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01.03.12

Get Creative with Siri Apple, Smartphone, Tech News | (1)
Much ado has been made of Siri, the iPhone 4S feature/personality. The personal assistant who can create event calendars, send text messages and answer your questions ranging from “Where is the nearest frozen yogurt shop?” (Siri: I have found four frozen yogurt shops within five miles of your location”) to “Do you love me?” (Siri: “I'm not allowed to”). But a few right-brained people have hacked the most popular digital guru since AskJeeves. Continue Reading...
12.13.11

Apple’s Mac App Store reaches 100 million downloads! Apple, Tech News | (0)
Less than a year since it was announced, the Apple Mac App Store now exceeded 100 million downloads. In a press release Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing said “In just three years the App Store changed how people get mobile apps, and now the Mac App Store is changing the traditional PC software industry... With more than 100 million downloads in less than a year, the Mac App Store is the largest and fastest growing PC software store in the world.” Continue Reading...
11.27.11

Video: Microsoft on Siri: “We did it first!” Apple, Microsoft, Smartphone, Video | (0)
I'm sure you've seen the video above and probably sick and tired of it. It's a video interview by Forbes tech writer Eric Savitz talking and Craig Mundie, Microsofts's Chief Research and Strategy Officer about the future of xbox 360, kinect and voice/speech control tech on Windows Phone 7 and siri. Continue Reading...
11.22.11

Apple vs Amazon’s Penny Phones! Amazon, Apple, Smartphone, Tablet | (0)
It looks like an all-out-war between Amazon and Apple from here there on, where "Amazon is hitting Apple where it hurts the most...". Have you visited the Amazon Wireless site lately? If you do, you'll notice that Amazon have what they call PENNY PHONE where each phone is sold for a penny with a 2 yr contact from your preferred carrier. As cheap as the penny phone sounds these penny phones are not the old and cheap smartphones, included in the lineup are Samsung Galaxy S II, HTC Inspire, Motorola DROID RAZR, LG Thrill and more, this will be available starting ...
11.15.11

Amazon’s Kindle Fire and the Apple iPad: Disected! Amazon, Apple, Tablet | (1)
Since it's announcement last September, Kindle Fire have view as the tablet that will "finally" unseat the dominance of the Apple iPad and these are claim where made on the basis that Kindle Fire is a cheap "android" tablet but offers content that can rival Apple's apps, audio/music, videos and ebook library, while providing a cloud service that equals if not better than the iCloud service of Apple. Continue Reading...
11.02.11

Tim Cook’s Era at Apple: Will It be Even Better? Apple, People | (0)
Last August Steve Jobs resigned as Apple's CEO and recommended Tim Cook as his successor as the new CEO of Apple. Sure enough Apple's Board of Director named Tim cook as it's new CEO. In Steve's resignation letter, he said "I believe Apple’s brightest and most innovative days are ahead of it. And I look forward to watching and contributing to its success in a new role." and not that Steve Jobs has been put to rest, together with all that Steve Jobs dust is starting to settle, we should be see a new version of Apple where Tim Cook is ...
10.27.11

Safari on iOS 5 is faster than iOS 4! Apple, Operating System | (0)
New Relic recently publish a test/study that they've made benchmarking the performance of Safari browser on iOS 4 and iOS 5 and the end result is, Safari browser on iOS 5 is perform much better, efficient and loads web pages 3 times faster than the Safari browser on iOS 4. Continue Reading...
10.24.11

Happy 10th anniversary iPod!! Apple | (0)
It's the 10th anniversary of the Apple iPod and MacWorld has a great article on how the first iPod came to be and led to Apple's great unveiling on October 23, 2001. I don't have an iPod but I do have it's distant relative the iPad 2. If you can remember Apple when out of the box in releasing the first (a lowly mp3 player) iPod, even though the market was already saturated with mp3 players. Makes me wonder what would have happen if the original iPod was a bust instead of a "blockbuster", will Apple still go a head ...
10.24.11

Apple’s iPad Dominance is Fading? Apple, Google, Tablet | (0)
"Apple's iPad Dominance is Fading!" that's what the report of Strategy Analytics is saying. The report said "Apple iPad's 96% market share has fallen to 67% - that's 29% drop in just 1 quarter (3rd Quarter), while tablets running Android OS shares increases by 26.9%. " I'm not good in math but let's try to take a look on some figures to see if that's what really is happening here. Continue Reading...
10.12.11

You can now update to iOS 5.0! Apple, Mobile Computing | (0)
Apple just made the iOS 5.0 available via the Automatic update of iTunes 10.5, the iOS 5.0 download is a whopping 707.2 MB file download, so it may take sometime before you can use the new mobile OS. iOS 5.0 was first unveil by Steve Jobs from the last WWDC in San Francisco last June 2011, it will introduce 200 new features like a new Notification, iMessages, NewsStand, Reminders, AirPlay Mirroring, OTA Update, iCloud integration and a new Keyboard UI, not to mention the 1,500 new developer APIs for developers. Continue Reading...

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