(Ars Technica)
Agreeing on a budget might take them weeks, but Congress is totally of this . Both and have sent letters to Apple inquiring why iPhones are logging users' locations. Strangely enough, both letters contained the same question about whether or not the iPhone's location system could tell if someone was----on a golf course?
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Just when you thought the eternal battle between Greenpeace and Apple had died to embers, the environmental organization is stirring the coals once again, this time by declaring Cupertino the 'least green' tech company. The reason for the ding? Apple's North Carolina data center, which will--Greenpeace estimates-- the company's electricity consumption. That's much worse than rival companies' data centers, which run on cotton candy and the dreams of the innocent.
(9 to 5 Mac)
Call it the iPhone . Apple's rumored to be distributing iPhone 4 units with the same dual-core A5 processor used in the iPad 2 to certain developers--mostly those in high-end gaming--for testing. The -length NDA also reputedly contains a clause that forbids those developers from for the length of the agreement.
(IndustryGamers)
Epic Games president Mike Capps says that $1 apps are a threat to the game industry's pricing model: "If there's anything that's killing us [in the traditional games business] it's dollar apps. How do you sell someone a $60 game that's really worth it ... They're used to 99 cents." I mean, I can't see Angry Birds cutting out 's bottom line, unless they start giving the birds guns with chainsaws on them. Oooh.