Mar 26 2009

Skype coming to an iPhone near you?

We’re still filing this away in the rumor folder for now, but we’ll be honest — this is totally believable. GigaOM has it on authority that a bona fide Skype for iPhone client will be launched as early as next week, and with CTIA kicking off on April 1st, we’d say the timing is just [...]

Mar 12 2009

iPhone OS 3.0 is coming, preview on March 17th

iPhone OS 3.0 is coming. Set your clocks, mark your calendars. It’s going down March 17th. Apple’s calling this an “advance preview of what we’re building,” so we’re not expecting anything ready to go as of the 17th, but hopefully this will allow developers to start building toward future functionality (hey, how about some push [...]

Mar 11 2009

New, smaller iPod Shuffle gets the power of speech

Half the size of the last generation but with twice the capacity, the latest Shuffle boasts a novel way of letting you know what track you’re listening to: It talks.
Available now for $79, the new Shuffle (announced this morning on Apple’s Web site—did someone heed Chris’ call for fewer Apple events?) is billed as the [...]

Mar 11 2009

Dev Team releases free iPod touch 2G jailbreak

Well, that didn’t take long — hot on the heels of the $15 NitroKey Slipstream iPod touch 2G jailbreak, the Dev Team’s released their free version. Apparently they’d been hoping to keep the jailbreak-enabling security hole a secret until the next version of the iPhone came out so Apple wouldn’t be able to fix the [...]

Feb 27 2009

Free iPhones in Japan

The price of an iPhone in Japan can’t get much lower than this.
Starting Friday, Softbank Mobile, the exclusive carrier of Apple’s (AAPL) smartphone in Japan, will give anyone who signs a two-year contract a free 8GB iPhone 3G. If customers prefer the 16GB model, that will cost them $118 (reduced from $350).
Writing for CrunchGear, Serkan [...]

Feb 21 2009

Video of Claimed Next-Gen Mac Mini

After being challenged over a still image of the future Mac Mini, the user of a popular Mac Forum did a follow up with this video.

While its authenticity has been disputed, the mystery system has gained what appears to be supporting proof of its existence from MacRumors forum poster “monthy,” who on Friday posted a [...]