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Why do you think the chicken crossed the road? From where I'm standing, it must have been because on the other side everything seemed to be a lot better than on its side. Probably the chickens that lived on the other side of the road had better food, a lot more space in the henhouse and a couple of bubble bathtu... |
2 September 2008
04:01 GMT |
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The same day Nokia announced the future release of its N96 high-end smartphone in North America, AT&T came up with two new international data plans for Apple's iPhone or iPhone 3G. The plans are available as of tomorrow and, as AT&T puts it, they are intended to help iPhone owners in staying connected no matter ... |
26 August 2008
12:55 GMT |
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Wireless, multi-room audio systems represent the future of home entertainment, and for this reason it should come as no surprise that Japanese consumer electronics giant Sony wants as big a piece of this pie as possible. This is why the company has just announced the S-AIRPLAY, a device that combines its advanced wir... |
22 August 2008
02:09 GMT |
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Apple had no problems whatsoever in leveraging the weight of its brand in order to kick Windows Vista while the operating system was down. But the time is drawing near when Microsoft will no longer be a silent and passive participant in the Apple monologue marketing show. The Redmond company has been building up its ... |
21 August 2008
14:46 GMT |
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Earlier this year, Lenovo had the courage and technical expertise to unveil a fully-fledged notebook that could rival Apple's highly mediated MacBook Air. Known as the ThinkPad X300, the new device provided an impressive performance in a lightweight form factor, at under three pounds. Due to the release of Intel... |
18 August 2008
11:28 GMT |
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iPhone owners who usually don't like to eat at home have now a new app that can help them in finding the way to a good restaurant. Named LocalEats and developed by Magellan Press, Inc., the application relies on the GPS capabilities of Apple's handset in order to lead hungry people to a restaurant of their ... |
14 August 2008
07:14 GMT |
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iPhone 3G, the famous touchscreen handset said to be sold in more than 3 million units until now (worldwide, since its July 11 release), will soon no longer be offered exclusively by Apple and AT&T in the US. This is because Best Buy, the giant consumer electronics retailer, has just announced that it would begin sel... |
13 August 2008
08:40 GMT |
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Microsoft is gearing up for the debut of a new school year, and the Redmond company is looking beyond the PC, at the Mac users running its Office suite tailored to Apple's computers. In this regard, discounts of up to 30% have been set in place for Office 2008 for Mac, the equivalent of the 2007 Office System fo... |
12 August 2008
10:00 GMT |
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NVIDIA announced in July that the company had put aside $150 - $200 million to cover "anticipated customer warranty, repair, return, replacement and other consequential costs and expenses arising from a weak die/packaging material set in certain versions of our previous generation MCP and GPU products used in noteboo... |
11 August 2008
04:20 GMT |
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If you ever felt that your iPhone (be it 3G or not) could be of more help to you when you're in a foreign country, or if you simply need to translate something, Google has now optimized the Google Translate service to be used with Apple's famous handset. Of course, accessing the Google Translate website vi... |
8 August 2008
11:45 GMT |
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After the July 11 release of the iPhone 3G (on 21 global markets), Apple is preparing to launch its new handset in other 21 countries around the world. Thus, the iPhonisation will continue on August 22, with important markets like India (the second largest mobile market in the world), Poland and Argentina. The 21 ne... |
7 August 2008
05:58 GMT |
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HP, the leading vendor of computer systems, is working on an array of new products, including notebooks, which will provide the same finger-tapping features that have made Apple's iPhone such a popular device. According to the Wall Street Journal, the company has high hopes that, within 18 months, it will be abl... |
6 August 2008
10:52 GMT |
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The anti-Microsoft recipe is rather simple and with evident ingredients. And in its quarterly report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Redmond giant spelled out the main risks and competitors to its business: Linux, open source, Google and Apple. The software giant has made inroads on a vari... |
1 August 2008
07:30 GMT |
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US mobile users with hearing disabilities have now the chance to buy an iPhone 3G and get the best out of it, as AT&T has just announced the availability of its Text Accessibility Plan (also known as TAP) for Apple's new handset. For $50 per month, users will get the following: - unlimited nationwide text (SMS... |
30 July 2008
12:35 GMT |
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Apple has set up a new section on its website entirely dedicated to the status of its recently-introduced MobileMe service. Having taken off to a pretty rough start, MobileMe has been constantly tweaked up ever since its release, thus the MobileMe status page was in order. Apple's latest (written) update to user... |
28 July 2008
04:15 GMT |
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Although you might have wished so, Cut & Paste is not a new feature embedded by Apple in the iPhone 3G. It's a Japanese company that makes cases for various devices, and its latest products are two series of iPhone 3G cases. Weirdly named "Phone Bubble 3G" and "Phone Cube 3G", the new set of cases are made of si... |
25 July 2008
12:10 GMT |
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It seems that Apple, company that specializes in consumer electronics and software solutions, is looking for someone who is skilled enough so as to successfully hack the iPhone. Someone could in theory successfully attack an iPhone, since it has recently been revealed that even the newly launched iPhone 2.0 is vulner... |
