Email More “Daniel Goodman / Business Insider See Also Actually, The iPhone 5 WON’T Be Able To Use Voice And Data Simultaneously On Certain Carriers Here’s How To Figure Out Which iPhone 5 To Buy Here’s How iOS 6 Stacks Up Against Windows Phone 8 A commenter on Apple’s discussion boards points out that...
Besides Apple’s iPhone 5 selling out today, we just learned that its new dock connector cord has sold out too. After a check of the online store, the cord is delayed 2-3 weeks. The $19 cable is what you need to charge and sync your new iPhone or iPod with Lightning connector. Since older iPhone charging...
After trying and failing in the smartphone market, HP CEO Meg Whitman says the company is going to try again. Speaking with Fox Business, Whitman says, “We ultimately have to offer a smartphone,” because the future of computing is smartphones. In developing countries people aren’t going to buy HP desktops or laptops. If HP...
Imagine being able to watch live TV, from anywhere, on any device. Sounds too good to be true. Because it is. We’re not quite there yet, but we might get there at some point, thanks to major companies like Apple, Google and Microsoft battling to own the living room, but also thanks to nimbler...
Apple’s bringing its brick-and-mortar retail operations to Sweden for the first time tomorrow, with a new flagship location at Täby Centrum in the city of Täby, which is just about 20 miles outside of Stockholm. The new store opening is timed coincidentally around the launch of the iPhone 5, but when that device hits shelves next...
Microprocessor vendors have begun moving away from describing their chips with the sort of nerdy “speeds and feeds” metrics that have dominated computing for few decades. It’s part of a dramatic sea change in how PCs, tablets and smartphones are evaluated, bought and sold. In fact, the notion of computer “performance” is being completely...
When Apple revealed its new Passbook mobile payment system as part of the iOS 6 preview in June, many industry watchers expected the addition of near-field communications capability on the next version of the iPhone that would compliment Passbook. That new iPhone is here, but there’s no NFC feature in sight. The question now is...
Lilliputian Systems, a Wilmington, Massachusetts-based developer of portable power products for consumer electronics ranging from mobile phones to tablets, e-readers, MP3 players and laptops, today announced that it has closed on $40 million of a planned $60 million equity financing round. The investment was led by Moscow-based $10 billion investment fund RUSNANO, which focuses...
Preoders for the iPhone 5 went live at midnight tonight and, true to form, they went like hotcakes. You may remember that it took 22 hours for the iPhone 4S and about 20 hours for the iPhone 4 to sell out of its pre-order, launch-day stock. The iPhone 5 took just about 60 minutes....
Forget its $104 billion IP0, Facebook’s greatest achievement is building a social network of 950 million people. But what if that tremendous size is also Facebook’s Achilles’ Heel? Forget “too big to fail.” What if Facebook is getting too big to succeed? Ever-growing friend lists threaten to make the service less personal – and...