Want to figure out how to get more-efficient energy usage from your household light bulbs? Care to track your driving skills and see how to be more fuel efficient? There’s an app not just for that, but for all things green. The Apple App Store and the Android Market list many apps to conserve energy and [...]
The pay TV network will begin offering its subscribers access to HBO Go programming on Android mobile devices and Apple Inc.’s iPhone and iPad tablet at no additional charge. “That device has changed television,” HBO Co-President Eric Kessler said this week, pointing to an iPad during an interview at the company’s Santa Monica offices. HBO [...]
Privacy watchdogs are demanding answers from Apple Inc. about why iPhones and iPads are secretly collecting location data on users — records that cellular service providers routinely keep but require a court order to disgorge. It’s not clear if other smartphones and tablet computers are logging such information on their users. And this week’s revelation [...]
Sunday when their phones bungled the one-hour “spring forward” to daylight savings time that went into effect overnight Saturday. In the latest clock woe for Apple’s chic iPhone, some users’ phones fell back one hour instead of springing forward, making the time displayed on the iPhone two hours off. For all of their fancy features, these [...]
Apple Inc. is working on new versions of the iPhone that are aimed at slowing the advance of competing handsets based on Google Inc.’s Android software, according to people who have been briefed on the plans. One version would be cheaper and smaller than the most recent iPhone, said a person who has seen a [...]
After years of rumor and speculation, the Verizon iPhone is finally set to go on sale to the general public today. Verizon and Apple stores across the country will open their doors at 7 a.m. local time to sell the iPhone 4, which for the first time will be available on a U.S. wireless network [...]
eBay said that its electronics-buyback service will buy people’s old smartphones for at least $200 as the company anticipates a crush of consumers replacing them with Verizon Wireless’ version of the iPhone. Under the promotion, running until Feb. 22, the Instant Sale service will pay $200 for a functional iPhone 3GS from Apple, Droid X [...]
Verizon Wireless warned it will slow down the data connection of its most-active users when its network is stressed, a new policy that comes as the company prepares to add Apple Inc.’s iPhone 4 to its network. The biggest U.S. carrier by subscribers hasn’t previously taken such measures to manage demand on its network, a [...]
Pre-order sales of the long-awaited Verizon iPhone 4 start Thursday at an agonizingly early hour, and it can be in your hands by February 10. As if tech-lovers haven’t been discussing the release of the iPhone on Verizon since the beginning of time (or at least since the iPhone was first released exclusively to AT&T [...]
The last time a new Apple iPhone went on sale, lines went out the door, the product sold out in most places within a day, and shortages continued for weeks. That was in June 2010, and AT&T was the exclusive wireless carrier. But Verizon Wireless says things will go differently when it begins selling the [...]
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