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<p>The official Google Voice application for iPhone has finally been granted acceptance into the App Store by Apple.</p>
<p>Per <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/27/google-voice-iphone-3/">TechCrunch</a>, a source stated that the application will be released in the next few weeks. Apple reportedly accepted the application submitted in mid-2009, though Google plans to update it to support the iPhone 4 and multitasking capabilities in iOS 4.</p>
<p>Last week, applications that access the Google Voice service began appearing in the App Store, after being banished for more than a year. The first two that became available were GV Mobile + and GV Connect.</p>
<p>The opportunity for Google Voice applications to return to the App Store came after Apple revised and published its own App Store Review...</p> | <a href="http://www.powerpage.org/2010/09/28/official-google-voice-app-approved-should-arrive-in-app-store-in-a-few-weeks/" target="_blank">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212583"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>With 500 million people using Facebook and Twitter seeing more than two billion tweets per month, one would assume that social media usage is skyrocketing. New research from Forrester suggests that while participation is on the rise, actual content creation may not be.Forresters Social Technographics Profile analyzes consumer social behaviors and trends on an annual basis. Forrester classifies social network users by type: Creators, Conversationalists, Critics, Collectors, Joiners, Spectators and Inactives. In the past year, their research shows no measurable growth in the Creators category the audience that creates social content.In the U.S., the Creator audience has actually dipped a percentage point from 24% in 2009 to 23% in 2010. Japan was the only country measured to show a rise in Creators, growing from 34% to 36% in the past year.When it comes to social media, it would seem then that the average user feels most at home taking more passive actions, and that a majority of...</p> | <a href="http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/topic/apple/popular/~3/mKrwx278yuI/social_network_content_creation_has_plateaued_study" target="_blank">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
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<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212324"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Writing apps for devices like tablets and smartphones could become challenging as mobile chips gain CPUs and hardware accelerators.<br clear="both" /><br />
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212637"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>With iOS and Android, two major mobile operating systems taking up a valuable share of the market and becoming increasingly popular, it may be easy to disregard the new kid in town, Windows Phone 7</p> | <a href="http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/topic/apple/popular/~3/KMxKgf-KHdA/5_reasons_to_pay_attention_to_windows_phone_7" target="_blank">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
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<span class="field-content">Android pushes iPhone to less than majority of ad...</span>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212314"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Android has grown enough to break the iPhone out of its majority of mobile ad share, Millenial Media found in its latest study. Google's share of the US smartphone space saw it jump seven percent in August to reach 26 percent of ad traffic. iPhones still had a clear lead in share but were pushed back to under half at 48 percent with "flat" growth. The BlackBerry also grew slightly, but at 19 percent was now more clearly being outpaced by Android....<br clear="both" /><br />
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212340"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>ONYX Apps announced the immediate availability of Oscilloscope 1.0 for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad on Tuesday. The app turns iOS devices into a digital oscilloscope for analyzing audio signals as well as a signal generator.<br clear="both" /><br />
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212718"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>New research from the insurance industry claims that the prohibition of texting while driving does not reduce auto crashes ‚Ķ and may actually increase them.</p> | <a href="http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/topic/apple/popular/~3/iPG4PWnpTBw/texting_bans_may_cause_more_crashes_study_claims" target="_blank">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212308"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>There are plenty of apps meant to help us remember and accomplish our tasks throughout the day, but Alarms by Stefan Furst, is one of simpler and more unobtrusive new offerings on the market.<br clear="both" /><br />
As Apple is getting ready to ship its newly redesigned Apple TV before the end of this week, I can't help but wonder what world NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker is living on. I think he's in a slightly parallel universe -- unless I'm the one in a parallel universe and I happen to see the ripples of the real universe on the Web every now and then. Either way, I'm having a hard time seeing how Apple's new 99 US cent TV show rental program can "devalue" NBC content. Seriously.</p> | <a href="http://www.macnewsworld.com/rsstory/70920.html" target="_blank">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212628"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>People in the U.S. are clearly not downloading enough music - legally that is. The numbers have been crunched and sadly digital music sales in the US are slowing down ‚Äì fast.</p> | <a href="http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/topic/apple/popular/~3/bzniODo0MXU/music_download_sales_flat_in_the_us_2" target="_blank">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212322"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>The official Google Voice application for iPhone, which was the subject of controversy over a year ago, has reportedly been granted acceptance into the App Store by Apple.<br clear="both" /><br />
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212315"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Google may finally join others in bringing Google Voice back to the App Store based on tips early this morning. A contact near Google has reportedly indicated that the official Google Voice app for the iPhone has already been approved and that Google is simply holding off to finish iOS4 and iPhone 4 support. The source for TechCrunch claims it could be in the App Store within the "next few weeks."...<br clear="both" /><br />
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212629"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>For more than four decades, David Bowie has adopted personas the way most of us adopt internet handles. No other musician, actor or genre-bending celebrity has been able to replicate the process with such artistic integrity.</p> | <a href="http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/topic/apple/popular/~3/hepjEq6cUm0/david_bowie_earth_s_perpetual_persona_machine" target="_blank">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212296"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Six generations on, and the cost of materials has decreased dramatically from the <a href="http://gizmodo.com/203534/second+gen-ipod-nano-parts-cheaper-less-power+hungry">first-ever iPod Nano</a>, which cost $89.97—for just 2GB. The 8GB version that <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5633791/the-7-parts-that-make-up-the-new-ipod-nano">came out recently</a> has parts totaling $43.73.</p>
<p>Even the second-gen <a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged #ipodnano" href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/ipodnano/">iPod Nano</a>, which was double the capacity of the first one, cost a whopping $72.24. Of course, this was back in the day when a 4GB <a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged #ipodnanocost" href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/ipodnanocost/">iPod Nano cost</a> $199 upfront, compared to the $149 an 8GB-er costs now.</p>
