Archive for the ‘Apple’ Category

Finland-based mobile analytics provider, CEM4Mobile Solutions, has published new survey results detailing consumer preference in regards to mobile apps vs. the mobile Web in terms of engagement, unique users and mobile ad impressions. The company completed its research by using a sample of over 56 million mobile impressions from devices where both apps and mobile Web browsing [...]

What’s been hiding under the wrapping paper at your house this holiday season: Android or iPhone? BlackBerry or Windows Phone 7? Last week, we conducted a poll () asking our readers what they planned to buy — or hoped to receive — as holiday gifts this year. From the end user’s perspective, it’s a decision [...]

Yep, Apple Killed The CD Today

Posted: October 24, 2010 in Apple, Technology

Stop. Take a deep breath. Before my headline gets you all worked up, consider what I’m saying here. The CD and other optical discs, like DVDs and Blu-rays, are obviously going to live on for a while as a way to transport media. But make no mistake that today, with two unveilings, Apple has effectively [...]

Oh, IE, it pains us to do this to you. You who once so mightily won in the battle against Netscape Navigator now seem to be losing your war against a battalion of upstarts, relatively fresh faces like Firefox and Chrome. Get the rest of the story.

Some  new figures regarding apps in Apple’s App Store were released today by Gene Munster, Wall Street analyst with Piper Jaffray, indicating that roughly 81% are free, while the top 50 paid applications have an average selling price of $1.49. Munster forecasts the average iOS app price to increase as developers start favoring the iPad, [...]

The tension between Apple and Google is no longer a rumor. It’s for real. The former friendly giants have found themselves at odds within the digital advertising space, a bustling marketplace that, according to Google, Apple is attempting to shut them out of. When the iPhone was introduced in 2007, Apple and Google enjoyed a [...]

PepsiCo Foodservice has launched a mobile loyalty program in the form of an iPhone application that rewards consumers for visiting restaurants that serve Pepsi beverages. The Pepsi Loot iPhone application rewards consumers with Loot – free songs, including tracks provided exclusively for Pepsi Loot users from artists such as the Neon Trees, Tamar Kaprelian and [...]

Apple is one of the biggest supporters of HTML5, and Steve Jobs clearly states he thinks this new web standard is the future of the web. To show what, exactly, it means by that, Apple launched a HTML5 showcase, displaying what a HTML5-capable browser can do without the need to install any additional plugins. In [...]

Mozilla revealed this week that it will introduce a new applicationfor the iPhone called “Firefox Home.” The app will allow users to gain remote access to their desktop browser data, like browsing history and even the tabs last used in a Firefox session. “Firefox Home” represents the most sophisticated attempt by Mozilla yet to pacify [...]

Straight from the bullshit department: a recent survey of 1500 women has found that men who own an iPhone are more attractive than those who do not. Women were particularly repulsed by men who own a Palm Pre, the study also found. Ok, I made that second part up, but then again the first part [...]