Apple Patents Anti-Sexting System
One of the biggest worries for parents in giving their young ones mobile devices is the lack of real parental controls. You can lock some phones down so that they can only contact certain numbers, but this is a far from ideal solution. Hence, Apple’s new patent for an anti-sexting system. The official title of [...]
Read MoreWalmart Will Finally Sell iPads
According to WSJ, Walmart will get Apple’s iPad just in time for the holiday season. This Friday, Oct 15th, they will begin selling the iPad in “hundreds” of stores through the United States. Competitors like Best Buy have already been selling the iPad since it’s launch and Target began selling the Apple tablets just this [...]
Read MoreApple to Launch Verizon iPhone Next Year
According to WSJ, Apple is still working on a CDMA version of the iPhone for the Verizon network. This isn’t a new rumor. We talked about a potential January launch for a Verizon iPhone back in June. In August, it seemed that Apple had tipped their hand by ordering millions of Qualcomm CDMA chipsets, which [...]
Read MoreGoogle Goggles Now Available on iPhone
Google has just made Google Goggles available to iPhone users. To refresh your memory, Goggles allows you to do a visual search. Normally, when you want to know more about something, you go to a search engine and type in a query. You tell the search engine what you want with your words. But what [...]
Read MoreBallmer Seeks Redemption with Windows Phone 7 on October 11th
Microsoft and, more specifically, CEO Steve Ballmer are having a seriously tough time succeeding in the mobile market. First, we witnessed the launch and later failure of the Microsoft Kin after only a couple of months. Then, in a regulatory filing last week, we find out that Steve Ballmer got docked on his bonus. Mostly [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 9-30-2010
WTF Link Apparently, even though we all know we should absolutely not click things we aren’t sure about, a large number of folks who know better got got by Twitter’s latest exploit. If you saw a tweet that said “WTF” followed by a link and you actually clicked it, your account would tweet “I Like [...]
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