Can Spam-Swamped Ping Survive Without Facebook?

September 3, 2010

Facebook has reportedly shut off access to its friend search feature for subscribers to Apple’s newly introduced Ping social music service. The social networking apparently giant did that by denying Ping access to its application programming interfaces, AllThingsD reported. Talks amidst Appl…

Papers Turns iPad Into a Scholarly Study Buddy

September 3, 2010

Like it not, we live in the data Age. As such, we’re nearly always researching something. Which means we’re nearly always looking for some place to stash our research where we can find it again. Papers will give you that place on the iPad. Papers is a vertical app targeted at scientific and …

Apple Teaches Old iPods New Tricks

September 2, 2010

Apple put a charge in its iPod line Wednesday, but it remains a holdout in the “all you can ear” music subscription market. Apple revamped its flagship player, the iPod touch, so it’s now essentially an iPhone without the phone. It plus brought buttons back to the iPod shuffle and a touchscr…

In iTunes, All App Reviews Are Not Created Equal

September 2, 2010

I like walled gardens. They are safe and, for the most part, keep out the predators. However, when one sneaks by the wall, the results can be ugly, to say the least. With the iTunes App Store, one of the key supposed advantages for end-users is that it is a walled garden, and Apple is provi…

Apple Reprograms TV

September 1, 2010

Apple on Wednesday made a host of announcements focused around music and entertainment. These included a revamped version of its Apple TV device, iTunes 10, a refreshed iPod family and new versions of its iOS mobile operating system. Overall, the announcements came as relatively little surpr…

Will Wednesday’s Big Show Put More Spring in AAPL’s Step?

September 1, 2010

Shares of Apple closed up 60 cents on Tuesday to hit $243.10. However, Cupertino is still smarting from the downward spiral of the past few weeks, when its stocks took a beating along with the rest of the market. The Dow on Tuesday recovered a fraction of what it lost after a Monday drubbing…

Mac-Loving Engineers Can Have Their AutoCAD and iPads Too

August 31, 2010

AutoCAD, a popular design and engineering tool from Autodesk, is returning to the
Mac after an absence of some 18 years. Autodesk is launching a version that runs natively on Apple’s Mac OS X. To be released in October, it will cost US$3,995 without a support
subscription, and $4,445 with on…

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