<p>iSuppli has listed manufacturing costs at around $1.37, and while this is the first model to contain a touchscreen component, the screen...</p> | <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5649685/latest-ipod-nanos-materials-cost-just-4373-half-what-the-first-nano-cost" target="_blank">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212293"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Hackers have succeeding in running a jailbreak exploit for a newly posted Apple TV iOS 4.1 firmware file.<br clear="both" /><br />
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212507"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Spam me once, shame on you. Spam me twice and it's time to get better moderators. For the second time in three days, Digg has become the pitiful victim of a major spam attack on their Top News section. This isn't the case of a complex algorithm breach or a hidden exploit being passed around the darkest corners of the Internet. The same spam sites that attacked early in the morning on September 26th hit again before midnight on September 28th.</p> | <a href="http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/topic/apple/popular/~3/x8sKdgo8dsE/digg_front_page_spam_deja_vu_all_over_again" target="_blank">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212291"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>The mobile task manager adds a number of features, including passcode locking, integration with a cloud-based syncing service, and -- for the iPhone version -- full iOS 4 support. In addition, Appigo also updated its Corkulous brainstorming app for the iPad on Tuesday.<br clear="both" /><br />
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212292"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Just slightly ahead of the <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2010/09/27/apple-tvs-are-on-the-way-from-shenzen/">new Apple TV's arrival</a> at purchasers' doorsteps, Apple has posted the restore firmware for the new device (<a href="http://appldnld.apple.com/AppleTV/061-8940.20100926.Tvtnz/AppleTV2,1_4.1_8M89_Restore.ipsw">download link</a>). The firmware's filename and .ipsw extension both confirm what practically everyone already knew: the new Apple TV runs on a flavor of iOS, the same operating system running on the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. That, combined with the Micro-USB "service port" on the Apple TV's backside, means it's only a matter of time until it gets jailbroken. </p>
<p>Apple TV running iOS also means it would be relatively trivial for Apple to introduce an App Store for the device. In fact, with a more general-purpose version of something like Apple's Remote app, Apple could very easily allow existing iOS devices to act as a universal remote for virtually <em>any...</em></p> | <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2010/09/28/new-apple-tv-firmware-ios-based-and-available-now/" target="_blank">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212389"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>The App Store review office at 1 Infinite Loop has officially frozen over: we've gotten word that the official Google Voice application is on its way to the iPhone in the next few weeks. In fact, we've heard from a source close to Google that it's already been approved — Google just needs to revamp the application to work with the iPhone 4 and iOS's multitasking capabilities. If you're a Google Voice user and you're on an iPhone, this is great news.</p>
<p>It's been a long, long road to get here. Last July, we broke the news that Apple had blocked the official Google Voice application, which eventually sparked an FCC inquiry into the matter. Apple claimed that the application</p> | <a href="http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/topic/apple/popular/~3/iGzpQoYLDm4/apple_has_already_approved_the_official_google_voice_app_for_iphone_expect_it_soon" target="_blank">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212288"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>We've seen several <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5641271/apple-finally-approves-a-native-google-voice-iphone-app-again">third-party Google Voice iPhone apps</a> make their way into the App Store, but we'll be seeing Google's official version soon too according to a report by <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/27/google-voice-iphone-3/">TechCrunch</a>. Apparently Apple may have even approved the app already:</p>
<p>[TechCrunch has] gotten word that the official <a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged #googlevoice" href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/googlevoice/">Google Voice</a> application is on its way to the iPhone in the next few weeks. In fact, [they've] heard from a source close to Google that it's already been approved - Google just needs to revamp the application to work with the iPhone 4 and iOS's multitasking capabilities.</p>
<p>Sounds like great news, particularly since an official Google Voice app could include features which third-party versions are...</p> | <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5649613/did-apple-quietly-approve-the-official-google-voice-iphone-app-already" target="_blank">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
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<span class="field-content">Materials cost for Apple's sixth-gen iPod nano...</span>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212287"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>A breakdown of the sixth-generation iPod nano's parts by iSuppli places the estimated material cost at $43.73.<br clear="both" /><br />
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212283"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>XMarks co-founder and CTO Todd Agulnick has posted an open letter on the company's blog informing users of his bookmark-syncing and recommendation engine XMarks that the service will shut down in 90 days. In his post, he explains that the lack of a profitable, growth-driven business model and inability to sell to another company led to the decision to close down the service....<br clear="both" /><br />
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212616"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>RIM today unveiled the PlayBook, its first shot at the tablet space. The PlayBook has a seven-inch, multi-touch display and is just 9.7mm thick. It's designed as a high-powered browsing device with both a WebKit browser as well as Flash 10.1 and AIR support. The slate is billed as a media-heavy device with full 1080p video output over HDMI -- including entirely different content on each screen -- and has both three- and five-megapixel cameras on both the front and back.</p> | <a href="http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/topic/apple/popular/~3/adOn-SY1qYM/rim_unveils_blackberry_playbook_tablet_to_challenge_ipad" target="_blank">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212276"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Microsoft have today updated their free Bing search app for the iPhone and iPod Touch to version 1.3, revamping the travel features, simplifying maps and adding relevant business and neighborhood labels to help users quickly find locations....<br clear="both" /><br />
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212609"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>The technology of the manufacturing of contact lenses</p> | <a href="http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/topic/apple/popular/~3/gv57-E1Tpw0/the_making_contact_lenses_video" target="_blank">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212279"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>The jailbreaking attempts on iOS 4 devices continues as one of the major players, the dev-team, posts a video of a new iPod Touch running a beta version of the latest exploit in iOS 4 called SHAtter.
