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Opera mini coming to the iPhone

by Dave Caolo (Feb 10th, 2010)

Opera Software announced on Wednesday that they're going to offer a sneak peek of their Opera Mini web browser for the iPhone during Mobile World Congress 2010 (MWC). Several features of the Mac-based Opera will be included, like tabs, Speed Dial and ...

Google Buzz now available on iPhone web app

by Mike Schramm (Feb 10th, 2010)

Google revealed its new social communications feature Buzz yesterday while we were all traveling to Macworld, and the new service is now up and running in the Mobile Safari web app, as well as in your Gmail account everywhere else. The mobile app has ...

iPad hands-on: Not a full desktop replacement, but the keyboard works

by Mike Schramm (Feb 5th, 2010)

For all of the back and forth about the iPad over the last week, only a handful of people (including Stephen Colbert) have gotten to actually touch one. Fox News, of all the outlets out there, posted a pretty clean and objective hands-on with the ...

US Government: iPad and other smart mobile devices may strain networks

by Dave Caolo (Feb 3rd, 2010)

Soon the iPad will be upon us, and the US government is worried about the congestion it will cause. Phil Bellaria is a staffer in the Obama administration. Specifically, he's the director of scenario planning for the federal government's Omnibus ...

Apple cybersquatter is ousted from Twitter, but still no sign of @apple

by Steven Sande (Feb 3rd, 2010)

Despite the huge number of companies and individuals that have Twitter accounts, our favorite Cupertino-based company has been strangely silent on the "social media" scene. While some conspiracy theorists out there might take that as proof that ...

New Trillian alpha available for the Mac

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Feb 2nd, 2010)

A Mac version of Cerulean Studio's Trillian has been years in the making and as of this past Friday, the alpha build of the software is finally out in the wild for Mac users to try. A private alpha has been available since 2007. Since I dropkicked ...

AT&T on iPad 3G data: We can handle it

by Mike Schramm (Jan 29th, 2010)

You probably had exactly the same response I did when you heard that AT&T would be handling the 3G data plan for the iPad: "Them again?" Sure, the deal is much better, and it's completely optional (you can get the iPad without 3G if you don't ...

Arthur C. Clarke's 2001 Newspad finally arrives, nine years late

by Steven Sande (Jan 28th, 2010)

One of my all-time favorite movies is Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. At several points during the film, we see ill-fated astronauts David Bowman and Frank Poole using a flat, iPad-like device. In one of the posters for the movie, astronauts ...

Apple's official iPad video, specs page

by Mike Schramm (Jan 27th, 2010)

Apple has updated their website with all kinds of fun iPad information, including an official specs page and the video that was shown at the end of today's event. The thing looks just plain beautiful, but then again this is basically their first ad ...

Apple announces the iPad

by Brett Terpstra (Jan 27th, 2010)

It's finally here. At their event in San Francisco, Apple has officially announced their tablet computer, which they're calling the iPad. Fully customizable, and better than a smartphone or a laptop at browsing, reading e-books, and a "great maps ...

Join us for a Tablet talkcast this evening at 5:30pm Eastern

by Mike Schramm (Jan 27th, 2010)

Everyone's currently engaged with the fervor over the pending announcement, but once the dust settles, there'll be lots and lots of opinions to be shared and "will you/won't you buy it" conversations to be had. That's what our talkcast is for! This ...

Access Google Voice from the iPhone via Safari

by Dave Caolo (Jan 26th, 2010)

Earlier today, Google made a mobile web version of Google Voice available for the iPhone. To understand the significance of this move, here's a bit of back story. Apple pulled all Google Voice related apps from the App Store back in July, which ...

Firefox 3.6 now available

by Dave Caolo (Jan 21st, 2010)

Head on over to Getfirefox.com, Firefox fans. Version 3.6 of your favorite browser is now ready. The video explains the major changes in this version, but here are the highlights. One-click themes. Using the Personas Gallery, you can assign a ...

Firefox 3.6 Release Candidate now available

by Mike Schramm (Jan 11th, 2010)

Mozilla has dropped a Firefox 3.6 release candidate which you can download and install it now if you want to try the browser's latest and greatest. It's a big, significant update, including many bug fixes, built-in Persona support, fullscreen for ...

Apple seizes 16 domain names from squatter

by Mike Schramm (Jan 8th, 2010)

Apple dropped the hammer on a domain squatter the other day, reclaiming sixteen different domain names in one fell swoop. The company filed a complaint a while back against a guy named Daniel Bijan, who didn't bother to fight his case at all (not ...

Apple adds 30-second samples to browser-based iTunes previews

by Dave Caolo (Jan 7th, 2010)

Last November, Apple launched browser-based iTunes previews, which gave customers information on a song or artist before pushing them out to the iTunes Store. It's a handy, welcome change. And now this week, they've added 30-second song samples to ...