FTC, DoJ in "preliminary" investigation of Apple subscriptions
The US Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission have begun looking into Apple's new iOS subscription plan, according to sources speaking to the Wall Street Journal. The investigation is said to be in the early stages and m...
Google, Best Buy, and Sony ally against Big Cable
You know there's going to be a showdown over some communications technology issue when Google, Best Buy, Mitsubishi, Sony, TiVo and two other big companies start a new group with the word "alliance" in it. Sure enough, the...
Video of the Day: Grandparents Using Photo Booth
Here’s a video for a bit of Thursday evening fun. Remember Photo Booth? The app that ships by default with every Mac and allows you to take funny snapshots of yourself through the iSight camera using effects like squeeze, fisheye, dent and many others. Well, now imagine if your grandparents, not exactly the usual Mac...
The TabGrip Stand for the iPad, a decent stand with a major problem
At Macworld 2011, I was shown the TabGrip (US$39.99), which looked and felt like a great iPad stand; I didn't realize that it had a major problem until I got it home and installed it. It's a stand that works in either landscape or portrait orientation....
Steve Jobs Kicked In The Face In LG Optimus Pad Promotion
The LG Optimus Pad promo was just another boring tablet video that was more effects than awesome product showcase. At about a minute in, however, any morning coffee drinker would have instantly rewound the tape only to ask, “Did I just see get Steve Jobs get pummeled in the face?” We’re not kidding: In a...
MPEG LA starts the search for VP8 patents
MPEG LA, the one-stop shop for motion video patent licenses, yesterday announced a call for patents essential to the VP8 video compression algorithm—the algorithm that is fundamental to Google's WebM video format. MPEG LA i...
OWC Mercury Aura SSDs still raking in the praise.
It’s been about a month from their debut, yet the OWC Mercury Aura SSD family is still collecting accolades like kids collect… well… whatever the current collectible craze is. This time around, we’ve got a great review from ZDNet on the...
OmniOutliner for iPad Sneak Peek
We’ve already covered the plans of the Omni Group for 2011: a huge update to OmniFocus and OmniPlan, deeper cloud integration with the deployment of the Omni Sync Server in multiple applications and the arrival of outlining and text editing app OmniOutliner on the iPad. A few minutes ago, the Omni Group updated its official...
BBC iPlayer For iPad Now Available In UK Store
As previously reported, the official BBC iPlayer app for the iPad has launched today in the App Store. Sadly, iPlayer is only out in the UK for now, and it looks like it will stay there for a while until BBC figures out a subscription method for users outside the United Kingdom. iPlayer for iPad puts BBC’s...
Blast from the Past: Steve Jobs on TV at 23
From the bowels of the web where outtakes are never forgotten, a short video surfaced today showing a 23 year-old Steve Jobs making possibly his first appearance on TV. Far from the stage persona we know today, this candid clip shows a young Jobs wrestling...What Happens When Twitter for iPad Meets Youtube? YouPad
Call it a ripoff or “design inspiration”, an iPad app called YouPad, available in the App Store at $1.99, takes the experience and design elements seen in Twitter’s official iPad client and mixes them with Youtube. The result, as you can see from the screenshots, is quite…curious. The FalconsApp developers claim that the app has...
