It is time to take a step back from everything Apple and the nonexistent iPhone 5 for a minute and put everything into perspective. The summer of 2011 has been a building tidal wave of rumors, speculation, false leads and outrageous claims. When you look back at the roadmap that led to what Apple...
Google Plus has enabled locking and closing of comments on posts before sharing. Users can now decide not to allow commenting or resharing before clicking ‘Share,’ instead of rushing to change the setting after the post becomes visible to others. Engineer Ebby Amirebrahimi says this feature was added by popular demand. With today’s opening...
Apple slipped in a quieter announcement today amidst the iPhone 4S chaos: The launch of a new app called Cards, which lets you create a real, physical card from your iPhone by taking a photo on your camera and choosing from a simple selection of 21 different designs. Then Apple mails for $2.99 (U.S.)...
So there was no iPhone 5. But there will be a new iPhone 4S, which Apple announced Tuesday. And yes, it looks physically just like the iPhone 4, which might be disappointing for some, but there are several useful new features, most of them not visible at first glance. While there was no big...
Steve Jobs was clear last year that he didn’t consider Siri a search company, but instead an artificial intelligence company. But that doesn’t mean that Siri can’t serve as a threat to Google on iOS devices. With the rollout of Siri on iPhone 4S, the voice-recognition and virtual assistant service is even more robust...
On Sept. 27, the Wall Street Journal updated its online privacy policy to both read more clearly and to lay out some new, more invasive, practices. The resulting lack of outrage — or even discussion, really — highlights that we have a long way to go to get online privacy where it needs to...
Not sure this is what Jack had in mind but if you thought the homeless guy who accepts Square payments was intriguing, it’s time you met the street worker, ok prostitute, who makes a living with it. Shot by Roger BStillz. Article source: TNW http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheNextWeb/~3/8IjF5wf8cnw/
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After years of having a GPS-equipped phone, the idea of not having GPS is a little crazy. Even with smartphone adoption rates dramatically increasing, there are still plenty of folks out there with maps and awesome memories. But come 2018, all of our directionally gifted friends will have GPS on their phones like it...
Here’s what you don’t know… Image: Apple See Also: Apple Reveals New iPhone 4S Looks Like The First Images Of The iPhone 4S Have Leaked From Apple’s Website THE FALLOUT: Analyzing The Impact Of Apple’s Failure To Release An iPhone 5 Ryan Tate at Gawker has a hilarious post up featuring examples of the...