</p><p>Originally posted at <a href="http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-20017814-233.html" class="origPostedBlog">iPhone Atlas</a></p> | <a href="http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-20017814-233.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=MacFixIt" target="_blank">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
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<span class="field-content">New iPod nano costs just $45.10 to make</span>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212277"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Apple's sixth generation iPod nano costs just a third of its selling price to make, iSuppli estimated in a cost breakdown today. The bill of materials and manufacturing for an 8GB iPod nano reach only $45.10. The device is the second least expensive iPod to make so far, being beaten only by the fourth generation $40.80 nano....<br clear="both" /><br />
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212508"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Weighing the risks of increased government surveillance</p> | <a href="http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/topic/apple/popular/~3/dMtimvqdz1M/do_the_feds_need_the_power_to_wiretap_the_internet" target="_blank">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212268"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Capparsa today updated their personal time-tracking tool TimeTag to v1.03, bringing support for the iPad featuring a new user interface for the tablet device. The app, which runs on all iOS devices using iOS 3.1 or later, features descriptive tags rather than database-like records for a faster and more personal way to see what a user has been doing and for how long. It offers both automatic and manual tag category creation, adjustable time records, and a "one-touch" hour totalling function....<br clear="both" /><br />
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212278"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Despite persistent reports suggesting RIM's market share has been eroded by the growth of Android, data gathered by analytics firm StatCounter suggests web usage on BlackBerry handsets has actually grown at the same pace as Google's mobile platform. As Android and BlackBerry show parallel growth from the third and fourth positions, respectively, web usage on the iPhone has slid behind Symbian and within 10 percent of BlackBerry....<br clear="both" /><br />
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212318"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Bug Labs sells open source hardware modules that lets you build just about any kind of gadget you can imagine. Last week the New York startup got a big helping hand from (who-would-believe-it?) Verizon. At the same time, it finally got the full OK to sell its wireless modules in Europe. Verizon Wireless announced plans to partner with Bug...</p> | <a href="http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/topic/apple/popular/~3/_t8LrKJaxII/verizon_gives_thumbs_up_to_bug_labs_open_source_hardware" target="_blank">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212259"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p><a href="http://thelittleappfactory.com/tagalicious/">Tagalicious</a> is a $20 Mac application from the <a href="http://thelittleappfactory.com/">The Little App Factory</a> (best known for their excellent DVD ripper <a href="http://thelittleappfactory.com/ripit/">RipIt</a>), which will clean up your iTunes library metadata, fetch artwork, and even find lyrics. So far, it's been extremely impressive both in accuracy and price.</p>
<p>I had a Guns N' Roses song "1-01 Sweet Child O' Mine.mp3" with existing metadata saying it was the song "Sweet Child O' Mine" from their Greatest Hits album. Tagalicious said it was "Welcome to the Jungle." I played the file in iTunes, and sure enough, my metadata was wrong. It was "Welcome to the Jungle." I have no idea how Tagalicious figured that out, but I suspect it is guilty of practicing witchcraft.</p>
<p>The current version 1.0.1 shows a great deal of promise, although it lacks some more advanced features. Then again, that is what version 1.x...</p> | <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2010/09/27/tuaw-review-tagalicious-for-itunes-metadata-artwork-and-lyric/" target="_blank">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212269"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Goldman Sachs analysts Henry King and Kevin Lu today claimed to have more details about the next iPad ahead of its launch. Referring to industry checks, the two expected it to have at least one camera, a lighter design and, unusually, a mini USB port. They expected it to keep a 9.7-inch display and ship early in the spring of 2011....<br clear="both" /><br />
CineTap for Netflix</a> (US $0.99) is the newest and nicest Netflix management app that I've seen so far. It won't replace the <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/netflix/id363590051?mt=8">Netflix</a> app, since you still need to have that installed in order to instantly watch movies. But CineTap adds some great features to the experience that the Netflix app doesn't include. The app is amazingly fast and absolutely gorgeous, taking full advantage of the <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/tag/iPad/">iPad</a>'s screen real estate. Instead of lists, it uses posters to represent movies that can be scrolled left or right, or if you tap the <em>Show All</em> button, the line expands to fill the screen with posters that can then be scrolled up or down. In <em>Show All</em> mode, you'll see 20 posters plus a...</p> | <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2010/09/27/cinetap-brings-a-great-netflix-frontend-to-the-ipad/" target="_blank">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212270"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>(Update: tablet a possibility too?) Amazon is reportedly preparing to launch its own app portal for Android devices. If true, the company appears to be following a similar approach to that of Verizon, which recently announced plans to launch a V Cast app store alongside Google's own Android Market....<br clear="both" /><br />
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212264"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>You’d better be sitting down for this one: The Pew Research Center has found that Apple gets more coverage from the mainstream press than any other tech company in the U.S. We know, that’s not really a surprise, but in sharp contrast to the not-so-distant past, the organization also found that “the bulk” of that coverage was positive.<br clear="both" /><br />
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212257"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>A team of analysts for investment bank Goldman Sachs said Monday that their sources lead them to believe Apple will introduce a second-generation iPad during the spring of 2011 that will feature a camera, mini USB and a lighter design.<br clear="both" /><br />
