MacWorld Sweden caught the attention of iPhone users when they reported that Swedish carrier Telia is planning on bringing Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) to their iPhone users. MMS is a feature that has been long requested by iPhone users and wo...

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Apple has taken its embracing of third parties in the iPhone platform up a notch by introducing an "iPhone Your Life" section to its iPhone 3G product pages. Various third-party apps and tips are recommended in categories like work, play, and everything in between.Read More...

SnapTell Explorer is a handy iPhone app that lets you look up various products on Amazon, Wikipedia, and more by snapping a photo. We took a spin and liked the functionality; we just found ourselves wishing it would identify more products.Read More...

German publication Spiegel.de reports an newly announced iPhone vulnerability that can force a (potentially expensive) phone call to be made simply by visiting a webpage in Safari. The vulnerability was to be announced in ComputerBild on Monday bu...

As if it wasn’t aggravating enough that new MacBook owners had to go out and replace all of their video adapters since Mini-DVI has been phased out and Mini DisplayPort introduced, today those lucky enough to have a 30-inch external monitor are now out of luck…again.

Thanks to a new application called Vocito, anyone who's lucky enough to be using Google's GrandCentral service can now make GrandCentral phone calls right from their Mac desktops.Read More...

The team developing the spec for OpenCL, the all-purpose parallel processing language, pulled a six-month-long all-nighter to deliver the spec in time to be supported by Snow Leopard.Read More...

Iconfactory and ARTIS Software bring their game, Frenzic, to the iPhone. Finally! I’ve been waiting for this since before the iPhone even came to market. The simple yet challenging pie-based puzzle game really, truly seems like a match made in geek heaven, as the co-founder of Iconfactory once said.

Mozilla.org, creators of the Firefox web browser, has just released version 2.0.0.18 of Thunderbird, its free e-mail client. The new program, an 18.7 megabyte download, sports the following fixes and new features: Script access to .documentURI and .textContent in...

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Based on a customer service survey by a company called Vocal Laboratories, Apple received the top score for call and agent satisfaction among its peer companies.Read More...

The Blackberry Storm will be available on 11/21 in the U.S. It’s getting some early reviews and they’re a mixed bag. Will this be an “iPhone killer”, will it have similar problems that the Bold encountered, or at the end of the day is it just another Blackberry (not that that’s a bad thing)? 
A couple of things I’ve gathered so far that are worth emphasizing: 

Growl is a great Mac OS X utility that lets third-party applications, and even some of Apple's, display visual alerts for things like new e-mail or new RSS headlines. With a simple trick, you can enable audio alerts in Growl, and even add your own custom sounds to accompany these notifications.Read More...

Following up on Apple's much-anticipated trackpad firmware update for its late 2008 MacBook and MacBook Pro notebooks to "address an issue where trackpad clicks may not be recognized," there's mixed news. For most users, the update went well. According...

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MacBook

Late on Wednesday, Apple released the Apple TV 2.3 software update. This update adds a few refinements to Apple TV, but doesn’t offer any breakthrough new features. If you read my post about boxee and installed it on your Apple TV, you’ll want to wait because boxee won’t run after updating.
Apple’s summary of the 2.3 update highlights four key features that have been updated..

People are calling foul on Apple and Google due to the use of private iPhone APIs in Google Mobile. Ars took a look and found that the answer to what's really going on is somewhat complex. Read on to find out what we discovered.Read More...