Monthly Archives: November 2011

When Steve Jobs first dreamed up the iPhone with his team at Apple, he didn’t want it to run on AT&T’s network. He wanted to create his own network. Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/11/steve-jobs-iphone-no-carrier/ Carl Nunn Johnny O Mara Zach Osborne Trampas Parker

Despite its truly awful camera, the iPad 2 is what I take most of my photos with these days. Why? Because the photos are easy to share, and easy for me to browse and play around with. And Shoebox is … Continue reading →

We’ve been waiting with bated breath for Verizon to make an announcement concerning its planned launch of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. The wait continues, but one more step in the regulatory process leading up to said launch is now complete … Continue reading →

Current Apple board member and Genentech CEO Arthur D. Levinson has been named non-executive Chairman of Apple’s board. Levinson, a PhD, has served on Apple’s board since 2005. Disney CEO Bob Iger will also be joining and serving on the … Continue reading →

Google, as part of its ongoing and much-needed overhaul of its popular Blogger platform, has just enabled five dynamic, HTML5ish, AJAXy ‘Dynamic Views’. There’s a video introducing the new layouts after the break. The five new views provide fresh and … Continue reading →

The guys from Applidium claim to have cracked Siri?s security protocol and it could open the floodgates to third party developers and of course other hardware too. There is a downside, in order to use Siri on one of these … Continue reading →

Ready for today’s grain of salt? We just got handed imagery and specs of a possible HTC device in the works codenamed the Zeta. It’s a quad-core handset, much like the Edge that was leaked last week, but it has … Continue reading →

We’ve officially reached the halfway mark, and whether you’ve embraced Movember for charitable, novelty, or stylish reasons, you’ve probably got yourself a respectable soup strainer by now. But there’s still half a month to go, so here are seven tools … Continue reading →

Human-machine interaction just got a bit more… interesting. Researchers from France’s Montpellier Laboratory of Informatics, Robotics, and Microelectronics have demonstrated a new technique that allows a robot to control a person’s arm in order to accomplish a task together — … Continue reading →

There seems to be a gazillion Bluetooth keyboards available for the iPad and other tablets, but most of them are designed specifically for one device and are often built into a case that can only accommodate that device.  The ZAGGkeys FLEX keyboard from ZAGG … Continue reading →