5 O’Clock Roundup: Stem cell handout, Chinese iPhone rollout, Kodak’s near-wipeout
California’s stem cell agency hands out $230M of its $3B fund in grants – Stanford scored big, landing $52 million in grants for research that might cure leukemia, stroke and deadly skin disease epidermolysis bullosa. The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine and its $3 billion warchest… Continue Reading
5 O’Clock Roundup: Nokia enters world’s largest market, New York Times boss clams up on Apple tablet
Nokia launches 6788 phone with China Mobile – The world’s largest handset maker meets the world’s largest wireless carrier in the world’s largest market. The 6788 is Nokia’s first phone for TD-SCDMA networks, China’s proprietary standard for its largest network. Engadget has the parts rundown:
The handset itself… Continue Reading
Asurion AddressBook unlocks Android’s social media potential
A new application called Asurion AddressBook launches on the Android Market tomorrow, opening up new ways to use social media on the phone — and instantly making the iPhone look even more outdated for not running applications in the background and its lower app integration…. Continue Reading
Apple revamps MacBook, iMac, ‘magic’ mouse
Apple announced several additions to its computer lineup today, with a new MacBook laptop and iMac desktop computer, as well as a mouse with multi-touch capabilities. The news represents a refinement of Apple’s product strategy — rather than a breakthrough on the level of the… Continue Reading
Apple’s Tim Cook scoffs at iPhone competitors
The iPhone was the hot new thing a year or two ago, but now it’s seeing increasing competition from Google, Palm, and others — for example, my editor Matt Marshall just declared that he’s abandoning his iPhone for Droid, the Android phone coming at the… Continue Reading
Apple profits leave predictions in the dust
Apple has been consistently beating analyst expectations for its financial performance, and its most recent numbers were no exception.
The company’s ’s fourth quarter ended on Sept. 26, and the company says it made $9.87 billion in revenue during that period. That is up 25 percent… Continue Reading
Android’s search gets a lot richer than the iPhone’s
If there’s one area where Google’s Android platform should blow Apple’s iPhone completely out of the water, it’s search.
So Google’s aiming to do just that with the Quick Search Box it released today for Android-based phones. It combines web search with search inside your phone…. Continue Reading
U.S. Chamber of Commerce strikes back after Apple defection: “We don’t have regrets”
Days after Apple announced that it would be quitting the U.S. Chamber of Commerce due to its opposition to greenhouse gas limits, the Chamber has very publicly shouted back. During a press conference this morning, the group’s president and CEO Thomas Donohue stated firmly, “We… Continue Reading
AT&T: Just kidding! VoIP apps like Skype can run on our network
AT&T, the iPhone’s exclusive wireless carrier in the United States, said it has paved the way for Apple to let voice-over-Internet-protocol apps like Skype run on its 3G network instead of only on nearby Wi-Fi connections.
VoIP technology allows voice calls to be treated as data,… Continue Reading
Apple becomes first tech co. to ditch U.S. Chamber of Commerce over emissions
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has been hemorrhaging members in recent weeks after opposing legislation curtailing greenhouse gas emissions. Today, Apple joined companies like Nike, Exelon and Pacific Gas & Electric, who have also quit or scaled down participation in the organization to take a… Continue Reading
Apple’s new hire might be its tablet salesman
Reports that Apple is developing a tablet computer have been swirling for a while now, and any lingering doubts are looking more and more misplaced. Today, for example, Apple made an awfully suggestive re-hire — Michael Tchao, one of the developers of Apple’s first “tablet,”… Continue Reading
Spreadsheet of branded iPhone apps begs to be crowdsourced
Blogger Johnny Makkar has started this Google doc that lists only the branded iPhone apps in Apple’s store, and lays them out in a pretty, tabular format. It’s intended as a resource for marketers and developers, rather than consumers. There’s potential for a great crowdsourced… Continue Reading
Android app audience more global than iPhone’s
The latest report from mobile applications reporting software maker Distimo finds a pattern no one has explained yet, but one that mobile app followers will want to know: iPhone apps, Distimo’s data shows, tend to be more popular in the geographic region they are produced…. Continue Reading
AT&T turns on iPhone multimedia messaging: Should I be excited or scared?
AT&T activated multimedia messaging (MMS) for iPhone owners in the United States today, as planned. This should silence some complaints about how the carrier is lagging behind iPhone carriers elsewhere, but could also lead to howls of frustration if it puts an even greater strain… Continue Reading
Google says “You lie!” to Apple on Google Voice rejection
The word’s finally out.
Google said Apple did reject its Google Voice application for the iPhone because it “duplicated the core dialer functionality”, according to parts of an unredacted letter released by the Federal Communications Commission today.
That’s funny, because Apple just said last month that it… Continue Reading
Steve Jobs says no Apple e-book. No one believes him
After Apple’s fun-but-not-earthshattering debut of a video-shooting iPod Nano earlier this week, Steve Jobs gave New York Times reporter David Pogue an interview. Asked if Apple was ready to debut an e-reader like Amazon’s Kindle — but much, much prettier, of course — Jobs said… Continue Reading
5 O’Clock Roundup: the all-Apple edition
At VentureBeat, we wear our Apple-fanboy tattoos in plain sight. In the wake of Steve Jobs’ return as ringmaster, we’ve rounded up the event stories that may not change the world, but that draw the mad clickz anyway. Oh wait … that’s us clicking. [Photo:... Continue Reading
AT&T to upgrade network, but San Francisco, NY iPhone users are out of luck
After constant complaints about the crummy service on its 3G network (a problem linked to its exclusive support for the iPhone), AT&T just announced that it’s boosting network speed in six cities. This is great news — assuming you don’t live in San Francisco or… Continue Reading
Apple’s $400 iPod Touch lacks a camera — rumors claim technical problems
Steve Jobs and his sidekick Phil Schiller took the stage at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center today to debut new models of Apple’s pocket gadgets.
The most striking new product is a $149 iPod Nano that includes a tiny video camera, microphone, and speaker, yet maintains… Continue Reading
Ten-second iPhone tethering fix may be OK with AT&T
If you’ve got an iPhone and an Apple laptop, it’s possible to configure the iPhone as a cellular modem for your notebook in a few seconds.
The original problem is that AT&T has not enabled the default means of “tethering” the phone to the laptop. But… Continue Reading