Get yer Apple blade servers, right here?
Coop's Corner — For at least a few minutes in the daily spin cycle, the news about Mark Papermaster and Tony Fadell topped the interest in the fate of those two other guys attracting lots of attention today. Since Apple's preferred mode of communicating with the rest of humanity is via the issuance of press releases, we're only left to speculate about the cosmic import of what is, on the surface, a big event in the company's recent history. The company confirmed ...

iPhone twice as reliable as the Blackberry? Dream on
The Open Road — I love my iPhone and have never felt tempted to return to the Blackberry, but I was still rolling my eyes at TechCrunch 's report of the iPhone being "twice as reliable as the Blackberry" . After all, my iPhone crashed in four different applications in a 45-minute period this afternoon. Of course, the referenced SquareTrade study covers hardware malfunctions, not software malfunctions. In this, perhaps it is true that the malfunction rate for iPhones after one year is only 5.6 percent, while Blackberrys crap out 11.2 percent of the time. But in day-to-day usage, I've found my iPhone software to be far less stable than the ugly-but-reliable Blackberry ...

Microsoft releases its first iPhone app
MacBytes.com — Microsoft: Engineers in the company's Live Labs have released the company's first application for Apple's popular smartphone--even before making it available on Microsoft's own mobile platform. Seadragon Mobile, which was added to Apple's App Store on Saturday, is a free image-browsing app that allows users to quickly "deep zoom" images while online and is intended to demonstrate what is possible with a mobile platform.

Microsoft releases its first iPhone app
MacBytes.com — Microsoft: Engineers in the company's Live Labs have released the company's first application for Apple's popular smartphone--even before making it available on Microsoft's own mobile platform. Seadragon Mobile, which was added to Apple's App Store on Saturday, is a free image-browsing app that allows users to quickly "deep zoom" images while online and is intended to demonstrate what is possible with a mobile platform. ...

Hands-on with Imeem Mobile for iPhone
iPhone Approll — The music discovery Web site imeem.com officially launched its very own iPhone app on Thursday, May 14. Imeem's app is free and bears a resemblance to similar offerings from Pandora, Last.fm, and Slacker, offering the ability to stream, search, and purchase music over Wi-Fi or cellular connections. But before ...

Police chief slams iPhone-driven speeders
Technically Incorrect — Oh, what lack of 'appiness have the iPhone app-ers caused now? Well, the police chief of Washington, D.C., Cathy Lanier, is rather upset that wicked, venal humans have been downloading an iPhone app that enjoys the peculiar talent of telling you where speed cameras are. She told the Washington Examiner ...

New iPhone app helps you score pot
Technically Incorrect — States that are low on funds are steadily inhaling the idea of taxing the sale of a substance that gets you high. Meanwhile, as if anticipating an uptick in demand, the folks at Apple have approved a new iPhone and iPod Touch app that will allow a little more mobile access to the soothing properties of marijuana. Called "Cannabis" it is, according to Salem-News.com , an app that allows you to hold between your fingertips everything you need to facilitate your marijuana experience. Your legal marijuana experience, that is. Some states--California being in the surprising vanguard--have made the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes ...

New iPhone app scores sexual performance
Technically Incorrect — [image] This is the passion fruit flower. I prefer to keep decorum around here. (Credit: CC Nganguyen/Flickr )

Use your Palm Pre and iPhone in the shower
Technically Incorrect — Those who become excessively intimate, or even fall in love, with their favorite gadgets, need help. You know who you are. You clutch your iPhone as you sit at a bar. You turn your Palm Pre over in your palm as if it were a stress reliever. You wish you could take your gadget into the shower, just for security. Thankfully, some sensitive soul at a company called Two Eggplants has come up with an ingenious way for you to commune with your digital lifeblood, even as you are scrubbing up for the day. For a mere $7.99, you can be the proud owner of a soap that looks just like a Palm Pre (pictured) or an iPhone . You can put this ...

