Posted on July 28th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
The latest rumor floating around today is, of course, about the upcoming redesign to the MacBook line. Apparently, the next MacBook will be made out of just one sheet of aluminum–reducing the weight drastically–and be thinner, also its curves will be similar to the MacBook Air. Also included in the rumored redesign is a glass [...]
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Posted on July 26th, 2008 by Daniel Ahdout
Rumors have been spreading out around numerous websites that the iPhone 3G will get a (RED) makeover just in time for the holidays. Could it also be joined by a 32GB upgrade for the iPhone 3G and a 64GB upgrade for the iPod Touch?
Photo Courtesy of http://www.macblogz.com
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Posted on July 25th, 2008 by Daniel Ahdout
While configuring the HP Blackbird 002 on HP’s website, I noticed that the unreleased, unannounced NVIDIA GeForce 9800GT was an option in configuring the Blackbird 002. The card supposedly has 512MB GDDR3 of SDRAM, but no other information about the card is listed. Maybe it could just be a stupid mistake and the card is [...]
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Posted on July 20th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
The iPhone Dev Team has released the PwnageTool for iPhone firmware 2.0, which allows users to install a custom firmware that is jailbroken and can be unlocked. Unlike previous jailbreaks, this version uses Cydia, an alternative to the Installer.app that most users would be used to. The PwnageTool has a great graphical interface and is [...]
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Posted on July 10th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
After a delay that bumped up the transition from 6 pm to 8 pm and countless hours of waiting, MobileMe is finally up and running. Apple gained some time by launching the App Store, but they still were late in MobileMe delivery. The service which is replacing .Mac, which went offline (except for getting and [...]
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Posted on July 1st, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
With iPhone 3G launch date getting closer, AT&T decided to give us even more information to chew on. Not only have they given us the plan information (detailed after the break, but we now know that AT&T’s doors will swing open at 8:00 am on July 11th for iPhone 3G customers. Besides that nice tidbit [...]
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Posted on July 1st, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
After watching the iPhone 3G What’s New video, you can see AIM listed as an application available via the App Store. The app was demoed back in March at Apple’s iPhone SDK event and is now confirmed to be available for FREE in the App Store. The video gives a caption: “Some applications are not [...]
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Posted on June 29th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
iPhone turned one today. June 29, 2007: the day iPhone was released to the public. In less than a year, iPhone has received multiple software updates, had a price drop now and then, increased storage space, and launched in multiple countries. iPhone has even become one of the top phones in the country. So a [...]
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Posted on June 29th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Apple has flipped the switch and activated Me.com email addresses for some .Mac customers. In other words, if a current .Mac customer has username@mac.com, email sent to username@me.com would be forwarded to their .Mac account. @me.com emails are part of MobileMe, Apple’s upcoming replacement to .Mac. For more information on MobileMe - check out me.com [...]
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Posted on June 27th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Rumors started surfacing of Virgin Mobile buying Helio recently, and the companies confirmed that today. Virgin Mobile is buying Helio from SK Telecom and Earthlink for $39 million worth of Virgin Mobile USA stock. The deal is set to close in Q3 2008, but Helio customers will mostly not be affected. Helio’s 170,000 customers will [...]
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Posted on June 26th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Today was a relatively big day for iPhone news. Let’s wrap-up today’s news:
Apple released the eighth iPhone SDK beta today, providing a new, more stable release of iPhone 2.0 beta firmware. Alongside the release, Apple seeded iTunes 7.7 to developers in the iPhone Developer Program. According to developers, iTunes 7.7 shows Applications and related options [...]
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Posted on June 25th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
This is one marketing campaign that’s never been done before, and it could just be one of the most brilliant yet. Sprint is offering the first 1000 people that create a video with it’s new flagship device, the Samsung Instinct, $20. The rules are pretty simple: create a video with the new Samsung Instinct, upload [...]
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Posted on June 25th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Cell phone guided tours didn’t really exist before the iPhone’s way back in June of 2007. Even now, most companies don’t have guided tour videos. RIM thought to itself, “hey, let’s try and show the customers how to use our new BlackBerry Bold.” This idea may have been a good one, but after watching RIM’s [...]
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Posted on June 25th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Sad news BlackBerry fans: the BlackBerry Bold’s launch on AT&T has been delayed until August. AT&T and RIM need more time to deal with overheating and software issues with battery life, according to The Boy Genius Report. The BlackBerry Bold is still on target to launch on Canada’s Rogers Mobile shortly.
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Posted on June 25th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
According to Gizmodo’s inside sources, the upcoming iPhone 2.0 firmware will hit Gold Master (ready for public release) this Friday. This is only a tentative ‘planned’ date, but it would be great for developers to get a final version of the software a while before iPhone 3G launch. Now this Gold Master date doesn’t necessarily [...]
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