TomTom’s new app for Apple’s iPhone is getting attention for its high price tag of $99.99 but is garnering a positive first impression in the gadget blogosphere.
The app offers many of the features offered in its standalone GPS devices, including navigation help, trip-planning tools and multi-language support.
Thanks to Twitter’s rising popularity–and its finite, 140-character message length limit–free URL shortening services have been all the rage recently. But they should not become a critical part of your company’s infrastructure.
While many professional journalists fondly remember the work they did in college–covering townie news for the university paper or radio station–some are trying to erase their past work from the Internet because it shows up prominently on search engines like Google.
Apple continues to serve as nanny and tastemaker for its iPhone app store.
Facebook has been putting a lot of effort into its videos lately.
The latest: A beautiful, hi-def video illustrating how the company’s engineers elegantly handle almost 2,000 photo uploads per second and manage more than 40 billion photos.
Is Apple in the process of reinventing the way mainstream headphones are designed for the second time this decade?
Apple is famous for keeping its gadget pricing steady. But the iPhone app store is a much different market: App developers have cut prices significantly in the last few months. And the market for $10 premium apps seems to have evaporated.
Turns out we’re not the only ones who’ve been inspired by John McCain’s brilliant idea to suspend his campaign to focus on the economic crisis. The cranks at Twitter are doing the same thing, using “#suspending”–a “hash tag” Twitterers use to track a meme.
Apple’s new iPhone 3G is supposedly twice as fast as the old one, and its new App Store opens up all kinds of neat new mobile Internet services like baseball video and free streaming radio.
We haven’t spotted many ads so far in Apple’s (AAPL) two-week-old iPhone app platform. But that could change soon: Mobile ad network AdMob is opening … up to iPhone app developers, and is giving away $1 million of free advertising to get developers to use it.
Have you ever wished you could fall asleep and wake up as Samantha, a 19-year-old who loves the outdoors? Or Erik, a 29-year-old booze hound with cooking skills? Now you can! On Facebook, at least.
Turns out the iPhone shortage isn’t limited to New York Apple stores: Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster called 20 Apple stores nationwide today–and all of them were sold out of iPhones. In a note, Munster says the lead time for iPhones on Apple.com is still “5-7 days.” What does this mean?
Hulu’s Web video service might never make it as a business. But it’s going to help save me hundreds of bucks a year. Why? I finally packed up my set-top box and canceled cable. Digital cable is a nice service, especially on a high-definition TV. But it’s hard to justify spending lots of money on something I don’t really need anymore. The math is simple: My $80 cable bill adds up to $960 a year.
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