11 March 2010, 11:49 am by: Tim Barribeau
Engadget is reporting that DARPA is looking at creating their own app store, to bring software quickly to combatants. DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is the research wing of the American military, and has thrown its weight behind so...
11 March 2010, 11:18 am by: Tim Barribeau
In a move only surprising in that it’s taken this long to announce, B&N have officially announced that they’re making a version of B&N eReader for the iPad. According to the press release, it will give readers access to the 1 mill...
11 March 2010, 10:13 am by: Tim Barribeau
According to Forbes, Apple has played around with the app store leading up to the iPad launch, adding more divisions in order to serve content in a more efficient manner. The biggest news is the addition of 20 top-level categories for books, includin...
11 March 2010, 9:53 am by: Tim Barribeau
Legendary rock band Pink Floyd have won a legal injunction against record label EMI, preventing the label from selling individual songs through digital means. The band argued this was against their 1999 contract, which stated that albums weren’...
11 March 2010, 9:36 am by: Tim Barribeau
While not quite as exciting as the rumors of multitasking that popped up earlier, there are some other interesting features being revealed about iPhone OS. 9 to 5 Mac have continued to take apart the most recent revisions of the iPhone/iPad SDK 3.2 b...
11 March 2010, 7:48 am by: Christopher Meinck
Now that’s a mouthful, a mouthful of powerful computing and one that could land on Tuesday. ZDNet lets us know that several tipsters claim Apple is ready to revamp their Mac Pro lineup, adding a new Hexacore Xeon Core i7-980x to the lineup. For...
11 March 2010, 7:09 am by: Christopher Meinck
For iPhone detracters (and yes, there are a few left), they often harp on the iPhone’s lack of multitasking. While the iPhone offers multitasking of sorts within it’s core apps, you cannot use an application like Pandora to stream music w...
10 March 2010, 11:44 am by: Tim Barribeau
Just proving that the iPhone is mostly used as a home gadget, analyst firm Localytics looked at the usage data of a number of iPhone apps, figured out the timezones, and found that most apps get played at 9pm on weeknights and all through the weekend...
10 March 2010, 11:41 am by: Tim Barribeau
Capcom’s much discussed transition of Street Fighter IV has finally landed on the iPhone—and it’s not cheap. The $10 app (link) features eight playable characters: Ryu, Ken, Chun Li, Guile, Dhalsim, Blanka, M. Bison and Abel, and t...
10 March 2010, 10:52 am by: Jessica Galliart
If you know or come into personal contact with an Android user, you’ve probably had that nifty little Google Goggles app thrown in your face a few times already. It’s a handy little app that uses visual recognition to identify objects and...