Tuesday - January 6, 2009
Qualcomm Chief Executive Paul Jacobs generally has the latest and greatest cell phones. But he's never owned the uber-trendy Apple iPhone. "Not until they put a Qualcomm chip in it," Jacobs said in a September interview. It could soon be time for Jacobs' first Apple phone. The company is widely rumored to be planning an iPhone nano, a smaller touchscreen version of its popular phone. One industry analyst says it will run on Qualcomm chips. The weeks leading up to the annual Macworld conference are typically filled with rumors of expected product announcements.
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Saturday - January 3, 2009
Adam Parks is an avid reader of digital books, but you won't find him downloading the 20 or so titles he reads each year onto an electronic book device like Amazon's Kindle. Instead, Parks flips through pages -- Web-site design manuals and Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" are recent favorites -- on his trusted iPhone.
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Wednesday - December 31, 2008
For Internet junkies with high-speed access, there's a growing set of options for viewing online TV shows and movies. Sites like Hulu.com, Joost.com and even YouTube.com are showing full-length TV shows online. While YouTube is far behind Hulu and Joost in that regard, at least iPhone owners can watch YouTube videos on their mobile screens.
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Tuesday - December 30, 2008
Am iDrunk? It's a question that rains down during the holiday party season, especially with New Year's Eve just a couple of days away. Checking your sobriety is now just a reach away to an iPhone. A number of downloadable iPhone applications, or "apps," are ready to test your sobriety through blood-alcohol calculators and balance tests.
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Monday - December 29, 2008
In AT&T's end-of-the-year online refurbished phone sale, the wireless service provider is offering reconditioned iPhone 3Gs for just $99 -- roughly half the cost of a new unit. It's not the first time iPhones have dipped below $199. Just this weekend, the much-rumored Walmart iPhone debuted at $197 -- just $2 lower than the standard entry price for the 8 GB iPhone 3G.
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Tuesday - December 23, 2008
HP has introduced a new application for the iPhone and iPod touch that leverages its diverse product line of inkjet printers. HP iPrint Photo is available for free at the
App Store. As the name suggests, it allows users to print photos from their Apple devices using a local WiFi network and a nearby printer.
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Tuesday - December 23, 2008
Way back in 1950, science fiction giant Ray Bradbury wrote a short story, "There Will Come Soft Rains," about a smart house that did just about everything for its resident family -- including cooking breakfast and keeping track of the bills. Unfortunately, all members of that family, along with all inhabitants of the town, were obliterated by a nuclear explosion. The house, though, kept right on going.
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Sunday - December 21, 2008
There was no landslide winner as the most important tech product of 2008. But amidst the most challenging economic storm in decades, you could make a case for viable candidates. Smartphones, especially Apple's iPhone 3G, got smarter, buoyed by the brand-new iTunes App Store. Portable and inexpensive laptops, dubbed "netbooks," got smaller, cheaper and more ubiquitous.
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Friday - December 19, 2008
It's been a wild ride this week in the Apple-focused blogging world, thanks to Apple's bombshell statement that CEO Steve Jobs would not be giving his usual wildly anticipated keynote address at Macworld in January. In addition, after 2009's show, Apple itself will make no more appearances. All Apple did was put out a dinky little press release, and boom, the blog traffic erupted in a hot rain of speculation.
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Thursday - December 18, 2008
Apple must allow operators other than France Telecom's Orange to sell its popular iPhone mobile handset, the French competition regulator ruled Wednesday. The decision overturns an exclusive arrangement with Apple that has allowed Orange to be the iPhone's exclusive distributor in France since the phone was launched last year.
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Saturday - December 13, 2008
The killer app for the iPhone is -- drum roll, please -- the iTunes App Store. Five months after Apple launched its online emporium, I believe it even more, having downloaded a gaggle of programs, including some that transform my iPhone 3G into a harmonica, metric system converter and level.
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