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Apple’s New FaceTime TV Commercials

Apple is really pushing FaceTime as a selling point for the iPhone 4. Four new TV commercials have been posted on Apple’s website, each one displays emotional conversations between loved ones that simply would not have been the same without …

Google Unveils Newest Tool In App Battle: App Inventor

If you want to develop apps for the iPhone you need a Mac, an Apple developers license and a bit of programming knowledge. Google is looking to take a different approach with the release of a new Google Labs tool …

Class Action Lawsuit OKed Against AT&T And Apple

A federal judge has given the ok for a monopoly abuse lawsuit filed against AT&T and Apple to move ahead with class action status. The lawsuit consolidates several other suites that have been filed by iPhone owners beginning in 2007, …

Consumer Reports Changes Their Mind On The iPhone 4

Earlier this month the Consumer Reports’ Electronics Blog said “the iPhone 4 issues are not unique, may not be serious,” and that “there was no reason, at least yet, to forgo buying the iPhone 4 over its reception concerns.” Now, …

Apple Offering Repair / Replacement For Some 2008 Time Capsules

On Friday Apple published a new support document outlining a repair / replacement program for Time Capsules sold between February 2008 and June 2008. The problems with the units are they may not power on or may shut off unexpectedly …

Trillian Updates For Mac, iPhone And Even Android

The past few days have had several updates from the good people at Cerulean Studios, makes of the multi-protocal instant messenger client Trillian. First off, the Trillian iPhone App [iTunes] has been updated. Version 1.3 of the Trillian iPhone app offers …

Apple Rewarding Retail Employees Who Worked On iPhone 4 Launch Day

The launch of the iPhone 4 was Apple’s most successful product launch ever. That’s great news for the company itself, however the real heros of the day are those employees that had to work the retail end to make the …

Images Of Tiny Apple Touch Screen Leaked

Taiwanese site Apple.pro has leaked a couple of images of an Apple branded touch screen that measures 3×3 cm [1.18x1.18 in]. Right now there is a lot of speculation on what this tiny touch screen could be headed for. Some of …

Patent Troll Sues Apple, Google, Microsoft And Others For Using Wireless Email

NTP Incorporated filed a suite in a U.S. District Court in Eastern Virginia on Friday against Apple, Google, Microsoft, HTC, LG and Motorola alleging that the companies violated NTP as many as eight patents for the delivery of email over …

Apple’s Steve Jobs And Jonathan Ive Named Smartest In Tech

Fortune has put together a few list of who they consider to be the smartest people in the tech world. Topping the list for smartest CEO is Apple co-founder Steve Jobs while Apple’s SVP of industrial design Jonathan Ive tops …

99¢ Streaming Rentals Could Come To The Apple TV

According to NewTeeVee when that new iOS based Apple TV hits, Apple may bring 99¢ streaming rentals to the device. That is, of course, assuming that the TV studios go along with the idea. Rentals of TV episodes would work …

Are You Ready For Appsgiving Day?

This is a pretty cool idea, the developers behind the yet to be released app called iWishApp have declared Saturday, July 10th as “Appsgiving Day“. The idea is simple, on Saturday open up iTunes and gift an app to a …

Woz Comments On The iPhone, Likens Android To Windows

It was not all criticism for Google’s Android platform as Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak gave an interview with The Seoul Economic Daily. He liked his Nexus One and a lot of the features that were built into it such as …

iPhone 4 Catches On Fire, Faulty USB Port Suspected

Boy Genius Report received this photo of an iPhone 4 from one of their close AT&T sources. According to the story, a customer brought this friend iPhone into an AT&T store to get some help. The iPhone 4 caught fire …

Fring App Update Approved, Allows Video Chat Between iPhone And Others Over 3G

Apple has approved an update to the fring app [iTunes], which now allows users with an iPhone 4 to use the front facing camera to video chat with others. There are two things that make fring better than Apple’s FaceTime …

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