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Redbox developing an online streaming service to compete with Netflix?
Written on 20 Jul, 2010 at 9:32 in BoyGenius | viewed times | 0 Comments
Redbox is reportedly exploring possibilites to expand its movie rental service beyond kiosks and onto the Internet. According to Redbox President Mitch Lowe, Redbox is considering a web service to to expand the availability of its 100,000 movie catalog... (Continue reading)
Apple to charge for iOS 4 upgrade for iPad?
Written on 20 Jul, 2010 at 9:32 in BoyGenius | viewed times | 0 Comments
This particular piece of intel rates high on the rumor-Richter scale, so do take this one with a hefty dose of salt. Stuff.tv is reporting that a source “working on a future iPad app” has informed the online publication that... (Continue reading)
Apple renames iPhone OS, iOS is the new moniker
Written on 7 Jun, 2010 at 15:58 in BoyGenius | viewed times | 0 Comments
iWonder if Apple will ever break away from its very sucessful, and very annoying, “ i ” naming convention. Well, for the time being it doesn’t look like it. Today, at WWDC, Apple announced that the iPhone OS will... (Continue reading)
Rumor: Bing to be default search provider in iPhone OS 4?
TechCrunch is citing a “reliable source” who claims that Bing will be getting the nod as iPhone OS 4’s default search engine once the finalized code is pushed out to the masses. Search rival Google has been the default... (Continue reading)
Apple iPhone video conferencing info
Written on 22 May, 2010 at 7:06 in BoyGenius | viewed times | 0 Comments
Like we need any more proof, right? ... (Continue reading)
Rumor: Apple building Facebook into iPhone OS
Written on 13 May, 2010 at 23:50 in BoyGenius | viewed times | 0 Comments
Filed under: Apple , iPhone Business Insider says a source has told them that Apple is working on integrating Facebook directly into the next iPhone OS . This would mean the use of Facebook Connect to bring contacts directly... (Continue reading)
iPad descends upon 9 countries on May 28
Written on 10 May, 2010 at 18:11 in BoyGenius | viewed times | 0 Comments
Filed under: iPad Earlier this morning we noted that the iPad will be made available in Australia on May 28th. Fortunately for other international shoppers, Apple's announcement wasn't restricted to Australia. In fact, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain,... (Continue reading)
Marking out iPhone app icons on the iPad
Filed under: iPad David Frampton has an interesting idea for how to display non-universal iPhone apps on the iPad : put a black border around them , much like how iPhone apps will display if they are not scaled-up.... (Continue reading)
How would you change Apple’s iPad?
Written on 7 May, 2010 at 23:03 in CrunchGear | viewed times | 0 Comments
To say that Apple's iPad has driven the tablet market straight into an era of revival would be understating things greatly, and one million units later, we're here to ask the earliest of adopters how they'd tweak things if... (Continue reading)
iPhone / iPad ‘Spirit’ jailbreak released to the world
Written on 2 May, 2010 at 22:51 in CrunchGear | viewed times | 0 Comments
We've been seeing the iPad / iPhone Spirit jailbreak demoed here and there for a few weeks now, and here we go -- the download is now available. The untethered jailbreak works on activated iPhone OS devices running 3.1.2,... (Continue reading)