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Today during Apple’s iPhone 4.0 developer preview, Steve Jobs announced a number of new innovations for its mobile platform. OS 4 will bring multitasking and folders to the iPhone, iBooks will come to the device, and Apple officially announced its venture into mobile advertising iAds. Plus, the latest number of iPads sold and app [...]
Thu, April 8 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Today, during a Q&A session at Apple’s iPhone 4.0 Developer preview, gdgt co-founder Ryan Block asked Steve Jobs a question many of us have wondered for years: “Are there any plans to allow unsigned applications on the iPhone?” His response:
You know, there’s a porn store for Android. You can download nothing but porn. You can [...]
Thu, April 8 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
The Wall Street Journal has just published an article that states that Apple is currently working on a new iPhone model to be released this summer. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone (the last three iPhones have all been released during either June or July) but the report also includes one big [...]
Mon, March 29 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Earlier today, two men were spotted having coffee in Palo Alto, CA. Except these weren’t just any two men. They were the CEOs of perhaps the two most important and powerful companies in Silicon Valley right now, Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Big deal, you might think. After all, Schmidt used [...]
Sat, March 27 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
AdMob, the mobile advertising unit bought by Google last year for a whopping $750 million, is upgrading its platform today. The company is launching new SDK’s for Android, Flash Lite and iPhone platforms and is also rolling out a number of new publisher tools, including a new publisher dashboard, an enhanced Reporting UI, a new [...]
Tue, March 23 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Life360, a startup that looks to help families keep their loved ones (and their identities) safe, has acquired Foundog, a lost item recovery service. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Foundog is a tagging service that allows you to track your items via a “eTriever tag.” You simple affix a tag to any item; [...]
Tue, March 23 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Mobile advertising company AdMarvel, fresh off the heels of being acquired by Opera Software for a reported $8 million plus earn-out, has teamed up with Gannett subsidiary PointRoll to launch an advertising platform for Apple’s iPad.
Dubbed the iPad Advertising Platform, the companies aim to combine PointRoll’s rich media technology with AdMarvel’s mobile advertising capabilities.
The launch [...]
Tue, March 23 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
While every man and his dog is waiting for their preordered iPad to arrive, some Germans went their own way and yesterday presented a Slate that appears to have, well, better features.
The Neofonie WePad has similar form and function as the wet dreams of our Crunchgear editors, but facts are that the German Android [...]
Fri, March 19 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
There’s a lot of talk today about how the Nexus One’s initial roll-out has been a flop. And while the numbers aren’t official, things do look pretty grim for the first Android device Google is attempting to sell itself. But Google is wasting no time answering its critics — indirectly — with the launch of [...]
Wed, March 17 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
PayPal has just launched an upgraded iPhone application that adds new features and includes a facelift that’s meant to help instill a greater sense of security. And it also brings with it big news for Bump Technologies, the startup that lets you exchange information simply by tapping smartphones together: Bump is now prominently featured [...]
Mon, March 15 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
