According to Joseph Brown, a developer of hacked carrier updates for iOS, Apple and carriers are “purposefully” throttling the data speeds of the iPhone and iPad to help “even out” the network of some carriers: “Apple ...
Is Apple’s fabled iWatch actually happening? According to Izvestia, a Russian newspaper, Apple has filed a trademark for the term “iWatch” in Russia. Previous reports have claimed that the iWatch could see a rele...
In the last two years, my mom has had something like half a dozen eye surgeries to counteract both glaucoma and cataracts. The doctors only operate on one eye at a time, so the procedures had to be stretched out over months and mo...
This story is definitely going to force us to be careful with what we use to charge our phones. The Black Hat security conference is taking place next month, and three researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology plan to sho...
Samsung has won a battle in their seemingly never-ending war with Apple, as the International Trade Commission has today ruled that Apple infringed on one of Samsung’s patents. Unfortunately for Apple, this ruling is accompa...
In any social network, it can be hard to stand out from the pack. For the most part, everyone’s status updates look the same, and everything can sort of blend together. If you want to add a splash of color (and a dash of per...
After playing Magic as a kid, I’m kind of a sucker for card games of all kinds. I’m a huge fan of the way an iPhone lets you play a collectible card game: there’s nothing worse than lugging around a box of cards,...
This week, the Chicago Sun-Times fired their entire photo staff. All 28 of them. Yesterday, Chicago media critic, Robert Feder spoke with Cult of Mac and basically informed them that they will begin training their reporters in iPh...
I am absolutely bloodthirsty when it comes to bargain hunting. I almost never buy apps at full price. Heck, I almost never buy ANYTHING at full price. So when an app that usually costs about as much as a large, fancy cup of coffee...
It’s probably safe to say that we’re experiencing a national fascination with cooking. Between cooking how-to shows, reality cooking competitions, and cooking-focused travel programs, TV fans have never been so obsesse...
I’m a sucker for a good puzzle. There’s just something about the iPhone format that is the perfect display for puzzle games, and puzzles are the best way to kill time between meetings or on the way to catch a train. So...
I have some less-than-fond memories of dealing with built-in camera timers on old-school cameras. There was nothing worse than trying to take a family photo and having the timer malfunction. Whether I was trying to take the pictur...
This week, AllThingsD is holding their D11 conference where they are having many top executives in the technology industry speaking and being interviewed. The conference opened up last night with Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook. As yo...
If you looked at my phone, you might think I have too many fitness apps. I have two different running apps, plus a walking app. It seems totally stupid, because I have three apps that do the exact same thing. But I really need thr...
For many of us, our iPhone is a device that we use to track the minutiae of our everyday lives. Not only do we update Twitter and Facebook with what we ate for lunch or what we saw on our commute, but many of us are also constantl...
