TUAW: One of the most awaited features, push notifications, requires a constant data connection. While the iPhone 3G can handle data and voice simultaneously when using a 3G/HSDPA connection, on EDGE (the cellular data service that the original iPhone uses) you are unable to take calls and maintain a persistent data connection. As a result, [...]
I love when Apple goes all passive-aggressive, like in support article HT3642: Apple designs the hardware and software to provide seamless integration of the iPhone and iPod with iTunes, the iTunes Store, and tens of thousands of apps on the App Store. Apple is aware that some third-parties claim that their digital media players are able to [...]
Gizmodo has posted 94 ideas for iPhone apps – designed in Microsoft’s Paint application.
Jason Snell, on AT&T’s lack of support for iPhone OS 3.0′s keystone features: From the outside, there’s just no way to know why AT&T does the things that it does. But given Apple’s attitude, the reaction from the crowd at WWDC, and the anger out on the Internet, something is obviously wrong. It makes me [...]
From Open Press Wire: Are you tired of hearing it yet? I sure am. It seems Twitter has fostered an extreme steroid fed bacterial growth of social media experts, social media gurus and super follower magnates. Unfortunately there isn’t much of an antibiotic floating around to separate the experts from the idiots. If you weren’t [...]
The Newton is back in the spotlight, and once again, is creating waves in the Apple community. The Newton 2010 bug has made news before, but just re-surfaced on a prominent Apple blog. Here’s TUAW: Apple’s ill-fated and technologically advanced personal digital assistant was hot stuff in the 1990s until it was axed in February of 1998. [...]
Documents To Go – the premiere mobile app for editing Office documents - has been released for the iPhone. This makes the iPhone even more attractive to businesses.
From Apple’s PR group: “Safari 4 is an incredible success on Mac and Windows with more than 11 million downloads in the first three days,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “Safari users love the incredible speed and innovative features like Top Sites, Full History Search and Cover Flow.” 11 [...]
From the MacRumors forums: 1.) It appears nearly certain that the new 13″ and 15″ MacBook Pros are all reporting a SATA interface running at 1.5Gb and not the faster 3.0Gb rate that has been in pretty common use for the last few years. These new models have the Secure Digital (SD) slot and also [...]
The New York Times has posted a lengthy piece on data centers – the buildings that power web services, store our data, and more. They interviewed Michael Manos, a former Microsoft employee: At Tukwila — as at any big data center — the computing machinery is supported by what Manos calls the “back-of-the-house stuff”: the chiller [...]
