(Mark's Hangout)
It seems that some Smart Covers, as well as some third-party cases with embedded magnets, aren't playing nicely with the new iPad's built-in magnets. The answer? Looks like Apple slightly tweaked the magnets in the new tablets, requiring a cover with a specific polarity. Man, I knew if I kept suggesting "reverse the polarity" as an answer that it would eventually pay off.
(AppleInsider)
A) Insistence that printers are the future.B) Repeated poor business decisions.C) Not making enough money.D) HP stands for "Harry Potter," right? E) All of the above.
(Bloomberg)
Things are looking grim for RIM: Even Canadian companies are forgoing the Canadian-made BlackBerry for the iPhone. Fortunately, the increasingly anachronistic smartphone can still count Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez as a user...that should make one heck of an ad campaign.
(Android Developers)
You may have heard that Android is a fragmented platform, but it really kicks in when you see it in visual form, thanks to this graph from Google. Only 1.2 percent of users are on the latest version, Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0.3), while the bulk of Android users are still on Gingerbread (Android 2.3.3-2.3.7)--that's a whopping 61.5 percent. Maybe they need to make the version codenames even more enticing: May I suggest Android 5.0 Jello Shots?
(Mashable)
And you thought . One woman claimed her iPhone 4 spontaneously combusted inches from her head while she slept. That's called , people.
(iDownloadBlog)
One blog digs up "evidence" of a forthcoming 4G iPhone by, as usual, scouring system files in the latest iOS release. I don't know what the big deal is: I've already .
- AirServer has released the latest version of its eponymous AirPlay server software for your Mac. AirServer 4.2 is optimized for Apple's third-generation iPad, adds mirroring post-processing settings, and improves game mirroring performance. The update also fixes several minor bugs related to audio, mirroring, and Growl notifications. $15; free update for existing owners.