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Wheelchair Dude Features in Apple Thesaurus; His Cover is Blown

What better way is there to spend your Sunday then looking up synonyms for the word “observed”? Apparently, none. As someone on planet Earth was doing exactly that when they discovered the following definition, as featured in Apple Thesaurus. Jump for a bigger pic of the priceless quote. That picture is our own confirmation shot,…

Tech News Haroon Malik Mar 9

Sun to Bring Java to the iPhone via the SDK

Apple gave Sun kind of the cold shoulder, not giving them the opportunity to put Java on the iPhone for Java apps. Now that the SDK is out, Sun’s decided to just take matters into their own hands and prep a Java Virtual Machine for the device that’ll allow Java applets to run on it.…

Tech News Adam Frucci Mar 9

iPhone Gets Unlimited Voice Plan, Still Only 200 Text Messages

Following the trend of unlimited plans, AT&T just unveiled its new unlimited voice plan for the iPhone. For $120 a month you get unlimited voice, unlimited data and… still 200 text messages. What’s the deal with the stinginess on texts, AT&T? Does it really cost that much to send 50-character messages? Ah well, in any…

Tech News Adam Frucci Mar 9

iTunes Store Private Page Shows Unidentified iThingy

iTunes will offer private developer pages, which will host app stores for a select audience only; e.g. specialized for universities, etc. Some of the pages have already been opened to those select individuals with audio and video content on offer. One such example is the Education First Educational Tours site the above picture was taken…

Tech News Haroon Malik Mar 8

Exploding iPod Nano Starts Non-Nano Sized Blaze

A user at Niketalk forums posted up these images of an iPod nano that went up in smoke this morning. The forum user, MJair was awoken at 2 a.m. by the fire alarm going off. On a quick panicked inspection of the room, an “orange glow” near his PS3 was seen. That orange glow was…

Tech News Haroon Malik Mar 8

Apple iPhone SDK Roundup: Everything You Need to Know

El Jobso wrapped up the iPhone SDK roundup, and it was a doozy. In case you didn’t catch all of the announcements from our liveblog, we’ll get you up to speed. • Apple Reveals iPhone SDK • iPhone Getting Multitouch Games Including Spore and Super Monkey Ball • AIM Client for iPhone, At Long Last…

Tech News Benny Goldman Mar 7

iPhone SDK Limitation: Only One User-Made App Running Concurrently, No Background Processes

The enthusiastic high-fives of future iPhone instant messaging users yesterday might be quite a bit less enthusiastic today when they find out that Apple is not going to allow user-made SDK applications to run in the background. This means every application, from IM to VoIP to GPS mapping, will have to terminate entirely when the…

Tech News Jason Chen Mar 7

Apple Campus vs. Microsoft Campus: One Visitor’s UI Review

Click to viewI had the fortune of being able to visit both Microsoft’s Redmond Campus and Apple’s Cupertino’s offices within the same week. So, I thought I’d do a little comparison as to how a visitor perceives and experiences the respective headquarters. Both campuses have those generic looking tech worker buildings with large mirrored glass…

Tech News Brian Lam Mar 7

Amazon Is Clearing Out MacBook Pros

Amazon is offering some last-gen MacBook Pros on the cheap. After discounts and rebates, you can score a 15″ MBP with 256MB video card and 2GB of RAM for just $1,744.00—that’s over $150 cheaper than Apple’s clearance store was selling it for a few days ago. The 17″ model with similar specs will run you…

Tech News Mark Wilson Mar 7

Apple Opening Peepshows In Apple Stores Worldwide

LONDON, United Kingdom (Agencies). Following a successful pilot program in the London Apple Store, and perhaps too many caipirinhas at the Infinite Loop party which followed yesterday’s iPhone SDK presentation, a visibly tipsy Steve Jobs announced the introduction of a new Peepshow feature in all Apple Stores worldwide: https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-sdk-roundup-everything-you-need-to-know-364799 “Heck yeah!” Apple CEO shouted at…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Mar 7

Ballmer Talks iPhone SDK, Screams Again

After dismissing the iPhone as “silly” last year (just to see it crushing Windows Mobile’s market share a few days ago,) The Other Steve spilt his thoughts on the iPhone announcement yesterday, all during the Mix’08 keynote with Guy Kawasaki. Ballmer touched on Adobe-Flash-wannabe Silverlight on the iPhone, Apple’s cut on iPhone’s application distribution and…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Mar 7

