Tag: Mac News
French publishers taking on Apple and Newsstand as a collective
The shelf sits empty in the iOS 5 beta. Newsstand is present on homescreens but it is curiously unavailable to all beta-testers. Clicking the icon...
CNN starts streaming their TV feed full-time: Fear-mongering 1 – Humanity 0
CNN, the popular news agency, has released an update to their iOS application that brings 24 hour streaming of their news feed to the iPad,...
Representative Jesse Jackson Jr blames the iPad for all of America’s problems
Jesse Jackson, a United States House of Representatives member from Illinois, has gone and flip-flopped his position regarding the iPad. In March, he stated that...
Apple snags Microsoft’s data center manager
Apple has hired Kevin Timmons according to sources, but his capacity at Apple is still unknown. Previously Timmons was the general manager of Microsoft’s data...
Apple iPad 2 is sold out in the afterlife too, in Chinese ancestral rite
Just as iPad 2s are hard to come by in real life, so they are too in the afterlife, when it comes to honoring your...
Intel announces processor design issues
Today, chipmaker Intel announced that design issues have been found with its up-coming Sandy Bridge family of processors: As part of ongoing quality assurance, Intel...
Chrome and Firefox to add “Do Not Track” capabilities to browsers
Oh, advertising online, what a tangled web you weave. I’m so torn with advertising models, it’s not even funny any more. The FCC has recently...
NewsMix takes on Flipboard with their curated news app
Flipboard may have been first to market with their Twitter and Facebook curated news service, but they certainly won’t be the last. The popular news...
Rumor: Apple might remove subscription-based apps
A website from the Netherlands is reporting that Apple’s playing tough with developers who have managed to build subscription models in to their apps that...
Verizon iPhone Hotspot: Potential pitfalls
We can now finally dispel with the rumor of the Verizon iPhone. It has arrived, or at least, it will arrive next month. One of the interesting features that will...
Rumor: Does Toshiba love Apple to the tune of 1.19 billion dollars?
The iPhone 4 supply issues from this spring were rumoured to be so large because the process of creating iPhone 4 Retina displays took the...
Rumor: Apple selects iPad 2 camera lens supplier
Digitimes sure must be enjoying the traffic boost from iPad and iPhone rumors these days. They’re posting them fast and furious. Today they’re hot on...
Get bite-sized Apple news with iDygest: A review
iDygest is a free app that will provide a summary of mac news stories. It finds articles that have the most sources, and you get...
Pulse goes free, and they’re now looking for paid partnerships
Pulse has decided that there’s no future in paying for RSS apps, and instead, the future will be paid subscription partnerships with publishers. I’m not...
iPhone 4 ranked best and worst in smartphone study
SquareTrade analyzed over 50,000 smartphones and concluded that not only was the iPhone the most reliable phone of the bunch, but it was also the...
On the anatomy of our posts
We’ve had an insane traffic explosion over the last two months, so many of you are probably pretty new to the website. I thought it...
Bell Canada plans on gouging customers a little bit more for HPSA+ access
Money, money, money, money, MONEY! There’s enough songs about money that we’re surprised none of them have made their way into a Bell Canada commercial...
Guest Post: Stop reporting Verizon iPhone rumors as fact
A Note from the Editor (Josh): The state of the blogosphere is something that’s been on our minds a lot lately as we try to...