<p>iCodeBlog.com has posted the first part of their tutorial in creating a Blackjack card game for the iPhone. In this first part of the series we are going to introduce the core of the game; the deck. We will be building a very generic deck of cards that could be used in any type of [...]</p> | <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/idevgames/~3/B06GVE_ocEw/" target="_blank">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212261"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Mac gamers who use the Steam gaming service can finally get a taste of the popular Supreme Commander series now that the recent sequel Supreme Commander 2 is available via Virtual Programming's Deliver2Mac download service. The game, first available for the PC and XBox in March, is a top-selling futuristic real-time strategy adventure featuring online multiplayers (up to 8), skirmish mode and spectacular environments that is set 25 years after the original....<br clear="both" /><br />
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212271"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Vital Source Technologies, a unit of textbook publisher Ingram, announced the availability of VitalSource Bookshelf, a free app for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. The program features downloading either from computer or mobile device, automatic syncing of content across platforms, and the full VitalSource library of titles, numbering over 60,000 from a wide variety of major textbook publishers....<br clear="both" /><br />
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212254"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>CWmike writes "A majority of mobile app developers see Android as the smart bet over the long run even as they vote for Apple's iOS in the short term, according to a survey conducted jointly by Appcelerator and IDC. The survey polled more than 2,300 developers who use Appcelerator's Titanium cross-platform compiler to produce iOS and Android native apps. Of the 2,300 polled, 59% said that Android had the 'best long-term outlook,' compared with just 35% who pegged Apple's iOS with that label. But three out of four said that iOS offers the best 'near-term' outlook, with 76% tagging Apple's operating system as the best revenue opportunity."
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<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212250"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>The Canadian Broadcasting Company is <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2010/09/25/sk-ipdads-cabinet.html">reporting that 18 Canadian cabinet ministers</a> and five senior staff members in the province of Saskatchewan are receiving <a href="http://tuaw.com/tag/ipad">iPads</a> in an attempt to get a handle on the costly consumption of paper. With the cost of the 64GB 3G iPad running about CDN$879 plus fees and taxes, the initial cost of the iPads will run about CDN$23,000. However, the government expects that <em>double</em> that amount will be saved in the first year alone, since paper and printing costs will be cut drastically, and fewer courier runs will be required to deliver physical documents.</p>
<p>One senior official in the premier's office noted that he'll save 68 boxes of paper in his office alone in the first year. He noted that a single cabinet minister can often be loaded down with six to 10 kilograms of paper in a typical week. The government...</p> | <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2010/09/27/cabinet-members-in-saskatchewan-getting-ipads-to-reduce-paper-us/" target="_blank">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212255"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p><a rel="lytebox" href="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/09/tabletfight.jpg"></a>The iPad's finally got some competition; in the past few weeks, the <a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged #hpslate" href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/hpslate/">HP Slate</a> made <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5592165/hp-slate-500s-leaked-specs-confirmed-on-hps-own-site">a brief appearance</a>, the Samsung <a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged #galaxytab" href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/galaxytab/">Galaxy Tab</a> <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5640175/the-galaxy-tab-will-be-on-the-death-star-att">debuted</a>, and just BlackBerry unveiled its business-minded PlayBook today. Here's how they all measure up:</p>
<p>It should be noted that there are still some things we don't know about the PlayBook, and the HP Slate specs are taken from a...</p> | <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5649368/ultimate-tablet-showdown-ipad-vs-playbook-vs-galaxy-tab-vs-slate" target="_blank">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212258"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>CNET TV's Brian Tong discusses the latest in Apple news, notes, tricks, tips, and of course, rumors.</p> | <a href="http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20017806-263.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=MacFixIt" target="_blank">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212256"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>HP may have bought Palm and that company’s WebOS for use in its own Whole Widget tablets and smartphones, but the company is not out to be like Apple, according to one of the company’s executives. Todd Bradley, Executive Vice President, Consumer Products, made the comments at TechCrunch Disrupt 2010 when asked if his company was trying to follow Apple down the iOS path.<br clear="both" /><br />
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212390"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>It goes without saying that as more and more people transition to smartphones, the app industry will only get hotter. Pew‚Äôs recent report on mobile apps provided us with a wealth of information on the subject, including use demographics, most popular apps, frequency of use, and cost/number of downloads. These numbers make it clear that apps are becoming an increasingly important part of our every day lives.</p> | <a href="http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/topic/apple/popular/~3/pTn9OuYHOLI/how_important_have_apps_become" target="_blank">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212253"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Google and Apple may be at each other’s throats as often as not, but it doesn’t mean they still don’t carve out some private time--just for them. Apple also finds itself on the business end of another vague patent claim, and the Droid you may or may not be looking for has finally arrived.<br clear="both" /><br />
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212251"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Runtime Revolution has dropped the "Revolution" moniker from its self-described "HyperCard descended" cross-platform rapid development environment and updated it under a new name, LiveCode. The new version offers several new features and improvements, as well as the debut of an all-new deployment pack for iOS development....<br clear="both" /><br />
