Technology News

Apple iAd Platforms Entry Fee Reported to be $1 Million

Source: All About Jazz
May 2, 2010

Apples iAd platform holds lots of promise for advertisers, considering how much people use their iPads, iPhones and iPods. But buying into this game wont be cheap. The company plans to charge each advertiser a minimum of $1 million when the platform rolls out in the next few month between five and 10 times what competing ad networks charge, according to the Wall Street Journal. And if they want to be included when iAd launches, they'll need to spend nearly ...

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3G-Enabled iPads on Sale

Source: All About Jazz
May 2, 2010

5 p.m. a couple hundred people lined up at the the Fifth Avenue Apple store in Manhattan to pick up a 3G-enabled iPad. First in line: Justin Sher, 31, a molecular biologist from Brooklyn, who'd been waiting since about noon. Sher said he'd seen the Wi-Fi iPad and was “totally stoked" about buying the 3G version. He'll use it for work, he says. He expects to draw with it, type in numerical data and be able to plug it into ...

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Dead Zone Doldrums Test Skills of iPhone Customers

Source: Michael Ricci
May 2, 2010

Owners of iPhones know that their love for Steve Jobs's touch-screen marvel comes at a price. The iPhone's cellular coverage, provided exclusively by AT&T Wireless, is notoriously spotty. In some parts of New York and San Francisco, it's impossible to connect. If you go for a dim sum lunch at Yank Sing restaurant on the edge of the financial district in San Francisco, you are likely to miss calls from the office. Some owners can't use their iPhones in their ...

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iPhone Finder Regrets His Mistake

Source: All About Jazz
May 2, 2010

The person who found and sold an Apple iPhone prototype says he regrets not doing more to return the device to its owner, according to a statement provided by his attorney Thursday in response to queries from Wired.com. Brian J. Hogan, a 21-year-old resident of Redwood City, California, says although he was paid by tech site Gizmodo, he believed the payment was for allowing the site exclusive access to review the phone. Gizmodo emphasized to him that there was nothing ...

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New Questions over Googles Street View in Germany

Source: Michael Ricci
May 2, 2010

Google's plan to offer Street View photo mapping in Germany, which has bumped up against the country's strict privacy laws, has come in for renewed criticism after regulators learned that the company, a search engine giant, was also archiving the locations of household wireless networks. Google's Street View technology has been accepted in countries like Britain and France, but has encountered greater resistance in Germany and Switzerland, where data privacy laws are stricter than in the rest of Europe or ...

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Steve Jobs Claims Flash Will Kill the Mobile Web

Source: All About Jazz
May 2, 2010

The estrangement is complete: Let the messy divorce begin. Steve Jobs has gone public about his problems with Flash, the omnipresent web multimedia format which he will not allow on iPhones, iPods and iPads. Coming a little more than a week after Adobe said it would no longer try to get Flash onto Apples suite of mobile internet devices, this looks like the definitive split. There's no chance of reconciliation, and the parties have moved from grumbling and sniping to ...

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Apple Acquires Siri, a Personal Assistant Application for the Iphone

Source: Michael Ricci
April 29, 2010

Apple has acquired Siri, a voice-activated app for the iPhone that acts like a personal assistant. The transaction was approved Tuesday by the Federal Trade Commission. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Neither Siri nor Apple immediately responded to a request for comment. To use Siri, users need only to type or say something into the iPhone app, and it will carry out the command or find answers to a question. If a user wants to find a romantic ...

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Cash, Credit Card or....iPhone?

Source: Michael Ricci
April 29, 2010

Cellphone Payments Offer Alternative to Cash

You win a bet, but the loser does not have enough cash on him to settle it. If he has a credit card, and most people usually do, there is finally a solution. A number of big and small companies -- including eBay's PayPal unit, Intuit, VeriFone and Square -- are creating innovative ways for individuals to avoid cash and checks and settle all debts, public and private, using their cellphones. Several of the ...

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