The New York Times website is going behind the paywall, and it’s playing ball with Apple’s contentious subscription service to do it. The venerable American broadsheet announced today that it will start charging a monthly fee for visitors to its website, and users of its smart phone and iPad apps. New York Times apps are available …
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A white iPhone 5? This might seem like a cruel joke on our part, given the fact that the white iPhone 4 still hasn’t gone on sale. We’re not making it up though: reports in China claim that Apple has got its suppliers sorted for a blanc-generation version of the iPhone. Specifically, the Chinese-language Economic Daily News claims that local …
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The white iPhone 4 may finally go on sale in the coming weeks, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek article. The article cites “three people with knowledge of the plans” as saying the white handset will be available “in the next few weeks” in the US at least, through operators AT&T and Verizon Wireless. The article specifies that this means an on-sale date before the end …
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High-score hotshots assemble! The excellent Nintendo 3DS and the upcoming Sony NGP mean there’s never been a better time to gamify going out. But not everyone’s keen on lugging around a dedicated console, and with the Android and Apple app stores full to bursting with delicious downloadable games, many gamers are sticking with their phones. The two front-runners in the …
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The iPhone 4 and unlimited data go together beautifully, even if operators have pulled back from the idea, preferring to cap users to prevent their networks being overloaded. Now Three is bucking the trend again, letting pay as you go iPhone 4 users have limitless data for the handset, as well as contract customers. The operator has just already been …
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The white version of Apple’s iPhone 4 could be in some UK punters’ hands tomorrow morning. At least, that seemed like a possibility for a brief moment earlier today. In a blink-and-you-missed-it glitch this morning, the near-mythical white iPhone 4 popped up for sale on Three’s website, with an ‘earliest delivery’ date of Wednesday 20 April 2011. The Unofficial Apple Weblog grabbed a …
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Angry Birds is finally coming to our Web browsers, after bringing avian rage to the iPhone, Android phones and real life. You’ll have to play in the Google Chrome browser though — it’s only available from the Chrome Web Store, starting today. But that doesn’t mean you have to be connected to the Internet to play. Because the game is a Chrome app, …
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Need a break from the iPhone 5 rumours? We feel your pain, and are responding to it. So, about the iPhone 6… Yes, believe it or not, there’s already speculation about Apple’s next-next gen smart phone, with Sharp being fingered as the supplier of a display that will make the device thinner and lighter than ever. Japanese newspaper Nikkan is …
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BlackBerry-maker RIM better have something special up its sleeve for the unveiling of the BlackBerry Bold Touch next month: the handset has been the subject of a barrage of leaks in recent weeks, including specs, photos and videos. Now it’s falling into the hands of bloggers too. Boy Genius Report has taken a few pics of its hands-on with the …
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If a picture tells a thousand words, what kind of story is told by a tweeted link to a video of you rambling into your iPad 2‘s front camera, setting the world to rights? Actually, don’t answer that. We’re about to find out, though. Twitter has updated its official iPad app, 9 to 5 Mac has noted, with a feature …
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If you were waiting for today’s iOS 5 announcement to decide on whether you should make the jump to the iPhone, you might still be waiting. While the improvements are welcome–we’re keen on the Camera app shortcuts, for example–many of them are features that Android users have been enjoying for some time. They include notifications, over-the-air updates, and the ability …
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Steve Jobs talks iTunes and iCloud at WWDC. Donald Bell/CNET At WWDC 2011, Apple finally revealed its plans for taking the pain out of using its bloated iTunes desktop software. Apple’s solution: let it rot. Maybe that’s an indelicate way to phrase it, but in essence, Apple is carving out multiple ways users can sync their precious iTunes content (photos, …
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Sony Ericsson today announced the second wave of games with optimised controls for its Xperia Play gaming smartphone, including PC classic Minecraft and 10 exclusives to the handset. Minecraft: coming to a Play near you. (Credit: CBSi) Other games announced include EA’s Battlefield Bad Company 2 and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow 6 Shadow Vanguard by Gameloft. The Play, which launched in …
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MobileMe is effectively gone, replaced by iCloud. iCloud will take over the syncing of mail, contacts, and calendars over multiple iOS devices. Donald Bell/CNET Apple’s new iCloud services announced at the World Wide Developer Conference in San Francisco today will put everything from mobile apps to digital pictures to music in the “cloud,” where users can easily store and access …
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Acer has shown off its first Windows Phone Mango handset at this year’s Computex exhibition in Taiwan. The W4’s modest specs place it in the middle tier of current smart phones. The W4 uses a 1GHz single-core Qualcomm processor, so it’s not going to be as snappy as some of its more expensive brethren and may stumble when multitasking. The …
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