Apple made a lot of announcements today, from the new Apple TV to the Ping social network for music built into iTunes 10. Because Apple is entering some new market segments (or, in the case of Ping, some new markets, period) Apple is now a direct competitor to a number of other companies already in the social music and streaming content space. Boxee , Rdio and Roku have all issued state...
September has only just begun and already people are talking about Christmas. Planning committees are being assembled to organise the office Christmas Party, high street retailers are bringing out decorations and online gossip has turned to the hottest gifts for the festive season.
One of the hotly tipped gifts for Christmas 2010 is Amazon’s latest e-reader , better known as the Kindle 3...
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What Apple left out of Apple TV, iTunes gets social, real cost of virtual ponies, amateur hour on-line, big Buzz bug bite, and more.
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Whoa, this came out of left-field. Amazon just announced that its Video on demand service will be serving up $.99 ABC and Fox rentals just like Apple wait, no, these are $.99 per episode — like you actually own the content rather than just having a short window to watch. Plus, it’s not just limited to one platform as Amazon Video on demand is widely available a bunch of products. This could be h...
At Apple’s special event today, the company announced its next two iOS releases: iOS 4.1 and iOS 4.2. Apple will be releasing iOS 4.1 next week as a free update for the iPhone and iPod touch, fixing some bugs and adding new features like HDR photos, Game Center , TV show rentals and the ability to upload HD video over Wi-Fi. For original iPhone 3G owners, you’ll be excited to learn that the p...
Sony has just dropped three new e-reader upgrades on the reading public, but the company seems determined not to compete directly with Amazon's new Kindle 3.
Sony has updated its Pocket Edition (5" screen), Touch Edition (6" screen), and Daily Edition (7" screen), and the new devices all look terrific. They use the same, higher-contrast E-Ink screens seen in the Kindle 3, and Sony doesn't hav...
I never got wine stoppers. If you open a bottle of wine, you have to finish it. That's the unwritten rule of Bacchus. But for those of you who don't finish your bottles, here's an idea: A dated wine stopper . More »
Apple is holding an invite-only press event Wednesday, September 1, in San Francisco. Above, a snip from the invitation that went out to journalists. If only we had some clue what this is all about? Look at that guitar. Just look at it. It's trying to tell us something. What does it mean?
Anyway, Boing Boing will be represented, and we'll be providing some sort of live color commentary from...
I just gasped: San-Francisco-based photographer Joey Celis produced a custom sticker for his iPhone, skinning it to look like a Leica M9 .
“Sorry but I won’t be making these to sell,” writes Celis, who makes a living as a stock photographer. “It’s just a one-off for personal use.” Oh, what a mistake. If he won’t sell it, someone else will. I absolutely want one. #wishlisted
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Here's a vision of an "electronic home library" from a 1959 edition of Closer Than We Think , a futuristic newspaper strip drawn by Arthur Radebaugh: "Some unusual inventions for home entertainment and education will be yours in the future, such as the 'television recorder' that RCA's David Sarnoff described recently.
With this device, when a worthwhile program comes over the air while you are a...
Here's a vision of an "electronic home library" from a 1959 edition of Closer Than We Think , a futuristic newspaper strip drawn by Arthur Radebaugh: "Some unusual inventions for home entertainment and education will be yours in the future, such as the 'television recorder' that RCA's David Sarnoff described recently.
With this device, when a worthwhile program comes over the air while you are a...
Playing video on an Android device can sometimes be a bit of a chore. The platform's native media framework has very limited support for mainstream formats and can really only play H.264 video that is in an MP4 or 3GP container. If you are using an mkv container or your video is encoded with wmv or xvid, it isn't going to play unless you reencode it or use a third-party video player that doesn't r...
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MicroBlog revelation, Gmail gets Voice, a look at the Google/Verizon rules from the inside, diving with Android, and more.
Guest : Chris DiBona, open source program manager at Google.
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In order to promote its new, cutting-edge calling technology, Google is going retro with dozens of phone booths set to sweep the nation’s airports and colleges. At a press event at Google’s offices in San Francisco, the company launched Google Voice integration with Gmail , giving users the ability to make and receive phone calls from their inboxes. Phone calls to the U.S. and Canada are free, ...
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