Category: Apple

Apple & Sprint Websites Both Fail After iPhone 4S Announcement

Apple & Sprint Websites Both Fail After iPhone 4S Announcement

During today’s announcement by Apple for the iPhone 4S, their website totally crashed. And I mean “Crashed”. It was down for a little over an hour. And after Apple announced that the iPhone 4S was going to be available on the Sprint Network. Boom, Sprints Phone page crashes… and it’s been crashed for about 2 [...]

Yelp / Apple iPhone 4S Siri SEO Now Important Local Search Ranking Factor for Small Business

Yelp / Apple iPhone 4S Siri SEO Now Important Local Search Ranking Factor for Small Business

Today at Cupertino, Apple had it’s first post-Jobs era product launch. Apple announced 2 things really. The iPhone 4S and the Siri, Assistant Search. This is a much better phone than the Samsung Charge that I have, but it’s not the “iPhone 5″ that was buzzing around the interwebs. Siri Search, makes use of Yelp’s [...]

Kick Ass iPad 2 Case – Kangaroo Leather iPad 2 Case from @Aranez

Kick Ass iPad 2 Case – Kangaroo Leather iPad 2 Case from @Aranez

When LG Mobile asked me to be one of their esteemed bloggers and tweeps at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, I had the privilege of meeting Arnold Aranez, “Mr. Gadget” from down under in Australia. He has since moved to Hong Kong and has created one of the most amazing iPad cases [...]

A Foot in All Platforms: iPad + Android Phone + Windows PC.

A Foot in All Platforms: iPad + Android Phone + Windows PC.

As an awesome 38 year old dude, who specializes in local marketing, I thought I would share with you my personal tech “get-up” and my rationale for my choices of technical gadgetry and the operating systems of choice. I help businesses be found online. I need to know what in the hell Google is doing [...]

Microsoft to Buy Skype?

Microsoft to Buy Skype?

According to the Wall Street Journal report, Microsoft is close to a deal to purchase Skype, the Internet’s site with the most members. Think Facebook has the most members? Nope. Skype does, and Microsoft is thinking about buying it for $7 billion to $8.5 billion dollars. Why would Microsoft want Skype? Actually my estimation, it [...]

Apple Building a Mobile Social Network?

Apple Building a Mobile Social Network?

The latest, greatest version of Apple’s iOS mobile operating system, iOS 4.3, apparently has a hidden easter egg, a new “find my friends” feature, MacRumors has discovered. It seems most likely that Apple is building a geo location-based social network to compete with Foursquare, GoWalla, Google’s Latitude, Facebook Places and the million other startups in the mobile, local, [...]

Motorola Xoom Android 3.0/Honeycomb Tablet Impresses at CES 2011

Motorola Xoom Android 3.0/Honeycomb Tablet Impresses at CES 2011

So, on the last day of CES 2011, I finally made it over to the Motorola booth, as I just had to try out the new Motorola Xoom tablet powered by Google’s Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) which eventually topped the polls and was named the best gadget at CES 2011. It is indeed a crush-worthy device. The [...]

LG Press Conference – OMG LG #CES

LG Press Conference – OMG LG #CES

LG kicked off press day here at CES. LG Mobile connected with Mobile Local Social back in December and invited me to come out and blog about their event and give our honest take on their new product line. However, after the press event, I can say I am very impressed. 2011 is going to [...]

Skype Video Calling Now Available on iPhone

Skype Video Calling Now Available on iPhone

Boom! Apple and Skype finally agree to allow Skype’s popular video chatting compatible with the iPhone. Amazing. The cats out in Cupertino are starting to cooperate with people now. Can you feel the love tonight?  And it’s available IMMEDIATELY.  We didn’t have to wait for CES or MacWorld!  Holy sh#t! I heard of some rumblings [...]

What to Expect at CES 2011

What to Expect at CES 2011

January is quickly approaching. What does this mean for early adopters and lovers of cool tech gadgetry? Only one thing, CES is nigh. This will be a fun time to go to CES, as many companies are preparing to take on Apple iPad with tablets of their own. I expect internet TV to get some [...]

