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Verizon Motorola Droid promo sets iPhone firmly in its sights

By Chris Davies on Sunday, Oct 18th 2009 4 Comments

Verizon have launched an offensive against the iPhone, with a new campaign called DroidDoes.com for their upcoming Motorola Droid Android smartphone. The handset, previously known by its codenames of Tao and Sholes, is being promoted as offering everything the iPhone eschews: an open development platform, the ability to run background processes, a flexible, open App Store and replaceable batteries, among other things. Verizon have also set up a countdown timer which suggests that the Motorola Droid will arrive on October 30th 2009.

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App Store now allowing in-app purchases for free iPhone software

By Chris Davies on Friday, Oct 16th 2009 No Comments

Apple have tweaked their App Store policies to allow for in-app purchases in free applications [iPhone developer link]. Contrary to initial rules that only paid applications could offer users paid content, subscriptions and digital services within the software, the change now means that developers can release, say, a free “Lite” version with an option to upgrade, within the app, to the full title.

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Apple hexacore Xeon Mac Pro with 128GB RAM tipped for early 2010

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Oct 15th 2009 No Comments

apple mac pro It’s been a while since we’ve seen a significant refresh to Apple’s Mac Pro desktop range, and so a rumor regarding what overwhelming components the company might slot inside is certainly timely. According to Hardmac’s sources, Apple intend to outfit the Mac Pro with a 6-core, 12-thread Intel Xeon (Gulftown) processor, built on 32nm processes and with 12MB of shared cache. The hexacore CPUs will be accompanied by up to 128GB of RAM and a 10Gbit/s ethernet port.

That will be thanks to a newly modified, custom mainboard with support for 8GB and 16GB memory modules. Early testing of the CPUs, at least, have indicated that the hexacore Xeon requires less power than a current-gen quadcore Xeon of the same 2.4GHz clock-speed.

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iPhone 3GS gets Exposé hack [Video] [Updated]

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Oct 15th 2009 2 Comments

With the proliferation of hacks for Apple’s smartphone it’s hard to keep on top of what’s most impressive, but we’ve a feeling that putting Expose onto the iPhone 3GS makes a decent argument for being near the top of the list. It’s the handiwork of Steve Troughton-Smith, who you might remember from first identifying the iPhone OS 3.0 tethering hack and then going on to jailbreak the CDMA Palm Pre.

Update: Tom of Ocean Observations, a Swedish design firm, has been in touch to let us know that the original idea for Exposé on iPhone emerged from a video concept some of his team came up with. Check out that video after the cut.

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Woman stripped of marathon win for using iPod

By Shane McGlaun on Wednesday, Oct 14th 2009 No Comments

NikeiPod I spend some time at the gym everyday (mostly everyday) and I certainly understand the need to listen to some music while you are running. Running is boring after all without something to take your mind off the fact that you are exercising. A woman in Milwaukee won the state’s 26.2-mile Lakefront marathon and was then stripped of the title for use of a performance-enhancing device.

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Snow Leopard randomly deleting user data according to reports

By Shane McGlaun on Monday, Oct 12th 2009 2 Comments

For a long time popular belief held that the Apple Mac OS never had any problems and had no malware. Today we know there malware that targets the Mac OS and the operating system has its share of issues from time to time. According to reports coming in now, the newest version of Mac OS called Snow Leopard is randomly deleting user data.

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SlashGear Week in Review – Week 41 2009

By Shane McGlaun on Saturday, Oct 10th 2009 No Comments

After spending most of Friday curled in a ball twitching and drooling after losing power and Internet access for almost 12 hours, I am glad to be back online and in the 21st century again. Just in time to hunker down and dose myself with a nice helping of week in review for your perusal. Chris reviewed the GSM Palm Pre and found the camera wasn't as good as some of its peers but found plenty to like in the end. The webOS operating system stands apart from rival OS'. Buffalo announced the HD-HU3 USB 3.0 drive and controller that will be shipping in Japan this month. The drive isn’t even that expensive; I hope it comes to America too.

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See Me, Feel Me… Touch Me?

By Michael Gartenberg on Friday, Oct 9th 2009 1 Comment

multitouch 201x166 custom We’re just a few weeks away from the formal launch of Windows 7 and I’ve been using the final build for some time now. It’s very nice and I’m sure most of you have seen it, used it or read about it to death. What I want to talk about over the next few weeks is various parts of Windows 7. One of the most intriguing parts of the new OS that Microsoft has talked about for some time has been the integration of touch features. While vendors such as HP have done their own touch implementations in the past (HP has gone as far as to offer their own touch-based SDK for developers) this is the first time since Microsoft unveiled their touch platform offering, Surface, that we’ve seen the OS vendor incorporate true finger-touch features directly into the OS.

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iPhone most satisfying smartphone claims J.D. Power

By Chris Davies on Friday, Oct 9th 2009 No Comments

If you’re a player in the cellphone space then the J.D. Power Wireless Satisfaction Survey is your equivalent of the Miss World contest, and it looks like once again it’s Apple wearing the smartphone crown. The iPhone took first place in the smartphone study, both in the consumer and business segments, and neatly keeping RIM’s BlackBerry range in second place.

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Mossberg: “Windows 7 beats the Mac OS in some areas”

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Oct 8th 2009 1 Comment

walt mossberg 218x243 custom If you’re looking for inflammatory speech, search no more: everybody’s favorite bearded-uncle of tech, Walt Mossberg, has well and truly rammed his metaphorical review-poker into the flames of the Windows/Mac argument. In his review of Windows 7 for All Things D, Mossberg confesses that while “In recent years, I, like many other reviewers, have argued that Apple’s Mac OS X operating system is much better than Windows. That’s no longer true.”

Nonetheless, Mossberg is still leaning toward Apple overall, going to to confirm that “I still give the Mac OS a slight edge because it has a much easier and cheaper upgrade path; more built-in software programs; and far less vulnerability to viruses and other malicious software, which are overwhelmingly built to run on Windows.” Still, he confirms that “Now, however, it’s much more of a toss-up between the two rivals.”

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