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212249"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Our utilities update report is a list of updates for Mac utilities that have been released in the past week. Though a utility can be any tool that helps you perform a routine task (including image manipulation and synchronization), our focus in this column is to bring you those tools that help in troubleshooting Mac hardware and software problems.</p> | <a href="http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20017793-263.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=MacFixIt" target="_blank">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212242"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p><a href="http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2010/09/new-apple-ipad-designs-surface-with-landscape-docking-more.html">Patently Apple has a few new patent illustrations</a> from China that may hint at future <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/tag/iPad/">iPad</a> hardware features. The first is a second dock on the side of the tablet. As you can see above, the connector would come in handy if you wanted to view the iPad in landscape form, but didn't want to have a cable sticking out of the side. Personally, I can't really see Apple duplicating functionality in this way, though -- while a second port would be handy, it seems a waste to have a completely separate port used only half the time. Like most patents, this is only an idea at this point -- Apple isn't required to actually use it in a future release.</p>
<p>The second idea is more interesting, in my mind: the images show what seems to be a touch-sensitive area on the corner of the front of the iPad. PA presumes that this...</p> | <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2010/09/27/patent-illustrations-hint-at-double-dock-ipad-touch-based-corne/" target="_blank">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212387"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Microsoft will phase out Windows Live Spaces in favor of Automattic's hosted blogging service WordPress.com.</p> | <a href="http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/topic/apple/popular/~3/hwpfJoMykdI/microsoft_replacing_windows_live_spaces_with_wordpress_com" target="_blank">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212252"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Japan's Hitachi Displays is developing an touchscreen LCD for mobile devices that is just 1.5mm thick, or about 30 percent thinner that today's displays. The touch panel layer was reduced from the 0.5mm thickness in traditional displays to just 0.1mm by eliminating the glass substrate and other materials from the design. The additional inherent noise emission that is a result of this will be handled by Hitachi's touch control software, the company said....<br clear="both" /><br />
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212244"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>The 7-inch tablet unveiled by BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Monday targets enterprise users and will run a new operating system developed by QNX Software.<br clear="both" /><br />
Apple is likely to end the year in a dead heat with Google for mobile ad sales, according to an estimate by research firm IDC. Each company is predicted to have a 21 percent share of the market—a far cry from Steve Jobs' assertion that Apple would control 50 percent by the end of the year, but enough to influence a drop in both Microsoft and Google's shares.
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IDC predicts that the total mobile ad market will more than double in size by the end of 2010 to $500 million per year. According to Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Apple's introduction of iAd has spurred a rush into the mobile ad market with Google, Microsoft, and Apple buying companies and upgrading their systems to adapt.
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As the market continues to balloon, all three companies are struggling to get a handle on it. IDC projects that...</p> | <a href="http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/apple/~3/POkVHSzN5j4/apples-iad-hot-on-googles-heels-in-mobile-ad-sales.ars" target="_blank">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212245"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Previous versions of the Audible.com iPhone app required users to buy books via their computers. No more.<br clear="both" /><br />
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212214"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>The other day while I was attempting to clean up my office, I came across a bunch of old MiniDV tapes from various vacations that my wife and I had taken over the years. That got me thinking about the 8mm videotapes from the pre-MiniDV age, and the even older VHS vacation tapes from the <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene">Pleistocene Era</a>. Since I have done a pretty good job of going to a paperless office, I figured it was about time to make my other media go digital as well. </p>
<p>I don't necessarily want to edit the movies right now -- at this point, all I want to do is get the raw video transferred to my iMac, and then at some future date, when I have the time (like 20 years from now), I'll transform them into mini-documentaries. The big concern I had was getting the video into my Mac, and since I no longer shoot video with tapes, I needed something that would just get the job done with a minimum of fuss and cost.</p>
<p>A quick Amazon search...</p> | <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2010/09/27/tuaw-review-igrabber-a-cheap-way-to-digitize-old-videos/" target="_blank">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212241"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>As expected, Research In Motion unveiled a new tablet Monday, a device the company is calling “PlayBook.” The device has a 7” display and is 10mm thick. It is powered by a dual-core 1GHz processor, and as expected is run on a new operating system called BlackBerry Tablet OS that  was built on technology acquired when RIM purchased QNX Software Systems earlier this year.<br clear="both" /><br />
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212237"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Thanks to the growing popularity of Macs in the business world, Mac users will soon be able to enjoy the benefits of remote deposit capture (RDC) directly from their computers, says a leading bank-software provider. "Remote deposit capture" refers to being able to scan checks and upload the image to a financial institution without ever having to physically deliver the actual check....<br clear="both" /><br />
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212238"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>A new Gadget Census study, released by Retrevo, has looked into substantive differences between habits of iPhone, Android and Blackberry users on both their handsets and other high-tech devices. Android users were deemed the most "cutting edge," with iPhone users positioned as young, satisfied consumers and Blackberry owners as older and tending to hang on to older technology for longer periods of time. Mac owners tended to have some PCs in the house, while PC-dominated households rarely had Macs around....<br clear="both" /><br />
