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Phil Schiller on the iPhone App Store

Published 13 minutes ago by Harry McCracken at Technologizer

BusinessWeek’s Arik Hesseldahl scored an interview with Apple marketing honcho Phil Schiller, focused on the wildly popular , ever-controversial iPhones App Store. It’s a good read and I’m glad Schiller feels the need to address the topic in public. It’s completely true ...
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Flook, a Location-Aware Microphotoblogging App for iPhone

Published 2 days ago by Harry McCracken at Technologizer

I’ve been playing with Flook , a clever new program that’s now available on Apple’s iPhone App Store. Conceptually, it’s very, very simple: You use it to capture images with your phone and attach brief titles and captions to them. Flook then turns the image, title and ...
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5Words: Tragedy Strikes Beloved Apple Tablet

Published 4 days ago by Harry McCracken at Technologizer

God, no: Apple tablet delayed. Courts: Verizon’s AT&T ads OK. AT&t’s snarky anti-Verizon ad. How to improve Office 2010. Flips to get Wi-Fi soon? Pre for $80; Pixi, $25. Trillian for iPhone now available. ThinkPad Edge: hey, what’s that? Blu-Ray for ...
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Stud or Dud? This iPhone App’s a Dud!

Published 5 days ago by Harry McCracken at Technologizer

Back in September at the DEMO conference, public-information company Intelius launched DateCheck , an impish iPhone app that ran an instant background check to tell you if prospective dates had criminal backgrounds or other undesirable qualities. Now DateCheck has a competitor: Intelius rival ...
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Dear Microsoft: Stop Trying So Hard

Published 6 days ago by Ed Oswald at Technologizer

Maybe it’s just me, but these days Microsoft seems to be trying as hard as possible to be cool. Obviously shaken up by the less-than-flattering image Apple’s Get a Mac ads have given it, everything it does these days seems just contrived to draw attention to itself so it can say, ...
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Needed at Apple: One Good Game Designer

Published 6 days ago by Jared Newman at Technologizer

Apple’s cooking up something related to video games, and needs a jack of all trades game designer to get the job done. Apple appears candid in the job ad . The company wants someone to work on “interactive multimedia experiences” (read: video games) on the iPhone and iPod ...
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The Apple iPhone App Store Approval Process: A Really Inefficient Route for Getting to the Right Decision

Published 8 days ago by Harry McCracken at Technologizer

Bobble Rep, the iPhone application that lets you find and contact your senators and members of congress and which depicts them as bobblehead dolls, is no longer an app non grata. After initially rejecting the program , Apple has done an about face and pushed it through to the App Store. (On my ...
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Call for “Real” iPhone Game Reviews is Almost a Bribe

Published 9 days ago by Jared Newman at Technologizer

Supposedly fed up with “the tide of fake App Store reviews,” iPhone game developer G5 entertainment wants your honest opinion, and plans to get it by giving away free games. For its latest release, Judgment Day War, G5 is looking for reviews in exchange for a chance to win one of ...
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Windows Copies the Mac? Shhh, That’s Our Little Secret!

Published 11 days ago by Harry McCracken at Technologizer

This is amusing: Simon Aldous, a “Microsoft partner group manager” in the UK, gave an interview to British tech site PCR in which he says that Microsoft wanted to give Windows 7 a “Mac look and feel”: One of the things that people say an awful lot about the Apple Mac ...
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Political Caricature? There’s No App For That

Published 14 days ago by Harry McCracken at Technologizer

I long ago gave up on trying to cover every weird rejection of an application intended for Apple’s iPhone App Store, but this one merits quick mention. Tom Richmond, the excellent caricaturist whose work appears in MAD these days, has blogged about an app he co-created . It’s a ...
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Verizon Wireless: The iPhone is a Misfit Toy

Published 14 days ago by Harry McCracken at Technologizer

Once again, Verizon is bashing away at the iPhone in a commercial –one that places an animated iPhone lookalike on the Island of Misfit Toys from the classic Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer TV special: For entertainment value and diligent recreation of the Rankin-Bass ...
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iPhone Tethering on AT&T: One Year and Counting
technologizer.com - 13 days ago
iPhone Tethering on AT&T: One Year and Counting
— technologizer.com — Exactly one year ago, on November 6th, 2008, I was siting in the audience at the Web 2.0 Summit when AT&T Mobility President Ralph De La Vega shared good news from the stage: The company would “soon” be permitting iPhone users to ... (more) iPhone Tethering on AT&T: One Year and Counting

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5Words: Cheapie iPhone 3GS Coming Shortly?

Published 17 days ago by Harry McCracken at Technologizer

$99 iPhone 3GS for Xmas? Droid: What you should know. Skype legal hassles over! Please? Twitter starts to test retweeting. Windows 7 outselling Vista handily. Band Hero sued? No doubt! Slacker radio hits Android phones. Orb media streaming for Macs. It’s Wikipedia in ...
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Verizon’s Droid and the Importance of Pinching

Published 18 days ago by Harry McCracken at Technologizer

When I compared the Verizon Droid to the iPhone 3GS last week, I said that the Droid didn’t have multi-touch input–based on the fact that I’d used it a lot and encountered no instances when it did. A commenter said that the phone did indeed support multi-touch, and I tweaked ...
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The Beatles and (an) Apple: Together at Last!

Published 19 days ago by Harry McCracken at Technologizer

This is…odd. The Beatles are finally releasing their remastered catalog in digital form –both high-quality FLAC files and 320-Kbps MP3s. But they’re not selling it on iTunes or any other online music merchant. They’re releasing it as a limited edition of 30,000 16GB USB ...
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Eliminate Pro: Is This the iPhone’s Quintessential Shooter?
technologizer.com - 19 days ago
Eliminate Pro: Is This the iPhone’s Quintessential Shooter?
— technologizer.com — A new game called Eliminate Pro surfaced in the iPhone’s App Store yesterday, and it finally delivers everything the iPhone’s OS 3.0 update and faster 3GS model were supposed to provide. Eliminate Pro is a free-to-play first-person ... (more) Eliminate Pro: Is This the iPhone’s Quintessential Shooter?

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5Words: Want iPhone Flash? Blame Apple!

Published 20 days ago by Harry McCracken at Technologizer

Adobe: Apple’s denying you Flash. Satellite radio iPhone dock shipping. Paramount movies on thumb drives. Twitter lists in a widget. Multitouch Droid? Not in America. How DVRs could save TV. Verizon to subsidize tiny Sony? Nintendo: The Wii has “stalled.”  ...
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Here’s the iTunes TV Subscription I’d Pay For

Published 20 days ago by Harry McCracken at Technologizer

Over at All Things Digital, Peter Kafka is reporting that he’s hearing that hearing that Apple wants to offer a $30 TV subscription service through iTunes , and is trying to stir up interest among content providers. He has very details, but the basic idea of a technology company taking ...
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Hackintosh Trouble?
technologizer.com - 20 days ago
Hackintosh Trouble?
— technologizer.com — Apple may be suing Mac clone merchant Psystar , but its policy towards individuals who install OS X on non-Apple hardware to create “Hackintoshes” seems to have been to ignore them rather than to frustrate them. That may be about to ... (more) Hackintosh Trouble?

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iDon’t Think the Droid’s iPhone Attack Will Work

Published 22 days ago by David Worthington at Technologizer

Verizon is spending a lot of money advertising its upcoming Droid smartphone. It’s everywhere–from commercials on TV to bills posted on construction sites. But I question whether the iPhone-mocking focus of the ad campaign can generate broad appeal. The ads target the ...
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