iPhone farting-app rivals clear up the stink
Technically Incorrect — You have, perhaps, been taking additional fiber since you heard about the iPhone farting-app litigation . iFart was fingered by Pull My Finger for using a phrase redolent of nothing more than a very happy night among very sad people. I can now reveal that the evil odor is over. Fresher air has prevailed. The two farting apps have partaken of a peace pipe and declared the spat to have blown over. They have even created a new app to prove that the air is now safe to breathe. However, should you have not had so much as a sniff of these happenings, please let me throw caution to the wind and explain. You see, many inspiring minds have been dedicated to creating ...

The future of iPhone games
MacBytes.com — [image] The new iPhone game, 2012, features an innovative ability to call out to people on a user's contact list for help with answering tough questions. This is one example of where features in iPhone games are heading. (Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET

Apple 'gag order' and the fear factor
MacBytes.com — This innocuous logo can evoke fear This innocuous logo can evoke fear

Study: After sex, so many tweet dreams
Technically Incorrect — I'm sorry to be mentioning sex again. But I have some survey findings that might just interrupt your own cogitations about the meaning and function of life. The fine and upstanding folks at Retrevo.com, which, I believe, is a site where you can buy various sorts of electronica ...

Is the Motorola Droid ugly?
Technically Incorrect — Humans are essentially post-rationalizers. We go off into the world and do things and then work out reasons why we've done them in order to create some sense of, well, order in the mess that we continually create. We claim that the reasons we have for doing as we do are good. But how good are they really? Which is why I wonder what will happen when people come face to face with Verizon's new Motorola Droid. I have been staring at CNET's pictures of the smartphone ...

Why your 3-year-old needs an iPhone
Technically Incorrect — I am not concerned about the future, only because I am told that humans will soon be in the clutch and thrall of robots and perfect harmony will be enjoyed by all. However, I must register the initial frisson of disturbia I experienced on reading a report from the Boston Globe magazine that suggests the iPhone may be a wise toy for 3-year-olds. No, this is not some mocking suggestion that those who use an iPhone do, indeed, have the minds of children less than 4. It is, rather, a fascinating analysis of what happens when you just hand a 3-year-old an iPhone with the initial aim of keeping the little rodent in your life quiet. It seems the ...

Adobe's popular Photoshop app comes to Android
Crave: The gadget blog — [image] Photoshop for Android looks similar to its iPhone/iPod sibling, but has a few less editing effects. (Credit: Adobe Systems)

Mobile: Still waiting to see what sticks
The Open Road — Despite Apple's tremendous success with the iPhone , we're still in the early innings of mobile adoption. As such, a strategy of "throwing-lots-of-things-against-the-wall-to-see-what-sticks" makes a lot of sense. It's true of platforms like Google Android , but it's also true of applications. Even on the iPhone, which reportedly drives $2.4 billion worth of applications in annual sales, very few application developers appear to be making much money . Zynga, creator of Farmville, is an exception, as BusinessWeek notes , doing more than $100 million in annual sales. This isn't to suggest that developers should stop ...

New Verizon ad calls iPhone 'misfit toy'
Technically Incorrect — Verizon has decided to take the spirit of Christmas and shove it into the part of iPhone users' chimneys where Santa would need a pick ax. Some who viewed the first Droid teaser ad , just a couple of weeks ago, were stunned to see Verizon so baldly declare that the Apple uber-machine was, in some ways, deficient. Rumor had it that this was an isolated attempt at leveraging publicity for the new Motorola device. However, this new ad shows that the iPhone is firmly on Verizon's list. And it's not Verizon's Christmas list. The ad places the iPhone on the mythical Island of Misfit Toys. It's an island inhabited solely by those things you don't need, ...

