VIDEO: Schmidt pours praise on Apple, Steve Jobs
In this clip, Google CEO Eric Schmidt talks about technology, his relationship with Apple and Steve Jobs. He also told Businessweek that Apple and Google have recently extended their search partnership. Apple is a company we both partner and compete with. We do a search deal with them, recently extended, and we’re doing all sorts...
What would a shape-shifting iPhone do?
COMPUTERWORLD: In July I wrote about an Apple patent which described ways in which iPhones and other devices could change shape and function depending on what’s going on around them. At the time I visualized this only in the sense of the user int...
Chinese gossip says 7-inch iPad looks like iPhone
Of course Apple will never, ever, ever release a 7-inch iPad, the argument goes, why would it, its product lines are models of simplicity, etc., etc. So here’s the news from out of China, Apple is prepping a 7-inch iPod touch. This is the word hailing from Shanzai.com. which claims that Apple’s forthcoming new tablet...
iPad blamed as netbook component costs claim price hike
Apple competitors in the are reeling as the iPad effect grabs a chunk of sales and threatens to raise netbook component prices, principally display prices. Display prices may rise if screen makers get their way. That’s because of increasing demand for displays, prices for which have already fallen to cost levels. Indeed, manufactuers are increasingly...
VIDEO: See the iPod nano walk
Just in time for a Friday morning, here’s a neart little video showing an all-new iPod nano transformed into a little walking robot, from the same dude who made the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch into a tryptch of walking technology a few months ago. “Getting the nano to display an animation was done with...
iPhone versus Windows Phone 7
Here’s a video showing some of the differences between Windows 7 and the iPhone. Win 7 incidentally seems set to drive some future Nokia smartphones.
AAPL Patent Watch: Advances in iPhone photography
Apple constantly invents and reinvents, files patents and attempts to weave its advances into new generations of device to amuse and amaze the Apple faithful, today in AAPL Patent watch we present you with a new technology which could spearhead Apple’s move to take a big slice out of the digital photography market and another...
Verizon CEO hints no iPhone for 2011
COMPUTERWORLD: No sooner do we learn Apple is manufacturing CDMA iPhones for launch in 2011 than Verizon’s CEO makes statements which suggest it won’t sell the iPhone next year. Don’t US customers deserve a little more clarity on the ...
New York Transit begins iPhone as wallet trials
Look I’ve been bleating on ad infinitum about how your iPhone will one day be your wallet — now over at the real world, New Yorkers may soon pay for their travel fares with a flick of their iDevice. Visa has just launched a new pilot scheme in which New Yorkers can pay for subway,...
NYT looks at China’s grey market iPhone 4 trade
There’s a furiously healthy grey market in the iPhone in China — we wonder how it works? Turns out it is quite complicated, involving early morning queues at US Apple Stores, backstreet sales deals at stores in Chinatown, unlocking, shipping and later sale in China, where the devices actually get made. The interesting tale is...
Indies begin slow progress to iTunes’ Ping network
Independent artists are finally making their long, slow progress onto Apple’s social network for music, Ping. Ping, which launched after months of development without support from Facebook and with limited involvement of the labels, was originally castigated for offering a major label bias. This is now slowly changing, as independent aggregators including CD Baby and...
App Store infographics show relentless App explosion
There’s a series of interesting App Store metrics contained in a handy (but large) infographic you can go grab from a business-focused website right now. These little visual nuggets of information include data on just how many inactive apps exist, how quickly the App Store has grown and much more. The stats come from executive-focused...
