Sony is working on its own revolution in the TV market, with engineers rushing to develop the company’s “four screen” strategy before Apple can release its own television set. “There’s a tremendous amount of R&D going into a different kind of TV set” CEO Howard Stringer told the WSJ, referring to the “four screen” potential once [...]
If Apple was a melody and Samsung was a beat, their legal battle would be the song that never ends. On the whole, the war has lasted more than six months, spanned more than half the continents, and is still only in its formative stages. Final decisions have yet to be made in almost all [...]
Apple disappointed many iPhone 4 owners with the news that Siri, the digital personal assistant technology, would only be available on the new iPhone 4S, and efforts quickly began to hack Siri onto the older smartphone. Developer Steve Troughton-Smith got the local app running with no problems, but faced Apple’s servers refusing to play ball [...]
This week its been revealed that Apple’s newest investment into its in-house-built Google Maps application is 3D mapping firm C3 Technologies. This is the second business Apple has purchased in the same vein, the first being Poly9 – C3 having been purchased and shut down by its buyer this summer, that buyer now confirmed by [...]
An unofficial port of the iPhone 4S’ Siri voice recognition system to the iPhone 4 has been revealed, though it’s unclear whether Apple will ever enable the speech control tech for the older handset. Currently the port – the handiwork of developer Steve Troughton-Smith and 9 to 5 Mac - is capable of loading the Siri interface and controls; [...]
The announcement of the iPhone 4S may have been the most exciting news of the past day or so, but Apple has also launched a brand new iPod Nano, which not only looks good, but has the same multi-touch gestures you’ll find on an iPod Touch, iPad and iPhone, built-in Nike+ integration, lots of clock [...]
At Apple’s highly anticipated “let’s talk iPhone” event today, the big tech brand made a number of interesting announcements, iOS 5 will be available from October 12th, there’ll be a new version of the iPad Touch which will come in white as well as black and who can forget the new handset, the iPhone 4S. [...]
With the Kindle Fire, Amazon is making its first foray into tablet computers, a market where Apple dominates with its iPad and nothing else has even made a dent. The Android-based Kindle Fire is an impressive media tablet, and Jeff Bezos understands that the device itself is only part of the equation. It is merely [...]