If you’ll recall, Steve Jobs isn’t a big fan of Adobe’s Flash Player. In fact, he’s scorned the software for almost three years now on the iPhone, and since the announcement of the iPad things haven’t changed. People were more shocked to see Flash videos working just fine in promotional material, but when they were [...]
Steve Jobs has won the Personality of the Year award, courtesy of the GSMA Awards out of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. Despite the fact that there’s a ton of big names at the event, Jobs won the title without himself or the company he co-founded actually being present. This was made possible by [...]
There’s been a few discussions in our forums regarding AT&T, and network preference in general. With the announcement that Apple would be pairing with AT&T yet again to launch another one of their prodigal pieces of hardware, there was quite a few people out there in the States who were saddened. If, for no other [...]
There are several different levels of complexity when it comes to getting subscription-based anything to get released to the public. For a lot of companies out there, it’s just an easy way out, and they imagine they could get more money from people by charging for single slices of whatever it is they are selling. [...]
There’s a couple biographies out there on bookshelves right now, centered on the heart and soul of the company known as Apple, but they aren’t considered the final word on the subject of Steve Jobs’ life. Why? Because they have all been missing one key component of the formula to make a good, in-depth and [...]
Not that anyone should have thought the eBook war would calm down this quickly, or probably any time soon; but we just wanted to make it clear that Amazon doesn’t plan on giving up. And if trying to make publishers happy with more money isn’t going to work, or trying to keep consumers from paying [...]
Even amidst all this talk about the iPad not being the hot ticket everyone thought it would be, it looks like at least several hundred people are interested in developing for the future tablet. That’s right. According to Flurry, the analytics company that watches over applications, and their development, for Apple’s App Store and other [...]
About a week ago now, we gave you a quick preview of an upcoming interview with a major player in the mobile web’s domain. They view the touch-based mobile web as an environment that is not merely growing, but exploding with content. Our quick conversation with Steve Ives, CEO of Taptu, showed us that applications [...]
A few people out there may read that title and may not be surprised at all. After all, Bill Gates is essentially Microsoft, so why would he like the iPad? Well, Mr. Gates isn’t afraid of saying good things about a product, even if he didn’t create it. Back when the iPhone launched, he praised [...]
Apple TV’s purpose in a world after the iPad may be hazy to some, but it seems Apple has a plan for the platform, at least in one way or another. Within the iTunes Store, it looks like a few television shows out there have seen their prices get slashed, in some cases all the [...]
A lot of manufacturing companies out there are accustomed to taking a hit on sales, based on manufacturing costs. It goes without saying that probably all of those companies would love to chop down those costs, and start to make a profit, and probably a good bet of doing that would to follow some moves [...]