The auction house Sotheby’s is selling an official memo from Steve Jobs to Atari about improving the World Cup Football game. The pages – stamped and signed by Jobs himself – describe circuit diagrams and paddle layouts. Delightfully, the stamp says “All-One Farm Design” and features a Buddhist mantra, “gate gate paragate parasangate bodhi...
Last month, Facebook introduced a feature called “trending articles” that stuck a slideshow into your news feed of popular news articles via your friends that you might have missed. It looks like videos are now getting the same treatment, as some users have just noticed “trending videos” in their news feed as well. Based...
Apple has released another version of the iOS 5.1.1 software for GSM versions of the iPhone 4 only, reports iPhone hacker iH8sn0w. This update is build number 9B208 and no information is known about it at this point. Was just about to push sn0wbreeze 2.9.4 and Apple pushes 5.1.1 (9B208) for the iPhone 4...
We love all things geeky here at The Next Web, including the amazing game from our childhoods, TETRIS. I’ve had this game on Nintendo, Game Boy, iPhone and every other device I can think of. I don’t have any words to add to this amazing work of art below. Have a watch and enjoy:...
Among some usability tweaks and bug fixes, Airbnb has announced an update to its iOS app which brings a new cool feature: offline access for messages and itineraries. If you’ve had a back and forth with your host and don’t have access to 3G or WIFI, have no fear. You can now go back...
Yahoo! came at the tech world in a blur this week, launching its new search and browsing tool Axis. Response has been lukewarm, especially since the launch didn’t go completely as planned. I’ve been playing around with both the desktop and iOS version and I think that Yahoo! might be on to something. I...
Riding the wave of social commerce, London-based Shopcade launched in November with a platform that lets people earn rewards for recommending products to Facebook friends. Now the company is expanding its presence stateside and beefing up its business model with new ways users can receive those rewards. Reflecting interest from the U.S. (the site’s...
Last month, the U.S. Department of Justice accused Apple and a number of other large U.S. publishers of conspiring to fix eBook prices and filed an antitrust lawsuit. While most of the publishers quickly settled the lawsuit, Apple decided to fight. Earlier this week, as Ars Technica reports today, Apple responded (PDF) to the...
Flickr / TheRogue Book ‘em. See Also Apple Fires Back: We Destroyed Amazon’s E-Book Monopoly The Government Is Suing Apple Over E-Book Pricing Apple Reveals A Three Pronged Plan To ‘Reinvent’ Education The government’s antitrust complaint against Apple and six book publishers over e-book pricing is “fundamentally flawed as a matter of fact and...
You don’t get a look inside Apple’s factories in China all that often. Apple is notoriously secretive about their processes and products. That’s why the video below is so fascinating, as it offers one of the most extensive looks at an iPhone assembly line that I’ve ever seen. Chinese blog Ynet reports that over...