Wal-Mart Stores Inc said it is tripling the number of U.S. stores in a pilot program that lets shoppers scan items with their iPhones and pay at self-checkout counters.
Walmart’s “Scan & Go” program will soon be in more than 200 stores, up from about 70. The pilot began near its home office in Bentonville, Arkansas in late 2012, then expanded to Atlanta.
Obviously it’s working well.
Apple’s “Why iPhone” campaign tells people why the iPhone is better than its competitors.
iOS 6.1.3 is available, with an important security update and improvements to the Maps app in Japan.
AT&T has added higher data caps to its Mobile Share plans for people that can afford the privilege.
Dr. Isaac Bogoch, an infectious disease specialist at Toronto General Hospital in Canada, had seen reports from scientists who turned their smart phones into microscopes. “There were a couple of papers that showed how certain groups were attaching the little ball lenses to their iPhones in a laboratory setting, and they were saying, ‘Hey, you can magnify specimens pretty easily,’” Bogoch told NBC News.
Here’s a guy that can barely sell enough devices to keep his company in business and he goes after Apple.
Schiller did an interview with the Wall Street Journal.
I think Kate pretty much nailed it.
Also: “Hee Haw Folks” made me laugh.
Wired has a slideshow gallery of some of the weirdest accessories for iOS devices you’ll ever see.
There is no doubt that Apple is working hard on improving its iOS Maps application in the past few months. The results can be seen in an update to the app this week in Japan, but Apple has been steadily releasing updates for countries and cities from around the world. […]
The Wall Street Journal isn’t even hiding its disdain for Apple anymore. […]
John Moltz opines on the phablet phad…erm, fad, and what Apple should (or shouldn’t) do about it.
Brilliant and Discover.
This is cool. There are lots of products that help you find things like your iPhone, but they are already lost at that point. The purpose of Linquet Mini is to make sure you don’t lose them in the first place. Watch the video.
A new patent application published by the US Patent Office this week shows that Microsoft’s delusional engineers think that they’ve actually invented Pinch and Zoom as if Apple’s technology never existed.
Morons.
Apple also accused Samsung in a second lawsuit of violating a separate batch of patents, including the rights to search technology that is part of the iPhone Siri voice feature. That case is scheduled for trial in March 2014.
That’s what happens when you steal.
Apple devices are still reigning above the clouds, following the tablet trend with the iPad being the device of choice. Among all mobile devices being used to connect through Gogo, 84 percent carry Apple’s iOS operating system while 16 percent carry the Android operating system. If you look only at the smartphones our customers are using, the iPhone makes up 73 percent and all Android devices make up 26 percent, with Blackberry and Windows based devices each making up less than 1 percent of devices being used in air.
Maybe Android users are too busy getting rid of all the Malware on their devices.
Good tip, I had no idea you could do that.
To get around this, researchers Tilo Muller, Michael Spreitzenbarth and Felix Freiling from FAU put Android phones in a freezer for an hour until the device had cooled to below -10C.
The trio discovered that quickly connecting and disconnecting the battery of a frozen phone forced the handset into a vulnerable mode. This loophole let them start it up with some custom-built software rather than its onboard Android operating system. The researchers dubbed their custom code Frost – Forensic Recovery of Scrambled Telephones.
Not a good day for Android. Then again, not many days are good for Android.
F-Secure:
Android malware has been strengthening its position in the mobile threat scene. Every quarter, malware authors bring forth new threat families and variants to lure more victims and to update on the existing ones. In the fourth quarter alone, 96 new families and variants of Android threats were discovered, which almost doubles the number recorded in the previous quarter.
Android accounts for 79 percent of the security threats for mobile platforms. iOS barely registers in the results, despite the fact there are hundreds of millions of users. F-Secure published a PDF with all of the results.
Good luck Android users.
That is brutal.
Some big news today that Apple is dominating Samsung in the smartphone market. No doubt the Wall Street Journal is trying to figure out a way to make this bad for Apple. You can wait for that or you can watch this great video of a gorilla roll in leaves.
A new report released on Wednesday shows that Apple is dominating the smartphone market in the U.S. […]
Verizon says it’s going to begin phasing out CDMA as soon as late 2014, moving voice transmissions to Voice over LTE (VoLTE) technology.
Andy Ihnatko has made the switch from iPhone to Android, and while he cautions against reading too much into his choice, he explains his motivation.
When Samsung looks at what materials to use, it isn’t just taking into consideration the aesthetic quality of the device, Lee said. The company also assesses how quickly and efficiently it can manufacture the product, knowing that it will have to ship a high volume.
So, if you want a quality device with high-end materials, buy an iPhone. Got it.
I can understand how some parents would be upset if Apple didn’t have some kind of controls to limit the use of the iPhone and iPad, but the fact is they do. […]
At an event at the University of Arizona’s Department of Marketing, former Apple advertising lead Ken Segall has shared some additional details into the naming behind Apple’s massively popular smartphone. While Apple ended up calling its industry-changing smartphone the “iPhone,” Apple considered a few other names.
I’m glad they went with iPhone.
Matthew Panzarino gives us one good example of what’s wrong with writer’s these days.
The Tokyo District Court rejected the request as Samsung hadn’t negotiated “sincerely” with Apple over licensing data- sending patents, Judge Ichiro Otaka said in a ruling today. The court also ruled that Samsung doesn’t have the right to seek damages … Continued