Guide to Mac, iPod, iPad and iPhone news and reviews
It looks like another high-profile publication is avoiding Apple’s in-app subscription rates by debuting an HTML5 Web app. On Tuesday, the New York Times followed the Financial Times’ footstepsby launching its own new HTML5 Web app for the iPad….
Samsung Galaxy S III’s display is thinner and has a greater range of colors than that of the Apple iPhone 5, an IHS iSuppli teardown analysis revealed Tuesday.
But IHS iSuppli analyst Vinita Jakhanwal noted that the differences between the displ…
While some people think social, location-based mobile apps are for the birds, others might like to use them for that very purpose. That’s the idea behind Birdeez, an iOS app created by three partners in California who have birdwatchers in their sig…
The Nest learning thermostat has taken a page from the Apple playbook, with a new hardware and software release roughly a year after the original device’s debut. And that’s no surprise, given that Nest was created by Tony Fadell, who oversaw the de…
Apple announced on Monday evening that it would host its next earnings call on October 25. The call will cover the company’s earnings for the fourth fiscal quarter of 2012—as those who haven’t previously paid attention to Apple’s fiscal calend…
Sharp is displaying publicly for the first time tablet displays based on its IGZO technology at the CEATEC electronics show outside of Tokyo, amid persistent rumors Apple will use the displays in its upcoming tablets.
The Japanese manufacturer…
Apple has received rare praise from a leading rights advocacy group for incorporating important new privacy enhancing features in its recently released iOS 6 operating system.
In a blog post on Monday, the Center for Democracy and Technology (CD…
When you’re using your Mac, currently running applications appear in the Dock, but there are many processes running invisibly in the background. Some of these are processes you’ve initiated yourself—for example, by adding them to the Login I…
Fluance’s FiSDK500 Two-way High Performance Wood Speaker Dock Music System for iPod/iPhone—let’s just call it the FiSDK500—is a big, serious-looking system. And it sounds good, too.
The FiSDK500’s wood, rounded-ends enclosure is finish…
With the introduction of the My Book VelociRaptor Duo, Western Digital adds another Thunderbolt-ready model to its growing line of My Book desktop storage devices. The VelociRaptor Duo takes Western Digital’s My Book Thunderbolt Duo ( ) and…
Twelve South’s $80 BookBook case looks awesome—it reminds me of the collection of Encyclopedia Britannica’s from the 1970s my dad still keeps in his office. Although this folio-style case looks stunning, there are some flaws with the case that …
When I first reviewed Geo Walk HD in 2011, my verdict was this: This app is undoubtedly cool, with its interactive globe and world facts, but it is limited. A year and several rounds of app updates later, that verdict can be revised, but only slig…
It’s become a maxim of modern business life: Your most important meeting of the year won’t take place in a conference room, but rather online with all attendees viewing a common computer screen.
It’s impersonal. It’s detached. And it’s often qui…
Hero Academy may have put asynchronous multiplayer games on the iOS map, but Outwitters, a turn-based strategy game by One Man Left, drenches the familiar formula in an absurd level of bubbly effervescence. The charming factions that duke it out i…
If you’re reading these words, there’s an excellent chance that when you travel, you truck along not only clothes and very small containers filled with shampoo and toothpaste, but also a fair collection of gadgets (and the accessories necessar…
If you thought photo collages were a thing of the past, think again. In reality, they’ve merely gone the way of Polaroids and telephone handsets—they died for awhile, but are coming back to life with major digital mojo. Layout, a photo-editing…