Verizon is ramping up the testosterone in its newest ad campaign against the Big Man on Campus, Apple's iPhone. Falling just short of saying other phones are for girlie-men, Verizon's ads tout their phone's "racehorse taped to a Scud missile" speed as opposed to that of a "digitally clueless beauty pageant queen." Full Story »
Malicious iPhone apps that Apple unwittingly approves could attack even non-jailbroken iPhones, according to a developer, but security experts say this isn't earth-shattering news. Full Story »
If you werenât swayed by Rob Griffithsâs reasoning that the iMac was now, for many people, a more sensible option than the Mac Pro, youâll be glad to know that Apple has added another optional processor configuration in the quad-core line. Full Story »
With IDC predicting the iPhone App Store could top 300,000 apps next year, perhaps the race for numbers should end. Full Story »
Verizon Wireless' attack on the iPhone has devolved into chest-beating, with a Droid ad that vaguely slams Apple's "beauty" and any phone that's a "tiara-wearing, digitally clueless beauty pageant queen." Full Story »
AVON, Colo. - Skiers stuck on a mountain with no trail map but with an iPhone 3GS in their pockets could get help finding their way with another iPhone application from a Colorado company. Full Story »
It looks like we may soon need an iPhone application that keeps track of all the new iPhone applications. Full Story »
If you thought you just heard a disturbance in the Force—as if millions of voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced—then take a deep breath and relax: it’s just a pair of Java software updates for Mac OS X. Full Story »
With Apple's decision to release the tools necessary to develop iPhone apps, developers have taken our favorite mobile device to places you wouldn't expect. Ocarina encouraged iPhone users to think of their phone as a unique musical instrument. Now, academia wants to push that idea even further. Full Story »
OWC has announced a new line of portable hard drives. The new Mercury Elite-AL Pro mini line features aluminum cases, bus powered drives, and quad interfaces. Full Story »
In the spirit of the holiday season, Blacksmith Games has put together an event called Appvent Calendar 09, which promises to be a veritable treat for iPhone gamers. The event, which kicked off at the start of the month on Tuesday, runs through Christmas Eve, with a free iPhone game available on each day through December 22. (The last two days of the promotion will not feature any free games, though the company promises “other great surprises.”) Full Story »
Readdleâs Scanner Pro lets you turn the iPhoneâs built-in camera into a portable scanner for uploading documents onto your phone. Full Story »
Google already controls my Internet searches, my e-mail, my calendar, my documents, my phone number, and my weird, lots-of-people-talking-at-once-thing. So it makes sense that the company now wants to control one of the most fundamental systems in all of Internetdom. Full Story »
Research firm IDC says Apple's App Store could stock in excess of a quarter million iPhone and iPod Touch applications, tripling current levels by the end of 2010. That's some number. Contrast with an estimated 10,000 Windows 7-compatible apps, over 700 (released as well as announced) Xbox 360 games, nearly 600 PS3 games, over 1,000 Wii games, over 600 DS games (from September 2008), and over 700 PSP games. Full Story »
How can you get pornographic apps on your iPhone? By magic. The new Sex App Shop, run by a Las Vegas magician, uses a little-known mobile Safari feature to sell local apps outside of Apple's App Store. Full Story »
Amazon has the Lexmark Z45SE Color Jetprinter on sale for a whopping $11.52. That's right: eleven dollars and fifty-two cents (plus $2.95 shipping). This ridiculously cheap printer features 4800 dots per inch, prints 15 pages per minute (black & white), and is both PC- and Mac-compatible. Full Story »
Looking for another way to listen to your favorite news program or gabfest on the go? Full Story »
If you were a bit disillusioned with Apple's Black Friday Sale ($101 off on a MacBook Pro? I saved $150 with my student discount!), you may want to go check out the company's refurb section, where right now Mac computers are on sale for up to $520 off, or discounts of up to 28 percent. A refurbished 13.3-inch MacBook Pro with a 160GB hard drive, a 2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, and 2GB of RAM is going for just $999 ($200 off), and a refurbished iMac (with a 24-inch screen, 2.93GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, a 640GB hard drive, and 4GB of memory) is going for $1279 ($520 off). Full Story »
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