25 July 2008
09:43 GMT |
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Red is definitely a good color for dressing about any mobile device on the market, and that's why Apple might consider making a red version of its new iPhone 3G. While this might sound crazy for some, it's not at all a thing that can't be done with ease. Why? Well, because the iPhone 3G, unlike the fir... |
25 July 2008
02:37 GMT |
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Apple announced the financial results for its fiscal 2008 third quarter yesterday, posting revenue of $7.46 billion and net a quarterly profit of $1.07 billion, or $1.19 per diluted share. Apple's Q3 2008 ended June 28, 2008.Comparing the results with revenue of $5.41 billion and net quarterly profit of $818 mil... |
22 July 2008
03:00 GMT |
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Well, as most of the world knows by now, Intel has finally brought its Centrino technology in the 2.0 era. And this has been the main catalyst behind the recent notebook releases from almost every major manufacturer, including Lenovo, which has finally rolled out its highly anticipated X200 notebook, as part of the c... |
18 July 2008
11:00 GMT |
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Despite the bitter rivalry between Apple, with OS X and Mac computers on one side, and Microsoft and OEMs with Windows and PCs, on the other, the Cupertino-based hardware company is little shy about parading the latest version of its iPhone running a Microsoft service in all its glory. The fact of the matter is just ... |
17 July 2008
10:37 GMT |
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Rogers Wireless announced that Apple's iPhone 3G was enjoying an "unprecedented popular demand" in Canada. Although the carrier does not mention the exact number of new iPhones sold in the Northern country, it says that several tens of thousands of units were bought since the handset's release (July 11). Mo... |
15 July 2008
06:59 GMT |
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In Japan, where iPhone 3G is the only officially released iPhone (the first-generation handset didn't reach the Japanese market), iPhone fans are confronted with what seems to be an iPhone 3G crisis. More exactly, there are far less units on sale than there should have been and, according to Akihabara News, lots... |
14 July 2008
13:14 GMT |
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So what is really the cause of apples remaining healthier than pears for a much longer time after being picked up? Scientists argue that it all has to do with oxygen and the way it behaves in order to reach the center of the fruit. By using one of the most powerful light sources in the world, Pieter Verboven of the C... |
12 July 2008
07:15 GMT |
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Can users handle the truth about Windows Vista? Now with Service Pack 1 in its arsenal, Microsoft is ready to prove that they can. Or, at least, its own version of the Vista SP1 truth. Microsoft is on a mission. A mission to salvage what little is left of the latest Windows client, although admission of such a scenar... |
12 July 2008
05:56 GMT |
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Not surprisingly, voices on the internet that are not so fond of Apple's ways and its CEO (even as a person), have started emphasizing what owning an iPhone (or any other Apple product) really means. Over at the Free Software Foundation, it is being suggested that folks choosing to buy and use Apple products sig... |
11 July 2008
17:06 GMT |
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Apple has released today its new and improved iPhone 3G in 21 global markets, from Canada to New Zealand. All the new iPhones that reached the pockets of mobile users until now were sold only together with contract agreements from various carriers (depending on the country). Of course, some carriers - AT&T included -... |
11 July 2008
15:12 GMT |
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Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer might have managed to declare himself a keyboard junkie as far as mobile phones are concerned at the company's Worldwide Partner Conference 2008, but that failed to impress crowds of consumers gathering to buy the new iPhone 3G launched today. And although Ballmer ... |
11 July 2008
12:47 GMT |
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Surf's up for Microsoft, as the software giant needs to at least replicate the performance of rivals Google and Apple in terms of navigating the "coolness" wave. However, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer revealed that it is not actually a case of what company is cooler at the Worldwide Partner Con... |
10 July 2008
10:12 GMT |
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It has recently come to light that Apple Developer Connection simply gave away the password to Marko Karppinen's account. He is the CEO of MK&C, a software development studio based in Helsinki, Finland, which designs and develops Mac software. How could such a thing happen? Well, it seems that all the scammer ha... |
10 July 2008
04:16 GMT |
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Speaking during the keynote address at Microsoft's annual Worldwide Partner Conference, Brad Brooks, Microsoft's VP of Windows Vista consumer marketing, disclosed the company's plans to counter Apple's "I'm a Mac" ads. The campaign is called "Free the People" and refers to making computing so... |
9 July 2008
16:11 GMT |
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Although the first new iPhones should be available for "regular users" no sooner than July 11, an iPhone fan from Portugal has already gotten his hands on a black and shiny 8GB iPhone 3G and posted several pics with it. The unboxing images appeared today on the iPhone Portugal forum and the user who posted them say... |
8 July 2008
14:02 GMT |
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Mobile users from New Zealand will be the first ones to buy Apple's new iPhone 3G on July 11. That's not only because the Southern Hemisphere country is where, according to the UTC time, July 11 arrives first, but also because Vodafone decided to start selling the handset come 00:01 AM on that day. Thus, ... |
7 July 2008
09:20 GMT |
