Apple patents are known to reveal technologies and features the company might be working on, or has at least looked into. This new patent, submitted in December 2009, depicts a location-based social network that allows users to locate people nearby that share the same interests. Vaporware or new friendships ready to be made?
Apple's iPhone 4 is pretty much accepted by all to be the best smartphone when it comes to industrial design. Say what you want about Apple's closed ecosystem, iOS and relationship with developers but you can't knock that beautiful handset.
Apple has started offering $100/€75 gift card for free for those people who buy a Mac. This is a part of their annual Back to School promotion and it starts today in both US and European countries.
We love Google. Specifically, we love Google search. That's not to say we don't love their Gmail. Or their Google Docs for that matter. It's just that, well, search is what makes the internet merry-go-round work. Before Google we had AltaVista and co, and we all remember how poor that was!
Google has updated Google Sync for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Three new features have been announced. Google Sync is used to keep your iOS device’s Mail.app, Calendar.app and Contacts.app in sync with your Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Contacts (respectively).
Windows 8 - the successor to the highly successful Windows 7 operating system - will release sometime in Autumn, 2012. The news comes from a Microsoft VP speaking at an event at Microsoft’s headquarters.
If reports are to be believed, Google is working on yet another Android smartphone, successor to the current Nexus S. According to rumors, the new model will be one of the first LTE 4G AT&T smartphones and will include greatly enhanced hardware once it ships around Thanksgiving (that's late November for our non-US friends).
According to recently leaked internal documents, containing roughly 50 MB worth of images and documents, Facebook is getting ready to unveil a new picture sharing app for the iPhone, and presumably for other platforms as well. Details are scarce, but leaked pictures give away a few hints.
Microsoft today released a new theme titled “Justin Bieber: Never Say Never” for Windows 7. Justin Bieber is a Canadian singer and actor. He was discovered on YouTube back in 2008 and then, as they say, the rest is history.
Our iPhones have become the home of our digital lives over the last few years. If you're anything like me, then the chances are you spend more time fiddling around on your iPhone than you do using an actual computer these days. One of the main draws of smartphones is their 'always-on' nature - if you're not sat at home connected to a WiFi network then there's always the 3G signal when you're out and about. The problem is 3G isn't cheap, and with unlimited data plans fast becoming a thing of the past we all need a proper way of monitoring the amount of data we're using, and the measuring built into iOS just won't cut it.
