Five months before Apple is expected to bring the next iPhone to market, rumors are already swirling like a tornado waiting to rip out the hearts of fanboys the world over. We've had plenty of claims and counter claims already, and that shows no sign of changing before an Apple executive puts foot to stage in order to announce just what the next iPhone will be like.
Sony's biopic of Steve Jobs' life is at production stage, and although some details have yet to be confirmed, it has been revealed that the movie will be written by Aaron Sorkin, and will benefit from the insight of Apple co-founder-turned-Lumia-fanboy Steve Wozniak, often referred to simply as "Woz". The guy who started Apple along with Jobs in a garage some 35 years ago, he would seem as apt a figure as any to offer guidance to Sorkin, who himself does his suitability stripes no harm with the likes of The Social Network to his name.
One of the things I personally found most fascinating about the late, great Steve Jobs was his dogmatic approach to everything that he did. Unfazed by skepticism, he took visions and ideas, remained vigorously dedicated to them, and while some were relatively hit-and-miss, the company he co-founded with Steve Wozniak has produced some of the most iconic and era-defining devices and innovations ever seen.
It's getting extremely interesting on the eve of Facebook's IPO, with the social network managing to raise an incredible $16 billion, while setting the price per share at an impressive starting point of $38 apiece. As expected, the managers from the big-money companies have all been keen to get in on the act, and the share price leaves Facebook's market value at an incredible $104 billion - half that of fellow web-based giant Google.
Those playing games on mobile devices are invariably referred to as "casual gamers", despite the quality of gameplay and graphics knocking on the door of the hardcore titles we know and love from the consoles. If research gathered by mobile game developer MocoSpace is anything to go by, casual is certainly an apt description of today's mobile gamers, with a third playing titles while they ought to be working hard in class!
It may just be something that is unique to me, but I always seem to get a little excited about mobile apps and Cydia-based tweaks that offer some kind of audible feedback to the user. I love Siri and App Store apps like Evi because they talk back to me, and I love tweaks like iCallAnnounce because they react to an event on the device and provide feedback to me through voice.
Steam has finally added remote game downloads to its service, and from what we’re able to gather, it’s a pretty seamless experience. The very latest version of Valve's Steam client allows users download and install games remotely, from any device.
All the talk may currently be surrounding the unannounced iPhone 5, but there is still plenty of life in the two models that are currently on the market. Apple's iPhone 4S is arguably the best smartphone out there right now, especially if you don't want to go the Android route, and the iPhone 4 is becoming a killer budget smartphone in its own right.
When it comes to securing its domains, Apple has been somewhat slack in the past, and made instant millionaires of quite a few intuitive domain squatters. Earlier on this month, the fruit company sought to gain control over the iPhone5.com domain, which was being utilized by a squatter to run a forum and benefit from ad revenue, and today, it would appear that request has been granted.
In the Google Play store, there are numerous utilities/apps that you can download to help optimize and improve your experience when using an Android phone. But there's one tool in particular that combined the functionality that's usually spread across multiple of these utilities into one. It's called Cosmos, and it offers the ability to monitor the sneaky privacy settings of the apps you have installed, moderate your battery usage, and delete useless junk files off of your device. It also features a pretty straightforward and easy to use - but not as easy on the eyes, unfortunately - user interface.
