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3G-Enabled iPads on Sale
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. ...
Dead Zone Doldrums Test Skills of iPhone Customers
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 ...
iPhone Finder Regrets His Mistake
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 ...
New Questions over Googles Street View in Germany
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 ...
Steve Jobs Claims Flash Will Kill the Mobile Web
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 ...
Apple Acquires Siri, a Personal Assistant Application for the Iphone
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 ...
Cash, Credit Card or....iPhone?
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 -- ...
App Turns iPhone into a Credit Card Terminal
As if phones didn't already do enough, one of the latest mobile apps transforms iPhones and iPod Touches into portable charge card terminals. ProcessAway plugs into Authorize.net's payment processing platform, allowing entrepreneurs to accept credit card payments anywhere they can access the internet. After downloading the app and (separately) setting up a merchant account with Authorize.net, ...
New iPhone Expected at Apple Developer Conference
Apple announced the dates Wednesday of its Worldwide Developers Conference, where the company is expected to introduce a new iPhone (even though tech blog Gizmodo may have spoiled the surprise). Taking place June 7 to June 11 at San Franciscos Moscone West convention hall, the five-day conference includes hands-on sessions for software developers to become familiar ...
Senators Ask Facebook to Fix Privacy to New Features
Lawmakers are asking Facebook Inc. to roll back a new feature that they say invades the privacy of the popular online social networks more than 400 million users. On Tuesday, four U.S. senators objected to the feature that shares information with other websites without the explicit consent of users. They want Facebook to make the feature ...
