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Well, AT&T just finished up a call to discuss their earnings announced earlier today. The verdict on 3G performance its most heavily trafficked cities: still needs work! A lot of it. They even gave us a chart to prove it! https://gizmodo.com/sorry-download-speeds-at-t-added-4-million-3g-devices-5458597 Apple executives described the system overload as a “high quality” problem, which from a…
Huge billboards of FBI’s most wanted have already been hoisted up in Times Square, but unfortunately that’s not the only crim-soaked corner of the globe. Buildings across the UK are splashing scary mugs on them too, like the one above. https://gizmodo.com/times-squares-newest-video-billboard-stars-fbis-most-wa-5449748 It’s not just criminals apparently, with monuments and buildings proving to be the 21st…
As you’re probably aware, the Apple iPad, like the iPhone and iPod Touch, doesn’t support Flash. Apple has its reasons for this, but clearly Adobe isn’t happy about it. Here’s their response. https://gizmodo.com/8-things-that-suck-about-the-ipad-5458382 It looks like Apple is continuing to impose restrictions on their devices that limit both content publishers and consumers. Unlike many other…
Click to viewWe’ve seen the ordeal the Google Street View guys were put through in order to photograph every street on Earth. But what about the guys tasked with photographing the entire planet? [CollegeHumor] https://gizmodo.com/those-google-street-view-drivers-had-no-idea-what-they-5382386
Do you live in New York, San Francisco, LA, Philly, Boston, Chicago, DC or South Florida? Then you have no reason not to download this app, which has stunningly complete restaurant listings with full menus for your entire city. https://gizmodo.com/sweet-deliverance-a-menupages-iphone-app-is-coming-5423409 Since MenuPages doesn’t do reservations (update: it does, though the restaurant’s profile page! But only…
It gets tiresome, that old “Android doesn’t have any games!” refrain, especially now that it’s not really true. Disgruntled French site Android HD has compiled annotated video proof of at least 50 worthy titles. See, look! Right there! Fun. [AndroidHD]
AT&T made over $800 million in wireless data revenue last fall, thanks to a glut of new 3G users. Unfortunately, that also puts extra strain on their already-clogged data pipes. And we’ve still got all that iPad traffic ahead. https://gizmodo.com/apple-ipad-everything-you-need-to-know-5458292 AT&T’s plans to fix things up include a $2 billion increase in the amount of…
Laugh/cry about Nokia all you want, but when it comes down to cold, hard figures, they’re still performing well. They’ve seen a 65 per cent increase in net profits for the last quarter, shipping 126.9m units in the period. Those 126.9m units shipped in the fourth quarter are 12 per cent more than the previous…
British wit and tech maestro Stephen Fry has—rather predictably—scribed a 2,180 word essay about the iPad, after we spotted him skulking around with the whiskey-drinking Jonathan Ive. If only he’d written it on an actual iPad. Infamously purchasing the second Mac to be sold in the UK (after Douglas Adams), Fry has admitted yesterday’s event…
We’ve been so caught up in the Windows Mobile 7 launch date rumors, we almost forgot about Microsoft’s supposed leaked minimum specifications requirements. After all, this is a company that issued maximum Windows 7 netbook specs. https://gizmodo.com/more-sources-claim-that-windows-mobile-7-will-be-shown-5458031 Supposedly, Microsoft’s weighing down on hardware manufacturers wishing to create tidy little phones for the platform, with the…
Bad luck, non-US countries. iBooks won’t be available from launch in any country other than the US. That could mean Apple’s still to finesse the licensing details with book publishers in each country, or you’re just plain out of luck. While I doubt they could write off one of the most attractive features of the…
Walmart’s told the Christian Science Monitor, of all people, that they won’t be selling the Nexus One through its Walmart Wireless arm, despite a product page saying otherwise. That page has now disappeared, and blamed as a “technical error.” https://gizmodo.com/googles-nexus-one-on-sale-at-walmart-wireless-soon-5457080 It could be seen as good news, or bad news. Giz commenter Aja175 summed the…
Leaked photos of the BlackBerry Magnum (aka, a cross between a Bold 9000 and Storm, aka, my DREAM BlackBerry) didn’t manage to illustrate that touchscreen well, but how ’bout a video fondling? https://gizmodo.com/new-possibly-touchscreen-blackberry-bold-spotted-5453854 While The Cellular Guru’s Magnum was just a prototype, lacking in a working OS, he was able to demonstrate the touchscreen display…
3DTV is hitting the UK earlier than expected, with a football (translation: soccer) match screening this Sunday. It’ll be the first sports event broadcasted in 3DTV, and will be on show in nine pubs (translation: bars) across the country. Sky’s actually launching their 3D channel properly in April, with this Sunday’s Arsenal vs Manchester United…
Now that we’ve seen the iPad in the light of day, there’s a lot of chatter about what it can’t do. But Apple is now a massive threat to anything not a PC or smartphone. Here’s why: Generally speaking, the iPad’s goal is not to replace your netbook, assuming you own and love one. It’s…
Thanks to slumping DS sales (only took five years!), and Wii price cuts, Nintendo posted Q3 profit losses of 23 percent ($192 million, down from $249 million a year ago). It the first time in four years they’ve posted an annual profit loss. Looks like its time for Nintendo to respond to the iPhone/iPod touch…
In case you’re ravenously scouring the ‘tubes for more shots of the iPad accessories (keyboard dock, case, dongles), look no further. iLounge has bonus shots of all four items, and impressions of the iPad case (which they say feels cheap). https://gizmodo.com/ipad-keyboard-dock-because-even-apple-knows-touch-typi-5458341 https://gizmodo.com/ipad-kickstand-accessory-doubles-as-a-nice-leather-case-5458344 iLounge says the Keyboard dock costs $70, the case costs $40, the SD/USB…
We’ve looked at many advertisements that use the push-button future as a way to position products as cutting edge or innovative. But when the Future is used in this ad from the August 19, 1965 Marion Sentinel it just seems lazy. Where is Father looking, and what —oh gawd, WHAT?— will pushing those buttons do…
Today’s remainders are the leftovers tidbits from the big iPad day such as a comparison between Judas and the Apple device, ownership of ipad dot com, imaginary cameras, and silly Steve’s price switcheroo. Judas, Brutus, and the iPad The fantastic Murray the Nut decided to share his feelings about the Apple iPad in comic form.…
File this one under “Annals of Passive-Agressiveness”: At today’s iPad event, Apple scratched McGraw-Hill from the presentation slide displaying the various educational partners for the iPad, after McGraw Hill CEO Joe Biden Harold McGraw III blabbed to MSNBC about the iPad the day before the event. WAY TO SHOW THEM, STEVE! [Venture Beat] https://gizmodo.com/apple-ipad-first-hands-on-5457757
