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Apple submits patent application for magnetic and sound-based peer-to-peer technology

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 21st, 2011)

A patent discovered by Patently Apple suggests that Apple may use a magnetic compass and supersonic tone technology to share data between your iPhone and other electronic devices. In this new peer-to-per communication system, a magnetic compass is used to monitor the magnetic signature of a ...

Apple to drop Samba networking tools from Lion

by Dana Franklin (Mar 24th, 2011)

Changes to its licensing may lead Samba, an open source suite of tools for networking with Windows systems, to be chopped from Mac OS X Lion, according to a report from AppleInsider. Instead, Apple will develop its own solutions for interacting with neighboring Windows systems over a ...

Apple iAd minimum buy halved to $500,000

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 23rd, 2011)

Apple is reportedly lowering the entrance fee for its iAd platform to US$500,000, a 50 percent reduction from its launch price of $1 million. This potential reduction would benefit smaller advertisers who can now afford to get their foot in the door of this mobile advertising platform. Mark ...

Are Apple's iAds in trouble?

by Mike Schramm (Feb 10th, 2011)

I probably could have told you this one based on the anecdotal data I've heard from developers lately, but "insiders" have told MobileCrunch that Apple's iAd service isn't doing quite as well as Apple had hoped. The fill rate -- which refers to actual ad space that's filled with a paid ad -- has ...

Verizon Wireless wants to throttle you (actually your data usage)

by Steven Sande (Feb 3rd, 2011)

In preparation for millions of iPhone 4 users who will soon be jumping onto the Verizon Wireless network, the company has announced that they will start throttling the data throughput of customers who consume an "extraordinary amount of data." In a PDF memo on the Verizon Wireless website, the ...

100 Cameras in 1 latest non-game app to use Game Center on iOS

by Mike Schramm (Jan 24th, 2011)

Back when Apple first introduced Game Center, one of the first big questions was whether or not apps that weren't actually games could use the service to share achievements and leaderboards from user to user. Since then, there have been a few examples of this poking around, but this is probably the ...

Bart Decrem on Tap Tap Revenge 4 and the Disney acquisition of Tapulous

by Mike Schramm (Dec 22nd, 2010)

Tapulous (purchased by Disney earlier this year) has released Tap Tap Revenge 4, the fourth iteration of the extremely popular iOS music game, and the new version brings a whole lot of new features to the series. The game is now compatible with the Retina Display, includes Game Center integration, ...

T-Mobile FCC memo cites Android app that caused network chaos

by Michael Rose (Oct 19th, 2010)

Remember, back in 2007 -- you know, Year One BTAS (Before The App Store) -- when Steve Jobs gave Apple's rationale for keeping the iPhone a closed platform versus allowing native app development? "Cingular doesn't want to see their West Coast network go down because some application messed up," he ...

Rumor: No 4G for Apple in 2011

by Mike Schramm (Oct 11th, 2010)

Are we tired of all the rumors around a 4G Verizon iPhone yet? First it's off, then it's on, and now it's off again. TechCrunch's Steve Cheney claims he's heard from sources that Apple won't support the 4G/LTE cell network in 2011, which means that we won't see a 4G iPhone next year. Cheney claims ...

Game Center not supported on iPhone 3G and second gen iPod touch

by Mike Schramm (Aug 5th, 2010)

There's bad news for those of you with old iPhones. Apple has confirmed that the latest beta of Game Center is a no-go for anything older than an iPhone 4. That means that iPhone 3Gs and second generation iPod touches are out for Apple's social gaming app. It's probably for the best; you've likely ...

iPhone 4 prices from around the world

by Mike Schramm (Aug 3rd, 2010)

Now that the iPhone 4 is available around most of the world, iFun designed this interesting little infographic that compares the various prices of the handset around the globe. Note that all of these prices are in Euros, and that they all reflect the out-of-contract price -- because the US iPhones ...

Manage your DNS settings for faster web browsing

by Brett Terpstra (May 16th, 2010)

In the Network Settings pane of your System Preferences, you may have noticed that you can manually set the DNS servers your connection will use. There are a few reasons for doing this, namely speeding up the time it takes to look up any given website, but also to bypass some annoyances in your ...

3G technology: Yesterday, today, and tomorrow

by Charles Figueroa, Jr. (Apr 30th, 2010)

Cellular technology has been evolving since its invention. With the first cellular telephone networks, developed by Bell Labs and AT&T, cellular technology began to make leaps forward in ease of use, voice quality, and data communication. The miracle of technology we know today as the cellular ...

No vacations in June for AT&T employees

by Mike Schramm (Apr 16th, 2010)

Boy Genius has the news that AT&T has blacked out the month of June for employee vacations in their stores. In the past, they've done exactly that when, oh, say, a brand new iPhone launches. So it's possible that we could see a new iPhone out and ready to go even before it's expected in July of ...

OpenFeint's Jason Citron talks Game Center and Aurora Feint 3

by Mike Schramm (Apr 9th, 2010)

The first thought on everyone's minds as we heard during the event yesterday that Apple would be forming their own social gaming network on the iPhone called Game Center, was probably, "What about OpenFeint?" Since almost the very beginning of the App Store, OpenFeint founder Jason Citron has been ...