The Reason Why Apple is FINALLY Releasing the iPhone on Verizon

The Reason Why Apple is FINALLY Releasing the iPhone on Verizon

There has been much speculation the past couple months on whether Apple and Verizon will announce a partnership on with the iPhone running on “America’s Most Reliable Network.” or whatever slogan they have, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in early January. The reason is, AT&T’s customer experience is consistently bad. Worse than [...]

RSA Animate – Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us

RSA Animate – Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us

This is completely true and changing the world as we know it.  The folks over at Cognitive Media created this visual art transcription drawing.  Here is what they had to say: “Here’s our latest effort in the video Scribing arena. I say arena, but there seems to be very few of us doing this sort [...]

The Search Crossover: Local, Mobile Social

The Search Crossover: Local, Mobile Social

Are you ready for some liiiiiiveblogging!  It may be a rainy Monday but all is right with the world here at SMX East.  The next few days will be jam-packed with conference coverage and antics so I hope you’re stocked up on vitamins and coffee.   To kick things off we have a killer local panel [...]

The Social Media Grand Central Station. Seesmic Desktop 2.  It’s Badass.

The Social Media Grand Central Station. Seesmic Desktop 2. It’s Badass.

Earlier today, while monitoring some feeds on Tweetdeck, I was thinking about how handy it would be to check on all of my facebook pages, my twitter feeds, my Rss feeds, my favorite forum threads, etc… and boom Seesmic releases their new Desktop 2. It doesn’t add forum threads, that was my idea… but the [...]

Google Wants Me to Kill Justin Bieber

Google Wants Me to Kill Justin Bieber

So, unless you have been under a rock for the last few months, you have probably heard the name, Justin Bieber. I have heard it, but I had not one clue as to WHY he was famous. As far as I knew, Justin Bieber was a young actor or singer or something. I knew he [...]

Hulu and the Failure of Subscription-Based iPad Applications

Hulu and the Failure of Subscription-Based iPad Applications

As I skimmed the iPad app store the other night, the one app that struck me most (besides Flipboard) was one that actually set way, way down at #55.  It was the highly-touted Hulu + app, possibly one of the most hoped-for and touted apps by the iPad crowd. The price was set at $9.99.  [...]

Apple Purchases Liquidmetal® Super Alloy Compound Patents

Apple Purchases Liquidmetal® Super Alloy Compound Patents

Apple has purchased the patents for an electronic casing industry called Liquidmetal®. On August 5, 2010, Liquidmetal Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Liquidmetal”), entered into a Master Transaction Agreement with Apple Inc., a California corporation (“Apple”), pursuant to which (i) Liquidmetal contributed substantially all of its intellectual property assets to a newly organized special-purpose, wholly-owned [...]

Best Buy To Sell Tablets, CTO tweets RocketFish tablet pics

Best Buy To Sell Tablets, CTO tweets RocketFish tablet pics

Obviously, Best Buy was going to start selling a tablet soon…  that isn’t a surprise., however it is a bit surprising that its CTO Robert Stephens shot a few pics of the tablet branded RocketFish and tweeted them out over Twitter earlier today. Beyond the shot above and the one after the break, we don’t know much about the HP [...]

Jailbreaking iPhone, now Legal, per US Govt.

Jailbreaking iPhone, now Legal, per US Govt.

Owners of the iPhone will be able to legally unlock their devices so they can run software applications that haven’t been approved by Apple Inc., according to new government rules announced Monday. The decision to allow the practice commonly known as “jailbreaking” is one of a handful of new exemptions from a 1998 federal law [...]

Reality Distortion Field Remains Strong with Steve Jobs After Apple Antenna Problem Conference

Reality Distortion Field Remains Strong with Steve Jobs After Apple Antenna Problem Conference

A Taiwanese news organization explains the Apple iPhone saga for those that aren’t up to date. One of the solutions to the antenna fix?  Well, just watch the video. Via Gizmodo.

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Apple App Store and iTunes Accounts Hacked

Zee from The Next Web just posted and update to the breaking story of Apple app store being hacked. It seems that this troubling news now includes personal iTunes accounts. See the latest buzz on twitter. Read the full story :: App Store, Hacked. (Updated: iTunes Accounts too.) Learn the all the facts and what [...]

