Apple's iMessage is touted as the end of SMS, thanks to its integration with the already in-use Messages app and the most important part of the deal - iMessages are completely free. One are where SMS does appear to have the upper hand though is invoked when your iPhone is stolen, or just plain lost.
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Oliver Haslam has written about technology for over a decade. His work has been published in print at Macworld and online pretty much everywhere else. If it plugs in or has a battery, it's fair game.
Well folks, it doesn't really get anymore random, weird or indeed wonderful than this. Coming out of the Music Hack Day 2011 in London, this video shows one iPhone 4S and Siri laying down some beats ala Notorious B.I.G.. The track of choice? Hypnotize, and we're sure you'll be hypnotized by the performance, too.
When Apple released the iPhone 4S to the world, it was more than a new iPhone - it brought with it a new way of interacting with technology. That new way was the first real way of talking to a piece of software using natural language. Yes we have had voice commands before, but software was listening for very specific words and a very specific syntax. Siri changed that.
Things just got very interesting in the world of cloud storage, especially if you own an iPhone. Microsoft has today released a new 'SkyDrive' app for both Windows Phone and iPhone, bringing iCloud and Dropbox-like file management and syncing to Microsoft's own mobile operating system as well as Apple's hugely successful iOS.
Microsoft today gave their OneNote iOS app an update to version number 1.3, and in the process also added iPad support to its note-taking application.
We are well and truly on our way to the iPad rumor nirvana that is early-January, with some new claims by the notoriously hit and miss DigiTimes suggesting that the new iPad 3 could be with us in the next 3 to 4 months.
It's Facebook infographic time again, and the latest one covers the possibility that Facebook, Twitter and other online social networks might just be able to help you land your next job, believe it or not.
It's Christmas, the time when families come together, friends drink too much together and people go to Apple Stores to buy iPads, iPod touches and if you're really lucky, an iPhone.
Even if you fall on the Android side of the smartphone divide it is hard to argue - without coming across as a raving crazy person - that there isn't something a little crazy about the shear number of different Android devices out there. Be they from the likes of LG, HTC, Samsung, Motorola or anyone else, there are so many that naming each and every one of them just isn't getting any easier.
Facebook is no stranger to controversy, but it usually find itself in hot water thanks to its less than clear privacy policies. In fact, even when their policies are clear people are usually pretty unhappy about what they are being told. Rightly or wrongly, Facebook has something of a reputation for being less than transparent.
