Mark your calendars, clear your schedule, and ask yourself this: has Apple just set the date for the iPhone 5? If the fruit-flavoured phone maker sticks to past form, the next generation of iPhone could be unveiled to gasps of wonder on 6 June. The boys and girls at Cupertino have set the date for …
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There are those who think Steve Jobs is a superhero, so it’s fitting he’s joining Batman, Green Lantern and Iron Man with his own comic book. Steve Jobs: Co-founder of Apple tells the story of Jobs and his company in comic strip form. The 32-page comic is published by Bluewater. It’s written by one CW Cooke with art by Chris …
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Get your coat — we’re going out. But where shall we go? SceneTap is a new app that uses cameras in pubs and clubs to check out a venue before you even turn up, right down to the number of boys and girls in the place. SceneTap relies on cameras installed at the door of each bar. The cameras count …
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Sky Go is go. Sky Player and Sky Mobile TV, the two services for watching Sky away from your telly are being combined to form Sky Go — and it’s free to all Sky customers. Sky Player lets you watch Sky online, and Sky Mobile TV lets you watch on your phone. With the introduction of Sky Go there’ll be …
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The O2 network is down in London and the South-East. O2 is working on fixing the mobile phone network, with an unidentified problem nixing O2 users from making calls or surfing the Web. O2 says, “We’ve got a problem that means you can’t make calls, use the Internet, or send/get emails the east London/Essex area.” The snafu appears to have …
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The BBC is to serve up its first 3D broadcast, live from Wimbledon. It’ll be ace. You’ll love it. Ace, d’y’geddit? Love, like in the tennis! Stick around, kid, there’s plenty more where that came from. Auntie Beeb will broadcast the men’s and women’s singles finals in 3D from Centre Court at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club …
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Apple’s new online music services won’t come to the UK until 2012. The British record industry licensing body has confirmed our suspicions that iTunes in the Cloud and iTunes Match aren’t coming to these shores any time soon. The Performing Right Society (PRS), which sorts out licensing and royalties so artists, composers and labels get paid, is in talks with …
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Apple is mapping the future of its maps app. The fruit-flavoured phone-flogger is advertising for a software engineer to improve the features and interface of maps on iOS devices, including the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Apple is advertising for an iOS Maps application developer. Based in Apple’s California headquarters, the role requires knowledge of Objective-C, C, or C++ program …
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Your iPhone will no longer keep tabs on your movement, thanks to the latest software update from Apple. The latest version of the iOSsoftware ends the company’s controversial saving of data tracking your movements on your phone and computer. iOS 4.3.3 reduces the amount of data saved and deletes the cache when you opt to turn off location services. The …
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iOS 5 is alive, packing a raft of new features — you no longer need to plug your iPhone or iPad into your computer to sync and update. Software updates will now be beamed to your phone automatically over the air, and you can sync your stuff to iTunes over Wi-Fi, so you may never need that white cable ever …
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