Gadgetopia

Cisco sues Apple over iPhone trademark: I think Cisco has a pretty strong claim here. The iPhone name was first trademarked in 1996 by InfoGear, a maker of Internet appliances. Cisco acquired InfoGear, and the trademark, in 2000. Cisco sells iPhones designed to place calls over an Internet connection, not ...

Teen unlocks iPhone from AT&T: Apple is scrambling its lawyers as we speak, I m sure. Call this, How to Get Sued 101. A teenager in New Jersey has broken the lock that ties Apple s iPhone to AT&T s wireless network, freeing the most hyped cellphone ever for use on the networks ...

Will It Blend?: Yes, it will blend. Everybody knows that the iPhone can make phone calls, play movies & music, surf the web, and a lot more. But, Will It Blend? What I find amazing is how long the screen stays lit. Via Joseph Scott.

We use Quickbooks Online for Blend s accounting. We re relatively happy with it, but when I logged in today, I saw the above image, which is pretty cool: As a QuickBooks Online subscriber, you can now view key company data anywhere you can use your iPhone. Check your: Accounts receivable and ...

Put Your Content in My Pocket: Doesn t everything just look naturally good on an iPhone? Macs just make everything prettier by default right? So what does this mean for you? Millions of visitors accessing your content on a small display with very high resolution. At some point in the near future, ...

Video: New Android UI Shows iPhone-like Animations: These shots of the Google Android interface from Gizmodo make me feel less bad that I can t get an iPhone in Sioux Falls. [ ], today s release of the refreshed Android SDK shows a UI that has more than a bit of polish. We ...

I need a new phone. I have had a Sanyo Katana for over a year, and I absolutely love it. Sadly, however, it s developed two characteristics which are undesirable in a phone: Sometimes, it just fails to ring Sometimes, it just shuts off Additionally, the outer screen is broken. To ...

Underscores are now word separators, proclaims Google: This is interesting for a couple reasons. First, because it s just good to know. Second, because it confirms the value of keywords in the URL, as I ve questioned in the past. One key development that Matt shared with the audience was that underscores ...

Google introduces software for mobile phones: Well, there s going to be no hardware device called the GPhone. Instead, Google is building an OS which people at the demo said was very iPhone-like, then giving it away. [ ] there will be no branded Google Phone. The software running on the phones ...

Just when everybody was so excited about the so-called iPod killer, Zune, Apple comes out with something new that blows it out of the water. CEO Steve Jobs earlier this morning showed off the new Apple iPhone, and from the looks of it, there will be little reason left to ...

7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails: For some some odd reason, this post is very obscene, but still interesting. This guy set out to re-write cdbaby.com in Rails. But at every step, it seemed our needs clashed with Rails’ preferences. (Like trying to turn ...

Too bad our planet isn t disposable: Some good points from No Impact Man on the recent iPhone craze, and gadget porn in general. [ ] the cell phone now has the shortest life cycle of any electronic device. The question is: how can the environment sustain a society where even a ...

Apple poised to release new products: Apple has scheduled a new product announcement for next Tuesday. And the world holds its breath. Munster added that it is possible that Apple could release new iPods at the event. But he thinks it is less likely that Apple will release a larger, ...

Google s GPhone strategy could keep user costs low: Google takes another step toward the GPhone. Google s widely anticipated — and top secret — GPhone mobile phone project could trump Apple s glitzy iPhone — by going low cost and low tech, tech analysts say. That scenario gained credence last week after ...

Amid all the hoopla surrounding Apple's new iPhone, another newly introduced Apple-related item hasn't received much press; Axiotron and Other World Computing (OWC) introduced the ModBook, the first tablet Mac portable. It sounds like the ModBook is exactly what the name implies; a Modded MacBook. According to Axiotron, they provide ...