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212506"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Research in Motion formally took the wraps off the</p> | <a href="http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/topic/apple/popular/~3/iqdrse0Gcnw/rim_announces_playbook_tablet" target="_blank">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212239"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>In an interview with TechCrunch, HP executive VP of the Personal Systems Group Todd Bradley revealed a few strategies of the division as it relates to tablets. Because he estimates that the tablet market will eventually be worth more than $40 billion, the division will focus on developing the webOS software for mobile devices, growing its app market and improving the interface. HP now owns webOS after purchasing Palm earlier this year, and Bradley said the software platform was the driving force behind HP's decision....<br clear="both" /><br />
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212228"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Microsoft has rolled out an update to its Bing app, gracing the iPhone search app with a new travel feature, a what’s nearby feature, and some map enhancements.<br clear="both" /><br />
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212215"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p><a href="http://advertising.apple.com/">Apple's iAd service</a> is a relative newcomer to the mobile ads industry, which is probably why it's completely <em>falling apart</em>. <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2010/09/16/yahoo-ceo-iads-going-to-fall-apart-for-apple/">No, sorry Carol</a>, we're kidding -- Apple's service is doing extremely well, and it's already <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/sep2010/tc20100926_023792.htm">threatening established mobile advertising services like Google and Yahoo!</a>. IDC claims that Apple will end the year with 21 percent of the market, which means that in less than a year's time, the company will have picked up almost a quarter of a rapidly growing and expanding industry. Google's share is dropping, and that's in addition to the AdMob purchase it made a while back as well. That is a phenomenal start for the iAd platform.</p>
<p>And in fact, IDC is convinced that Apple's gigantic entry into the ads market has actually buoyed...</p> | <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2010/09/27/apple-taking-mobile-ad-share-from-google-yahoo-should-have-21/" target="_blank">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212233"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Research in Motion on Monday announced the "PlayBook," a 7-inch multi-touch tablet that represents the smartphone maker's first attempt to take on Apple's highly successful iPad.<br clear="both" /><br />
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212229"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>The popular travel app now offers handier controls and an iPad-optimized interface<br clear="both" /><br />
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212505"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Twitter intends to monetize on the desire to collect more followers with the announcement of its Promoted Accounts product tomorrow.</p> | <a href="http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/topic/apple/popular/~3/9vDiAdNQx_Q/twitter_to_launch_promoted_accounts" target="_blank">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
Apple has updated its social network for music, Ping, which it released at the beginning of the month to less than rave reviews. The changes address a major complaint from users upon its initial rollout -- the dearth of social features. To be sure, Apple hasn't addressed all the issues -- or even the main one -- with Ping. However, the enhancements it has made appear to be mollifying social networkers accustomed to greater control over how they use a platform. Ping's main perceived failing is that it is limited to the iTunes ecosystem.</p> | <a href="http://www.macnewsworld.com/rsstory/70914.html" target="_blank">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212190"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Two highly-anticipated iPad app releases have finally hit the App Store, and they're both magazines: The New Yorker and Gourmet Live.</p>
<p>One unique feature is how the magazine's famous cartoons are handled. Tap anyone to bring up a scrollable cartoon gallery. Plus, you can enter the regular caption contest right from within the app. It looks great, and we're eager to try it out.</p>
<p>Meanwhile,...</p> | <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2010/09/27/new-yorker-gourmet-ipad-apps-debut/" target="_blank">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212230"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Google Apps APIs can now be accessed by the emerging OAuth authentication protocol.<br clear="both" /><br />
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212225"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Twitter is set to announce a new for-fee service on Tuesday at the IAB MIXX conference in New York City, promoted Who to Follow suggestions. In an exclusive report, AllThingsD reported that Twitter will sell promoted spots in its Who to Follow recommendations based on the same algorithms the firm uses for the Who to Follow recommendations you can get right now.<br clear="both" /><br />
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212210"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Apple‚Äôs new iAd mobile advertising platform will end the year with <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/sep2010/tc20100926_023792.htm">21 percent of the U.S. mobile advertising market</a>, according to a new report. Citing estimates provided by IDC, Bloomberg Businessweek reports that Apple‚Äôs percentage of the market will come at the expense of Google, which IDC also expects‚Ķ</p> | <a href="http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/apple-to-take-21-of-mobile-ad-market-by-years-end/20764" target="_blank">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212220"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Accessory maker SwitchEasy has released a new version of the CapsuleRebel, now designed for the iPhone 4. The case's signature element is its spine-shaped exterior, said to cover over 60 percent of the device and protect common impact points. The design is also intended to improve grip....<br clear="both" /><br />
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212204"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Appcelerator polled the developers who use its cross-platform app-making tools and found that most think Android has a better long-term outlook than iOS. But interest in developing apps for Apple's mobile OS remains high.<br clear="both" /><br />
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212221"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>RIM today unveiled the PlayBook, its first shot at the tablet space. The PlayBook has a seven-inch, multi-touch display and is just 9.7mm thick. It's designed as a high-powered browsing device with both a WebKit browser as well as Flash 10.1 and AIR support. The slate is billed as a media-heavy device with full 1080p video output over HDMI -- including entirely different content on each screen -- and has both three- and five-megapixel cameras on both the front and back....<br clear="both" /><br />
