Katie Boehret on the Martha Stewart Show–It’s a Good Thing.
February 28, 2010
Martha Stewart invited our own Katie Boehret back to her show for a second time this week to share some of her favorite things from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The following is a link to Martha’s site for the video, which isn’t embeddable at this point, but we promise it’s worth the click. Katie kicks things off with Google Goggles.
Five Fun Games: Chasing the Shadow, Epic Brain Teasing, a Murder Mystery Rolled Up in a Carpet and More
February 28, 2010
Happy Friday! It’s another week of picks, selected by Mac Games and More of fun casual games you might not have heard of. The selection includes a gripping adventure with Sherlock Holmes, a delicious sim, Mai Tai’s beach side and more.
Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Persian Carpet – Step into the shoes of the [...]
Two Voice Recognition Companies Join Forces
February 28, 2010
Nuance, the company behind Dragon Mobile for iPhone and the Naturally Speaking range of software products, has bought MacSpeech, makers of the jaw-droppingly amazing MacSpeech Dictate and its recent new sibling, MacSpeech Scribe.
In a statement, Nuance’s Peter Mahoney said:
“Rest assured, if you currently use either product, nothing will change in the near term. In [...]
Daily Deals: $849 MacBook Pro, $999 iMac, $2,149 Mac Pro Xeon
February 28, 2010
We close the week with three high-profile hardware deals. First up is a deal on used 15-inch 2GHz MacBook Pro laptops, starting at $849. Next, we check out 22-inch iMacs running a 3.06GHz processor for $999. We round out the top trio with some Mac Pro Xeon desktop workstations, starting at $2,149 for a quad-core [...]
Will iPad Be the Next iPhone for Accessory Providers?
February 28, 2010
Although relatively few insiders have touched an iPad, accessory makers – the people that make the cases, skins and add-ons for iPhones and iPods – are chomping at the bit to start selling iPad products one Apple starts shipping in March. Why are the companies so anxious? In 2009, $3.7 billion worth of iPod [...]
Gartner data places iPhone OS as third biggest smartphone platform globally
February 28, 2010
According to new data from Gartner, Apple’s iPhone operating system is the third most dominant smartphone platform in the world, with a 14.4% market share.
The iPhone still trails Nokia’s Symbian operating system and RIM’s BlackBerry OS. The discrepancy between RIM and Apple is only by five percent… but RIM has only grown their market share [...]
Buying a Johnny Cash tune leads to $10,000 iTunes gift card for Georgian man
February 28, 2010
iTunes finally sold its ten billionth song, and as promised, Apple has given the lucky downloader a $10,000 iTunes gift card (or one ten thousandth of a cent for every iTunes song ever sold).
But sorry, guys! It wasn’t you… well, unless your name is Mr. Louie Sulcer of Woodstock, Georgia, in which case, congratulations. Sulcer’s [...]
Analyst: Lower-Cost iPhones Expected in June
February 28, 2010
Apple could unveil a lower-cost iPhone in June, a handset designed to address the two major barriers to adoption: cost of hardware and cost of the service plan, one analyst said Friday. The cost of iPhone hardware stops 85 percent of people, while the service plan is a barrier for 66 percent.
“We expect Apple to [...]
iPod Explodes in Classroom
February 28, 2010
Police and fire officials were called when an iPod spontaneously exploded on the desk of a high school student in West Newbury, Massachusetts.
The iPod was sitting on the girl’s desk in science class when it exploded. No one was hurt and fire chief Scott Berkenbush said the situation proved to be minor.
“iPod is the new [...]
Opera’s latest beta makes it the fastest browser on OS X
February 28, 2010
It’s been years since I’ve used the Opera browser, but the latest beta version offers at least one tempting reason to switch: it’s fast. Really fast. So fast that it just smokes every other browser on the OS X platform.
It’s all thanks to Opera’s new JavaScript rendering engine, Carkan, and a new vector graphics library [...]
