Joe Aimonetti

Apple nabs 1M iPhoto for iOS users in 10 days

iPhoto for iOS provides a powerful photo editor and manager for your iPad or iPhone. Apple iPhoto for iPhone and iPad has eclipsed the 1-million-user mark just a little over a week after Apple released the app alongside the new iPad, longtime Apple writer Jim Dalrymple (The Loop) reports. What’s impressive is that the number …

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Apple CEO Tim Cook gets AT&T to unlock an iPhone

The customer, someone 9to5 Mac calls a “trusted tipster,” told the tech Web site that he reached out to Cook after a series of customer support calls to both AT&T and Apple failed to resolve his issue. The man in question had recently been transferred to Canada for work and decided to try and use his iPhone 3GS (now off-contract, …

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Nothing to sneeze at: Paper napkin iPhone cases

Nap Page One can find an Apple iPhone case made from just about anything. From bamboo to leather to rubber to plastic, the world’s manufacturing materials are very well-represented in options for your iDevice covers. A case material that may not jump out as an obvious choice is being utilized by a company out of Thailand to sell its iPhone …

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Test

Apple For a flat monthly fee of $24.95, online try-before-you-buy electronics site Ybuy will let you get your hands on the latest technology for 30 days without having to commit to its full purchase price. You select one device at a time to test from an extensive catalog of everything from consumer electronics to gadgets for your home and kitchen. …

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Apple tops Japanese smartphone market for first time

Apple As news of Apple’s monster holiday season quarter continues to filter in though various lenses, one is particularly striking. Specifically, Apple now sits atop the Japanese cell phone market, shipping more iPhone units than its competitors in Japan. The steady rise in popularity is attributed to the success of the iPhone 4S, pushing Apple to 26.6 percent of mobile …

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Siri slow to impress in Japan

Apple That feature add, unfortunately, hasn’t yet been received with the highest regard. Apple’s voice recognition assistant has caught on fairly well here in the U.S. (though a lawsuit claiming Siri isn’t what Apple says it is was just filed), but in Japan one video shows Siri struggling on some more-advanced Japanese requests. The side-by-side comparison below features an iPhone …

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Rumor: 7

Apple First of all, let’s clear the air about Apple’s iPad and the Kindle Fire. Apple couldn’t care less about the Kindle Fire. There is not a single device in the tablet market that requires Apple to create a “competitor” product. In fact, one could argue that there is not a single device in the smartphone market that Apple is …

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Get Web

Apple Despite the overwhelming appeal of being able to tether your iPhone to your laptop via the Personal Hotspot feature included in iOS, the cost of doing so keeps many iPhone owners from getting the most out of their device. Tether, however, has a solution. Back in November, Tether was able to briefly get an app approved on Apple’s App …

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Path updated to include Nike+ integration, music matching, camera enhancements

Find out who you’re listening to and share it with your followers on Path. Screenshot by Joe Aimonetti/CNET Are you a fan of Facebook? Twitter? Instagram? Shazam? Nike+? Would you be interested in a service that essentially combines the functionality of all these mobile apps into one sleek and simple-to-use program? Then perhaps you should give Path a try. After …

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Do yourself a favor, get AppleCare+ for the new iPad

Screenshot by Joe Aimonetti/CNET If you were one of the millions following along today (hopefully on CNET’s Live Blog) as Apple released its latest iteration of the iPad and have now decided you must buy it, be sure to add AppleCare+ to your order (pricing has not yet been made available). First, everyone should know what sort of coverage is …

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