not updating it but once every blue moon. Thankfully for those who actually own one, the company today released the first major software update for it in what feels like forever,... Read More
App Store Nears 100K Apps
According to App Shopper, a third-party site that tracks applications in Apple's App Store, while many keep using the last amount quoted by Apple (85,000) as the number of apps in that repository, the App Store is nearing 100,000 apps, and should hit that number soon. In fact, App Shopper, which posts the numbers on their... Read More
Verizon Leaves The Door Open For Apple & The iPhone
Not long ago, Verizon Wireless launched an aggressive ad campaign against the iPhone. That doesn’t mean Verizon is completely moving on and has no interest in the iPhone, however. During Verizon’s third-quarter earnings conference call yesterday, Verizon’s chief executive Ivan Seidenberg said his company would be interested... Read More
TomTom's Overpriced iPhone Car Kit Now Available In USA
At this point, there are a number of GPS applications available in the App Store. Without a doubt, the iPhone has the most full-featured GPS options out there in the smartphone arena, though it seems as if the TomTom TomTom app is the one getting the most attention. Regardless of whether or not it's superior to the others,... Read More
Nokia Claims iPhone Uses Its Technology, Wants Big Payback
Ugh, this could get nasty. As Nokia's smartphone share is slipping and Apple's is growing rapidly, the former has taken the gloves off and taken the latter to court. What for, you ask? Because Apple's iPhone is utilizing some Nokia technology, and Apple isn't paying Nokia a dime to use it. Or, that's the story according... Read More
Your Opinion Of Apple's Windows 7 FUD Ads?