Ryan at gdgt raises the question today if Apple’s “antennagate” distracted us from a bigger problem, “glassgate”: Whether or not you’ve experienced the iPhone 4’s famed death grip, or even believe it’s a real phenomenon (and based on extensive personal experience I can assure you that it is), the whole Antennagate scandal undoubtedly left a […]

Google today offered an update on Google TV – its new Internet television platform. And while Apple has been content to keep Apple TV as a “hobby”, Google is intent on making its Internet TV receiver a business. Today they announced multiple content partners for Google TV: Turner Broadcasting has been optimizing some of their […]

Earlier in the year, we suggested that, with the iPad and other iOS devices, Apple is forking the Web: The iPad isn’t about Web-applications – it’s about Internet-enabled applications. Instead of the one-size-fits-all approach of the computer Web browser, Apple is creating a platform of dedicated apps that do one thing really well. In other […]

Remember when Apple was the king of tools for creating your own media and it was hyping podcasting and user-generated media? When Steve Jobs bragged about the company hitting milestones with its iTunes podcast directory? When it added podcasting support to Mac OS X? And when podcasting was a selling point for Garageband? It looks […]

The Zune has been the whipping boy of new media since the portable media player’s introduction, because Microsoft made the mistake of taking a iPod wannabee and throwing a bunch of marketing money at it. The Zune has improved a lot, since then, but it still hasn’t made an impression with buyers. This is largely […]

The iTunes Ping social music network was easily the most interesting announcement out of Apple’s special music even, last week. But after using it for even a short while, most people are unimpressed or puzzled – with Fortune  asking “Can Ping Be Saved?” and PC World calling it “Not so hot”. Here are three reasons […]

Wired today declared that the Web is dead, backing it up with this chart that shows the history of the proportion of total Internet bandwidth taken up by various types of traffic. According to Wired’s Chris Anderson – the proportion of Internet traffic taken up by Web requests is getting smaller – so “the Web […]

Apple will replace its Apple TV hobby with a new member of the iOS family, Apple iTV, according to an Engadget report. Apple iTV will be priced starting at $99 and will be similar in size and specs to the iPhone 4 (A4 CPU, 16GB of flash storage). It is expected to support a new […]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today announced that it has won three critical exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) anticircumvention provisions today. You now have the right to: Rip and remix DVDs for non-commercial purposes; Jailbreak your iPhone, or other cell phone, and load up any apps you want; and Use your iPhone, […]

iPhone 4 video quality is great for a phone – but is limited by the fact that light hand-held video cameras deliver shaky video. While Tiffen has announced an iPhone Steadicam, you can also build your own. This video, by Spencer S. Watson, demonstrates how he built a DIY iPhone Steadicam out of a modified […]