Steve Ballmer: 'Apple sold more iPads than I'd like them to sell'
Speaking to Wall Street analysts, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer noted that tablets are a big issue for the company and expressed concern about Apple's success with iPad.
News Archives for 07/29/2010
Daniel Eran Dilger
Apple job listing hints at 'revolutionary' new Mac OS X 10.7 feature
A new corporate job listing from Apple boasts of a "revolutionary" new feature for the foundations of Mac OS X that will "truly amaze everyone."
Neil Hughes
Australia's Telstra awards iPhone 4 "Blue Tick" for superior reception
Australian mobile provider Telstra has awarded iPhone 4, when used with a case, a special "Blue Tick" approval for use in rural areas of poorer service coverage, due to the phone's antenna performance.
Norway's largest paper: iPhone 4 Antennagate is a US problem
After testing Apple's iPhone 4 against competing HTC and Nokia models in a remote area on the edge of Norwegian carrier Telenor's mobile coverage, the county's largest paper has concluded that its antenna design is "just as good and bad as competitors," rather than suffering any defect.
Study finds 14% of free iPhone apps can snoop contacts
A survey of 300,000 applications for both the iPhone and Android devices found that 14 percent of free App Store software has the ability to access a user's contacts on their iPhone.
Slash Lane
Rather than clone Apple's iPad, Amazon sticks with e-ink for new Kindle
Instead of adopting a color touchscreen to compete with the Apple iPad, Amazon's newly redesigned Kindle will instead focus on price, sticking with a low-cost e-ink display and starting at just $139.
Katie Marsal
Apple's future iPhones may offer 3D recording of places, objects
A future iPhone could take recorded video or photos and use the information to render an object or location in 3D, allowing the user to then navigate a virtual environment.
Teardown of Apple's Magic Trackpad reveals tightly packed thin design
iFixit has completed their teardown of Apple's new multi-touch Magic Trackpad, finding that the very thin device is bound by copious amounts of glue, making it difficult to disassemble.
Sam Oliver
After 6 weeks of "real usage," Mossberg stands by his initial verdict of the iPhone 4
In a follow-up to his original review, Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal continued to laud Apple's iPhone 4 as "the best device in its class," while warning of issues with weak reception and dropped calls.
Josh Ong
