Apple Bets Its Chips on In-House Microprocessor Design

April 30, 2009

The microprocessors that will go into future Apple products — particularly the handheld variety — will need to be smaller, cheaper and more dominant while using less capability. Those chips could be the conclusion of in-house designer brainpower, not third-party suppliers: Steve Jobs’ comp…

Birdhouse: For Those Who Take Their Tweets Seriously

April 30, 2009

Alright, tweeters, you all heard the guy at Nielsen Online — you’re nothing but a bunch of fad-hopping slackers. You only got into Twitter considering of Oprah, or Ashton, or that guy claiming to be the Pope. You tweeted for four days or so, next you packed it in and left, tired of doing yo…

iPhone Games: Some Gold Buried in the Glitter

April 29, 2009

Nintendo has owned the portable video game market — first with the Game Boy, now with the DS — for so enlarged that most of us gave up hope of ever seeing a viable competitor. However, it’s become impossible to disregard the new kid on the block: Apple’s iPhone, whose game library has quic…

Apple, Verizon and AT&T: Who’s Playing Whom?

April 29, 2009

The buzz in the market by the past few days has been about whether or not Verizon will eat AT&T’s lunch in regard to the iPhone. Apple is reported to be talking to Verizon about allowing it to carry an Apple-made phone in the U.S. That could spell the end of AT&T’s exclusive dibs on …

Newco launches iLauncher iPhone app

April 28, 2009

Newo Corp. has released the iLauncher iPhone and iPod touch application for use with the Newo “Dream Cheeky” USB Missile Launcher, allowing owners of the USB Missile Launcher full control from their iPhone by their home or work Wi-Fi network.
Before using the one and only robotic remote control …

OdioWorks Drags Apple to Court in Free Speech Battle

April 28, 2009

A discussion about open source technology on the tech forum site run by Virgina-based
OdioWorks is pitting the defense of a First Amendment right — namely, freedom of speech — against enforcement of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the tech industry’s legal guiding light for the past…

Tailoring Enterprise Web Apps for the iPhone

April 28, 2009

In today’s connected world, there is a great need to be able to access the latest knowledge. With newsletter and calendaring, that has aly happened, mainly thanks to the introduction of push e mail in recent years. Now that screens have become bigger on phones and bandwidth broader, the dura…

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