As if it had to add insult to injury, Apple states quite clearly that its newest product, the iPhone is not compatible with 64-bit versions of Windows XP or Vista. Users with those operating systems who wish to use the iPhone are advised to install a 32-bit version of Windows.
With the release of the final Harry Potter novel due in the next few weeks, and the imminent premiere of the fifth Harry Potter movie, Internet security firm Sophos has warned of a new computer worm exploiting Potter-mania around the world.
A US-based consumer watchdog has blasted the iPhone for its lack of user replaceable battery and two-year service contract.
You can call camping outside an Apple store, for a guarantee to purchase an iPhone, a good time; but there’s certainly nothing like the burn you feel when you wake up the next day to discover that the iPhone didn’t sell out.
Do you want to get more out of your TV? How about watching a TV show where you can have a say on how a storyline should develop? The “text-the-storyline-you-want” concept being developed at Martlesham Health could change the way people all over the world watch TV in the coming years.
The British owner of domain registrar dotworlds is suing Google for directing web searches to sites defaming him and his company.
Tens of thousands of gadgetry fanatics are waiting outside 164 Apple retail locations in hopes to purchase ‘the phone of dreams’ today as the iPhone will be on sale starting at 6:00 p.m. local time.
This will no doubt have the conspiracy theorists crawling out of every nook, cranny and hiding place possible. AT&T’s EDGE network is now running faster than ever right before the iPhone launch. It’s a good thing too because most of the complaints about the iPhone centered on the slow speed of the EDGE network.
Inspired by the success of iGoogle, which has been driven by the availability of a broad range of gadgets created by third-party developers, Google has launched the Google Gadgets Venture, a pilot program that will hand out $5,000 grants and $100,000 seed investments to worthy gadget developers to build even richer and more useful gadgets.
Apple’s iPhone already has its first controversy. Why is AT&T the exclusive wireless carrier for the iPhone? Organized pressure has started from Working Assets — a wireless carrier which also funds progressive causes — and just one day before the iPhone’s launch, Apple CEO Steve Jobs found himself addressing the controversy.
A study conducted by the University of New Hampshire in 2000 found 6% of teens who engaged in online activities were victims of cyber-bullying. Five years later, a survey by the National Children’s Home revealed an increase, with 20% of teens reporting to have been bullied by electronic means. And today, PEW Internet & American Life Project’s latest survey reveals one in three teens have experienced online harassment, a substantial growth and likely to be the highest numbers reported.
“Good” kids gravitate towards Facebook; outcasts gravitate to MySpace, according to PhD candidate Danah Boyd.
Reports from Europe say that Vodafone and Apple are currently engaged in tense negotiations over the European distribution of the iPhone, the world’s most anticipated mobile phone ever.
The US and Cuba don’t get along so well, in so far as it is illegal for US citizens to travel to Cuba. The OLPC (One laptop per child) was developed to provide cheap computers to children in developing nations. Cuba among other countries will not be getting them, ever.
With the successful launch of Google’s Picasa photo-editing application, Google Earth and Google Toolbar for Firefox on Linux platform, Google has launched a beta version of Google Desktop for Linux.
It’s one thing to sell pirated video games out of the trunk of your car, but it takes a new level of brainless confidence to advertise them on the Internet. Such is what happened to Frederick Brown of Vista, California, as he brought his illegitimate business practice to Craigslist, a popular online service for classified advertisements.
News Corporation’s COO, Peter Chernin, once accused YouTube of being driven “off the back of Myspace,” adding that “We [Myspace] ought to be able to match them if not exceed them.” As MySpace has neither exceeded or matched them, to date, they are finally taking a step in the right direction.
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