Will it really be such a whopper? A report on Wednesday suggested that Apple’s next iPhone will incorporate an enormous 4.6-inch screen. Of course, now that all the pre-launch fuss surrounding the new iPad is over, if you listen carefully you can hear the sound of something else; something cranking ever so slowly into action. [...]
Apple CEO Tim Cook introduces the new iPad. Photograph: Robert Galbraith/REUTERS Wednesday’s iPad 3 launch had a wider purpose than introducing an upgraded tablet. It was Apple‘s most coherent effort yet to bind its family of screens closer together, in a way that prepares the ground for the world’s largest technology company to disrupt the world’s most important [...]
Remember last summer when ICANN approved a broad new policy fior top-level domains? Now some U.S. lawmakers want ICANN to put the move on hold. Several members of the House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce have asked the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to delay the planned rollout of [...]
Reports suggest production of Apple’s iPad 3 tablet is already underway, with a release date set for March. More rumors are surfacing suggesting the iPad 3 will hit the shelves two months from now, in March. Such a release date would pretty much fit with previous iPad releases—the original iPad model appeared early April 2010, [...]
Google is taking another step in personalizing search results, pulling data from users Google+ profiles to further refine Web searching – while still promising privacy and control. Google is taking another step in integrated personalized content into its market leading Web search offering, announcing three new features—Personal Results, Profiles in Search, and People and Pages—as [...]
Microsoft has announced their new Windows 8 app store, named the Windows Store, will be available as a public beta from February 2012, the same time the new operating system sees its own beta release. Microsoft has announced that a beta of its app store, named the Windows Store, will launch in February 2012, the same [...]
Verizon has decided to remove Google Wallet from the Galaxy Nexus, likely in favor of its own mobile payment system backed by ISIS. T-Mobile and AT&T may follow. If you were excited to try out Google Wallet on the Galaxy Nexus, you’ll have to look elsewhere. Verizon has decided to block Google’s mobile payments [...]
A developer says he has discovered a secret piece of software, which comes installed on all Android, BlackBerry and Nokia handsets, that records all activity performed on the device — and he has the video to back it up. Mobile users, beware: you’re being watched — constantly. An Android developer claims to have discovered [...]
Google’s Chromebook has failed to become a disruptive force in the market since it was launched six months ago. In the hope that it might make at least some consumers take another look, the Mountain View company has announced a price cut for the machine. With the holiday season fast approaching, Google has announced a [...]
Apple reportedly receives shipments of 4-inch LCD screens from Hitachi and Sony for an unnamed iOS device that is due sometime in 2012. With the iPhone 4S out of the way, it doesn’t take a brilliant mind to deduce that Apple‘s tech tinkerers have shifted their focus to the iPhone 5. Could reports of the company receiving shipments [...]
