John Paul Titlow

A More Affordable 8GB iPhone 4 Expected in September

August 23, 2011

Well, it’s that time in the Apple product lifecycle again. As the company begins ordering components for whichever device it’s planning on releasing next, hearsay and rumors among Apple enthusiasts solidify into something more substantial as details be…

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Facebook Gets Another Movie Rental Service With Miramax App

August 22, 2011

Miramax has launched a movie rental app on Facebook that lets users choose from a limited selection of films. Each rental costs 30 Facebook credits, which works out to about $3.

Miramax joins Warner Bros., Universal and Paramount in offering movie …

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Evernote iOS App Update Brings Rich Text Support, Shared Notes and More

August 22, 2011

Web-based note-taking service Evernote rolled out a substantial update to its iOS app today, offering several new features to users and a redesigned interface for its iPad app.

The upgrade includes rich text editing within notes, mobile access to sha…

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As Fox Requires Web Viewers to Wait, TV Show Piracy Increases

August 22, 2011

It’s been about a week since Fox instituted an eight-day waiting period for users who are not paying subscribers to either Hulu Plus or the Dish Network before they are allowed to stream new episodes of TV shows. Under the new authentication program, …

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Skype Acquires Group Messaging App GroupMe For $85 Million

August 22, 2011

Skype, the Internet telephony company that is itself currently being acquired by Microsoft, has announced that it will itself acquire GroupMe, a group messaging startup.

Created at a hackathon last year, GroupMe is one of a handful of apps that enabl…

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HP TouchPad Hardware Flaws Exposed by Testing webOS on iPad

August 19, 2011

One day after Hewlett-Packard announced that it will be suspending the production of webOS-based phones and tablets, news has surfaced that members the webOS team itself had misgivings about the TouchPad hardware on which it was running.

The promisin…

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HP TouchPad Hardware Flaws Exposed by Testing webOS on iPad

August 19, 2011

One day after Hewlett-Packard announced that it will be suspending the production of webOS-based phones and tablets, news has surfaced that members the webOS team itself had misgivings about the TouchPad hardware on which it was running.

The promisin…

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Traffic From Streaming Web Video Expected to Grow by at Least 1300%

August 19, 2011

That streaming videos makes up a huge percentage of the Internet’s traffic is by now well-known. Netflix alone makes up nearly 30% of all downstream traffic and we’re now accustomed to hearing about the extraordinary amount of bandwidth eaten up by vid…

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iPad 3 to Be Released Next Year, Retina Display and All

August 19, 2011

The third iteration of Apple’s hot-selling tablet computer will not be on the market until 2012, the Wall Street Journal has confirmed.

Rumors of a 2011 release for the device were already in the process of being quashed by various sources when the…

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Augmented Reality Maps and Directions Coming to iPhone

August 18, 2011

In the not-too-distant future, iPhone users may be navigating around using an augmented reality interface that overlays all kinds of data relevant to their immediate location, as well as turn-by-turn traveling directions from one location to another.
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