New Verizon ad calls iPhone 'misfit toy'
iPhone Atlas — Verizon has decided to take the spirit of Christmas and shove it into the part of iPhone users' chimneys where Santa would need a pick ax. Some who viewed the first Droid teaser ad , just a couple of weeks ago, were stunned to see Verizon so baldly declare that the Apple uber-machine was, in some ways, deficient. Rumor had it that this was an isolated attempt at leveraging publicity for the new Motorola device. However, this new ad shows that the iPhone is firmly on Verizon's list. And it's not Verizon's Christmas list. The ad places the iPhone on the mythical Island of Misfit Toys. It's an island inhabited solely by those things you don't need, ...

Rickrolling iPhone worm is never gonna give you up
iPhone Atlas — Well, this hacker has quite the sense of humor. Reports started spreading this weekend that iPhone users in Australia had been falling victim to "ikee," a worm that replaces default wallpaper with a picture of Rick Astley, the British pop singer whose song "Never Gonna Give You Up" has gained eternal infamy thanks to the mainstreaming of the "Rickrolling" prank craze . The photo is accompanied by the message "ikee is never gonna give you up," and it's apparently quite difficult to remove. According to security firm Sophos, this is the first worm detected that targets the iPhone . The vulnerability is pretty specific: the phones ...

Rickrolling iPhone worm is never gonna give you up
The Social — Well, this hacker has quite the sense of humor. Reports started spreading this weekend that iPhone users in Australia had been falling victim to "ikee," a worm that replaces default wallpaper with a picture of Rick Astley, the British pop singer whose song "Never Gonna Give You Up" has gained eternal infamy thanks to the mainstreaming of the "Rickrolling" prank craze . The photo is accompanied by the message "ikee is never gonna give you up," and it's apparently quite difficult to remove. According to security firm Sophos, this is the first worm detected that targets the iPhone . The vulnerability is pretty specific: the phones ...

Verizon's iPhone insults have only just begun
Technically Incorrect — [image] Oh, yes, the Droid is flexing its youthful muscles. (Credit: CC Oakley Originals/Flickr )

With AdMob, Google seeks mobile ad advantage
Webware.com — The most dominant online advertising company has long had its sights set on the mobile market, and its $750M purchase of AdMob would give it a strong position. Originally posted at Relevant Results

In Apple parody, Florida says 'there's no app for this'
Technically Incorrect — It seems that everyone is getting at Apple these days. A new ad campaign from the Florida Keys and Key West suggests there's no app for the wonderful experience of being there.

New Verizon ad pushes Droid's manly side
Technically Incorrect — Early on Monday, we learned that the new Verizon Droid does, indeed, swap "semi-functional, giggling-brat-vanity for a bare knuckle bucket of does." Now, we have the visual evidence. It's evidence a defense attorney would rather enjoy. The Droid is, apparently, not a smartphone at all. It is a robotphone, according to Verizon's latest TV ad. Yes, it punches its way through steel walls and crushes rocks. Which, I believe, is known in English classes as poetry. The lyrical content is only heightened when the giggling-brat-vanity words are uttered by an announcer who sounds like he had a previous career as an enforcer with one of the Gambino bambinos. As the ...

Apple rejects MAD artist's iPhone caricature app
iPhone Atlas — Company's App Store rejection process is the center of attention once again, thanks to its denial of an app for how it depicts members of the 111th Congress. Originally posted at The Digital Home

TweetDeck returns to iPhone App Store
iPhone Atlas — After being pulled from the App Store due to a bad crashing bug, TweetDeck for iPhone has a new version that includes Facebook integration, video uploading, and trending topics. Originally posted at The Web Services Report

Vimeo's videos get iPhone, Android-friendly
Webware.com — Tired of waiting for Flash to come to the iPhone, and other mobile devices, video host Vimeo is making parts of its site pocket-friendly. Originally posted at Web Crawler

Vimeo's videos get iPhone, Android-friendly
iPhone Atlas — Tired of waiting for Flash to come to the iPhone, and other mobile devices, video host Vimeo is making parts of its site pocket-friendly. Originally posted at Web Crawler

Apple offers progress reports on apps waiting for approval
iPhone Atlas — In a move that should please developers, Apple has added the ability to track an iPhone application's progress through the review process. As Wired first noted , Apple's Dev Center site now includes status updates for apps wending their way through the reviews queue. Apps are now noted as "waiting for review," "in review," or "ready for sale," along with a time stamp. It's a small concession by Apple, but an important one in keeping developers in the loop. Some iPhone app makers have complained vociferously about the often frustrating process in which applications are submitted and ultimately approved for or rejected from appearing for ...

