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Rumor: Smaller iPhone on tap for Verizon in Q3 2010?

by Steven Sande (Nov 7th, 2009)

If you're tired of dropped calls and dead zones, and pondering the merits of turning in your iPhone for a DROID... hold on there, champ. AppleInsider says it's received a copy of a report by OTR Global, claiming that Apple has signed contracts to ...

Ask TUAW: Arranging icons on the iPhone, installing Windows on a Mac, Airport networks and more

by Chris Ullrich (Nov 4th, 2009)

Welcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we have questions about arranging icons on the iPhone, installing Windows via Boot Camp, AirPort networks, iMac rotation support, replacing the video card in an iMac, and ...

Airport Extreme Base Station, Time Capsule boast a bigger antenna

by Lauren Hirsch (Oct 20th, 2009)

OK, so it's not nearly as exciting as a shiny new iMac or a Mac mini server, but the Airport Extreme Base Station and Time Capsule also received a mild update today. Both are now certified to the 802.11n specification (not draft-n), and along with ...

The future of TV on your iPhone is ATSC Mobile DTV

by Steven Sande (Oct 17th, 2009)

If you're able to watch TV on your iPhone or iPod touch right now, you're probably having something streamed to your handheld device. That may change -- your phone may soon be equipped with a digital TV tuner to pick up the signals sent out by your ...

Wi-Fi Direct to bring secure peer-to-peer networking in 2010

by Steven Sande (Oct 14th, 2009)

If there's one thing that I've wanted to be able to do for years, it's to set up a direct Wi-Fi connection to another device without having to actually be near a Wi-Fi base station, or going to the trouble of getting an ad-hoc network set up on both ...

This just in: California 'cool car' law may hose your iPhone reception

by Steven Sande (Oct 13th, 2009)

Whenever I visit California, I'm always amazed with the number of state laws that have been enacted for one reason or another. For example, you're warned about alcohol's effect on pregnant women (duh!) when you go into bars and restaurants, and many ...

J.D. Power smartphone study ranks iPhone #1 in customer satisfaction

by Steven Sande (Oct 9th, 2009)

I don't know about you, but when I hear the name "J.D. Power and Associates," I think of customer satisfaction for automobile manufacturers. The company also does customer satisfaction surveys in a number of other industries, and yesterday they ...

Business Insider: AT&T to allow VoIP on its 3G network

by Steven Sande (Oct 6th, 2009)

Business Insider is reporting that AT&T has given Apple the go-ahead to enable Voice over IP (VoIP) apps such as Skype on its 3G network. In the past, VoIP apps required a Wi-Fi connection. The announcement was made in advance of the annual ...

BlackBerry alert! BlackBerry Desktop Software for Mac arrives

by Steven Sande (Oct 2nd, 2009)

A TUAW reader zapped us a note with his BlackBerry device to tell us that as of today, BlackBerry Desktop Software for Mac is available (we first noted it as "coming in September" back in July). It's a free download [link], and requires Mac OS X ...

New Zealand iPhone GPS ban considered, then overturned

by Chris Rawson (Sep 28th, 2009)

A few days ago, I learned of a new law coming out in Australia that's set to ban cell phone GPS usage while driving. I criticized the Aussie government's approach and noted that while New Zealand had a similar forthcoming law, at least NZ's ...

One step closer, iPhone gets approval in South Korea

by John Burke (Sep 23rd, 2009)

It looks like the iPhone is one step closer to being sold in South Korea. Apple has been trying to increase sales of the iPhone in the Asian market and has met some degree of difficulty along the way. After initially showing interest back in ...

AT&T poised to roll out 3G MicroCell service

by Steven Sande (Sep 22nd, 2009)

For many iPhone owners in the U.S., the fact that you're tied to AT&T as the wireless carrier has been a serious problem. As an example, until this week, I was lucky if I got 2 bars of signal strength on EDGE at my house and I never had 3G ...

Are Apple Time Capsules out of time after a year and a half?

by Mel Martin (Sep 11th, 2009)

There are quite a few unhappy Time Capsule owners over at the Apple support boards. It appears that some Time Capsules are going belly-up at roughly the 18 month mark, simply refusing to power on. As Brian from Texas wrote: "My TC did the exact ...

Hands on: Connecting my mini to a TV

by Erica Sadun (Sep 1st, 2009)

We bought our Olevia 47" on Black Friday, 2007. It wasn't a particularly well rated TV. But it was a Black Friday deal that we could afford and it gave us far more screen space than we'd thought we'd be able to purchase. It has served us well ...

Gene Munster: iPhone on multiple U.S. carriers in 2010

by Steven Sande (Aug 31st, 2009)

Gene Munster, the Piper Jaffrey senior research analyst who usually hits the nail on the head when it comes to Apple forecasts, thinks that Apple will move to multiple U.S. carriers within the next year. He believe that this will happen next summer, ...

Snow Leopard extends Wake-on-LAN feature... if your config is right

by Michael Rose (Aug 29th, 2009)

It's been a stealth feature of modern Macs for years: the ability of a sleeping machine to respond to a 'magic packet' delivered over Ethernet and wake up on command, either triggered by a specialized app or by Apple Remote Desktop. Handy, especially ...