May

2

Starbucks HotSpots free for the iPhone

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May 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Starbucks have made some dramatic changes in their HotSpot service, first they dumped T-Mobile and along with them the gargantuan charges that ranged from $9.99 a day and higher, then they partnered with AT&T which will bring in all those hipster wannabees that make up a huge number of iPhone owners, lastly they will give […]

Apr

29

Bluetooth headset for both mobile phone and iPod

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April 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment

With the new JayBird Bluetooth Stereo Headset (130 bones) you can control both your phone and your MP3 player at the same time using the newest update to the A2DP protocol. As of now there aren’t any Bluetooth enabled iPods so an adapter will need to be purchased but expect that Bluetooth will be built […]

Apr

24

Apple sells 1.7 million units

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April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Apple announced revenue of $7.5 billion and net profit over $1 billion in its 2nd fiscal quarter, with revenue beating expectations. This is what happens when you sell 10.6 million iPods, 2.3 million Macs, and 1.7 million iPhones — which the company said kept it on pace to reach its year-end goal of 10 million […]

Apr

15

iPhone 2.0 beta: Screen caps

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April 15, 2008 | 2 Comments

The latest iPhone 2.0 beta firmware allows users to save web images to its running camera roll for later download to its host machine (or sharing via email). In addition the iPhone, with a flick of  two buttons, (sleep & home) will be capable of taking full screen caps. Of course all of this is […]

Apr

8

When old people attack

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April 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Walt Mossberg finds himself the scorn of many a Apple fanboy today with his retraction of his 3G iPhone in 60 days announcement. This should have been obvious to most, as you just shouldn’t get your tech news from someone that looks like he loves the early bird special, wants you off his lawn, and […]

Apr

3

Crackberry addiction spreads across nation

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April 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Research In Motion RIM (Nasdaq RIMM), the home of the Blackberry, just announced Q1 ‘08 numbers and they continue to grow at an astonishing rate. Some of the highlights include 2.18 million new added subscribers in the quarter, which is a new record, which brings BlackBerry’s total amount of subscribers to over 14 mil.
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Mar

17

Microsoft mobile licenses Adobe Flash and Reader

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March 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Microsoft has licensed Adobe Flash Lite and Adobe Reader LE PDF software for their mobile software, this of course is in addition to their own Silverlight technology. No word on an actual time table for when these will become reality as “the engineers have to work together to integrate the technology, and then the […]

Mar

12

iPhone SDK disapointments pile up

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March 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment

While there are a lot great things about the Apple SDK many are starting to question its brutal terms of service, its blocking of VOIP and GSM connections as well as its blocking of Opera and Firefox. Some experts are wondering how this is legal considering how much trouble Microsoft got for having IE as […]

Mar

7

The Apple way

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March 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment

With the iPhone SDK Event over, we can take a moment to think about what really happened here. The iPhone will make Apple and many large corporations richer, Apple will control all distribution, and Apple will also get 30% of developers earnings. Maybe Spore and Super Monkey Ball put the masses into a dazed and […]

Mar

6

Apple shocks the world

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March 6, 2008 | 2 Comments

 

 
In a move that no one saw coming, Apple announced they have licensed Active Sync and that the iPhone will support Microsoft Exchange. Its hard to even know how to take something like this and the reactions will surely run the gamut of both of Apple fanboy emotions which consists of either bitter anger at […]

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