This week ABC will quietly revolutionize its app for iPhones and iPads with a button called “live.” Users around New York and Philadelphia will be able to live stream all the programming from ABC’s local stations there, the first time that any major broadcaster has turned on such a technology. The functionality will ...
Amazon Launches Cloud Photo Storage App for iPhone and iPad
on 5.10.13
Amazon has launched a Cloud Drive Photos app for iOS, letting owners of the iPhone and iPad join Android users in storing their photography on the company's servers. The app allows users to both upload pictures to their Amazon Cloud account and to browse the photos that are already stored there. Like Apple's built-in Photo ...
Apple’s iRadio Talks Stall as Google Rushes to License New Music Service
on 5.9.13
Apple's effort to license a proposed online radio service, which the press has dubbed iRadio, is being stymied by at least one of the major music companies, multiple industry sources have told The Verge. Apple's negotiations with Sony continue to drag on and that the electronics maker could hold up the launch of what ...
Will Apple Top Facebook’s $1 Billion Bid for Waze?
on 5.9.13
Facebook is in talks to buy Israeli crowdsourced traffic and navigation app, Waze, for $1 billion. Waze got started as a way for drivers to report in on their traffic observations using their smart phones. As Bardin explained, “Ehud Shabtai, a software engineer, was given a handheld device that came pre-installed with ...
Foxconn Tries to Move Past the iPhone
on 5.7.13
Terry Gou did almost everything that Apple could ask for. He made all those iPhones — and he made them cheap. When Apple was subsequently criticized for low wages and poor working conditions at his factories in China, it was Mr. Gou’s company, the Foxconn Technology Group, and not Apple, that caught the most heat. But ...
Report: iOS 7, Siri to Become Tightly Integrated Into Cars
on 5.3.13
Apple is working on tightly integrating iOS 7 apps such as Siri and Apple Maps into car consoles, according to a report by 9 to 5 Mac. Taking the concept of Siri Eyes Free for cars a step further, the next version of Apple's mobile operating system might be able to provide a voice-activated navigation system with Siri at ...
Apple Offers Cash Prize as App Store Nears 50 Billionth Download
on 5.3.13
Last March, Apple racked up 25 billion app downloads from the iTunes App Store, and awarded one lucky Chinese citizen $10,000 for picking the very last one. Now, it could be your turn: Just 14 months later, Apple's approaching 50 billion downloads, and it's offering the same $10,000 prize once again. As of this posting, a ...
Apple’s Curved Batteries Could Make Future iPhones Even Thinner
on 5.3.13
In Apple’s seemingly endless quest to make its products lighter and thinner, the company may have come up with a clever way to save space in future versions of the iPhone and iPad: by using curved batteries that nestle more comfortably into its devices’ contours. AppleInsider has found a pair of Apple patent filings ...
Google Glass Will Soon Give iPhone Users GPS and Texting
on 5.3.13
To use text messaging and navigation on Google Glass, users currently have to pair it with an Android phone and install the Glass companion app on their phones. This will change very soon, however, one of the Google representatives in its New York office told me when I picked up my own unit yesterday afternoon. Glass, the ...
10 iPhone Apps to Help You Train for Your First Marathon
on 5.1.13
Training for your first marathon is an enormous challenge and requires complete dedication. Ideally, when you start, you’ll have the best training partners and programs out there to make sure you’re prepared for that challenge. Unless you’re rich or a celebrity sports personality, however, you’re probably not going ...
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