Archive for the ‘Mobile’ Category

VIDEO: Future iPod touch Has Camera, At Last

Newly-leaked images and video show us the next-generation iPod touch will host a camera. Apple had originally been expected to field a camera in the iPod touch when it upgraded that device in September 2009. The introduction was preceded by a wave of leaked images showing a camera in place. Fast more »

How Bill Gates Predicted The iPad While Steve Jobs Watched

Cast your mind back to June 2007, when Apple CEO Steve Jobs appeared at D:All Things Digital alongside Microsoft’s Bill Gates. Now watch this video in which Gates describes his vision of the future of computing, which sounds remarkably like, erm, an iPad…. “I don’t think you’ll more »

At Last, at&t Prepares For 3G Tethering...

Attention US iPhone users — it looks like AT&T and Apple are at last making good on their long-held promise to offer tethering support through the iPhone, but not until the release of iPhone OS 4.0 later this summer. This illustration comes from inside the iPhone more »

Corporations Using Mobile Platforms to Get Ahead

Companies, both big and small, are now connecting with consumers like never before. By utilizing advancements in technology they have been able to develop more personal relationships which ultimately translate into cold hard cash. Just more »

Emergency Access: 6 iPhone Apps Which Could Save Lives

Sure, we all like to think we know how to cope in a crisis. We all fondly imagine ourselves the heroes of the moment, the masters of the hour, but how many of us have actually put some time in before crisis cripples us and learned the right things to more »

Has Talking On A Cell Phone Become A Taboo?

When was the last time you had a lengthy chat with someone on the phone? A few weeks? Months? Years, even? Well, if it’s been a while, you can rest assured that you are not the only one. But it should make us wonder if the the future of one-on-one more »

Palm Apologizes For App Store Outage - Wait, Palm Has An App Store?

Palm yesterday acknowledged that a recent bug in it’s App Catalog which caused downloads of free and paid apps to fail. Palm product manager Joe Hayashi said yesterday that a patch will be available soon, and that there are workarounds in the more »

Swarovski Crystals Bling Out Your iPhone or BlackBerry

Swarovski has decided to dazzle us with a sparkly technicolored jeweled case. This iced-out case is made up of  1,500 pieces of those tiny jewels. All the  crystals used on the case are 100% genuine Crystallized Swarovski Elements.The case more »

Blackberry Tablet is... Your Existing Blackberry, HD?

My phone sucks. No keyboard, the 6 key is broken, FORGET emails… it’s just terrible. I was thinking about trashing it and stepping up to a Blackberry, but I’ve been holding off to see what the hullabaloo over this Blackberry tablet is all about. more »

Hulu Improves Its Website But Continues With Flash

Hulu, unfortunately, will not be offering an HTML5 player. Instead the website, offering commercial-supported streaming video, has decided to stick with the current Flash players… at least for the time being. Although the website promises more »

Toshiba Promises to Hurt So Good with True Tactile Feedback

Apple really likes to tout the iPod Touch (and, by extension, the iPhone and iPad) as a gaming platform. In response, serious gamers like myself tend to laugh and point, largely due to the iPod’s lack of tactile feedback. ‘Button’ controlled more »

Stylus Knob Brings Rotation to the iPhone

Twist, turn and twist it again. That pretty much sums up this neat little invention. The people at DsLabs came up with the idea of a physical knob having the same feel of your finger when applied to the screen. The point behind the invention is to make it more »