Yes, Apple is releasing iMessage which is effectively BBM for iPhones. So you can send messages between iPhones without sending texts and get read receipts and that sort of stuff. If it sounds like BBM for iPhones it is and that’s the gift and the curse. As much as people love BBM, the huge limitation … Read more
You know those warnings when you get into a plane and they warn you to turn off cell phones and electronic devices and then you pretend like you turned it off and keep using it? Yeah well it turns out those warnings are real. ABC News retained a copy of confidential studies that report that … Read more
9to5Mac stated: This is a pretty cool trick that works in the Camera app on iOS 5: Simply swipe your finger from left to right to bring the camera album roll up. Continue swiping from left to right to flip through your images. If you go too far, tap once to reveal the on-screen toolbar … Read more
So about that iCloud thing. Infinite Apple received some screen shots of what a wifi sniffer reveals when traffic goes through the iCloud and the result: Microsoft’s Azure and Amazon’s AWS cloud services received calls. They state “icloud.com provides some sort of authentication to a windows.net address, and then sends a confirmation back to iCloud. … Read more
Yesterday morning in California (About 1PM here on the East coast), Apple showed off their newest desktop and mobile operating systems. The feature sets that were shown off for iOS were heavy on ‘catch up’ or fixed features. Notifications, reminders, and more, but there were a few new features announced which will make iOS 5 … Read more
If you tuned into any of the seemingly hundreds of live blogging that covered today’s WWDC keynote you undoubtedly hoped to see fireworks. As an outside observer I expected Jobs to stride on stage and take everyone’s breath away. Instead the day seemed to be full of gestures that simply didn’t go far enough to … Read more
Imitation is the best form of flattery, right? I presume someone from Google is feeling pretty flattered today too…
According to AllThingsDigital, it has been confirmed by sources close to the situation that Apple will unveil the twitter picture integration during the upcoming WWDC. This aligns with rumors that had Windows Phone Mango Update also having Twitter picture integration but held off announcing anything during their May 24th VIP Preview of Mango. This certainly … Read more
It seemed like only yesterday Steve was on stage announcing the iPad 2 and letting us in on how magical it really is and now he back to let us in on iOS 5 among other things next week at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference 2011. Steve Jobs, who is out for a second time on … Read more
