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iPhone OS 4.0: Multitasking, finally, hooray!

by Erica Sadun (Apr 8th, 2010)

The demand for iPhone OS multitasking is nothing new. People have been looking for ways to do more than one thing at once on their iPhones for some time. For example, let's say you're chatting on IRC in one application, and you want to hop out to ...

Join us tomorrow for the iPhone 4.0 Metaliveblog

by Erica Sadun (Apr 7th, 2010)

<a href="http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php/option=com_mobile/task=viewaltcast/altcast_code=67a3acf22f" >iPhone OS 4.0 Apple Event</a> Tomorrow, Apple will be hosting an invitation-only media event to introduce the iPhone 4.0 ...

GDC 2010: Hands-on with Sam and Max: The Devil's Playhouse

by Mike Schramm (Mar 16th, 2010)

Last month at Macworld, Telltale Games announced that they'll be releasing their games day-and-date on both Mac and PC at the same time. Last week at GDC 2010, they announced a brand new season of Sam and Max, and also the news that, on April 15th, ...

GDC 2010: Canabalt postmortem

by Mike Schramm (Mar 11th, 2010)

"What kinds of games do you like?" Adam "Atomic" Saltsman asked of his panel audience at the Canabalt postmortem during the Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco. "Role-playing" was yelled out, as was "puzzler," and eventually Saltsman picked ...

GDC 2010: Ngmoco explains how Eliminate was built

by Mike Schramm (Mar 9th, 2010)

As they explained during the presentation, they had a heck of a goal with this project: they wanted to put together "the definitive FPS for iPhone," complete with all of the functions of a standard console deathmatch-style FPS, in just five months ...

Winter Olympics 2010: The iPhone experience

by Michael Grothaus (Feb 12th, 2010)

The Opening Ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics kicks off tonight at 7:30pm ET/PT. Here's a list of some ways you can enjoy this year's games on your iPhone. 2010Guide - Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games: The Official Mobile Spectator Guide ...

Steve Jobs at Apple Town Hall meeting: Harsh words for Google, Adobe

by Chris Rawson (Jan 31st, 2010)

Steve Jobs recently held a Town Hall meeting for Apple employees, and according to Wired, he had some very choice words for both Google and Adobe. While these likely aren't direct, word-for-word quotes, as they come from employees who spoke to Wired ...

The store is DOWN

by Erica Sadun (Jan 31st, 2010)

In the course of Apple Events, there comes a time as FCC approvals draw near, and announcements hang in the balance, that the store goes down and a great hush goes through the land. It is a time of great reflection and contemplation as each of us ...

Video of today's Apple event is now available

by Sang Tang (Jan 27th, 2010)

Apple has posted QuickTime streams of its "Latest Creation" keynote on their webpage, just in case you missed all the festivities earlier today. That latest creation, as we many had speculated, turned out to be the iPad. So you can watch Steve sit ...

Post-keynote TUAW prediction scorecard: How did we do?

by Chris Rawson (Jan 27th, 2010)

Yesterday we pooled our predictions together to try and predict what would happen at the iPad presentation today. How did we all do? Sang Tang: Sang was the closest in terms of the iPad's screen size -- 9.6" prediction vs. 9.7" actual size. ...

iPad will ship with 802.11n Wi-Fi, 3G optional

by David Winograd (Jan 27th, 2010)

I've been unhappy with the 802.11g Wi-Fi in iPhones and iPod touches, so I was quite happy to see that the iPad will have 802.11 a/b/g/n built in. This will allow everyone running an 802.11n network to no longer cripple your upload and download ...

Apple Event Metaliveblog: Celebrate the tablet with TUAW

by Erica Sadun (Jan 27th, 2010)

Thank you again everyone for stopping by and sharing this live event with TUAW. We really appreciated how many of you stuck around after our CoverItLive connection died. Thank you all! We really appreciate your support for TUAW. 11:37: And it ...

Waitchat: Anticipating the Apple Tablet Keynote

by Erica Sadun (Jan 27th, 2010)

Are you as excited as we are about the upcoming Apple announcement? Join us in this open chat prior to today's liveblog. All we ask is that you keep things civil and suitable for all ages. C'mon and join in the excitement as we monitor Twitter and ...