Reuters came up with some interesting news today, announcing that ”Nokia has hired Stephen Elop, a Canadian Microsoft executive with Silicon Valley credentials, to replace its embattled chief executive and renew its drive to compete with Apple.” First non-Finn chief is seen as a ‘change agent.’ Nokia chairman Jorma Ollila felt confident about the hiring: [...]
If you’re curious how to read PDFs on your iPhone/iPad or iPod with the iBook application here’s a little quick guide on how to accomplish just this, all with the help of a nifty little service called Dropbox. In short, Dropbox is a fantastic service that allows you to store files (2GB for free, or [...]
There is still a lot of fuss and questions regarding Google’s involvement in the smartphone industry, but the latest reports should help settle this once and for all. Just two months ago, the sale rate was at about 100.000 Android phones per day; now, it’s double. Google CEO Eric Schmidt told attendees at the Techonomy [...]
You’ve yet to impress your friends with your Apple swag, maybe a bit of styling to differentiate you from the other Apple users might do the trick. HunterGatherer’s InCase Products pride themselves in offering “a purposefully fake version of something natural,” according to designer Todd St. John. “I also enjoy seeing it as a wrapper [...]
There has been a lot of fuss surrounding the new Google Android devices, mostly because this was bound to bring more sweet apps to the new Android phones. Well, as we all know, Google is the embodyment of coolness, and as always, they deliver. Motorola will be the next big shot to announce their Android [...]
Just go ahold of some pretty dire news for iPhone users everywhere. Seems there’s a pretty big bug in the iPhone’s SMS system which, when exploited, can expose the phone to any kind of vulnaribility, including camera, dialer, messaging and Safari. Every model, be it 2G, 3G or 3Gs are effected. The technique is quite [...]
The iPhone 3GS‘ built in mic can be very useful for things like taking notes, conducting interviews or just recording stuff. Thing is, it’s not quite the most potent receiving device out-there, such is the case that most people might find it limiting. It seems, however, that Brando offers quite the viable solutions, claiming their [...]
Would you like a little more punch to your iPhone’s speaker ? Then take a look at TenonDesign’s passive sound amplifier, the SoundClip. Ok, I agree that it’s nothing fancy. After all, it’s just a piece of cheap plastic. But that’s not the issue here, as the iPhone’s audio signal will be amplified by 10dB [...]
If you are looking for ways to unlock your iPhone, search no further: IphoneUnlocking has released a piece of software that will safely unlock all iPhone versions of any network provider with only a mouse click. It is said to unlock the iPhones in under five minutes. All iPhone versions are supported, starting with the [...]
Apple released a “minor” update for the iPhone / iPod Touch, the final version being 2.2.1 Release notes aside (the usual improved stability, fixed issues etc), here is the interesting bit: being a 0.0.1 version upgrade, one would think that it’s size will be very small but at a closer glance, wow, nearly 246.5 MB [...]
Fri, Sep 17, 2010
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