Graphics showdown: 11 games for newer iPhones
Crave: The gadget blog — Ever wondered what some of the graphical differences are in games that make use of the newer hardware in the latest versions of Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch ? So were we. That's why we put together a screenshot comparison gallery of 11 games, all of which are either packing extra OpenGL ES 2.0 goodies, or that more complicated graphics modes that run a whole lot better on the beefier hardware spec. As for our testing, we ran each title on an iPhone 3G and a third-generation iPod Touch, the latter of which packs the faster innards required for some of the advanced OpenGL effects. To our surprise, there were very few apps on the App Store ...

Verizon ad describes negotiations with Apple?
Technically Incorrect — The thing about the finest of soap operas is that they must create conflict in order to inspire truly dramatic love. This is why I was rendered temporarily cynical by a Verizon print ad in a recent edition of Sports Illustrated. The ad was for the Droid. The words were directed at the sensitive regions of the iPhone ...

iPhone app developer quits over approval process
iPhone Atlas — Apple's App Store boasts more than 100,000 apps and more than 2 billion downloads, but not all of its developers are as happy as some would think. One well-respected developer decided to call it quits. Citing his frustration with the App Store approval process ...

AdMob brings interactive video ads to iPhone
iPhone Atlas — While it's waiting to be gobbled up by Google, AdMob isn't sitting still. The mobile ad company announced Tuesday that it will deliver interactive video ads to the iPhone and iPod Touch devices. The ads, set to run this week, will let iPhone users surf the Web and check out other videos while the video ad is playing. AdMob believes advertisers and developers will take advantage of the video format by serving up interactive ads designed to pull in consumers. "AdMob's new Interactive Video Ad Unit brings together consumers' love of watching videos on their mobile device with advertisers' goal of providing an interactive, social experience for ...

Trade your CDs, DVDs for an iPod or iPhone
iPhone Atlas — Analog media (even if it's digitally mastered) is dead. Why not swap those old, dust-gathering discs for a cool gadget? iPodMeister makes it free and easy. Originally posted at The Cheapskate

A stethoscope app? Be still my beating heart
iPhone Atlas — [image] The iStetho Adapter converts an old stethoscope into an electronic one using an iPhone or iPod Touch and the iStethoscope Pro app. (Credit: The Undercover Scientist )

AT&T fights back at Verizon with, um, Luke Wilson
Technically Incorrect — When you've lost the first round in your case against Verizon's persistent and persuasive mockery , who do you turn to? Luke Wilson, that's who. After all, he starred in "Legally Blonde" and, well, "Jackass Number Two." Actually, Wilson is lovable. Truly lovable. Perhaps if he'd dressed down a little and Justin Long had suffered an interminable hiatus hernia, Wilson might have got the part of Mac , the Microsoft Mocker. Instead, he has the slightly more difficult task of persuading the folks who adored him in "Old School" that AT 's 3G will serve them well on the 3.10 to Yuma. The creators didn't give him much of a script, as I suspect they ...

Apple: 'Enterprise' is as enterprise does
The Open Road — Is Apple an enterprise software or hardware company? That's the question Gartner's Nick Jones asks , ultimately answering with "you have to have a pretty relaxed definition [of enterprise] before Apple fits it." It strikes me, however, that "enterprise" isn't something you define. It's just what gets used within the enterprise. With this definition in mind, Apple clearly fits the "enterprise" moniker, whether Apple wants it or not. As BusinessWeek reported back in 2008, the Mac is finding its way into enterprise computing, with or without the IT department's blessing. Ditto the iPhone . Is it somehow less enterprise because the CIO ...

