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Google sells digital music in iTunes challenge

Posted by admin under Apple News on Thursday Nov 17, 2011

Google has opened a digital music store in a direct challenge to Apple’s iTunes and Amazon’s online shop.

“Today we are happy to announce you can buy millions of songs right from Android Market,” Google product manager Paul Joyce said at a press event in Los Angeles.
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Eric Schmidt defends Google, mourns Jobs’ death

Posted by gracelim under Apple News on Tuesday Nov 8, 2011

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt on Tuesday defended his company as a great innovator, contradicting an unflattering portrait drawn by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs before he died last month. Read More

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If you own an electric vehicle, you want to know where all the charging stations are. Thanks to the new iPhone and Android app CarStations, you can do that easily with the help of your smartphone. Read More

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Yahoo hopes to reach readers with iPad magazine

Posted by gracelim under iPad on Wednesday Nov 2, 2011

SUNNYVALE, California (AP) — Yahoo has begun to distribute an iPad magazine that illuminates the Internet company‘s ambitions and the chronic troubles that have thrown its fate into doubt. Read More

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Is the iPhone’s Siri a threat to Google?

Posted by admin under Apple News, iPhone News on Tuesday Nov 1, 2011

Some say Apple’s vocal virtual assistant — a big step forward in voice-recognition technology — could threaten Google’s stranglehold on search
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Andy Goldberg, dpa

San Francisco (dpa) – Apple’s legendary co-founder Steve Jobs has a posthumous hit on his hands with the launch of the iPhone 4S, which was unveiled one day before his death on October 5.

Perhaps inspired by the passing of the peerless tech visionary, customers have been streaming to Apple stores to buy the company’s latest smartphone. In the first weekend alone, they snapped up more than 4 million of the devices.
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iPod godfather builds new Nest in Silicon Valley

Posted by gracelim under iPods on Tuesday Oct 25, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Tony Fadell, known as the godfather of the iPod, has made a new gadget with the help of a small army of engineers and designers from Apple Inc and other tech giants including Google Inc and Microsoft Corp.

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Will Steve Jobs’ final vendetta haunt Google?

Posted by gracelim under Apple News, Steve Jobs on Sunday Oct 23, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google can only hope that Steve Jobs‘ final vendetta doesn’t haunt the Internet search leader from his grave.

The depths of Jobs’ antipathy toward Google leaps out of Walter Isaacson‘s authorized biography of Apple‘s co-founder. The book goes on sale Monday, less than three weeks after Jobs’ long battle with pancreatic cancer culminated in his Oct. 5 death. The Associated Press obtained a copy Thursday.

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Jobs had Google phones in crosshairs: biographer

Posted by gracelim under Apple News, Mobile News, Steve Jobs on Saturday Oct 22, 2011

Insights into Apple co-founder Steve Jobs‘s vendetta against Google and his criticisms of fellow high-tech titans spread quickly online ahead of the Monday release of his authorized biography.

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Review: It’s not an iPhone 5, but so what?

Posted by admin under iPhone News, iPhones on Wednesday Oct 12, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — To some people, Apple’s new iPhone 4S isn’t the complete overhaul they have been hoping for. Its model number, which doesn’t include a “5,” reeks of the status quo.

That’s ridiculous.

Sure, the 4S doesn’t render the iPhone 4 hopelessly obsolete, and on the surface they’re nearly identical. But with a faster processor, new software, a voice-activated personal assistant and a souped-up camera, it’s a major improvement over the current iPhone.
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