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Archives for September, 2010

XtremeMac Tango TRX iPod dock doesn’t actually demand docking

We’re seeing a growing trend in iPod speaker docks to take advantage of the recent models’ Bluetooth support, and that’s just what XtremeMac‘s Tango TRX delivers.  You can still dock your iPhone, iPod touch or even your iPad at the front, but alternatively you can pair it via Bluetooth 2.1 and beam your music over …

IStand is a POS Pole for the iPad

It’s a stand for the iPad, and so of course it is called the iStand, but it’s also an elegant piece of furniture. The Danish-designed stand is aimed at POS use (no, not that POS) and holds the iPad at a handy browsing height allowing customers to flip through catalogs, menus or any kind of …

Gallery: iPhone Photographers Celebrate Artsy Snaps

<< Previous | Next >> Photo of locals dancing on a street by Zach Winter. << Previous | Next >> View all Your all-in-one smartphone can’t take photos nearly as well as a DSLR, but there’s something special about that camera you carry everywhere. Every serendipitous or dramatic moment is subject to visual immortalization — …

Enter Wired’s Smartphone Photography Contest

Think your phone takes pretty good photos? Submit your best smartphone shots to Wired’s smartphone photo contest and show the world! Smartphones may lack the big sensors and low-light capabilities of more serious cameras, but they’re portable, unobtrusive and let you apply some remarkably sophisticated post-processing effects on the fly. That has inspired a subculture …

The Morning Lowdown 09.14.10

»  Hoping to reduce display declines and grab consumers and advertisers attention, AOL (NYSE: AOL) will unveil its larger ad formats during Advertising Week at the end of this month. [WSJ] »  In a sign of the times for newspaper ad revenues, The Washington Post is giving up a portion of its front page for …

App Store squatters may find loopholes as Apple cracks down

Squatting on app names in Apple’s App Store has, until now, been rather simple to pull off. After an initial $99 fee, any person could reserve as many application names as they wanted with no fear of repercussions. Apple has changed that with a new policy, and has now apparently begun to enforce it.The policy reads something …

Rumor: Apple to ditch Infineon for Qualcomm in iPhone 5

Apple has used Infineon baseband chipsets in all its iPhone models as well as the current iPad. A new report from China’s Commercial Times (Google translation), however, suggests Apple will drop Infineon in favor of Qualcomm for the fifth-generation iPhone hardware. Intel has tried to get a piece of the iPhone pie since the device …