Cisco launches iPhone security app
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DJ from your iPhone with TouchDJ
iPhone Atlas — The latest app from Amidio lets you mix MP3 files, create loops, change speeds, and add effects, with a nifty waveform interface to help you match beats. Originally posted at Digital Noise: Music and Tech

DJ from your iPhone with TouchDJ
Crave: The gadget blog — The latest app from Amidio lets you mix MP3 files, create loops, change speeds, and add effects, with a nifty waveform interface to help you match beats. Originally posted at Digital Noise: Music and Tech

Will the 'smartbook' be a better Netbook?
Crave: The gadget blog — Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs holds the Lenovo smartbook which will appear at CES Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs holds the Lenovo smartbook, which will appear at CES in January. (Credit: Qualcomm)

Another iPhone worm, but this one is serious
iPhone Atlas — Another iPhone worm has been spotted in the wild. Unlike the previous exploitation, which merely changed a jailbroken iPhone's wallpaper to a picture of Rick Astley of "Rickrolling" fame, this new threat allows hackers to steal sensitive information. According to security firm Sophos, which wrote about the exploitation after a Dutch ISP spotted it late last week, the worm attacks jailbroken iPhone and iPod Touch devices only. The worm "uses command-and-control, like a traditional PC botnet," Sophos wrote in a blog post on Saturday to warn users about the exploit. "It configures two startup scripts, one to execute the worm on ...

Another iPhone worm, but this one is serious
Webware.com — Another iPhone worm has been spotted in the wild. Unlike the previous exploitation, which merely changed a jailbroken iPhone's wallpaper to a picture of Rick Astley of "Rickrolling" fame, this new threat allows hackers to steal sensitive information. According to security firm Sophos, which wrote about the exploitation after a Dutch ISP spotted it late last week, the worm attacks jailbroken iPhone and iPod Touch devices only. The worm "uses command-and-control, like a traditional PC botnet," Sophos wrote in a blog post on Saturday to warn users about the exploit. "It configures two startup scripts, one to execute the worm on ...

Schiller: No apologies for App Store approval process
iPhone Atlas — Schiller: No apologies for App Store approval process

New Apple ads to Verizon: Can Droid do this?
Technically Incorrect — It seems that Apple doesn't respect Verizon's Droid phone quite as much as it does Microsoft's PCs. But two new ad spots, launching Monday evening, come as close as Apple has done thus far to directly attack the allegedly do-it-all robotphone. The Droid, you see, went after Apple in its teaser campaign ...

AT&T gets Luke Wilson to hit Verizon again
Technically Incorrect — If you thought that AT had hurriedly cobbled together one Luke Wilson ad in its attempt to redress the rather crooked balanced created by the latest Verizon ads, well, here's an ad for that. Or several. Curiously, one ad features precisely the same strategy as that of the latest iPhone advertising : reminding those who might still be on the fence, on the phone, or even on the lam that you can't simultaneously enjoy voice and Web surfing on the Verizon 3G network--and hence on the Motorola Droid. So here we have Luke Wilson, still looking a little peaky and dressed in a difficult brown. Behind Luke, we have a man trying to use two phones (by ...