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212226"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Yes, folks, it’s time again for one of your favorite Mac Geek Gab segments: Cool Stuff Found. Today it’s an entire show packed with all the stuff you and your favorite geeks have found in the last month. Listen and find all kinds of stuff you — and your Mac — just can’t live without!<br clear="both" /><br />
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212222"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>RIM kicked off BlackBerry DevCon today with plans for its own mobile ad service in the vein of Apple's iAd or Google's AdMob. BlackBerry Advertising Service will give app writers access to multiple ad networks to subsidize free or cheap apps. Developers will get a similar 60 percent cut of any ad revenue, but RIM is hoping to avoid iAd-level control and will give the advertisers and ad networks direction over the creative presentation of apps....<br clear="both" /><br />
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212223"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Storage products maker OCZ has showed off its latest solid state drive, the Onyx 2 Series. The 2.5-inch SSDs are said to be priced lower than competing products but still sport SandForce controllers. Their maximum read speeds are rated at 270MBps, while write speeds peak at 265MBps....<br clear="both" /><br />
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212209"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Google has apparently extended its agreement with Apple to remain the default search engine on iOS. </p>
<p><a href="http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/09/google-has-apparently-extended-its.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss&comments=1#comments-bar">Read the comments on this post</a></p>
I saw the new iPad nano for the first time this weekend, and though I knew it was small, of course, I was surprised by just how small it was. Despite the tiny little touchscreen, it really is about the size of the old shuffle. In fact, it's small enough to fit inside <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/27/ipod-nano-modded-into-dreamcast-vmu-magic-meets-nostalgia-vide/">one of the old Visual Memory Units</a> from the Sega Dreamcast. Unfortunately, the original controls don't work, and because the nano doesn't actually run any apps, you can't play anything even resembling <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMU">the old VMU games</a> that the extra controller units used to play in conjunction with the old console. But it is a nice little case for the new nano, and of course, it's just dripping with nostalgia.</p>
<p>You can find more <a href="http://goteking.web.infoseek.co.jp/jyank/vm_nano/vm_nano.html">information and pictures on the maker's website</a>, which is in...</p> | <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2010/09/27/ipod-nano-built-into-dreamcast-vmu/" target="_blank">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212224"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Apple's legal team has sent a cease-and-desist request to a popular Polish news site, AppleMania, reports say. The site's name and logo allegedly violate Apple trademarks, which the company also suggests could potentially confuse the public as to the relationship between the two parties. AppleMania is accused of reaping "unfair benefits" that could "lead to the dilution of the distinctive power of Apple's trademarks."...<br clear="both" /><br />
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212197"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Apple garners the most media headlines of any tech company, with the iPhone 4 and iPad launches among the biggest stories of the year, while coverage of the company is overwhelmingly positive, one study has found.<br clear="both" /><br />
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212317"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Advertisers will be allowed to purchase placement in lists of "who to follow" recommendations targeted to specific users on Twitter, according to the latest report by Peter Kafka ...</p> | <a href="http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/topic/apple/popular/~3/iPnusyVX5Qo/twitter_to_start_selling_followers" target="_blank">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212189"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Sennheiser has unveiled six new headsets featuring Apple-compatible in-line remotes and mics. The <a href="http://www.sennheiserusa.com/private_headsets_mobile_bluetooth-wireless_504173">IE 8i</a> ($600) is an in-ear headphone offering clear, balanced sound, while the <a href="http://www.sennheiserusa.com/private_headsets_mobile_bluetooth-wireless_504161">MM 70i</a> ($130) are also in-ear headphones, but are designed to offer more pronounced bass. The <a href="http://www.sennheiserusa.com/private_headsets_mobile_bluetooth-wireless_504162">PX 100-IIi</a> ($120) and</p> | <a href="http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/sennheiser-unveils-new-apple-compatible-headsets/20763" target="_blank">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212227"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Browser-based Web apps will rival the power of today’s iPad apps in the next few years, according to Google CEO Eric Schmidt. In an interview with Charlie Rose (posted on Fortune), Mr. Schmidt said that it won’t be long before developers are able to use open technologies to produce apps that are as powerful and beautiful as iPad apps are today.<br clear="both" /><br />
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212186"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p><a rel="lytebox" href="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/09/img_1000.jpg"></a>With free iPhone cases abounding, an iffy economy, and a new truck project that's capable of taking every last dollar I can throw at it, why did I buy a $70 <a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged #iphonecase" href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/iphonecase/">iPhone case</a>? Because it's the one I've always wanted.</p>
<p>Wood is the best material. It's second only to leather for how nice it feels in the hand—and even that's debatable. It is theoretically sustainable, assuaging the tortured consumer soul with eco-positive lubrication. And it's just pretty.</p>
