» Free and Discounted Apps for Friday, January 27
1 hour ago by iDownloadBlog.com from Sebastien
The App Store is filled with hundreds of thousands of apps for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. At iDB we keep an eye on the best apps available to see when they’re available for the best price. These apps are currently available for a great discount, and some of them are even totally free. [...]

» Jobs caught Google recruiting Apple engineer, letter alleges
1 hour ago by MacNN | The Macintosh News Network
An unredacted letter from Steve Jobs to Google head Eric Schmidt in March of 2007 reveals that Google was attempting to recruit an Apple engineer, which resulted in swift repercussions after Schmidt was notified. The letter is part of a court case that alleges that informal "no poaching" agreements between Apple, Google and five other tech companies amounted to a conspiracy to limit oppo ...

» How Apple “Acquired” the iPhone Trademark From Cisco
2 hours ago by iDownloadBlog.com from Cody
Adam Lashinsky’s new book Inside Apple, which was released earlier this week, is full of juicy stories from Apple’s past. Pieces of the book have been popping up on the web over the past two weeks. The latest excerpt we’ve come across, courtesy of our friends over at Cult of Mac, provides some insight on [...]

» RIM Looking into BlackBerry Messenger for Other Platforms
2 hours ago by iDownloadBlog.com from Oliver Haslam
RIM’s new CEO Thorsten Heins may have inherited a sinking ship, but he seems determined to explore all avenues in his attempt to find an escape route for the ailing Canadian firm. Having previously been very keen to keep its BlackBerry Messenger crown jewel as a key feature that is exclusive to its hardware, BlackBerry smartphones [...]

» Macworld | iWorld Best of Show liveblog
2 hours ago by TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog from Victor Agreda, Jr.
I'm live at the Best of Show awards, where Macworld has chosen the best products from the show (hence the name). Sorry about the lack of images, you'd basically see washed out photos of a projected image. Be sure to check out the links to each product. 3:07 Just now getting started! Up first, Boinx with iStopMotion. Florian from Boinx is doing a demo of iStopMotion. As we said back in December, ...

» USPTO invalidates key Rambus patent, may lower tech costs
3 hours ago by MacNN | The Macintosh News Network
Rambus' litigation campaign suffered a possibly fatal setback Friday after the USPTO pushed word that it had invalidated the final patent out of three the company has been using to sue a large part of the technology industry. Having quietly made the decision on Tuesday, the patent office's appeals board left Rambus without any of the patents it has been using to sue NVIDIA, Hynix, HP, and others. ...

» Customize Your Notification Banners With Vexillum
3 hours ago by iDownloadBlog.com from Cody
The latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system, iOS 5, brought a number of new features and improvements. One of the most welcomed changes was the revamped notifications system with unobtrusive banner alerts. But as usual, the jailbreaking community takes this feature a step farther. A new tweak has just surfaced in Cydia called Vexillum [...]

» French regulator to look into Free's cheap phone service
3 hours ago by MacNN | The Macintosh News Network
ARCEP, the French telecom regulator, has said it is going to inspect low-cost wireless provider Iliad's backbone network to make sure it is compliant with its bandwidth licensing requirements. The action takes place after Iliad's competitors raised complaints about Iliad's network performance and customer service. Iliad, which operates its wireless service under the Free name brand, denied the cla ...

» Amazon Kindle Fire cuts Galaxy Tab Android use share in half
3 hours ago by MacNN | The Macintosh News Network
Amazon's Kindle Fire is squeezing out other Android tablets for actual use online. New Flurry data shows that the Kindle Fire virtually cut the Samsung Galaxy Tab line's usage share in half, from 63 percent in November to 36 percent in January. Other devices saw a similar squeeze, which mostly came from the Kindle Fire's rampant sales rather than a drop in Android use....

» Doxie's new DoxieGo + Wi-Fi: Demo video at Macworld iWorld 2012
3 hours ago by TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog from Steven Sande
Yesterday while I was on the show floor at Macworld | iWorld 2012, I came upon a 7-foot-tall scanner walking around. After I figured out that my cold medicine wasn't making me hallucinate, I knew that I was in the right place -- the Doxie booth. There I was able to interview Paul Scandariato of Doxie about their new DoxieGo + Wi-Fi mobile scanner and grab some video. The new scanner communicates ...

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