Saving Your Life: There’s an App for That
Let’s face it, most iPhone apps probably won’t even get used more than once or twice, and even then, you won’t be using them for anything particularly important. But one app came in very handy for one very lucky iPhone owner. The phone and the app belonged to an aid worker trapped after the tragic...
7 for 7: A New Publication Wrapper
This is the third in a series of 7 posts in the 7 days prior to Apple’s January 27 media event in which I explore various possibilities for an Apple Tablet and other potential announcements.
Perhaps one of the most exciting aspects of a new Apple tablet many expect to be introduced next week–whether called the iSlate,...
iPhone Dominating Worldwide Smartphone Usage: Report
The iPhone is still doing tremendously well, in case all this buzz around Google’s new Nexus One had you thinking otherwise. A new report by Google’s own recent acquisition AdMob says as much. The report details smartphone usage globally over the last quarter of 2009, as determined by requests made by devices for ads on...
7 for 7: A Third OS for the Apple Tablet?
Could Apple possibly have three operating systems in mind for a tablet device, which it is widely expected to announce next week? In this post, part of a series of seven, you'll find some good reasons why it might. 
Rumor Has It: iPhone OS 4.0 Details Leaked Early
I’m pretty sure that late January is traditionally that time of the year when the Apple rumor mill starts heating-up in anticipation of the impending iPhone OS update. A young tradition, to be sure, but a tradition nonetheless.
This year, however, the media frenzy around the mythical-but-completely-certainly-probably-real Tablet seems to be getting all the attention —...
7 for 7: To Keyboard or Not to Keyboard, That is the Question
This is the first in a series of 7 posts in the 7 days prior to Apple’s January 27 media event in which I explore various possibilities for an Apple Tablet and other potential announcements.
The world is expecting Apple to announce a new tablet, or slate, style computer on January 27. Most predictions peg...
Bing On the iPhone? BusinessWeek Thinks So: Report
Maybe I am too set in my ways, but I never even really tried using Bing all that much when it was released. I also found it too busy. Sure, I’m all for beautiful sweeping nature photography, but not on my search page. So I stuck with Google, without even really looking into the real...
Battle of the Vaporware Tablets
Do you know what tablet computers and jetpacks have in common? It’s not a kerosene-burning jet engine strapped to your back, though Adobe Flash on a MacBook can feel like your pants are on fire. The shared problem is that the present reality of future technologies always seems to disappoint, often resulting in products never...
New Year’s Resolutions iPhone Apps: Finding Romance
We’ve already covered iPhone apps that will help you keep a New Year’s Resolution to get in better shape. Today we’re going to cover something a bit more personal, finding romance.
Dating has changed dramatically in the last 10 years, back then putting a personal ad online was considered a bit desperate. Today online dating services,...
7 for 7: Countdown to the Apple Tablet
Official word yesterday that there is indeed an Apple event on the 27th didn’t generate the frenetic response typically associated with such news, probably because the blogosphere, twitterverse and mainstream media have all been going gaga over it for weeks.
The Wall Street Journal correctly pegged the event date and location, and also said the company...
What I Think I Know About the Apple Tablet
I’m a writer for a blog that focuses on Apple and its products, including Macs, iPods and iPhones. So I have a duty and an obligation to write one or more posts about the highly anticipated, much discussed, and completely unknown Apple Tablet device expected to be announced on January 27. But based on the...
Rumor Has It: AT&T Losing iPhone Exclusivity this Wednesday