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Archives for April, 2010

The Highlights Of iPhone OS 4.0, Including Apple’s New Mobile Advertising Network

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is announcing today the latest version of the iPhone operating system, which will come with at least 100 new features, like five times zoom in the camera. But Steve Jobs says there’s seven major updates coming today. Here’s the list in real-time (in progress): 1. Multi-tasking: This is the big one that …

The Latest iPad And iPhone Stats

We are all here in Cupertino today to hear about the next stage of the iPhone, but Steve Jobs treated us with a few statistics before the show kicked off: —On Saturday, 300,000 iPads were sold. As of today, 450,000 were sold. Jobs said: “Best Buy is out of stock…We are hand to mouth.” —4 …

Apple iPhone OS 4.0 liveblog now underway!

It’s Thursday April 8th and SlashGear is at Apple HQ bright and early waiting for the iPhone OS 4.0 “Sneak Peek” event to begin.  It’s something of a surprise – and definitely short notice, even for Apple – coming so soon on the heels of the iPad launch last weekend, and we’ve got high hopes …

Live Blog: Apple Introduces iPhone OS 4

Apple this morning will give select members of the press a sneak preview of the next-generation iPhone operating system. The event is scheduled for 10 a.m. PT at Apple headquarters. The iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad all run iPhone OS 3.0. Apple has not yet officially disclosed any details about iPhone OS 4, but a …

Apple NFC iPhone patent tips wireless transaction tech

Apple’s event later on today – that SlashGear will be liveblogging at http://live.slashgear.com/ – is expected to bring talk of multitasking and ads, but probably not wireless payment methods; still, we’ve got a recently published Apple patent to help us out with that.  Patent WO/2010/039337 details an NFC-enabled (Near Field Communications) mobile device, like an …

First Look: Dual GPS Cradle for iPod Touch

After delays in manufacturing and then (quite ironically) getting lost on its trip to Gadget Lab Spain, the Dual GPS cradle for the iPod Touch finally arrived for testing this morning. Like the TomTom kit, the Dual is a chunky case with a GPS receiver into which you slip an iPod Touch. From there, any …

That scratched first gen iPod nano is worth $37.50

I am not a big music person, so it took me a long time to jump on the digital music bandwagon. Those of you who were right there years ago when the iPod was booming in popularity may have been toting around a first gen iPod nano. If you had one of the things, odds …