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Pivothead video glasses offer impressive quality, we go hands-on (sample video)
February 22, 2012 No Comment

Pivothead video glasses offer impressive quality, we go hands-on (sample video)

There's a new adventure video capture company in town, and both Zeyez and GoPro would have good reason to be afraid. You may not have heard of Pivothead -- the company has had a remarkably quiet push to market over the last few months -- but the video recording eyewear startup could very well become a household name after ...

China Telecom to get the iPhone 4S, stores brace themselves for March 9th chaos
February 21, 2012 No Comment

China Telecom to get the iPhone 4S, stores brace themselves for March 9th chaos

The last time the iPhone dallied into eager Chinese hands there was more than a spot of bother . Hopefully, China Telecom's announcement that it'll be getting the 4S on March 9th will give retail stores enough time to prepare. It'll be up for pre-order online from March 2nd, starting from free on contract, and available in the usual ...

China Telecom To Get iPhone In March
February 21, 2012 No Comment

China Telecom To Get iPhone In March

Apple may have seen $13 billion in sales in China last year, but apparently those numbers could have been higher if they’d had a bit more faith. The iPhone sold in huge quantities in the markets served by China Unicom, which since October of 2009 has been the only carrier over there to offer it. Adding a second major ...

China Telecom To Get iPhone In March
February 21, 2012 No Comment

China Telecom To Get iPhone In March

Apple may have seen $13 billion in sales in China last year, but apparently those numbers could have been higher if they’d had a bit more faith. The iPhone sold in huge quantities in the markets served by China Unicom, which since October of 2009 has been the only carrier over there to offer it. Adding a second major ...

Visualized: iOS 2011 sales smoke 28 years of Mac
February 17, 2012 No Comment

Visualized: iOS 2011 sales smoke 28 years of Mac

Love it or hate it, Apple had a pretty stellar 2011. According to crunched numbers from Asymco, between its iPhone , iPad and iPod touch , the Cupertino outfit sold some 156 million iOS devices in 2011, marking a grand total of 316 million in the mobile OS' short history. What's most interesting here, however, is the fact that ...

WinZip iOS App Lets You Crack Open .Zip Files From Anywhere
February 17, 2012 No Comment

WinZip iOS App Lets You Crack Open .Zip Files From Anywhere

Having access to your documents and pictures is really easy these days. About a million services, including Dropbox and iCloud, allow you to sync your stuff between devices, but there’s one little thorn in our collective cloud-syncing side: it’s called a .zip file. Fortunately, WinZip has just launched on the Apple App Store and it effectively rids us of ...

For All The Phones In China, Apple Actually Lost Market Share In Q4
February 17, 2012 No Comment

For All The Phones In China, Apple Actually Lost Market Share In Q4

Apple has an undeniably big opportunity in China, but it is still facing some big challenges. As the iPhone maker claimed the top spot as the world’s biggest smartphone vendor in the last quarter (October-December), it actually slipped in the rankings in China and is now in fifth position after ZTE. But with Apple only kicking off sales of ...

WinZip comes to iOS, doesn't nag you to register
February 17, 2012 No Comment

WinZip comes to iOS, doesn’t nag you to register

The days of ignoring WinZip's incessant nagging that you actually pay its registration fee may be long gone, but that isn't to say the file compressing firm hasn't learned from your failure to pony up. WinZip, the Windows user's go-to compression software since the early nineties, is now available on iOS -- free of charge. The mobile utility will ...

Snag Last-Minute Concert Tickets With The New Thrillcall iOS App
February 16, 2012 No Comment

Snag Last-Minute Concert Tickets With The New Thrillcall iOS App

We all love music. I mean, when’s the last time you heard someone say they didn’t like listening to music? But for some of us, plugging in some ear buds and cranking a jam or two on the iPod just doesn’t cut it. If that sounds like you, please allow me to introduce you to one of the newest ...

BMW My Remote app arrives in the US, 3-Series with stinger missiles due soon
February 16, 2012 No Comment

BMW My Remote app arrives in the US, 3-Series with stinger missiles due soon

BMW's My Remote iOS app has been available here in Europe for a while. Reenacting the car park chase from Tomorrow Never Dies is one of the principal ways to let off steam on a weekend. Sadly, the company has brought our exclusive fun to an end by releasing the app in the USA -- albeit without the weaponized ...