Several readers were incensed last week when we highlighted InfoWorld’s early negative impressions of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7. InfoWorld’s take was scathing – suggesting that Microsoft should kill the project. Now Engadget’s Joshua Topolsky has offered his in-depth preview of Windows Phone 7, and he’s also skeptical about the viability of the platform: What we’ve […]

Will Microsoft’s upcoming Windows Phone 7 smartphone be the next Zune? Could be – based on the latest Windows Phone 7, InfoWorld says Microsoft should just kill the project now: There’s no kind way to say it: Windows Phone 7 will be a failure. Windows Phone 7 is a waste of time and money. It’s […]

Vericorder has updated 1st Video, it’s prosumer iPhone video editor. New features include faster processing, new save options, video uploads to YouTube, new format options, audio export to iPhone ringtones and SoundCloud support. Details below.

Podcasting pioneer and self-described “podfather” Adam Curry thinks app programmers are the new rock stars, so he’s positioning himself as the DJ of applications. Here’s what Curry has to say about his new project, The Big App Show: The concept of the Big App Show was really filling a void in the app market I […]

By now you, you probably already know that the iPhone 4 can shoot great video. But is it good enough for commercial work? FLF Films thought so – and they shot their latest commercial, for Minelab, on an iPhone 4. Filming included putting the iPhone on a Steadicam and even flying it through the air […]

Macworld’s Heather Kelly has done a side-by-side comparison of the camera and video camera quality of current generation smartsphones, and the new iPhone 4 came out on top. Photo quality: The iPhone 4 had, by a healthy margin, the best exposure and color scores of the entire bunch, beating out even the point-and-shoot cameras. It […]

Beta News’ Joe Wilcox is eating his words today, saying “I was wrong about Apple iPad”. He was a vocal critic of the iPad when it was announced, like most tech analysts, arguing that the world doesn’t need the iPad or any other tablet. After using it though, he’s come to a different conclusion: The […]

When Steve Jobs introduced the new iPhone 4, one of the most interesting announcements was that iMovie was coming to the iPhone. As popular as the iPhone platform is, adding HD video capture and iMovie to it could create a new vlogging & video podcasting explosion. Now new details are starting to come out on […]

As if Adobe needed another nail in the Flash is dead tombstone – a zero-day Flash vulnerability has been identified and announced by Adobe: A critical vulnerability exists in Adobe Flash Player 10.0.45.2 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris operating systems, and the authplay.dll component that ships with Adobe Reader and Acrobat […]

Apple today proved the naysayers wrong, announcing that it had sold 2 million iPads in less than 2 months. In fact, Apple is still struggling to keep up for demand. “Customers around the world are experiencing the magic of iPad, and seem to be loving it as much as we do,” says Steve Jobs, Apple’s […]