It’s Coming: Preparing for iPhone OS 4.0
If you’re excited about the forthcoming iPhone OS 4.0 update, you’re not alone. Here’s how you can have a smooth upgrade by getting ready for the latest and greatest ahead of time. More: continued here
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Apple iPhone Web marketshare outgrows Google Android in May
Despite a larger variety of devices running the Google Android operating system available on the market, Apple’s iPhone operating system still outgained its rival in terms of Web presence in the month of May. More: continued here
Say Goodbye to AT&Ts Unlimited Data Plan For The iPad 3G
AT&T announced some changes to the iPhone data plans, but iPad 3G owners are affected, too: AT&T is doing away with the $30/month unlimited data plan. Instead you’ll pay $25/month for 2GB: More: continued here
Skype 2.0 for iPhone Released, Supports 3G Calls
That’s right: The most yearned-for feature of Skype for iPhone, making calls over 3G, is finally here. The new app just landed in the app store, and by all accounts the 3G calls hold up fairly well. More: continued here
China Suicides: Is Apple Headed for a Consumer Backlash?
As Apple released the iPad today across Europe and Japan, a key supplier in China continued fortifying factory buildings with anti-suicide nets and bracing against a growing tide of public criticism about working conditions after 10 apparent employee suicides this year — including one this week More: continued here
Many Verizon customers suffering “extreme” iPhone interest
There is “significant” demand for Apple’s cellular delight — with about 16.8 percent of Verizon’s subscribers having “extreme interest” in the product compared to 7.5 percent in the overall population. What does this mean? It means that, if given the chance (i.e. if the iPhone came to Verizon), about 17 percent of current users would…
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Employees Find ‘Saves Paper’ Best Excuse for iPad Boondoggle
A cascade of stories about how iPads actually might save the planet, including the latest, which finds an investment firm using the gadgets in lieu of printing out single-use copies of investment materials, and saving thousands of dollars a month in the process. More: continued here
iPads on Track to Outsell the Mac
Apple is selling more than 200,000 iPads per week, says Mike Abramsky, an RBC Capital Markets analyst. That’s almost twice the rate of Mac computers, which average about 110,000 units sold each week. More: continued here
Undercover Report From Foxconns Hell Factory
Chinese newspaper Southern Weekly sent 20-year-old reporter Liu Zhi Yi undercover in Foxconn’s factory in Shenzhen, China. For 28 days, he experienced dreadful conditions that the factory’s 400,000 employees endure, churning out iPods, iPads, and iPhones for Apple nonstop. More: continued here
Steve Jobs Offers World ‘Freedom From Porn’
I didn’t plan to pick a fight with Steve Jobs last night. It just sort of happened: An iPad advertisement ticked me off; I sent the Apple CEO an angry email; he told me about “freedom from porn.” More: continued here
Issues with Apple’s Decision to Block Flash
There are two prevailing issues in the fight between Apple and Adobe. The first is whether or not Flash should be available in the Safari browser running on Apple’s mobile iPod, iPhone, iPad platforms. The second is whether or not Flash (or any middleware platform) should be used to create apps for Apple’s App Store….
New Entry-Level MacBook Leaked [VIDEO]
The machine’s CPU was upgraded to a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, increased from 2.26GHz in the previous generation, and graphics were given a shot in the arm with a NVIDIA GeForce 320M GPU. These updates will be the first for the MacBook since October 2009, when the notebook got a longer battery life…
International iPad Prices and Tariffs Revealed
The prices for the various iPad models vary from country to country, although it looks like Apple isn’t loading up the margins quite as much as usual, international customers will still pay a premium. More: continued here
Apple iWatch Concept Needs To Be Made
Bluetooth watches that sync up to phones aren’t anything new, but this iWatch concept does what all the rest fail dismally at – look beautiful. It figures then that it’s just a concept, cooked up by an Italian design firm. More: continued here
The iPad is Eating Away at the Netbook Market
Interestingly, the iPad seems to have affected the sales of these other devices: Notebooks, the iPod Touch, eReaders, desktop computers and even handheld systems such as the DS and PSP. One of the biggest blows, however, comes to the netbook market. More: continued here