Apple posts

Steve Jobs has reached out and touched one of the Apple faithful, and the news is oh-so-good: iPhone OS 4.0 will be getting a universal inbox. The Apple CEO has famously responded to end user questions sent to his email address, albeit in his distinctive, curt style of one or two word answers, but many iPhone users will be so thrilled at this news they won’t care how it is delivered. According to 9 to 5 Mac, Steve Jobs responded positively to a user’s request about being able to import data from Google Docs to iWork and the iPad, and a separate query about a single mailbox for multiple email accounts. Source:…

Intel has begun a campaign to let the world know it isn’t just a chip manufacturer. A series of YouTube videos showing ‘mock’ news reports about intelligent, non-PC devices that make use of Intel technology. Each of the 3 videos focuses on a different area where an Intel-powered device is improving people’s lives in the fields of energy, fitness and agriculture. …

‘Don’t be evil’ may be the old Google mantra, but it looks as if that still leaves space for a string of affairs and some business double-dealing on the part of the company CEO, Eric Schmidt. An incisive Valleywag report looks at the breakdown of Schmidt’s relationship with Apple CEO Steve Jobs and the way things came to a head in 2007, while the Google boss was attending Burning Man with one of his mistresses….

You know Steve Jobs, right? The technology superstar CEO of Apple Inc., the man who invented the iPhone? Now paper artist Jay Hauf has created a papercraft Steve Jobs cut out, complete with a paper iPhone….

There’s an iPhone browser break out beginning, with Opera Software submitting its Opera Mini 5 browser/app for the iPhone to the App Store. All that’s left is to wait and see if Apple will approve the Safari-competing browser….

Like a tech industry Tekken, Apple is clashing with almost everyone these days, from Google to Microsoft to Amazon and beyond. Now Sony feels the force as iPhone grabs the handheld gaming market. Flurry Analytics says Apple’s surpassed Sony PSP game revenue in the US, estimating the iPhone has seized 5 per cent of the lucrative $10 billion US games industry. That’s up from $115 million in 2008 – near 400 per cent growth. With over 30,000 games available at the App Store and the upcoming release of the much-anticipated iPad, Apple’s set to continue grabbing share in the games market, the researchers…

Apple has begun selling the iPhone 3GS contract-free in the US as it prepares to introduce a new model iPhone, perhaps in June. An internal Apple memo tells retail store staff, “Effective immediately, customers purchasing iPhone as device only at full price are no longer required to have an A&T account or provide a form of ID.”…

(Video NSFW due to swearing) Some very clever hackers at Harco Laboratories have created a device that gives you a little electric shock – wait for it – for thinking. By hooking up a device that monitors brainwave activity to a little electric shock kit (which, I guess you just pick up at Walmart?) they have been able to create something that punishes you for using your brain. (It’s like a metaphor for the internet or something!)…

Conventional wisdom states that successful companies succeed when they make a good product for a reasonable price aimed at the average Jane or Joe. Right? But what if, instead of that, companies succeeded by either focusing on the high end or the low end, ignoring ‘the average consumer’ altogether? That might sound a surefire way for a company to self-destruct. But finding success through bypassing the middle is exactly what is being suggested by James Surowiecki in The New Yorker. Looking at companies like Apple on one end, and H&M and Ikea on the other, Surowiecki argues that the high- and…

Apple is inviting developers hoping to offer apps for the iPad on the day it ships (April 3) to submit their software to the iTunes team for approval by March 27. Developers who do get their code into Apple in time have a chance of seeing their app in among the first collection of apps made available for the iPad when that product first begins to reach US customers. Submission by the date doesn’t guarantee Apple will approve apps in time. Source: Distorted Loop…