Gameloft's iPhone games on sale for 99 cents
iPhone Atlas — To celebrate Thanksgiving weekend, the prolific game developer is offering titles like Blades of Fury, NFL 2010, Real Tennis 2009, and Shrek Kart for just a buck apiece. Originally posted at The Cheapskate

Gameloft's iPhone games on sale for 99 cents
Crave: The gadget blog — To celebrate Thanksgiving weekend, the prolific game developer is offering titles like Blades of Fury, NFL 2010, Real Tennis 2009, and Shrek Kart for just a buck apiece. Originally posted at The Cheapskate

iPhone officially lands in South Korea
Crave: The gadget blog — A month after Apple started selling its iPhone in China , the device expanded its Asian reach Saturday with a much-heralded launch in South Korea. In keeping with the tradition of waiting in line for hours in advance of an iPhone launch, hundreds queued up overnight outside the Olympic stadium in Seoul to snag the smartphone as soon as it officially landed amid blaring music and strobe lights. The hoopla appeared to far trump the phone's more subdued arrival in China, where it launched in the October cold and rain to smaller-than-expected crowds . KT Corp, South Korea's second largest mobile carrier (after SK Telecom) and the local ...

Droid does, iPhone doesn't: The porn app store
iPhone Atlas — Oh, you knew someone was going to do this. So let's just get it over with. And though some might think of this as a battle between the Droid and the iPhone for the nation's morality, let's be open-source about it: someone's trying to make a lot of money from cell phone porn. A company with the obtusely childlike name MiKandi has launched a mobile app store that will exclusively cater to adults whose brain food consists of content that reflects their age. Yes, the sort of stuff some prefer to refer to as porn. MiKandi's publicity material naturally avoids this term, referring to the more PC phrase "adult only." However, there is a little kink in its ...

Droid does, iPhone doesn't: The porn app store
Technically Incorrect — Oh, you knew someone was going to do this. So let's just get it over with. And though some might think of this as a battle between the Droid and the iPhone for the nation's morality, let's be open-source about it: someone's trying to make a lot of money from cell phone porn. A company with the obtusely childlike name MiKandi has launched a mobile app store that will exclusively cater to adults whose brain food consists of content that reflects their age. Yes, the sort of stuff some prefer to refer to as porn. MiKandi's publicity material naturally avoids this term, referring to the more PC phrase "adult only." However, there is a little kink in its ...

ESRB iPhone app arms video game buying parents
iPhone Atlas — [image] A new iPhone app from the Entertainment Software Ratings Board allows parents to see the full ratings summaries of more than 18,000 video games. (Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET)

Gigzee iPhone app finds nearby live shows
iPhone Atlas — Unfortunately, it doesn't offer anything unique, and has less gig information than competitors like JamBase, Bandloop, and iConcertCal. Originally posted at Digital Noise: Music and Tech

Verizon nixes holiday ads to continue AT&T-bashing
Technically Incorrect — If you thought that all wireless carriers know just how good their competitors' networks are, you might be suffering from a dropped conception. In a recent speech to the Association of National Advertisers, posted on the AdAge Web site ...

New Droid ad: iPhone is 'digitally clueless'
Technically Incorrect — Perhaps you have already become used to Verizon's Droid tossing names at the iPhone like an 8-year-old boy behind his teacher's back. However, the latest ill feelings directed at Apple's little cutey seem beyond even anything heard in an elementary school. In a new TV spot, Droid asks an important question: "Should a phone be pretty?" To which many sane people would say "yes," and many emotionally challenged beings made of metal would say, "Huh? What?" Its answer--the latest in its presentation of the Droid as a robotphone--is to hurl metallic-tasting custard pies as if the Apple store was a state fair. "Should it be a tiara-wearing digitally clueless ...

New Droid ad: iPhone is 'digitally clueless'
Crave: The gadget blog — Perhaps you have already become used to Verizon's Droid tossing names at the iPhone like an 8-year-old boy behind his teacher's back. However, the latest ill feelings directed at Apple's little cutey seem beyond even anything heard in an elementary school. In a new TV spot, Droid asks an important question: "Should a phone be pretty?" To which many sane people would say "yes," and many emotionally challenged beings made of metal would say: "Huh? What?" Its answer--the latest in its presentation of the Droid as a robotphone--is to hurl metallic-tasting custard pies as if the Apple store was a state fair. "Should it be a tiara-wearing digitally clueless ...