Wall-Street-Journal Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

The curious idea of ads in iBooks

by Mike Schramm (Aug 24th, 2010)

Don't worry -- you won't start seeing ads for tattoo parlors while reading Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Not yet, anyway. But there's some interesting thinking going around the 'net (kicked off by this article in the Wall Street Journal) about how advertising may soon try to conquer the last bastion ...

Twenty iPad apps you'll want to see

by Mike Schramm (Apr 1st, 2010)

The App Store is live and running with iPad apps right now -- you can download and buy any iPad apps you want, even though most of them are technically "embargoed" until tomorrow morning. There's a lot of amazing stuff out there, but we'll try to focus you as best we can. Here's twenty apps that ...

Apple tweaking iPhone to work better on AT&T's network

by TJ Luoma (Mar 31st, 2010)

Powerpage.org cites a Wall Street Journal article reporting that Apple has worked with AT&T to "rejigger" how the iPhone works with AT&T's towers, resulting in a reduced load for some tasks. It was not clear what changes were made, but apparently a "crash course in wireless technology" ...

WSJ: New iPhone coming this summer, and may be coming to Verizon

by Sang Tang (Mar 29th, 2010)

Get ready for the "VeriPhone." The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple will be releasing a new iPhone this summer, and "appears to be working" on a model for Verizon Wireless. They claim it's a CDMA-based iPhone, and that mass production is slated to begin in September, but it's unclear when ...

WSJ: Hundreds of thousands of iPads sold, Apple scrambling for content deals

by Mike Schramm (Mar 18th, 2010)

The Wall Street Journal has written that Apple is scrambling to get everything ready for the iPad's release on April 3rd -- not only has it already "sold hundreds of thousands of the device, [according to] people familiar with the matter," but Apple is also working hard to try and "nail down" ...

WSJ: Tablet confirmed, Apple to reinvent old media

by Kelly Guimont (Jan 21st, 2010)

All of their information is centered on the alleged mystery device that will allegedly be announced at a now official event next week. Here are some of the juicier tidbits they passed on from those mysterious people "familiar with" what's happening on Inifinite Loop: Always partial to the ...

Apple's "controlled leaks" and how they spin them

by Mike Schramm (Jan 8th, 2010)

Here's an interesting story that popped up this week, made even more relevant by all of the tablet rumors flying around lately. John Martellaro at the Mac Observer has called out the Wall Street Journal piece earlier this week as a controlled leak from Apple. What he says makes sense: the news came ...

Why do crap apps still exist? They sell.

by Mike Schramm (May 12th, 2009)

The Wall Street Journal's Digits blog takes a look at "crap apps" -- those pieces of junk on the App Store that do one thing and do it pointlessly, whether that thing be farting or belching or making the sound of fingernails on a chalkboard (yes, really) or what have you. And they come up with a ...

Flash coming to the iPhone, if Adobe has anything to say about it

by Mike Schramm (Mar 19th, 2008)

The rumors are apparently true, after a fashion -- despite reports of Jobs' opposition to the idea, Adobe has told the Wall Street Journal that after reviewing the iPhone's SDK, their CEO says they can bring Flash to the device all by themselves. It'll be super interesting to see if Adobe tries to ...

TUAW interviews Walt Mossberg

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jan 16th, 2008)

We were lucky enough to run into Walt Mossberg, columnist for the Wall Street Journal, co-founder and host of D: All Things Digital. He shares his thoughts on the keynote and Apple's new products. What was the biggest surprise for him? Watch and learn. Also available on: YouTube, Metacafe, ...

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