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We all know that Apple's new iPhone 3G will be released on July 11 in the US (and other 22 global markets), so there are about six days left until then. Well, six days don't seem to be enough for some US iPhone fans, as the line in front of Apple's Store in New York has already begun to take shape. Acc... |
5 July 2008
08:05 GMT |
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The iPhone and the Mac OS are not too far apart; both are Apple products and both use the same operating system, just that the iPhone's is more basic. In terms of security updates and patches, the iPhone is seriously deficitary - the latest update is four months old, it is from February! The device is set up to... |
4 July 2008
10:56 GMT |
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When Apple issued the 10.5.4 update, we reported enhancements spanned over areas such as AirPort, iCal, Safari, Spaces and Expose and more, with Apple noting that General Enhancements include recent Apple security updates and RAW image support for several cameras (among others). If you haven't had the chance to ... |
3 July 2008
16:51 GMT |
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Besides being an ordinary summer day, July 11 will also be the best day of the year for lots of iPhone fans, as the new iPhone 3G is set to be released on this date in 23 markets around the world. While in the US AT&T is offering the iPhone 3G starting 8 AM, local time, on the other side of the Atlantic, in the UK, u... |
3 July 2008
05:49 GMT |
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AT&T, the largest North American mobile carrier and the only operator to offer the iPhone 3G in the US, has just unveiled the official prices and plans for Apple's new handset which will become available starting July 11. The big news is that, after all the initial iPhone 3G craze is through, AT&T will also ... |
1 July 2008
13:15 GMT |
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The release date of iPhone 3G is getting closer and, lately, more and more operators have announced the prices and data plans that will come with Apple's new handset. One of the most attractive offers, until now, seems to be the one of Hutchison 3 which, in Hong Kong (its home country), will be offering the iPho... |
1 July 2008
12:22 GMT |
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Telstra is the last Australian mobile carrier to announce the upcoming launch of Apple's new iPhone 3G in Australia, after Optus and Vodafone have already presented their 3G iPhonesque plans. While both Optus and Vodafone announced the iPhone 3G since June 9, Telstra got official with Apple's new handset no... |
30 June 2008
06:41 GMT |
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Canada is among the lucky countries that will get Apple's new iPhone 3G starting July 11, as the touchscreen handset will be offered by Rogers Wireless and Fido. Well, Fido is in fact a subsidiary of Rogers, hence Canadian users won't be able to buy the new iPhone from two completely different carriers. Any... |
27 June 2008
10:50 GMT |
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Apple's new iPhone 3G, presented by Steve Jobs on the 9th of June, will be available in India too, besides the other 70 global markets where it's planned to be released. Unfortunately, India won't be among the first 23 countries that will get the iPhone 3G on July 11, thus Indian users will probably ha... |
26 June 2008
06:47 GMT |
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Word on the web is that one of our favorite peripherals, the mouse, is facing extinction. Invented in 1963 by Silicon Valley engineers Douglas Engelbart and Bill English, the mouse first went mainstream when Apple launched the Macintosh in 1984. Apparently, the company that introduced us to the mouse is now killing i... |
26 June 2008
04:28 GMT |
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Officially announced on June 9, Apple's iPhone 3G will become available on July 11 in Japan, among other 22 global markets. The new iPhone will be offered in Japan exclusively from Softbank, the country's third largest mobile operator (after NTT DoCoMo and KDDI au). At the time the handset was announced, So... |
23 June 2008
05:40 GMT |
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There are lots of cases made for Apple's iPhone and the latest one comes from Christian Dior, the famous French fashion designer. Being created by such a prestigious name, this new iPhone case is obviously expensive, retailing at about 290 Euros ($450) - more than double when compared to the price that AT&T will... |
20 June 2008
10:02 GMT |
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Recent reports claim Apple's Jonathan Ive (designer of the iMac) has purchased a mansion in the UK, while endless rumors about Steve Jobs' health don't do the company's stock much good either. 9to5mac is reporting that "company-watchers" are now asking if Apple can produce a new Steve Jobs, should... |
20 June 2008
05:53 GMT |
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When Apple officially presented its new iPhone 3G, on June 9, it also unveiled the carriers to sell the handset around the world, starting July 11. At that time, only Optus and Vodafone were announced to offer the iPhone 3G in Australia, leaving out Telstra, the country's largest mobile operator. But Telstra ... |
20 June 2008
04:52 GMT |
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The first-generation iPhone was not exactly the success that Apple had hoped for in the UK. But now, with the announcement of the iPhone 3G, it seems that British users are much more interested in Apple's handset, as no less than 130,000 people have expressed their desire to buy an iPhone 3G. According to the on... |
19 June 2008
08:10 GMT |
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Apple Discussions is always the place where anyone can get a straight answer, whatever the topic, as long as it's Apple-related. Not this time, though. One poster is very anxious to know whether the original iPhone has been discontinued once the announcement of the new iPhone 3G was made."Sorry if I'm beati... |
19 June 2008
05:42 GMT |
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One of the few big mobile markets where Apple's iPhone is not officially released yet, and we mean China, seems to be finally getting the touchscreen handset, starting August. Moreover, it's not the old iPhone that will make its way to China, but the new 3G one, which was unveiled on June 9. Although App... |
18 June 2008
04:43 GMT |
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