Okay, the iTunes App Store approvals process needs to be canned and re-invented. First there was Google Voice, then Apple banned a dictionary for profanity, and now it's ditching e-readers. What the hell is going on?
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Color us fascinated by this: According to leaked Rogers Wireless info, Apple has an 8GB version of its new iPhone 3G S on the way. It's a move to tap into the lower-spending market, but it has us wondering exactly what Apple's got ...READ»
AT&T radically underestimated how the Internet had changed media: in-depth, dispassionate investigations were replaced by unhinged editorializing. T'd-off iphone users have leveraged the power of interconnected media to bring an ...READ»
That iPhone in your pocket is nasty. If you're not careful about screening SMS's it can steal your personal details. And if you're careless enough to jailbreak the thing, it can kill cell-phone masts. Seriously--even Apple says ...READ»
This morning, the tech world watched in disgust as Apple rejected Google's new iPhone Voice application from the iTunes App Store, and subsequently pulled all third-party dialer apps that allowed users to make Google Voice calls from ...READ»
The rumors surrounding Apple's tablet/netbook PC have worked up into a storm, far more than the drips and drops we've seen before. The various details suggest that it's really coming, it'll be great, and thus you will buy ...READ»
Google's amazing Voice may be changing the whole telephony game, and it's happily rocking on BlackBerrys and Android phones. But you won't see a Voice app on the iPhone, since Apple's officially killed it.
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A highly detailed proposal for Microsoft's stores leaked online late Friday afternoon, and if it's real, Redmond's first foray into retail appears to be following the usual Microsoft formula: Roll up the best ideas of others and ...READ»
Wasn't it fun to read about Apple phoning Microsoft to complain about its ad campaign? The "greatest single phone call" ever to Microsoft, indeed. But check this out: it worked. Microsoft has tweaked the content of the ads.
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There's no hard news on the actual devices themselves yet, but a bunch of Chinese protective cases for the next-gen iPod Touch and Nano reveal they're both getting digital camera units. And that, basically, is the end of the line for ...READ»
According to AdMob, Web traffic from Google Android devices is quickly overtaking Windows Mobile in the smartphone segment with 25% month-over-month growth in June. The advertising company, which does 40% of its business serving ads ...READ»
It's 1979 all over again: The economy's tanked, New York's getting gritty, and Apple has a hammerlock on the high end of the personal computer business.READ»
A Seattle television station is trying to fan 15 iPod malfunctions into a raging controversy. The truth is that your socks are more dangerous than your iPod.READ»
Proposed changes to the way the nation's media watchdog does its business will mean more transparency for citizens--and bad news for secretive consumer-electronics companies.READ»
At the end of the day in Seattle yesterday Apple dropped its third quarter financial results. It's a regular act, nothing to be excited about. Except Apple's figures are, in the light of the current economic slowdown, astonishing.The ...READ»
Microsoft recently announced they were planning to open up retail stores ala Apple near the latter company's existing locations. Leading the charge is former Wal-Mart merchandising guru David Porter, who was hired on as Redmond's ...READ»
Sun Danyong was a Foxconn China employee until last Thursday, when, after apparently being responsible for the loss of an Apple prototype device, he committed suicide. Is Apple's ferocious product secrecy to blame for his death?READ»
Weird things happen, yes--but when technology is the cause, everything seems more confusing. Didn't we build these things? Don't we know how they work? Here are seven quiddities topping the social news sites this week.
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How would Facebook be different today if its social operating system was built into Apple's OS X? The two companies spent a lot of time collaborating early on. But, as Facebook's senior platform manager and former Apple employee Dave ...READ»
The founder of Frog Design--whose works helped transform both Sony and Apple into high-design brands--talks with Gizmodo about his work, and his new book.READ»