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Kindle App for Your iPhone and iPad Gets Dictionary, Search
Earlier this week, we reported that Amazon was upping its game with even cheaper versions of the Kindle, but it has also updated the Kindle app on the iPad/iPhone/iPod touch, adding a couple of unremarkable yet needed features. The Kindle app now ... Read more →
AT&T May Be Right: Smartphone Customers Underuse Mobile Web
19 days ago on SwitchedAn uproar ensued when AT&T discontinued its unlimited data plan last month, and the company defended itself by arguing that 98-percent of its customers never used more than the 2GB allotted by the DataPro plan. Turns out, AT&T might even ...
Consumer Reports: iPhone 4 Reception Problems Due to Faulty Design
19 days ago on SwitchedApple may still refuse to admit that its iPhone 4 is plagued with design flaws, but Consumer Reports certainly won't. In a recent blog post, the company's testers confirmed that the signal problems many have noticed with the new iPhone are, ...
YouTube Launches Leanback, New HTML5 Mobile Site Gets Better Quality
23 days ago on SwitchedBig changes are afoot at YouTube, on both desktop and mobile fronts. The video sharing site finally launched its new TV-friendly 'Leanback' Web interface yesterday, just a month after parent Google announced its own highly touted GoogleTV ...
Throw iDarts at iDartboard With Sister iPhone and iPad Apps
23 days ago on SwitchedIt's been a hell of a month for Caucasians. First, there was the electric bicycle pedal, and, now, the e-dartboard. With the 'KL Dartboard' iPad app and its little sister iPhone app, 'KL Darts,' the developers at KeyLime3.14 have happily married two ...
Best Buy Extends Olive Branch to Viral Video Maker, Guy Says 'No Way'
24 days ago on SwitchedJust a few days after threatening to fire employee Brian Maupin because of a couple of videos he'd posted on YouTube, Best Buy has extended the olive branch. But Maupin is refusing to grab it. In a statement, Best Buy declared, "Our investigation ...
iTunes Accounts Hacked, App Store Swamped With Rogue Developers
25 days ago on SwitchedWhile most of us were relaxing and getting our BBQ on this weekend, a story was breaking that saw rogue developers hacking iTunes accounts and buying their own apps to both steal your cash and improve their own App Store rankings. In particular, ...
Best Buy Worker Faces Firing Over Viral iPhone vs. Evo Videos
25 days ago on SwitchedWhat began as an innocent viral joke may end up costing one Best Buy worker his part-time job. Brian Maupin, of Missouri, recently posted two videos making fun of iPhone and Evo acolytes, respectively. Although neither video made explicit reference ...
iCub Plane Distracts Pilots With an iPad-Equipped Cockpit
26 days ago on SwitchedAt first glance this seems like a terrible idea: putting an iPad front and center in an airplane cockpit. You wouldn't put one at the fingertips of a driver, so it would make sense to keep the app-running, Web-browsing device out of view when ...
Chase iPhone App Lets Users Deposit Checks on the Go
26 days ago on SwitchedMobile banking apps are a dime a dozen, but a recent update to JPMorgan Chase's free iPhone app really makes it stand out from the rest. Now, customers can deposit checks to their account via iPhone snapshots. It's as simple as logging into your ...
'Futurama' Mocks Apple by Telling Company to 'Shut Up and Take My Money!'
28 days ago on Switched[Disclaimer: The author of this article has the same name as the one-eyed, purple-haired alien in 'Futurama,' and, therefore, everything the show does is sacred to her.] The best thing about pre-cancellation 'Futurama' was that it was ...
Apple Says Poor iPhone 4 Reception Is a Software Problem, Fix Coming Soon
29 days ago on SwitchedAfter being widely lampooned for blaming its iPhone 4's reception problems on how users hold it, Apple has finally come out with a more legitimate-sounding, but equally head-scratching response to the issue. In a press release, the company said, ...
iPhone Coming to Verizon in January, Bloomberg Says
1 month ago on SwitchedVerizon iPhone, blah, blah, blah. We've heard before that Apple is hard at work on a CDMA version of the iPhone that will land on Verizon, and thereby eliminate the need for devoted Jobsians to suffer at the hands of AT&T's lackluster (but ...
The Best iPhone 4 Cases Reviewed
1 month ago on SwitchedEvery version of the iPhone has its idiosyncrasies, but the most recent incarnation tops them all. "You're holding it wrong" has essentially been Cupertino's answer to those customers experiencing lost reception and dropped calls. The only ...
Put a Ring on It With Tiffany App for iPhone 4
1 month ago on SwitchedRidiculously long lines of surly shoppers greeted the iPhone 4's official arrival last week. For those smelly campers who returned home to dismayed and agitated significant others (as long as it wasn't empty handed), a brand new app may help inspire ...
Kindle Editions for Apple Devices Gets Embedded Audio and Video
1 month ago on SwitchedNot even a week after slashing its e-reader's price, Amazon has also revamped its Kindle application for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch with shiny new upgrades. According to Engadget, the Kindle app now features embedded audio and video on select ...
