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I was reminded of this recently when, via some chatter on Twitter, I was alerted to aaplinvestors.net’s iPhone Death Watch. The page consists simply of a collection of quotes — from a variety of journalists, analysts and corporate executives — all predicting bad things for the iPhone’s future. The most fun quotes to read are the ones…

Flurry also said that Android user sessions grew from 10% to 14% during the same time. While still dwarfed by Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch usage, Android’s user session usage is growing the fastest of the three platforms. The company also postulated that iPod touch represents a more important piece of Apple’s future revenue growth…

Mr. Um also tied the purchase into Apple’s data center development in North Carolina, writing, “We believe the Lala acquisition fits into our view that Apple is building a data center for a service to provide seamless access and mobility of digital content across all its products including media-focused content of iTunes and user-generated content…

MovieWedge is one of the most ingenious gadgets I’ve ever seen and the most flexible stand I’ve ever seen for an iPhone. It looks like a tiny beanbag chair with a little lip across the lower front edge to secure your iPhone (or other device). It’s so flexible, in fact, that it also works great…

On Monday, Ars Technica weighed in with some thoughts on why Apple made the purchase and what it will do with the company: “Apple has also been rumored to be testing a streaming service for video content; adding music to the menu seems like an obvious choice,” it said.Looking closer at the situation reveals some…

You can’t touch stress, but sometimes touching can make you stressful. You can’t see stress, but you can see its results. About the only thing you can do is feel stressful, but in reality what you feel is likely the result of one of our most basic animal instincts and quandary; to run away or…

Lala is, in some respects, a would-be competitor to iTunes. The service offers some eight million songs from major labels, indie labels, and from services like TuneCore that represent the growing ranks of unsigned bands self releasing music. For instance, and for full disclosure’s sake, this reporter’s band, The Atomic Love Bombs, are on Lala.…

Also on Monday, I laughed out loud when I read about a Nokia strategist talk about how they’ve focused too much on the technology of their smartphones instead of ease of use. Also mentioned was the glacial response to the Apple iPhone, borne of a bit of overconfidence. Anssi Vanjoki, chief strategist and number two…

AViiQ has developed a laptop stand that weighs 5.5 ounces, folds into something that is only 0.25 inches thick and holds up to a 17-inch laptop. If you, or someone you know, frequently trudges through airports, computer bag in hand (or on shoulders) you should take a good look that this new product. The Basics…

Once completed, the campus will cover about 50 acres, and will include a one acre area zoned as a public park.There aren’t any plans yet to build a second campus yet, but the rezoning opens the door for Apple to start working on ideas. “Right now, what we are trying to do is figure out…

FileApp 1.6 (not yet available in the App Store as I write this) restores the removed USB feature! However, there’s a catch. It only restores the option for people who owned and used FileAid (the older version of the app that includes the USB support). If you never had FileAid on your iPhone, the new…

I’m going to start with the assumption that the developer is agenda-free and doesn’t feel a need to entice the user into the Internet data cloud. E-mails sitting on a server in another state, accessed with a Web interface and browser, may be okay for the enterprise, but generally not for individuals who want instant…

No one ever accused Hasbro’s Game of Life board game of being an accurate representation of the real thing, but when I was a kid, it was sort of a low-tech version of The Sims: a sketched-out simulation with simple choices that leave out a lot of the messy details all of us face on…

David Gallant set aside his turn tables to try out Amido’s Touch DJ app for the iPhone. The app doesn’t have him ready to throw out his regular gear, but it does offer some nice features for on-the-go mixing. Check out his TMO Video Review for more. Touch DJ is a DJ music application that…

It may be an early App Store entry, but there’s no harm in revisiting a title from a major publisher. Control schemes using the iPhone’s built-in accelerometer may seem quaint now, but they were an intriguing idea during the summer of 2008, and THQ’s De Blob was one of the best in that department. The…

The state of e-mail is not good. When e-mail was the killer app in the 1990s, there were many fine e-mail apps for the Mac. They cost real money and were supported. While fairly simple and limited, they got the job done in an era of dial-up connections. Then, when Panther (Mac OS X 10.3)…

Psystar’s Web site, however, still shows its Rebel EFI product as available. Rebel EFI lets users install Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware, in effect letting the company sell Mac clones but leaving end users to install Mac OS X themselves.”Now Psystar simply sells grey boxes and offers Rebel EFI so that one can infringe…

As part of the settlement, Psystar agreed to pay Apple $1,337,550 in damages and $1,337,500 in legal fees after the appeal process has been completed. The court will also rule against Psystar for circumventing the copy protection in Mac OS X 10.5, violating Apple’s end user license agreement, and illegally copying Mac OS X. In…

Apple filed a lawsuit against Psystar in Northern California several months ago claiming the small PC maker was violating the Mac OS X end user license agreement, and that it was violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act with the steps it used to install the Mac operating system on PCs. Psystar claimed that it should…

Audio in HDTV systems can be even more tricky and confusing than video. As Mac (and PC) users, we’re fairly familiar with video, but simple stereo audio is usually relegated to a pair of analog desktop speakers or headphones. However, when you move up to an HDTV system, you’ll be faced with new terminology, perhaps…

Microsoft’s in-store loungeMicrosoft is using the annual holiday window display and lounges to help promote the recent launch of Windows 7 during the busiest shopping time of the year.While Microsoft’s team up with Saks could help foster some good will for Windows 7, the company also unintentionally created tech war thanks to the live Twitter…

One Mac owner took their MacBook to the Jordan Creek Apple Store in West Des Moines, Iowa, because his computer had been overheating. “Apple store called and informed me that due to the computer having been used in a house where there was smoking, that has voided the warranty and they refuse to work on…

The IntelliScanner Classic gives you your own private barcode reader and with it you can catalogue and organize just about anything. CDs, DVDs, books, equipment — as long as it comes with a barcode, or you can stick a barcode on it, you can use this tool to catalogue it. For testing purposes I took…

We, the viewer, see things far differently than the person who creates art. A suspicious husband viewing Mona Lisa for the first time may think Mona’s hiding something. Maybe she’s just come from a secret rendezvous where she had wild buck-nakid sex with Leo, hence the enigmatic smile. Of course, others see something different in…