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- Report: Amazon Insisting Publishers Sign 3-Year Kindle Deals Publishers are balking at a new requirement by Amazon for three-year contracts aimed at thwarting the current rush toward Apples rival iBookstore and iPad. Apple has said it will permit publishers to charge between $13 to $15 for best-selling titles, a premium over Amazon, which keeps titles for its Kindle e-reader at a flat $9.99. A [...]
- Pwnage Smackdown In Vancouver Next Week Next week sees the opening of the CanSecWest digital security conference in Vancouver, British Columbia. Its also going to be host to the annual Pwn2Own contest, where a variety of computers are offered up as prizes to the first individual who can crack their way into them. This is the fourth year of Pwn2Own and the [...]
- One iPhone, Two Different Numbers, Courtesy Of Toktumi’s Line2 App [Review] Last year I signed up for a landline phone for my office. I wish I hadnt for two reasons: 1. No one calls me. 2. Toktumis Line2 iPhone app, which adds a second, distinct number to my iPhone. With a service like Line2, theres no need for a physical phone at my place of work. I give my [...]
- Coming Soon: Steve Jobs, the Sitcom Fake Steve creator Dan Lyons just signed a deal to bring Steve Jobs to another small screen near you. The half-hour series called iCon is billed by the presser as ?a savage satire centering on a fictional Silicon Valley CEO whose ego is a study in power and greed.? Making sure the barbs prick will be the [...]
- Musician Produces Entire Album On An iPhone Last week we reported on a director who shot a music video using only three iPhones. Now, Tom Freeman brings an all-iPhone production to the arena of sound with the release of his electronic soundscape, iMatik. Aided by a quiver of powerful sound-production apps, Freeman produced the entire album ? from creating the tracks to editing [...]
- Stunning Glimpse Into The Future Of Magazines Take a gander at the clip up there. Its been forty-odd years since Bobb Goldsteinn coined the term multimedia, but I think ? and maybe youll agree with me ? this is the first time Ive felt that I could easily apply the word and think yeah, thats exactly what it is. In the clip, Alexx [...]
- Daily Deals: iMacs, iMacs, and iPhones – Oh, My We start the day with two count em, two 27-inch iMacs. First up is an iMac Core i5 Quad running at 2.66GHz for $1,699. Next is a Core 2 iMac running at 3.06GHz, outfitted with 8GB of RAM for $1,899. If you havent found an iPhone 3G yet, AT&T is back with a [...]
- Bring Me the Cheesy Head of Steve Jobs [Arts and Crafts] Ken from Cooks Den has whipped up this snazzy iPad Thai dish in honor of the holy tablets launch. Whos hungry? Cooks Den via BoingBoing
- Should Apple Buy Palm? Palm seems in dire straights. Cannaccord Adams has cut its estimates following word AT&T may delay launch of the Palm Pre and Pixi from April to June or July. Now other analysts are suggesting Palms 400 handset patents could spark a bidding war between Apple and Google. Cannacord analyst Peter Misek said Tuesday hed recently [...]
- Apple Ads iPad Sharing for iWork.com Apple has redesigned its iWork.com Website for the iPad and iPhone, allowing documents to be viewed on touchscreen devices. The company also unveiled new ways to share documents, allowing documents to become public. The updated interface now allows documents to be scrolled using a finger, an action that has become common for iPhone users and upcoming [...]
- Commuter Delays? iPhone Tube Refund App Pays for Itself Londoners stuck in the tube now have a handy iPhone app to request ticket refunds. Tube Refund, which costs $0.99, zaps off the request for riders whose journey is delayed over 15 minutes. Depending on where you go and what time of day, a one-way tube ticket can cost from £1.80 to £4.00 ($2.75 $6 circa) [...]
- Apple’s iMac is 25 Percent of Desktop Growth in 2010 The global PC market can thank Apples iMac for being the main reason desktop computer sales have pulled out of a two-year nosedive, an analyst said Wednesday. The popular Apple all-in-one computer accounted for 25 percent of all desktop growth in 2010. Although notebooks and netbooks account for more than 90 percent of global PC growth, [...]
- WSJ, NPR to Create iPad Web Sites with Limited Flash At least two media sites are following Apples no-Flash policy when it comes to the iPad. The Wall Street Journal and National Public Radio have produced versions of their Web sites with front pages that do not require Adobes Flash, reports say. However, possibly more interesting is how publishers view the iPad experience differently than [...]
- Online Publishers: iPad, E-Readers Will Have ‘Absolutely No’ Impact in 2010 Traditional publishers may be feeling the heat to develop iPad apps and versions of their pubs, but online publishing execs are adopting a wait-and-lets-see 2.0 attitude. The Association of Online publishers polled its 1,500 members, finding them optimistic for 2010 but not about e-readers or iPads. Half of the respondents predicted strong growth of 10%+, [...]
- Crash Landing Plane Kills iPod Jogger Robert Gary Jones was enjoying a jog along on the beach with his iPod when a single-engine plane making an emergency landing hit him from behind, killing him instantly. The 38-year-old father of two was on a business trip in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina when a Lancair IV-P aircraft lost its propeller and was basically [...]
