The whole Facebook/Twitter brawl that erupted late last year over Instagram integration has shifted to a new battlefront — the new Twitter owned app Vine. If you missed it yesterday, Vine is a new app that allows you to capture a short, six-second video, that loops endlessly. It shares to … [Read more...]
Apple has released its annual Supplier Responsibility Report, and appears to be taking improving conditions for workers very seriously. So seriously in fact, that when it came to light that one was using underage workers, Apple severed the business connection. … [Read more...]
One of the more common and legitimate reasons to jailbreak your iPhone is to unlock it — to free it from the iron-clad grasp of one carrier, and let you use it more readily on international networks. However, according to TechNewsDaily tomorrow will mark a point when doing so could violate the … [Read more...]
Remember how earlier this month a series of rumors about order cuts on Apple products caused AAPL to drop into a tailspin? During yesterday's quarterly earnings call, Tim Cook took the time to address those rumors. Macworld has put together an excellent transcription of all of his comments, but I'll … [Read more...]
Yesterday, the first batch of Pebble watches shipped out under a slight cloud as the iOS app hadn't been approved yet. However, early this morning the app arrived in the App Store, giving everyone plenty of time to download and install it before the their Kickstarter backed smartwatch arrives in the … [Read more...]
At the Sundance Festival this week, the Steve Jobs biopic jOBS is set to debut, starring Ashton Kutcher as an uncanny ringer for the Apple CEO. According to the Hollywood Reporter, we now have a firm date for when the film will launch nationwide, and it'll be hitting theaters around the country on … [Read more...]
If you're one of the more than 68,000 people who backed the Pebble smartwatch, take heart, because starting today units are going to be shipping! While Pebble missed its original September ship date considerably, the later date of January 23rd has been hit on the dot. … [Read more...]
The SnapChat app is immensely popular because it allows users to send self-destructing photos and videos — files that automatically delete themselves after a few seconds. For security, privacy, or any other reason, you can be sure what ever image you send to your friend gets seen once, and then … [Read more...]
The Huffington Post (of all places) has put together a rather incredible look at the early history of Siri, and it turns out that Siri almost ended up being a built-in feature on all of Verizon's Android phones, until Apple swooped in and bought the whole thing out. … [Read more...]
We're coming up on Chinese New Year! Woohoo, the Year of the Snake starts February 10! And there is set to be an Apple Store sale to mark the start of the Lunar New Year — but only for shoppers in select countries in Asia. … [Read more...]
