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Techcrunch is reporting that a $150M venture fund aimed at Blackberry developers, will be launched on Monday (update: it’s now launched). It’s a clear response to the $100M iPhone fund that was recently launched by Apple and Kleiner-Perkins. Taken together, that means that there’s a quarter of a billion dollars of venture capital available for […]
Back at the end of October last year, Apple’s new version of Mac OS X aka Leopard, had just shipped, with an important piece missing. The mising piece that people had been hoping for and expecting was Java SE 6. Mac Java developers around the world freaked out, and a campaign (code word 13949712720901ForOSX ) […]
One of my favourite sayings is a quote from Sun’s CEO, Jonathan Schwartz - different isn’t always better, but better’s always different. So, I’m a fan of a lot of the super-innovative work that Apple does. However, their thinking is sometimes different to the point of not making any commercial sense. The iPhone is […]
There’s been some speculation that the forthcoming 3G iPhone may include a new patented Apple technology - a so-called “integrated sensing display”. This is an LCD screen, with image-sensing elements inserted in between the pixels in the LCD panel. The images detected by the many thousands of sensors can be “stitched” together in software to […]
Reports suggest that Apple will announce a 3G version of iPhone in June. Whether there will be any new hardware beyond 3G support (presumably the latest version of HSDPA - ‘cos it needs to be) is unclear. My guess is not. That’s not the big question, though. The big question is whether this new version […]
How does Apple’s iPhone compare with a fake iPhone from China? Check out this video review. It’s pure genius…
[Via Fake Steve Jobs]
In recent months, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the UK have been changing the way they provide ADSL Broadband connections to their customers (both businesses and consumers). Specifically, they have been dropping support for a networking protocol called PPPoE in favour of one called PPPoA.
This probably won’t affect your home connection because most networking equipment […]
Interesting news from Sun. Sun’s VP Java Marketing just told The Register that Sun will be making a version of Java for iPhone. It seems that they feel that the iPhone SDK offers enough freedom that they can build a JVM on top of it. Here’s the quote…
We’ve spent the last 24 hours furiously looking […]
Well, Apple’s iPhone software roadmap meeting is over. Did they deliver? In a word - YES! All the commercial and techincal details look great. By using the iPhone SDK, it will be possible to develop truly amazing, magical software applications for iPhone, and it will be easy to distribute these apps too. Importantly, along […]
Tomorrow, Apple will release details of the iPhone SDK. This is really crunch time for iPhone. If Apple gets this right, it will be a key part of paving the way for explosive future growth in iPhone sales. If the company gets it wrong, it could signal a future sales slowdown.
What does Apple need to […]