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Archive for June 25th, 2012
Monday Brief: Windows Phone 8 Unveiled, BB10 with a Physical Keyboard, and more!
Posted by ryan on June 25th, 2012
Posted in iPhone, iPad & iPod 
Tags: Arthur Thornton, Dev Alpha, Monday Brief, Windows Phone 
Comments OffApple releases iOS 6 beta 2 to developers
Posted by ryan on June 25th, 2012
Two weeks after making iOS 6 beta 1 available to developers, Apple has released iOS 6 beta 2 for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. The two week pattern is nothing new for Apple, with previous iOS x.0 releases sticking fairly close to it for the most part. iOS 6 beta 2 is available as an [...]
iPhone 5 prototypes reportedly supporting NFC
Posted by ryan on June 25th, 2012
Some digging around the hardware code dump of iPhone 5 prototypes has revealed that there’s an NFC antenna somewhere inside. The near field communications controllers are directly connected to the power management unit according to the code, but as always, there’s no saying if the feature will make it to a final release this fall. [...]
iOS 6 Maps to support Yelp check-ins
Posted by ryan on June 25th, 2012
Yelp was featured prominently in iOS 6 by way of the new Siri features announced at WWDC, but rumor has it that the review network’s integration won’t end there. Documents recently issued to developers show that there will be a Yelp check-in option through Apple’s new iOS 6 Maps app. TomTom is providing the lion’s [...]
Subscribers to the New York Times to pick up full content via Flipboard
Posted by ryan on June 25th, 2012
New York Times subscribers will soon be able to access the newspapers complete content through the Flipboard app. The information comes hot on the heels of last week’s news that Google+ content would also start to appear through the hugely popular social reader app for iOS. The news is important for Flipboard, because it marks [...]
Editor’s Desk: WWDC videos, Windows Phone 8 updategate, Google IO, features, and more!
Posted by ryan on June 25th, 2012
It’s a public holiday in Montreal and the rest of Quebec — St. John the Baptiste day or National Day, which is basically a provincial version of Canada Day or Independence Day. As with any summer holiday, I care only so much as it means barbecue and beverages, and I have an excuse to keep [...]
ZEN and TECH 42: Keynotes
Posted by ryan on June 25th, 2012
Georgia and Rene discuss Apple’s WWDC keynote, Microsoft’s Surface presentation, and go over the skills used by good public speakers, and give tips on how to improve communication skills and de-stress public speaking. This is ZEN and TECH! Our podcast feed: Audio | Video Download Directly: Audio | Video Subscribe via iTunes: Audio | Video [...]
CrackBerry Kevin: Making Google Play profitable one $200 app at a time
Posted by ryan on June 25th, 2012
Not content to merely put BlackBerry App World in the black by buying $500 clock apps, CrackBerry.com found and Mobile Nations chief-of-chiefs Kevin Michaluk has now turned his attention to Google Play… and bought a $200 vuvuzela app. Yeah. What makes it worth $200 more than all the free vuvuzela apps littering the former Android [...]
Posted in iPhone, iPad & iPod Tags: Google Play, Kevin Michaluk, Mobile Nations, Vuvuzela Hilarious Comments OffFacebook adds "Find Friends Nearby"
Posted by ryan on June 25th, 2012
For those for whom Facebook pretty much is the internet, and sharing location with friends is more positive than negative, the social network’s new Find Friends Nearby feature is sure to be an impromptu party hit. TechCrunch got the early word on it, and Facebook engineer Ryan Patterson gave them the background. I built Find [...]
Posted in iPhone, iPad & iPod Tags: Find Friends, Find Friends Nearby, Free Download, Ryan Patterson Comments OffÇingleton Symposium videos
Posted by ryan on June 25th, 2012
Last October, after I’d spent all night in line for an iPhone 4S, I hightailed it into the city for two days of iOS and OS X talks, drinks, and conversations — the Çingleton conference. Assembled by Luc Vandal of Edovia, Guy English, and Scott Morrison of InDev in my home town of Montreal, the [...]
Posted in iPhone, iPad & iPod Tags: Alykhan Jetha, Chris Liscio, Daniel Jalkut, Paul Kafasis Comments Off
