What is the best travel technology to bring with you when you are going abroad? It’s a difficult question to answer since the needs of different travelers tend to be different. For example, a businessman who is heading to Japan in order to win a new client will have very different requirements from a backpacker [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
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iOS 4.2 arrives as the iPad gets multi-tasking
The latest version of Apple’s iOS operating system has been released today and it brings with it several welcome enhancements, not the least of which is multi-tasking for the iPad, iPhone (3G, 3GS and 4) and the iPod Touch (2nd, to 4th generations). In a press release today, the company said… iOS 4.2 makes the iPad [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
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Apple passes RIM, becomes 4th Largest Mobile Phone Vendor
It’s finally happened that embattled Blackberry Maker, Research in Motion, has lost the 4th spot of mobile handset manufacturers to Apple. Figures from IDC and published by Engadget show that the league table now stands as… Nokia Samsung LG Apple RIM …and given their recent and ongoing troubles, we can expect to see Nokia lose the [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
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White iPhone 4 Delayed… Again!
Apple has encountered some problems with the hardware in it’s iPhone 4, most notable with signal problems and with the glass covers cracking. This may be behind the further delay of the white iPhone 4 to market for the third time. Originally scheduled for launch on the 24th June and later delayed until the end [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
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Enter Windows Phone 7
With the smartphone market already crammed with handsets, operating systems and options, Microsoft have now entered the fray with their latest and greatest. At an event in New York city this morning, Windows Phone 7 was officially unveiled. It’s exciting too, finally a smartphone OS for people who bemoan the lack of buttons on their [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
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New Zealand iPhones hit by daylight saving bug
It has been reported that iPhones in New Zealand running the iOS 4.1 software have been hit by a bug as the country changes daylight saving time. The error caused the times on phones to revert back two hours instead of just one. This resulted in one disgruntled iPhone user being awoken at 3am instead of [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
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Google: Apple is not our main competitor
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal’s Alan Murray, the CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, discussed how and who Google now needs to compete against and it’s clear that the foundation of the company, search, is still its main focus going forward. In the interview, Schmidt described Microsoft’s search engine as their main competitor, [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
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Apple’s bumper case improves antenna performance
After the Antennagate affair of a few months ago where it was revealed that if you held the new iPhone 4 a certain way the signal would drop out, and the resulting storm that hit the international media when Apple supremo Steve Jobs reported sent an angry customer an email telling him not to hold [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
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iOS 4.1 Jailbreak on the way, 1 day after the new OS launches
Apple’s latest operating system version for the iPhone and iPod Touch was launched only one day ago, but already it’s official that it’s been jailbroken. A message posted by MuscleNerd on Twitter said… Jailbreaking, the process of unlocking the iPhone, has received a great deal of attention due to the fact that doing so allows [...]