Palm’s PDAs were once a tech accessory equivalent to wearing Jimmy Choo shoes. Having one made you appear important, rich, successful, or all three. The raging debate over who had the bestest PDA - Compaq/HP Pocket PCs or Palm’s wide range - was as intense and dorky as the iPhone fanboys versus CrackBerry addicts. I once witnessed two Circuit City salesmen argue over the best one to go with my new bluetooth-capable mobile phone. The advent of smartphones made carrying a phone AND a PDA a t
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comScore Reports a Rise in U.S. Online Video Consumption
New data released today by comScore shows a 34% increase of online video consumption by U.S. Internet users versus year ago. A total of 12.7 billion online videos were viewed during November 2008. Not surprisingly, Google/YouTube held the top spot with a 40% share of videos viewed online. Also in the top five most visited video sites were Fox Interactive (3.5%), Viacom (2.6%), Yahoo! (2.4%) and Microsoft (2.3%). Other tidbits from the comScore report: 77 percent of the total U.S. Internet audi
Read more »Rumor: AT&T Tethering Coming this Week
The long awaited release of the AT&T tethering plan is rumored to be coming this week according to Tuaw. The rumor is that the iPhone-as-modem tethering plans will supposedly boast a 5 GB data cap at a $30 per month supplementary cost and will be released this week alongside the Macworld Expo. They speculate that this tethering announcement will not be “key-note” worthy, but may be publicized as a press release during the show or shortly thereafter. So $30 is cheaper than what’s
Read more »Apple iPhone 3G review
The Apple iPhone 3G offers more new features including support for high-speed 3G networks, third-party applications, and expanded e-mail. Its call quality is improved and it continues to deliver an excellent music and video experience.The new phone is thinner at the edges than the earlier version and slightly thicker in the middle, other measurements remain the same although the 3G is 2grams lighter than its predecessor. If you want to Unlock iPhone 3G you need a iPhone Unlocking Software.The
Read more »More of What to Expect at Macworld 2009: Mac Mini and 17 Inch MacBook?
A little more information has come out to help clear up the possibilities we reported on in our What to Expect at Macworld list. In fact, it even adds a few things to the list that we didn’t really expect. So what new stuff can you look forward to at Macworld? First of all, iPhone tethering is finally supposed to be official, with a plan from AT&T. If the rumors are true, you can pay $30 (in addition to the iPhone data plan charges) to get tethering on your iPhone. There’s a 5GB data c
Read more »Safari+ Adds More To Your iPhone Browser
Safari+ Adds More To Your iPhone Browser 1:55 pm, January 5th, 2009, Giles Turnbull Bookmarklets are great little things. They’ve been proving themselves useful on desktop browsers for years, and are now getting an extra boost of interest from the iPhone community, because you can use them to make mobile Safari do more things. The latest I’ve seen is Safari+, which is a collection of a dozen or so useful little commands that you might be used to using many times a day on your computer, b
Read more »Twitter Accounts Hacked by Phishing Method
The popular site Twitter has been experiencing a tremendous amount of phishing attacks that stole the usernames and passwords of site users. Many of these accounts were prominent Twitter accounts. Fox News’ account declared for about an hour that “Bill O’Reilly is gay” while Barack Obama’s account, which was last used in November on election day, posted a long link to a third-party survey with the lure of a gas card prize. Rick Sanchez, a CNN anchor and frequent Twitterer, was declaring earlie
Read more »KEN HUNT'S TRAINING TIPS FOR THE NEW YEAR
As we close the book on 2008 and look with hope towards 2009, our thoughts naturally turn to new year’s resolutions! You might not know that the tradition of the New Year's resolutions goes all the way back to 153 B.C. Janus, a mythical king of early Rome was placed at the head of the calendar. With two faces (sounds like a few old boyfriends), Janus could look back on past events and forward to the future. Janus became the ancient symbol for resolutions and many Romans looked for forgiveness f
Read more »Pre-Macworld 2009 Thoughts and Rumors
The good news is that with the keynote almost upon us, the Mac community has switched primarily from crying about Jobs not giving the keynote to instead focusing on the usual rumors and speculation. This is as it should be. I’ve written about what I think of the change from Jobs to Schiller for Apple’s last Macworld keynote, so let’s talk about what we may see tomorrow. So many rumors, so little time… Software It seems there are three likely announcements on the software front: An update t
Read more »Apple and AT&T to Roll Out iPhone Tethering Plan at Macworld?
We’ve talked about iPhone tethering for so many times so far that it should only be fair for AT&T and Apple to officially settle the deal so far. We’ve seen both legal and illegal tethering version so we should only be waiting for the officially official version. Is Tuesday’s Macworld keynote going to reveal an AT&T iPhone tethering plan? The plan has been rumored cost $30 per month for $5GB. Sounds familiar? Well that’s what AT&T BlackBerry users are paying so far. Will we be disappointed
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