Intrinsity is a chip design company that specializes in really fast, really power-efficient ARM processors, like the ones found in the iPhone, iPad and basically every other smartphone. Well, it looks like Apple just bought them. [EDN, MacRumors] More »
Author: matt buchanan
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Apple Buys a Little Chip Company That Makes Really Fast ARM Processors for iPhones and iPads [Unconfirmed]
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NBC Wants You to Pay for iPad TV, Dammit (They Won’t Be the Only Ones) [Ipad]
Even though NBC showed off an iPad version of its site with awesome full-episode streaming of shows like The Office—and ABC and CBS are busy showing off their own iPad video—NBC’s decided to block iPad streaming for now. More »
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Brevity Wins: Windows Phone 7 Series Is Now Just Windows Phone 7 [Windows Phone 7]
We said the space in “iPhone 3G S” was stupid, and Apple killed it. And we said the same thing about Windows Phone 7 Series—seriously, WTF did that mean? So now, it’s officially just Windows Phone 7. More »
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Hi Guys, Tell Us Your iPad Launch Stories [Ipad]
Hello Apple Store/Best Buy/Fedex/various other employees, we’d love to hear your iPad launch stories—what it’ll be like to get an iPad at your fine establishment, any craziness (or awesomeness) you’ve witnessed, etc. More »
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This Is a Newspaper on the iPad: The NYT, WSJ and USA Today iPad Apps [IPad Apps]
On the one hand, you have the New York Times: “I am an internet news application!” And then you have the Wall Street Journal: “I am a color newspaper!” And then you have USA Today: “I like Skittles!” More »
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Cignias NAO Symphony Review: A Wireless iPod Dock for Blackberrys [Review]
The Cignias NAO Symphony looks like any other iPod dock. But it’s not like any other iPod dock. Because it streams music wirelessly and plays nice with BlackBerrys, too. More »
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Whoa, the Official Netflix Streaming iPad App [IPad Apps]
If this leak‘s legit, whoa. Netflix Watch Instantly streaming video on the iPad is one of two video apps we’re desperate for, besides Hulu (also supposedly coming). Potentially, a true killer app. Updated. More »
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Trololo as ASCII Art Is a Thing of Perverse Beauty [YouTube]
Dear internet, please give up on April Fool’s jokes. YouTube’s is untoppable: A “text-only mode” that renders videos as colored ASCII art. Clever, gorgeous, perverse. More »
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The $50 Wolfram Alpha iPhone App Is $2 Because Now They Want People to Actually Buy It [IPhone Apps]
Wolfram Alpha has decided it’d be good if people actually use the supercalculator on their phone, so its famously $50 iPhone (and soon to be iPad) app will be $2. And, they’re legitimately making the mobile site better. More »
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What Tech Nerds Think About the iPad [Ipad]
The 60 days between the end of January and Saturday have given us, and other really smart people, a lot of time to think about the iPad and what it means. More »
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There’s Going to Be a Flood of Amazing Gmail Apps [Gmail]
People love Gmail. There are a few programs that make it better, like MailPlane, but now Google’s implementing the OAuth standard, allowing developers to access your Gmail in a new way, so we’ll probably see even more awesome Gmail apps. More »
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This Is Why You Should Always Flash Boobs on Chatroulette [Chatroulette]
This is what happens when you don’t flash boobs on ChatRoulette: The snake WILL eat the bird. [via Twitter] More »
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The Mystery of Project Natal Revealed [Project Natal]
The secret technology that powers Xbox 360‘s Project Natal lollipop-free motion controls actually isn’t leprechauns, as we initially suspected. The guts are made by a little company called PrimeSense. More »
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Are You Feeling AT&T’s 100 Day Plan to Fix Their Network? [At&t]
Another iPhone, another round of AT&T promising it’ll be better this time. Honest! In fact, in December they started a 100-day plan to ” to dramatically improve the company’s network in densely-populated cities.” Are you feeling it yet? More »
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Linksys E3000 Review: Still a Lot of Router [Review]
The E3000 is Cisco’s new king of Linksys routers, replacing the WRT610N. It’s a pretty minor upgrade to the previous simultaneous dual-band beast, with a major exception. More »
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Cisco Valet Plus Review: The Flip Camcorder of Routers? [Review]
You won’t see the word “router” or Linksys anywhere on the box for Cisco’s Valet. No, “it’s the simple way to create your own wireless hotspot.” It’s the router for everybody else. That’s the idea, anyway. More »
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Rumor: Two New iPhones, One for Verizon [Rumor]
Could it be? The WSJ busts out the “breaking” graphic on the front page to say a new iPhone’s coming this summer, and Apple “appears to be working on another model for U.S. mobile phone operator Verizon Wireless.” Updated. More »
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What If Adobe Flash Is Bundled With Google Chrome? [Rumor]
Curious, possibly weird: ZDNet editor-in-chief Larry Dignan says Adobe and Google are planning to announce tomorrow that they’re bundling Flash with Google’s “Chrome browser and or operating system.” I’m not sure how much it move would really change the current Flash/no-Flash internet calculus, since Chrome still has just a tiny (but growing) portion of the browser market, you can already get Flash on Chrome (presumably everybody with Chrome has Flash already) and there are other forces at work in the internetosphere. More »
