Apple Launches Ping
As part of Apple’s grand unveiling of the new iPods, Steve Jobs announced a new version of iTunes. Not surprising in and of itself, but what it has is pretty surprising. Apple has included a new social network called Ping. Meant to compete with Facebook, Last.fm, MySpace, etc, Ping is a social network centered around [...]
Best Summary of the iPhone 4 issues ever
There’s not much that really needs to be said here, just watch the video:
iPhone 4 just came out, but DOES IT BLEND?!
As I’m sure many of you know, Apple’s iPhone 4 came out last week. It’s been reviewed to death, discussed so much, and has a pretty significant buzz around it. So, the awesome guys at Blendtec decided to capitalize on all the buzz by putting it in their famous blender as part of their wildly [...]
When in doubt blame the hackers
For those iPad users who suffered a security breach of email addresses, AT&T is pointing the finger at a group of malicious hackers who found a loophole created by AT&T trying to speed up the process of logging in to the website. So, Apple, this is the company you place your exclusive trust in to [...]
AT&T to limit data consumption
AT&T is rolling out some new plans regarding data consumption on their smart phones. Before, you paid $30 and could dowload as much data as you wanted. Now, you will have to choose. You can pay $25 for 2GB of data, or you can pay $15 for 200 megabytes. AT&T claims the 200 MB is [...]
Your TV is about to become your computer
Not exactly. If you still need powerful computers for designing graphics or other coding issues, you’ll still one of those. But if you want to surf the internet, it appears that you will soon be doing that with your TV. Google is offering software to be integrated into certain TVs as well as some satellite [...]
Fiddlesticks
Well, you can cancel any dreams of having a Verizon iPhone anytime soon. It has been verified that the original contract for exclusive rights to the iPhone Apple had with AT&T was until 2012. Which absolutely stinks since AT&T’s has the lowest customer satisfaction rating of all the major carriers. Some are speculating that the [...]
Hands on with the iPad
My wife and I went to Best Buy for fun this past weekend and I got my first chance to see and try an iPad for myself. They had a wi-fi connection so I could see how it did with connectivity. My first impressions when I walked up to it was that it look smaller [...]
This would be kind of cool to to attend
Apple has scheduled it Worldwide Developers Conference for June 7-11 this year, and everyone in attendance will receive a free slushee. Actually, while tickets are a whopping $1,600 dollars, this conference has been selling out pretty regularly. So, somebody must feel these are worth the money. If you’re wanting to go, you better make plans [...]
Look out, Apple
If you already have an iPad, you may kick yourself after reading this, and if you haven’t bought one, this may give you reason to hesitate slightly. There’s a German company that is developing a tablet computer similar to Apple’s. What makes this one more enticing is a larger screen, USB ports and a built [...]