Category: iPhone

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 has a search function, which was inexplicably absent before. It's also able to look up words and phrases through Wikipedia and Google, but not within ...

Lookout, a mobile security company, embarked on an absolutely massive study that examined the code of some 300,000 Android and iPhone apps. Dubbed the App Genome Project, it looked at a large cross-section of mobile apps and found that an unsettling number of them were accessing your personal information, and sometimes without alerting you. According to Lookout, 33-percent of iPhone and ...

As mobile banking becomes more popular, security threats will grow -- unless banking institutions keep a close watch on their customers' personal information. According to The Wall Street Journal, users of Citibank's iPhone application were recently exposed to a security threat because a previous version of the app had stored personal information -- including account numbers, bill payments and ...

When we were wee-little bloggers, nothing piqued our interest in books more than the Choose Your Own Adventure series. In retrospect, the series (which was launched in 1979) and its interactive storylines presaged the role-playing video games that would later engross millions. Having changed publishers' hands over the years, Choose Your Own Adventure has found a still newer venue -- albeit under ...

As mobile technology grows, it seems, so do the dangers of driving. First, we got talking while driving, which, though irritating, rarely results in more than an exceptionally slow driver. Then, we started seeing the evidence of texting while driving -- the swerving, the stoplight-running, etc. Well, now, with the smartphone, we have to deal with those bewildering types who have the gall to ...

The scientists with Raytheon Company consistently engineer intimidating and inspiring defense technology. During a recent exercise, the military contractors demonstrated the awesome capabilities of an anti-aircraft laser system, and now Raytheon plans to upgrade another of its aerial defense programs. The firm, which previously made its foray into iPhone territory with the One Force Tracker ...

Kicking off what we hope is the beginning of the end of the 'Antennagate' mess, Apple launched its iPhone 4 Case Program today. Steve Jobs promised free Bumpers, cases and refunds to iPhone 4 owners at last week's emergency press conference, and you're eligible for the refund or case as long as you purchase Apple's latest phone before September 30th. For those of you who have already bought an ...

Think of how much you love your iPhone. Now picture it with a Canon EF 70-200mm strapped to the front end. Did your heart just well up? 'Cause ours didn't. Yet, for Apple fanboy Jeremy Salvador, the idea of pimping out his iPhone with an adaptor to fit any Canon EF lens seemed too good to pass up. After buying an Owle iPhone mount, he decided that its array of built in excessiveness was not ...

This morning, Steve Jobs took to the stage in Cupertino to address what many had dubbed "Antennagate." The iPhone 4's issues with reception and dropped calls have led to a public outcry, and Consumer Reports even decided it couldn't recommend the faulty phone. After weeks of media and users complaining that touching the iPhone 4 in just the right place could quickly cut your reception from five ...

Whoopi Goldberg, we've lost faith in you. After defending Mel Gibson's racist tirades this week, she finally went too far with her reaction to iPhone 4's reception problems. (If you're interested, Jezebel compiled a disturbing list of things that Whoopi's tried to justify, including Michael Vick's predilection for dog-fighting and people who think the Moon landing was faked.) But the comedy ...

An 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 have been understating its case against the unlimited plan if the numbers from a new Nielsen study are to be believed. Nielsen has been tracking the ...

Apple 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, indeed, the result of faulty design. After testing different phones in a so-called "radio frequency isolation chamber," engineers noticed that when they ...

Big 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 platform. Leanback [Ed. Note: Does this make anyone else wanna 'Do the Rock Away?'] lets users navigate feeds, recommendations, searches and categories, by ...

It'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 of white people's favorite things: Apple stuff and darts. Any dart enthusiast with an iPad, an iPhone, a Bluetooth connection and $3.99 to spare can ...

Just 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 is over, and these videos are no longer on the Web. Contrary to rumors, Brian has not been fired, and is scheduled to return to his job at Best Buy ...