IN BRIEF: While exercise can boost mood, its health benefits have been oversold. Moderate exercise can reduce the risk of diabetes in people at risk.
A well-designed app, Strother estimates, can cost anywhere from $50,000 to $150,000, take six to eight weeks to develop, and a couple more weeks more to be approved by Apple. "You should also be flexible in this fast-moving marketplace," he adds.
What could you do with a compass-equipped iPhone? MacRumors offered several suggestions last April, including a couple prototype "augmented reality" games that combined real-world backgrounds with computer-generated characters. Leeander and I were also thinking about this du …
sales of the iPod touch, which doubled in one year, even in the face of a poor economy and wider iPhone availability.
Is a future version of iTunes going to support streaming music and video from our PCs to our iPhones and iPods, or will we be streaming directly from an Apple server instead? Either way, having that option could free up our disk space considerably on our devices - perhaps so ther …
When Panasonic's Lumix G1 digital camera arrived last fall, it was a technical breakthrough that took a giant stride toward the holy grail of photography: gorgeous, professional-looking photos from a small camera.
According to a number of well-substantiated rumors, Amazon is set to debut a new, large-screen version of its Kindle eBook reader on Wednesday morning during a press conference at Pace University in New York City.
WordPress's parent company Automattic says usability testing of previous versions of its software have proven invaluable but have been limited primarily to San Fransisco and New York.
In laptops, Apple MacBooks rated first in the 13-inch category, the 14-to 16-inch size, and the 17-inch list; Dell, Toshiba and Hewlett-Packard were also-rans.
It's hard to look at the end of the Encarta experiment without the free and much larger Wikipedia springing immediately to mind. But Encarta arguably would have failed even without that competition.
Still, of all the services offered by cable companies — TV, Internet and telephone — the core television service has by far the lowest profit margins.
a Nine Inch Nails-themed application for the iPhone was rejected by Apple because it contained potentially offensive content
When the season kicks off at Sotheby's on Tuesday night, the two most expensive works of the evening — and of the week — will be a portrait that Picasso painted of his daughter, Maya, when she was just 2 ½ years old and one of Alberto Giacometti's rare sculptures of a ca …
And the more popular Hulu becomes, the less compelling Apple's strategy of renting and selling video content online is, says Gartner (IT) analyst Michael McGuire. "Over time, perhaps the direct-payment model goes away," he says. I strongly disagree.
We'll see how far this one gets. According to the Loop Blog, an Apple news blog (as seen on Brad Molen's Twitter feed), developer Jonah Grant submitted an "Adobe Flash mobile" plug-in for the iPhone and iPod Touch's Safari browser on Friday, April 24.
Google me? I'll Google you! Google has become the de facto public record these days but most people remain in relative obscurity there and/or fear of what past indiscretions Google will expose to people who search for them.
For nerdier types, the Mac mini can serve as a media-center computer when hooked up to an HDTV and tricked out with a television tuner for TiVo-ish functionality (along with the option to Web-stream TV shows via sites like Hulu).
Although the new features are interesting, and I find them a big step up, what's significant in the bigger picture is that Google has shown just how powerful mobile Web browsers have become, not just for surfing Web pages, but for running Web-based applications.
I called AT&T to ask whether this document is legitimate and accurate, and the representative I spoke with confirmed its authenticity and said it's common to distribute this kind of info to store employees about competing products so they can be ready to answer customers' questio …
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