Introducing the Kindle DX! Yippie #sarcasm

Introducing the Kindle DX! Yippie #sarcasm

Amazon dropped the price of the Kindle to $189 from $249. Ok, really? While I understand that some people have a previously purchased Kindle, why would anyone buy just a Kindle for themselves at this point when we now have the iPad? Yes, the iPad is a lot more money but for most people it [...]

Stop Whining About AT&T

Stop Whining About AT&T

They say if you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. Well I’m doing nothing to help with bad AT&T service. In fact, I’m going to encourage it by buying another iPhone. So screw all of you people whining about dropped calls and slow internet.

Op Em: Do Vampires Really Represent Everything that is Wrong with America?

Op Em: Do Vampires Really Represent Everything that is Wrong with America?

The topic came up with a friend as of late as I gushed platelets over the True Blood premiere. His response: Vampires represent everything that is wrong with America. Ouch. Really? Sookie? Edward? Surely not Edward.

Apple’s WWDC – The Center of the App Universe

Apple’s WWDC – The Center of the App Universe

WWDC 2010 Live Stream – Today, June 7, is one of the much-awaited day for Apple Fanboys out there because today, Apple will unveil the much-anticipated iPhone 4 and many more new products. World Wide Developer Conference 2010 will be joined by different tech savvies and Apple fanboys from different corners of the world – [...]

AT&T Kills Unlimited Through Upgrades

AT&T Kills Unlimited Through Upgrades

AT&T, in a move that people could see a mile away, is going to upgrade away the Unlimited Data plans through upgrade pricing for the iPhone 4G.

Bad Ass Lego Printer, Built Entirely of Legos and Felt Tip Pens

Bad Ass Lego Printer, Built Entirely of Legos and Felt Tip Pens

A fellow who goes by the name “squirrelfantasy” (we’re not going to ask) has put together a working printer that uses felt-tip pens instead of ink cartridges. The most impressive part, though, is that he built it entirely out of LEGOs. Adorned with LEGO men and, really, only as pretty as it has to be to [...]

Steve Jobs and Other Top Tech Execs Rock the Red Chair at All Things D8.

Steve Jobs and Other Top Tech Execs Rock the Red Chair at All Things D8.

D8. All Things Digital, the an annual conference where the worlds top tech gurus come to discuss the state of the digital world was created by the Wall Street Journal’s renowned tech journalist, Walter Mossberg, and his colleague-in-crime, Kara Swisher. This year the conference is in it’s 8th year, first year at the new location, [...]

Mobile Local Social presents Podcast 001 the Mobile Media Club

Mobile Local Social presents Podcast 001 the Mobile Media Club

Greetings Earthlings. The team at Mobile Local Social, has connected with some amazingly bright minds here in our hometown of Kansas City, and are forming a Mobile Media Club to connect with businesses and show them the error of their technological ways. What we have here is the very first podcast / experiment of this [...]

Android Intent : PC-to-Mobile Sync = Pure Badassness

Android Intent : PC-to-Mobile Sync = Pure Badassness

Epic win. Google has merged the art of communication of devices. There new API they rolled out today in San Francisco at Google I/O Conference allows the Browser, Google Google Chrome, to connect with your Android device, allowing you to push messages, links, map destinations, etc. Watch the exact portion of the presentation where they [...]

Google TV – Smart TV for the Masses

Google TV – Smart TV for the Masses

Google, today officially announced Google TV, a new platform that aims to integrate both Web browsing and cable TV with one device running its powerful Android operating system, set to arrive this fall. Google said that TV today is too complicated, with too many channels and a poor interface for finding the shows you want [...]

iPad Competition: Without HP Slate & Microsoft Courier, Where’s the Beef?

iPad Competition: Without HP Slate & Microsoft Courier, Where’s the Beef?

The iPhad empire. Only two or maybe three operating systems can hang with the top dog. Ok, maximum five are possibly real iPad competitors. Six then. That’s it! 2010 is shaping up to be the year of the tablet/pad/slates.

Read on for the major comparisons.

Things Apple Should Tell You – The VGA Connector Only Kind of Works.

Things Apple Should Tell You – The VGA Connector Only Kind of Works.

I have had my iPad for about six weeks now and I have to say that for the most part I love it. The screen is amazing, the apps are great and it is extremely convenient for taking to meetings. Here is my one hang up.  The accessories are less than stellar.  While I think [...]

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