APP OF THE DAY: Tom Daley Dive 2012 review (iPad / iPhone / iPod touch)
Splooosh!
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Yep, after all the shouting, the London 2012 Olympic Games are almost upon us. The thought will have some running for the hills, others frothing with excitement, and it is the latter that app developers are hoping to [...]
Is China the new Japan?
The phone in front is a ZTE
“By 2015 China will have more than 650 million people connected and online.” ?These were the words of HP’s CEO Meg Whitman at the company’s recent conference in Shanghai.
“China is just below the worldwide average at about 200 PCs per 1000,” one in five with a computer, if you [...]
Mophie Juice Pack Universal Powerstation Pro means you can leave your phone charger at home
Festival essential
The Apple Store has begun selling a waterproof Mophie power pack that has enough juice to charge an iPhone three times over.
The Mophie Juice Pack Universal Powerstation Pro should go down a treat with festival-goers this summer as it means you won’t have to fight for that one electrical output.
With dual USB ports the [...]
Retina display could be coming to MacBook Air too
Entire family to get makeover
It is already being touted that Apple’s next MacBook Pro, an ultra-thin 15-incher, will come with a Retina display and could even be announced at WWDC in the middle of June. Now, reports suggest that the high pixels per inch screen technology will also be adopted for the next wave of [...]
Analyst Says Google Chrome Is Coming to iOS
Jay Yarow, regarding a report by analyst Ben Schacter claiming that a version of Chrome for iOS is imminent:
Google is currently paying Apple an estimated 50%-60% revenue
share for searches done through the Safari search box, says
Schacter. So, if there is $1 billion in gross search revenue from
ipads, iPhones, and iPod Touches, Apple gets $600 million, [...]
Fact-Checking DigiTimes
Harry McCracken:
But the thing is, Digitimes isn’t just wrong some of the time.
When it comes to the big Apple stories, it’s wrong most of the
time. Sometimes wildly so. It’s reported that its sources had said
that Apple was going to release MacBooks with AMD processors,
iMacs with touch screens, iPhones with built-in projectors and
ipads with OLED displays. [...]
BBC Sport iPhone, Android, desktop and connected TV pictures and hands-on
Olympic overload
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The Olympics is coming. Many will be glued to the TV watching as Usain Bolt goes for another world record. Others might be on the edge of their seats [...]
Glenn Britt, CEO of Time Warner Cable: ‘I’m Not Sure I Know What AirPlay Is’
Brian X. Chen, writing for the NYT Bits blog:
AirPlay, a software tool included with Apple’s ipads and iPhones,
is widely viewed as being potentially disruptive to the cable
industry, because it makes it easy for people to view a broad
variety of Internet content on a television. Time Warner Cable’s
leader, however, hasn’t heard of it.
Zero surprise.
Update: Anyone else [...]
Apple drops the 4G from UK iPads, now Wi-Fi + Cellular
Now Wi-Fi + Cellular
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Apple will no longer be referring to the <a href="http://www.pocket-lint.com/review/5778/apple-ipad-3rd-generation-review” target=”_blank”>new ipad as a 4G version in the UK, after succumbing to pressure from customers and watchdogs.
The manufacturer’s UK website is now taking orders for “Wi-Fi” and [...]
iOS 6 Maps
Speaking of Mark Gurman, he had a piece today on a major update to the Maps app in iOS 6:
According to trusted sources, Apple has an incredible headline
feature in development for iOS 6: a completely in-house maps
application. Apple will drop the Google Maps program running on
iOS since 2007 in favor for a new Maps app [...]
