Blackberries – you gotta’ love ‘em. But lets be honest: if you have one, you peer over at your friend’s iPhone or Motorola Droid with more than a little envy. Sure, that Crackberry may be practical. But even the latest version aren’t exactly pretty. That all looks set to change, if a couple of leaked screenshots are anything to go by. …
If there was one trend to emerge from the geekfest that is South-by-Southwest interactive this year, it’s that mobile location services are heating up. Though nobody’s quite sure why people are all telling the world where they are, it sure is getting popular. Case in point: Patently Apple have discovered that Apple is working on their own location-based service called ‘iGroups’….
Amazon’s Kindle service is nearly fully Mac-compatible, as Amazon today launched a beta of their Kindle app for Apple computers. The free application allows Amazon customers full access to Amazon’s electronic book offerings, and allows bibliophiles to read full books on their laptops and desktops without the use of Kindle. It is also fully compatible with the handheld Kindle readers though, synchronizing bookmarks and pages read, so that users can switch back and forth between devices without ever losing their place….
Apple’s set to account for 25 percent of global desktop sales growth this year, thanks to strong iMac sales, veteran Mac news website, AppleInsider, tells us this morning. The report cites Caris & Company analyst Robert Cihra, who estimates 15-20 percent growth in the overall PC market for 2010 with desktop sales showing resurgence after 24-months slow decline. …
GetJar researchers reckon the CD is a dead format and smartphone applications are the new rock and roll, predicting the dollar value of app sales made in 2012 will be far greater than that of CDs. They say mobile apps will generate $17.5 billion of revenues by 2012. The research also claims that in 2009, the number of mobile app stores jumped from eight to 38 – and is set to further increase in 2010. …
We’re not saying all this is for real but Mac blogs are burning up the story of an Australian ad which seemingly hints at more expensive (ie. new model) MacBook Pros, MacBook Airs and Mac Pros. These ads show new and higher starting prices across these three product families: MacBook Pros are AUD$300 more expensive than the current generation, for example. Clicking on the ads, which appear on PC Authority, still leads to the current range of Macs at the current specs and prices. …
Take a look at this video clip. Captured at the San Francisco Game Developers Conference it shows a Palm Pre attempting to use a pre-release version of Adobe Flash 10.1. Take a look as the attempt to load Flash-based video website, Hulu fails. Swoon at the jittery Flash game the Palm Pre punter plays. And recognize that until Flash can run effectively on mobile devices like the Pre there’s no chance whatsoever Apple will give it a place on the iPhone. …
Google’s older ‘Don’t be evil’ mantra still generates hysterical laughter over at Apple headquarters, but the rivalry will become even more intense now tech firm Marvell has demonstrated its very own tablet eReader, an iPad competitor that’s powered by Google’s Android OS. The 10-inch prototype was shown at the Future of Publishing Summit in New York City, a conference on the digital transformation of books, magazines, and newspapers….
Research In Motion needs to get things moving in order to keep existing BlackBerry users with its platform, new research warns. Market research firm Crowd Science states 40 percent of BlackBerry users may already be willing to make the move to an iPhone, with a third of BlackBerry users also willing to make a move to Android. …
Twitter has announced a new plan to become as pervasive as the Web itself, opening up its @anywhere tech which aims to integrate Twitter into the very fabric of the ‘Net. @anywhere will let people using websites to follow new users or share media directly from the page. It is similar to Facebook Connect in that users will be able to log into websites using their Twitter ID. “Imagine being able to follow a New York Times journalist directly from her byline, tweet about a video without leaving YouTube, and discover new Twitter accounts while visiting the Yahoo home page,” Twitter said on its blog….
Macs are selling at ever faster levels, with the seemingly recession-proof Apple gaining ground on new sales records, according to the NPD Group. And Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster thinks 2010 will be the “Year of the Mac”. The latest NPD retail data shows Apple continued to enjoy strong Mac and iPod sales across the start of this year, with February figures revealing significant year-on-year growth. Piper Jaffray analyst, Gene Munster, tells us Februray Mac sales climbed 43 per cent for the month – and that’s after a January increase of 36 per cent. In all, Mac sales for the first two…
So you just spent your entire paycheck purchasing an iPhone and what the salesperson told you was “the best plan ever”, now you need to purchase accessories to protect it. Sure you could choose the black leather case, or maybe you like the pink bedazzled cover, ( I won’t judge you), but if you want to be a “tech-metal-head”, then industrial designer, Ryan Glasgow of Portland, Oregon, has created the case for you. …
