Facebook keeps you in touch with your friends, but freshly-launched Streetlife will put you in touch with strangers – those who happen to live in your neighbourhood. Looking for a local real ale appreciation or rambling group? This is the social network for you.
March, 2011
Apple has just announced iPad 2 UK pricing for launch on Friday at 5pm, and to our surprise it’s actually lower than the original iPad’s launch price of £429 for the base model. The Wi-Fi only 16GB iPad 2 will cost £399 with tax factored in, with the 32GB and 64GB models coming in at £479 and £559 respectively. As before, nabbing a model with 3G and GPS built in will set you back an extra £100.
Frankly, that’s all the excuse you need to buy a Smart Cover with your iPad 2. If you caught our review last week, you’ll know we were completely smitten with both the slate and the magnetic cover, which starts at £35. Will you be queuing up come Friday though? Jump through past the break to hit the comments and let us know.
This is a brilliant Kinect hack. Doctors at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto are using Kinect to manipulate medical images during surgery…
The iPad 2 is set to arrive in the UK on Friday but once again analysts are warning that we could see iPad 2 shortages in the wake of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami.
iSuppli has been more specific in its latest research note. It suggests the hardened glass overlay used for the iPad 2 is probably sourced from a Japanese company which has acknowledged earthquake damage to one of its factories while another has been affected by fire.
Apple has sued Amazon in a further battle over the “App Store” name. Apple is already in a tussle with Microsoft over the right to dub any store selling mobile applications, an App Store. Apple claims Amazon is infringeing its trademark and engaging in unfair competition by dubbing its store the Amazon Android AppStore…
There’s no money in Android apps, so they say. Google’s Android Market store is a mess, the geeks who inhabit the reviews section of each effort have come to expect the world for free, and getting every owner of an Android phone to ‘fess up to their credit card details? Don’t get them started.
Except of course, the general consensus isn’t always on the mark – or the money. We’ve tracked down some of the most successful developers who prove the mantra that iOS is the only way to go completely wrong. Call them outliers, call them trendsetters, but whichever way you slice it, they’re now filthy rich from selling Android apps. Read on and meet the Android app millionaires.
The Amazon Android AppStore has flung open its virtual doors with its first promo being a free copy of Angry Birds Rio on Android. The Amazon Android AppStore starts with 3,800 apps on the virtual shelves putting it a ways behind the Android Market (200,000 apps) and iTunes App Store (300,000 apps). Read on for all the details…
Play.com has revealed that it has suffered an email breach in an email sent out to customers late last night. The breach was not through Play.com itself but via an unnamed marketing communications company which exposed customers names and email addresses…