<p>While I've got nothing but respect for <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5599893/a-peek-inside-the-mind-of-dieter-rams">Dieter Rams</a>, the legendary designer's influence over modern electronics has left us with a world of geometric shapes, cold metal, and monochromatic plastics. The age of wood panelling in...</p> | <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5648940/why-i-love-an-imperfect-70-wooden-iphone-case" target="_blank">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212274"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>You always have to watch out for a Wi-Fi survey conducted by the Wi-Fi Alliance, but based on our own experiences, we actually have to agree with the findings here. According to results from a new poll conducted by Wakefield Research on behalf of the Wi-Fi Alliance, Wi-Fi is becoming more important than anyone could have imagining just a few...</p> | <a href="http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/topic/apple/popular/~3/ICMx5IyrCU4/wi_fi_seen_as_critical_to_relationships_life_in_general" target="_blank">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212297"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Best free Android photo editing apps for taking images and editing them to share with your friends. Don't look anywhere else for best photo-editing apps for Android.</p> | <a href="http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/topic/apple/popular/~3/cqUS7hKgPO8/top_5_best_free_android_apps_for_photo_editing_12" target="_blank">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212181"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Kno, which is planning dual-screen tablet later this year, today said that it also plans to bring out a single-screen version soon. It will also be aimed at students and provide digital textbooks, letting students take notes on the touchscreen. This device will have a single, 14.1-inch screen....<br clear="both" /><br />
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212165"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Apple's advertising for the <a href="http://tuaw.com/tag/facetime">FaceTime</a> video chat feature on the <a href="http://tuaw.com/tag/iphone4">iPhone 4</a> is emotional and effective, and now the ads are making it to the European market. All of the ads are backed with the universally-known voice of Louis Armstrong singing "When You're Smiling," and there is no audible dialog, so these ads can be used in just about any European market. So far, they've made it to the U.K., Italy, and Spain. </p>
<p>The ads are sponsored by carriers 3Italia, Vodafone, and Orange. Click the Read More link to view the videos.</p>
</p><p><a href="http://www.tuaw.com">TUAW</a><a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2010/09/27/found-footage-a-look-at-european-facetime-ads/">Found Footage: A look at European FaceTime ads</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://www.tuaw.com">The...</a></p> | <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2010/09/27/found-footage-a-look-at-european-facetime-ads/" target="_blank">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212182"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>AMD's Radeon HD 6700 series has had virtually all of its details leak today through a forum post at Chinese site Chiphell. The new series, now pitched as mid-range, is due to have "twice the horsepower" of the 5700 series it replaces. Clock speeds and memory bandwidth should go higher and give much larger texture fill rates as well as more than a 60 percent boost to the brute computing strength: a Radeon HD 6770 would produce about 2.3 teraflops, or more than the older but higher-end Radeon HD 5850's 2 teraflops....<br clear="both" /><br />
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212282"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Apple iOS and Google Android, both are widely used platforms. People usually get confused about the Operating Systems and sometimes they end up making a wrong decision.</p> | <a href="http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/topic/apple/popular/~3/SHy5K0T34YI/apple_ios_vs_google_android_which_one_is_better" target="_blank">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212184"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>On Monday, publisher Conde Nast added The New Yorker to its growing list of publications with custom iPad apps for reading magazine issues.<br clear="both" /><br />
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212179"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>If your Mac is laboring under the load of applications running in the background that aren't even really doing anything, St. Clair Software's new AppTamer may provide the respite you need. It can stop applications in the background, reducing CPU usage and thus helping portable Macs run cooler, quieter, and longer.
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<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212187"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>If you ever played with the ill-fated Twitter rip-off <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5427548/remainders-+-the-good-bad-and-ugly-things-we-didnt-post-and-why/gallery/">Plurk</a>, iStreamer will seem familiar. It's a social feed service which displays tweets, RSS feeds and other updates in a timeline, scrolling cross-ways like a nice desk dashboard accessory.</p>
<p>Virtually any type of update can be added to the timeline, even search keywords. If you set up an alert for "alligators eating toast" you'll see updates—however infrequent—scrolling across the screen automatically. You can catch up on updates you may've missed if you popped out, by scrolling tactile-ly yourself.</p>
<p>The video below, shot by CrunchGear, shows off the app well. It's a bit of a commitment at $4, so you'll be wanting to ensure it's going to offer what you need from a social app over the likes of the official Twitter app. [<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/istreamer/id373748242?mt=8">iTunes</a> via...</p> | <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5648938/social-networking-app-istreamer-displays-tweets-in-auto+scrolling-format" target="_blank">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212188"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Welcome to The Loop Picks for this week. The apps showcased here are Mac software applications found in Bodega that the editors of The Loop found interesting, useful or cool. I hope you enjoy this week‚Äôs choices. Clicking on one of the apps listed below will open the Bodega app and give you more information [...]</p> | <a href="http://www.loopinsight.com/2010/09/27/this-week%E2%80%99s-hot-mac-software-picks-2/" target="_blank">Read more »</a></div></div></div>
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212183"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>The Brothers noted that Apple is offering a refurbished Refurbished 13” MacBook Pro 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo for $1949, including free delivery.<br clear="both" /><br />
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212185"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>Technology journalists stumble over each other to praise Apple, while Microsoft goes neglected, according to a Pew Research Center study.<br clear="both" /><br />
<div class="field-content"><div class="body-row" id="body-row-212180"><div style="background:#F5F5F5;"><p>The three-day MacTech Conference in Los Angeles, Calif., in November will offer IT professionals and Apple developers a chance to learn and network, and those register early will be eligible for a free $200 Apple Certification Exam.<br clear="both" /><br />
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