Steve Jobs has resigned as CEO of Apple, handing the reins of the company he founded to Tim Cook. In a letter to the board, Jobs wrote, “I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first …
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The UK will be among the very first countries to enjoy Nokia’s new Windows Phones, according to a Dutch executive of the Finnish firm. Nokia phones with the new OS are expected towards the end of the year. Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands will be at the top of Nokia’s list for the launch of the much …
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Crave’s dinky little iPhone app is working perfectly once more, delivering timely and amusing tech nonsense to your mobile, after a short period of, er, brokenness. Here’s what happened: there was a small problem with the podcast and that broke the feed to our app over Easter. The bad data (bad data! No cookie for you) was cached and took …
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London’s Metropolitan Police has issued strict instructions that the new Color iPhone app is not to be used in the vicinity of the royal wedding later this month, saying it’s a “threat to security”. Color is a new photo-sharing app that tags photos you take with your iPhone, according to where they were taken. The photos are then uploaded to …
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If you’ve ever gone on holiday — whether on purpose or by mistake — and used your smart phone, you might well have had a nasty shock in your phone bill when you got home. If so, you’re not the only one. Charging a king’s ransom for data when you’re abroad seems to be standard practice, despite ongoing efforts by …
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If you desperately need to impress a good-looking fellow commuter or frighten an old person with new-fangled magic, Google has the answer: its Goggles app for Android will now solve your Sudoku in less than 30 seconds. Goggles connects your phone’s little camera to the Internet, letting you Google anything you can photograph. Its software analyses your shots and provides …
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Amazon’s new Android app store will “help customers find and discover” apps, the company promises. Amazon will approve apps and — presumably — take a cut. “The sheer number of apps available today makes it hard for customers to find high-quality, relevant products — and developers similarly struggle to get their apps noticed,” the company said in a post on …
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It’s only day two of our exhausting exhaustive coverage from Las Vegas and already we have a strong contender for the exalted CES Product Name that Makes Us Giggle Like Schoolboys award. MSI, Taiwanese purveyor of reasonably priced gaming laptops, has applied its legendary tin ear for western naming conventions and come up with the MSI WindPad *parp*. The WindPad …
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Apple has removed an unofficial WikiLeaks app from the App Store. The app cost $1.99 (£1.29), half of which went to the whistleblower site. “We removed the WikiLeaks app from the App Store because it violated our developer guidelines,” an Apple spokeswoman told Wired‘s Threat Level blog. “Apps must comply with all local laws and may not put an individual …
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HTC Wildfire owners should have a little extra Christmas twinkle in their pocket this week, courtesy of an update to Android 2.2 for those handsets on Vodafone. The jolly red network is passing on the update no sooner than it was announced by Taiwanese robowizards HTC, in a warming change from the usual network faffing. Hopefully the other networks will …
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