- Tweeted Images In Realtime Now On The iPhone Ever been attacked by a voyeuristic hankering to see what images are being tweeted right now while, say, waiting for a table at the local steakhouse? Well, whip out the iPhone, because Swiss developer Nicolas Seriot has the scratch for your itch. TweetyShow does for tweeted photos what Chirp Flow did for text tweets: displays a [...]
- KaleidoVid Makes An iPhone Kaleidoscope You know spring has arrived when apps like this start making appearances: New from App Cubby is KaleidoVid, a dollar-app that turns the iPhone into a kaleidoscope. Just point the camera at something colorful and KaleidoVid does the rest; the app then lets you unleash your creation on the world through email, Facebook or Twitter. Seems like [...]
- To MacHeist Or Not To MacHeist, That Is The Question So another MacHeist has been and gone, and no doubt a lot of Cult readers jumped in to get their bundle of apps for a bargain price. But not everyone thinks its necessarily such a good idea. Patrick Rhone of Minimal Mac has written a controversial, yet persuasive argument for not partaking of these regular bargain fests. [...]
- A Video Record Of Berkeley iPhone Photography Exhibition Knox Bronson got in touch to tell us about a little video hed made. Its called Pixels at an Exhibition, and it documents the creative efforts of people who took part in the iPhone photography exhibition at the Giorgi Gallery in Berkeley, California, in December last year. Knox says that shortly after putting out his call [...]
- What’s Next For the iPad? A Tabletop iPad, According to Xerox PARC Circa 1991 Way back in 1991, just as Apple was transitioning from 68k to PowerPC chips, the braniacs at Xerox PARC were predicting its entire iPod, iPhone and iPad strategy. And next up for the iPad is a blackboard-sized device. Nearly 20 years ago, just as personal desktop computers were taking off, researchers at Xerox started thinking about [...]
- Apple Warms to VoIP Apps, Approves Advanced Softphone For iPod Touch Apple seems to be changing its tune on VoIP apps for the iPod touch. Less than a week after it was submitted, Toktumis Line2 VoIP app has been approved by Apple. The $14.95 a month app turns the iPod touch into a fully-featured telephone. Interesting was how quickly it was approved -- less than a week [...]
- Daily Deals: iPhone, iPod Chargers, App Store Price Drops, 1TB Iomega HD Today we have a bit of everything in the way of Mac deals. We start off with a kit everyone needs a charger for your iPhone and iPod when on the road. The $4.99 collection includes a USB hot-syncing and charging cable along with a charger for your car or when you are traveling. [...]
- Apple Wary of Long-term Deals Amid High Flash Memory Prices In a bit of irony, Apple reportedly is hesitating to sign longterm deals with flash memory suppliers because of high prices which some blame on Apples heavy use of the chips in a growing array of devices. Although demand is weak for the flash memory in some areas, prices remain high due to chip makers [...]
- Report: iPad Pushes New Apps 185% Higher Excitement over the iPads introduction continues to accelerate production of new App Store entries more than six weeks after Apple unveiled its tablet device. Indeed, the number of new iPhone OS apps produced rose 185 percent since the iPad became public January 27. Over six weeks since Apple announced the iPad, Flurry continues to measure a [...]
- iPhone App Arms Users With Silent Panic Button A new app called Silent Bodyguard features a panic button that sends an SOS distress signal with GPS coordinates to potential rescuers without alerting onlookers. While the $3.99 app, available on iTunes, isnt the first ICE (in case of emergency) app, this one is backed by Dr. Clint Van Zandt, former FBI chief hostage negotiator and criminal [...]
- Analyst: Second Quarter Mac, iPod Sales Ahead of Estimates While most Apple watchers have been concentrating on the iPad, something unexpected happened: sales of Macs and iPods rose higher than financial experts expected. The new retail numbers makes one analyst believe Wall Street is in for a surprise for the March quarter. According to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munsters interpretation of retail sales figures supplied [...]
- Steve Jobs Regains Permission to Raze Mansion A judge upheld a ruling to let Steve Jobs raze a crumbling mansion in Woodside, California, though a preservation group may appeal the decision, again. The saga of the sagging 30-room Jackling mansion is a long one. Jobs bought it in 1984 and lived there for about a decade, then rented it until 2000. Built in [...]
- 100 Tips #3: Quit And Close, They’re Not The Same On Windows, when youve finished using a particular piece of software, you close it with the X symbol in the top right corner of the application window. Many switchers assume that the window close control in the top left of an OS X application window does the same job: but thats not quite true. On Windows machines, [...]
- Shipping delays hit iPad accessories Earlier this month, Apple had already come clean that many of the iPads accessories would not actually be available for purchase simultaneous with the April 3rd release of the tablet itself. At that time, the ship date for accessories like the iPad keyboard dock and spare iPad power adapter was placed in mid-April. Now theyve [...]
- PayPal adds bump-to-pay to iPhone app www.youtube.com/watch?v=suCe4-SWsHo Theres more than one company to experiment with iPhone payment schemes lately, and while the likes of Square looks pretty good, I think theres something beautifully simple about the way PayPals iPhone app handles transactions: you just open the app, type in the amount of money and bump your iPhone against the iPhone of the [...]
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