Beepocalypse: How Apple could improve multi-device reminders
May 17, 2012 – 8:00 pm | No Comment

Today, beloved leader Victor pointed me to this write-up over at Tidbits . Although Joe Kissel’s experience with quite so many devices (nine, I believe) falls a bit into the extremes of iOS/OS X use, the problem of dealing with distributed alarms …

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Flick Home Run ! New infinity pocket
April 12, 2012 – 1:24 am | No Comment
Flick Home Run ! New infinity pocket

Flick Home Run ! New Free infinity pocket Genre: Games Release Date: April 05, 2012 Flick your finger and make a homerun. You can experience a real baseball batting through the physical pendulum. This is a game in which you can experience various throws based on the pendulum. The ball …

Dear Aunt TUAW: Is AT&T killing my iPhone?
April 9, 2012 – 1:00 pm | No Comment
Dear Aunt TUAW: Is AT&T killing my iPhone?

Dear Aunt TUAW, I just received this text from AT&T: “Network changes may soon impact your 2G phone service. Exchange 2G phone @ AT&T store w/free 3G AT&T U2800A phone by 5/15 & avoid service impact.” I wonder what this means? On the one hand, it’s an…

Walter Isaacson: "Apple will settle Google Android dispute"
April 5, 2012 – 5:45 pm | No Comment
Walter Isaacson: "Apple will settle Google Android dispute"

Walter Isaacson, the author of the blockbuster bestselling biography of Steve Jobs, believes that the “less emotional” Apple CEO Tim Cook will settle the company’s dispute with Google over the Android operating system for smartphones. In his book, Isaacson quoted Steve Jobs as telling Google executives, “You…

Sonos drops dedicated controllers in favor of iOS and Android apps
April 4, 2012 – 6:45 pm | No Comment
Sonos drops dedicated controllers in favor of iOS and Android apps

It was probably inevitable. Sonos , maker of wireless, whole-house music systems, will halt production of the handheld Sonos Control after May 31. The company has offered iPhone and iPad controller apps for years, which are free and offer a complete set of features. I …

Samsung to challenge Apple’s iAds, Google
April 4, 2012 – 5:00 pm | No Comment
Samsung to challenge Apple’s iAds, Google

Samsung is entering the mobile advertising space by working with OpenX Technologies on a project that would let advertisers place ads on its mobile devices, says a report in The Wall Street Journal . This new service would compete with…

Nokia Lumia 900 vs iPhone 4S camera test
April 4, 2012 – 2:25 pm | No Comment
Nokia Lumia 900 vs iPhone 4S camera test

Nokia and AT&T are launching the Lumia 900 this weekend and reviews for the Windows Phone hit the Internet last night. CNET had a review unit and used that opportunity to compare the 8-megapixel Lumia with another 8-megapixel…

iPhone video helps rescue trapped Chinese toddler
April 2, 2012 – 10:05 pm | No Comment
iPhone video helps rescue trapped Chinese toddler

If this story had hit yesterday , we might have cried “April Fools!” As it is, though, it’s a remarkable tale of a rescue — helped by an iPhone . A Chinese two-year-old was trapped in a 40-foot-deep…

Facebook for iOS gets Retina Display support
April 2, 2012 – 7:00 pm | No Comment
Facebook for iOS gets Retina Display support

Good news for owners of the latest iPad. An update to the Facebook app now provides iPad Retina Display support. The 4.1.1 update also includes some other fixes and features, such as …

What, me worry? MAD Magazine to hit the iPad on April 1st
March 30, 2012 – 4:15 pm | No Comment
What, me worry? MAD Magazine to hit the iPad on April 1st

OMG. Let’s hope that this isn’t a clever April Fools joke, but MAD Magazine is coming to the iPad this Sunday, April 1, 2012. Just think — Alfred E. Neuman ‘s idiotic grin beaming at you from the Retina display of your new iPad! For several …

Study: 87% of iPhone 4S owners use Siri monthly
March 27, 2012 – 5:00 pm | No Comment
Study: 87% of iPhone 4S owners use Siri monthly

Parks Associates surveyed 482 iPhone 4S owners and found that 87 percent of respondents use voice assistant Siri at least once a month. Most people (55 percent) are satisfied with the service and use it to make phone…