Internet users in the U.S. have finally caught up with the rest of the world in their browser choice today, with Google's Chrome taking over third place from default Apple browser Safari. The browser, first released just two years ago, has led Safari worldwide since last September, but just this...
Amazon announced today its Kindle application for Apple mobile devices including the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, now offers embedded video and audio clips within its e-books. At launch time, there are just thirteen titles sporting the new functionality, including a cookbook augmented by video demos and a nature guide...
So, you're one of the 1.7 million people who went out and got that brand new iPhone right off the line, but you still don't have any friends to try out Apple's much lauded video chat with? Never mind the company's Facetime introduction service, which lets you call up and...
Apple announced this morning that it has sold over 1.7 million units of the new iPhone 4 smartphone through Saturday, only three days after its launch on June 24. These numbers, touts the Cupertino-based company, make the iPhone 4 launch the "most successful in Apple's history." Oddly enough, it's also...
Services like Foursquare, Gowalla and others make it easy to post your physical location to the Web - but what makes people want to do that at all? Fifteen-month-old Foursquare is adding 100,000 new users every week, and Facebook has made it clear that location is a feature it is...
In the coming weeks, the Events Guide will be turning into a jet-setting tour of the international tech scene. Next week is London with the Cloud Computing World Forum. Then comes Marseilles, France (Lift France), Melbourne, Australia (Digital Sport Summit) and Singapore (Social Media World Forum Asia).You can import individual...
This week's news was all about the new iPhone, but our top story was about something completely different: Java, and whether or not you need it. We also continued our exploration of the significant Internet trends of 2010: The Internet of Things really is a series of tubes; augmented reality...
Earlier this morning, Google released a new stable version of Chrome, the company's increasingly popular browser. This new release for Windows, Mac and Linux is the first stable version of Chrome to be distributed with a built-in version of Adobe's widely used Flash Player. Just two days ago, Google enabled...
Congratulations, you're a new iPhone 4 owner! Now what do you do with it? The iPhone 4 operating system introduces a number of new features, some, like FaceTime video calls, which are entirely unique to the iPhone 4 hardware itself. Plus, there are several reports now surfacing about issues with...
This week the engineers at Google remotely activated the so-called Android "kill switch," a technology that allows the company to remotely remove applications installed on users' phones. The applications in question, designed by a security expert for research purposes, were described as "practically useless." They were not used maliciously nor...
Wait, what the heck is geofencing? No, it's not some virtual sword fighting app for your phone. Geofencing, or a geofence, is exactly what its name implies - a virtually fenced-off geographic location. When this concept is applied to mobile phones, it refers to a device's ability to receive automatic...
What better timing than a cross-country road-trip, and the beginning of my effort to become a fully-mobile blogger, for Trapster, the iPhone app that keeps track of road hazards, speed traps and even roadkill, to update with background location for iOS 4?The update means that, as me and my traveling...
Do you want to chat with friends who are watching the same TV shows you are or reading the same books? Do you want to check in to record and share a history of your offline entertainment activities? Many startups think you will and the number of apps for that...
Earlier we published a guide on how to jailbreak the iPhone 3G or iPod Touch (2nd generation) using the jailbreak tool known as "redsn0w." However that tool, still in beta format at the time of publishing, did not support a jailbreak for owners of an iPhone 3GS. But there's a...
Apple has released its latest iPhone operating system, iOS 4.0, and just as quickly, the hacker community has managed to jailbreak it. For the uninitiated, "jailbreaking" refers to the ability to open up a device in order to install unapproved, third-party applications. Given both AT&T and Apple's restrictions regarding the...
As promised during the recent Apple developer conference in San Francisco, the mobile version of Apple's iMovie software is now available for download from the iTunes App Store. iMovie, which works only with the new iPhone 4 (also publicly available as of today), lets you create HD movies using video-editing...
GetJar, the world's second-largest applications store, just announced a series B funding of $11 million from Accel Partners. Second in volume only to Apple's app store, GetJar has seen over a billion downloads of 65,000 applications. Its focus on cross-platform sales (iPhone apps included) has positioned it to take advantage...
Online auction and marketplace eBay announced today that it has acquired the popular iPhone barcode scanning application RedLaser. The application and the image recognition technology behind it are built by Boulder-based TechStars graduate Occipital, who says the application "[outgrew] our basement office." While the team at Occipital is refocusing its...
AddictiveTips, a tech blog with a small but growing profile online, has published what it says is leaked information from an anonymous employee at Apple alleging that the new iOS will, among other things, detect whether an iPhone has been jailbroken and unlocked - then require that factory approved software...
Earlier this month I had the opportunity to attend the Augmented Reality Event in Santa Clara, California, and it was there that I discovered some amazing uses being developed using AR technology. I've already highlighted how it is being used to help doctors save lives, and more recently how it...
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