Blog on iPod and iPhone

Mobile OS crash analysis firm Crittercism (Really? Who’s naming this stuff?) has posted the chart above, which shows that as a percentage of crashes overall, the latest version of iOS claims the highest total. In fact, many versions of iOS show a large percentage of crashes, and clearly iOS overall seems more prone to have [...]

The ongoing patent spat between Motorola and Apple has reached an interesting crossroads. Just recently a German court granted an injunction against sales of many of Apple’s 3G-bearing products, including older model iPhones and the iPad. That injunction held for less than a day, however, pending further review of Motorola’s claims against Apple. Florian Mueller [...]

Bob Borchers used to be an iPhone product marketing engineer for Apple. Part of the team that brought the first iPhone to market in 2007, he’s now a venture capitalist with Opus Capital. Borchers recently gave a talk to students at a California school talking about the thought processes that were involved in the iPhone’s [...]

As noted yesterday, many of the users who updated their OS X 10.6 systems with Apple’s most recent security patches found themselves unable to run PowerPC legacy apps via the Rosetta compatibility layer. Today a new version of that update (Security Update 2012-001 v1.1) is now available, and it should resolve the issues. The latest [...]

Haven’t heard of AnyPlay? That’s not surprising. It’s a small initiative slowly being introduced by Comcast into select cable markets. With it, you can watch live television over your home network on your iPad. So if your spouse is hogging the HDTV during your CW night, you can watch Supernatural using your local Wi-Fi. (Cablevision [...]

By Shara Tibken The gap left atop Micron by the small-plane crash that claimed CEO Steve Appleton’s life comes at a time when the memory-chip market is going through a lot of changes. Prices have been falling and demand has been softening, largely due to PC and macro weakness, and some Asian rivals are struggling [...]

Mark Zuckerberg takes off his famous hoodie at the All Things D conference in 2010. We hate to bring this up at a time when Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg is preparing to be CEO of a publicly traded company, but we couldn’t resist: Remember Zuck’s “Nixon Moment” in 2010? The then-26-year-old took the stage at the [...]

Motorola The Motorola Xoom tablet To the list of woes buffeting Motorola Mobility’s little-loved Xoom tablet, add this: the company sold a batch of used ones without first wiping out all the prior owners’ personal data. Motorola Mobility said 100 of about 6,200 it sold through Woot.com from October to December still may have contained [...]

At the headquarters of 38 Studios, Curt Schilling’s videogame company, are two huge posters of Schilling from his days as one of the finest pitchers in recent Major League Baseball history. Other than the company’s name—from Schilling’s uniform number—it’s difficult to find another reference to his 20-year playing career in the building in Providence, R.I. [...]

Microsoft poked fun at Google’s changes to its Gmail privacy policies with a YouTube video called “Gmail Man.” Microsoft Corp. expanded its guerilla marketing against Google Inc. with a YouTube video spoofing changes to Gmail privacy policies. The “Gmail Man” video pokes fun at the changes at Google with a fictional snooping mailman who misinterprets [...]