AMD has just announced that they will be hiring Jim Keller, a former Apple employee. At Apple, Keller led the mobile architecture group assigned to work with custom chips, including the A4 and A5 processors. Keller's journey with Apple began during 2008 when his previous company, P.A. Semi, was acquired by Apple. Much of his...
Happy Birthday, Readdle! After becoming nearly one of the first companies to hit the App Store back in 2008, they are now celebrating their fifth anniversary. And they sure aren't quietly letting their anniversary pass by. They are offering 70 percent off many of their most popular applications. The company launched back during the summer of 2007, creating...
For those looking for mobile LTE internet for your wireless devices, Rogers announced they are set to launch their new LTE Rocket hub starting tomorrow, in which the company is calling a Canadian first. The hub will run on the 2,600 Mhz LTE spectrum, and will allow up to 15 Wi-Fi device connections simultaneously. Since...
It seems as if Digg is finally making a turn in the right direction. The news gathering website, Digg, has received a makeover alongside a new iPhone application. Note this is coming promptly six weeks after Betaworks acquired Digg for a measly $500,000. Digg was a well known website years prior to Facebook and Twitter's respective launch...
Jeremy Horwitz from iLounge has a new report on a couple new features coming for the next iPhone and possibly iOS 6. Horwitz claims their sources have further confirmed the next iPhone dock connector will have 8-pins, instead of the previously rumoured 16-pins or 19-pins: 1. New 8-Pin Dock Connector. According to two sources, Apple’s...
Today marked the second day of the heated Apple, Samsung court case, and Samsung is already under hot water after releasing exclusive case evidence. Judge Lucy Koh denied Samsung the ability to show the jury their pre-iPhone F700 device, yet it would prove they didn’t copy the iPhone. So earlier today Samsung sent the slides...
The iPhone was released during a time smartphones were almost unheard of. Sure, there were a few smartphones, such as the BlackBerry, but that was really all there was. Due to the bare smartphone community, Steve Jobs sure did have some doubts regarding his touchscreen smartphone. According to Apple industrial designer Chris Stringer, the iPhone's...
Apple's online service, iWork.com, will be shut down later today, July 31st. iWork was a document storage and syncing experiment for Keynote, Pages, and Numbers. The service never really 'exploded' with popularity as Apple had hoped, but did last three-years in the beta phase. The iWork.com discontinuation was announced to subscribers during the month of...
Bell customers, it's now official! Bell will be launching their potent HSPA network in Manitoba beginning on August 1st. There will be two phases during the launch. Phase one is said to cover “69% of the Manitoba market,” comprising of Oakbank, Selkrik, Steinbach, Stonewall, and Winnipeg. Phase two will cover an additional 5 percent of the market, including Brandon...
You may not have realized this, but the iOS App Store contains more than 650,000 applications. Many of those applications have never even been downloaded. The content of the application isn't necessarily poor, the App Store was mainly poorly designed. Applications that have never been downloaded, ranked, or even reviewed, are called "zombie" applications. The...
It’s pretty rare in this day and age that I read the synopsis of an app and say (out loud, no less,) “What? No way! Now that is cool!” In today’s crowded App Store, it’s rare to come across an app that utilizes technology in a way I’d never seen or heard of before. But that’s exactly...
The Starbucks App Pick of the Week is SoundHound, regularly priced as a $6.99 download in the App Store. SoundHound is like Shazam, as it enables users to quickly determine what song they are listening to, but the app takes it a bit further. It also displays song lyrics and includes singing and humming recognition. This...
