Of all the revelations about the late Steve Jobs in his new biography, this is the one quote from him that raised the most eyebrows: “I’d like to create an integrated television set that is completely easy to use. It would be seamlessly synched with all of your devices and with iCloud. It will have [...]
Despite considerable fanfare from Big Fish Games as having the first subscription-based game on the App Store, it turns out the company was breaking Apple’s rules, and has since paid the price. As picked up on by iLounge earlier, Big Fish’s software called Play Instantly! was pulled down by Apple today, shortly after its introduction. [...]
Decide is making the jump from the web to the iPhone with its first app. The app accomplishes much of the same tasks as its web cousin, advising users on when to pick up the latest gadgets. Devices are given a “wait” or “buy” status based on a variety of factors, including how likely they are likely [...]
Three times over the past two years, school officials from little Falls, Minn., have escaped the winter cold for two-day trips to Silicon Valley. their destination: the headquarters of Apple (AAPL). In visits the officials described as inspirational, they checked out the company’s latest gadgets, discussed the instructional value of computers with high-level Apple executives [...]
Fans of Tap Tap Revenge and The Muppets rejoice as Disney Mobile announced the availability of Tap Tap Muppets. The app is free and features music from Disney’s “The Muppets” soundtrack, in addition to the Muppets tribute compilation, “The Green Album.” how fitting, since it’s not easy being green. well, in this case, it’s very [...]
He was a conjurer, a modern magician who reached into tomorrow and came up with things that changed millions of lives. And as people gathered at Apple Stores from Sydney to San Francisco to mourn Steve Jobs, the feeling was more than grief for an executive or even an inventor. It was something closer to [...]
The iPhone 4 is one of the world’s most advanced mobile devices. it has features that cannot be found on any other device and each year Apple releases a new and improved device. one of the best things about the iPhone is that it has the App Store gives user the ability to download an [...]
The visits paid off for Apple too — to the tune of $1.2 million in sales. In September, Little Falls handed out iPads to 1,700 of its 2,500 students at a celebration in the school gym. And a few days earlier, 200 teachers got a pep talk via video chat from an Apple executive whom [...]
(Credit:Apple) The security flaw that led to security researcher Charlie Miller getting kicked out of Apple’s developer program has been patched in the company’s latest iOS update. That flaw, which let apps phone home to download potentially malicious unsigned code, thus changing the behavior of an application, is listed as one of the security fixes [...]
Big changes are underway in the e-book app world. Since Saturday, iOS (Apple’s operating system for mobile devices such as iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad) apps for Kobo, Barnes & Noble’s Nook, and Amazon’s Kindle have been updated to remove e-bookstore features and links to external online e-book stores such as kobobooks.com. the Google eBooks [...]