Epocrates and Apple Bringing iPhone App for Medical Professionals

Epocrates is working directly with those fruity chaps at Apple, in the hope of bringing an application for medical professionals to the iPhone. The app will support a drug search feature, as well as providing updates with recent, relevant medical information. Epocrates is one of the few companies that is working directly alongside Apple to…

Tech News Haroon Malik Mar 7

G-FI: “The World’s First Wireless GPS Accessory for the iPhone”

Hot off the heels of yesterday’s press event, PosiMotion is laying claim to the first wireless GPS accessory for the iPhone and iPod touch. I’m sure the built in locator and google maps program will be just fine for most, but the GPS add-on will actually be compatible with any device with a Wi-Fi connection,…

Tech News Haroon Malik Mar 7

iPhone SDK Event: See it in All of Its Glory

You got the news, now check out all the heart-pounding action in video form. The whole shebang is available now on the Apple website. [Apple] https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-sdk-roundup-everything-you-need-to-know-364799

Tech News Sean Fallon Mar 6

Fake Steve Declares All Other Handset Makers Dead

“BlackBerry is dead. Microsoft is dead. Windows Mobile is dead. Amazon is dead. Kindle is dead. Nokia is dead. Motorola was already dead but now they are even more dead. Google’s Android is dead. Samsung is dead. LG is dead. Sony is dead. UTStarcom is dead.” [FSJ]

Tech News Benny Goldman Mar 6

iPhone SDK Rumor Checklist

Now that we’ve heard what’s up, we can see which iPhone SDK rumors came true. As it happens, the insiders were pretty damn close to dead-on—Hulk doesn’t have to do a lot of smashing today. Let’s review: • Beta only with final coming at WWDC? True – Today’s SDK announcement was beta, and though it’s…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Mar 6

iPhone 2.0 Update Available for Free in June, Touch Users Get to Pay Up (Again)

All of the awesomeness you’ve been reading about—from an AIM client to Enterprise goodness—will be coming your way in June with the final 2.0 software update. For free! Unless you’ve gotta an iPod touch, then due to those nefarious “accounting practices” you have to pay to get the update. Again! ($20? less? more? You should’ve…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 6

Apple to Allow VoIP Over Wi-Fi

Click to viewIf someone develops a VoIP program for the iPhone, Apple will only prevent it from making calls over a cell network to protect poor little AT&T. If you’re in a Wi-Fi hotspot, however, go nuts. This opens up a pretty big door for developers to make some sweet programs that’ll save you quite…

Tech News Adam Frucci Mar 6

iPhone SDK Available Today for Free, $99 to Publish Your Apps

If you want to be an iPhone developer, you can start your twitchy fingers in about an hour, when the SDK will be available for download. It’s free, but if you want to publish and distribute your programs through the iTunes App Store (the only way to do so) it’ll run you $99 a year.…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 6

App Store Exclusive Distributor of iPhone Apps

Click to viewToday in Cupertino, Steve Jobs announced that Apple would sell iPhone (and iPod touch) applications over App Store, which can be used over-the-air on the iPhone itself, or can be sideloaded via iTunes on a computer. It comes with the 2.0 firmware update. Apple says it’s exclusive, meaning it’s the only place people…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Mar 6

Wheelchair Dude Features in Apple Thesaurus; His Cover is Blown

Sun to Bring Java to the iPhone via the SDK

iPhone Gets Unlimited Voice Plan, Still Only 200 Text Messages

iTunes Store Private Page Shows Unidentified iThingy

Exploding iPod Nano Starts Non-Nano Sized Blaze

Apple iPhone SDK Roundup: Everything You Need to Know

iPhone SDK Limitation: Only One User-Made App Running Concurrently, No Background Processes

Apple Campus vs. Microsoft Campus: One Visitor’s UI Review

Amazon Is Clearing Out MacBook Pros

Apple Opening Peepshows In Apple Stores Worldwide

Ballmer Talks iPhone SDK, Screams Again

Epocrates and Apple Bringing iPhone App for Medical Professionals

G-FI: “The World’s First Wireless GPS Accessory for the iPhone”

iPhone SDK Event: See it in All of Its Glory

Fake Steve Declares All Other Handset Makers Dead

iPhone SDK Rumor Checklist

iPhone 2.0 Update Available for Free in June, Touch Users Get to Pay Up (Again)

Apple to Allow VoIP Over Wi-Fi

iPhone SDK Available Today for Free, $99 to Publish Your Apps

App Store Exclusive Distributor of iPhone Apps

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