Review: Invisible Shield For The 2G iPod Touch
By stormy at 23 April, 2009, 12:00 pm
As all iPod users know, the back of your little friend is very susceptible to getting scratched and in a few months of use, your iPod will have lost its original shine. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
The most popular type of protection - iPod cases - involve adding bulk in your pocket [...]
Nokia To Sell Phones With Skype Software
By stormy at 18 February, 2009, 8:53 am
Skype and Nokia announced a partnership yesterday in Barcelona.
Some of Nokia’s higher end models, starting with their flagship, N97, will start shipping with an integrated Skype installation from the third quarter of this year.
Skype will be part of the address book on N97, displaying which contacts are online and providing instant-messaging with them.
Read More >>Bill Gates Donates $13.5 Million To Get The Third World Mobile Banking
By stormy at 17 February, 2009, 8:43 pm
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the GSMA have teamed up to help people in developing countries to carry out mobile banking from their non-smartphones.
The foundation has already donated $12.5 million with a goal to supply 20 milli0n unbanked people with mobile financial services by 2012.
The danger of being unbanked is that your home could get robbed anytime and all your family’s life savings lost forever.
Read More >>Nokia Unveils Ovi Store, Hopes To Repeat The Success Of Apple’s App Store
By stormy at 16 February, 2009, 9:37 pm
In a statement at the Mobile Word Congress in Barcelona, Nokia has unveiled its plan to create its own mobile application storefront, dubbed “Ovi Store”.
As it turns out, Nokia has set some very high excpectations for the project. They’re hoping to repeat the huge success of Apple’s App Store and reach over 300 million users by 2012.
Read More >>Leaked Images Show A Next Generation iPhone’s Back?
By stormy at 15 February, 2009, 5:18 pm
There are a few images circulating that appear to show the back of a future generation iPhone.
Instead of the smooth, glossy back of today’s iPhone, the one in the image appears to be an attractive black matte, possibly improving grip and even further minimizing scratches.
Read More >>MIT Students Develop Wearable Computer
By stormy at 10 February, 2009, 6:25 pm
Students of the MIT have invented something that we can surely take as a glimpse of the future of computing - a wearable computer that uses any nearby surface as an interactive display.
The device consists of a mobile phone, a webcam, a projector with an attached mirror and colored finger caps. All together, it costs less than $350.
Read More >>Snow Leopard: Going to Need More Than Just Under the Hood Advancements If Apple Wants It To Sell That Is
By macguitarman at 16 January, 2009, 11:41 pm
I am actually an Apple systems engineer consultant and former Apple employee / engineer (2001-2003), having worked as a QA engineer on Final Cut Pro, iTunes, etc. I was there at Cupertino in late 2000 testing Mac OS 10.0, Puma. So I have had my hand on the pulse of this for a while now.
Of course, [...]
Apple History #3: The First iMac
By Leo at 15 January, 2009, 6:56 pm
One of the very first Apple products to get a large update in the late 90s was the Macintosh. Featuring an all-new design unlike anything Apple had ever produced before (including the unusable mouse), its new incarnation, the iMac, went on to become the company’s most popular product in many years.
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