Josh Ong / AppleInsider:Apple may abandon Intel’s Infineon chips in next iPhone – report — The next iPhone may forgo an Infineon baseband chip in favor of one from Qualcomm, according to an unconfirmed report. — The Commercial Times reported (Google translation) earlier this week that Infineon will not provide …
The Macalope / Macworld:The Macalope Weekly: Choices — PEOPLE WHO READ THIS ALSO READ: — We all make choices in life, and some of them are finally coming home to roost. Android wakes up in bed with the wrong search engine while Apple tries to turn its life around and clean up its App...
MacHackPC:Cydia Acquired Rock Your Phone — If you have a iPhone / iPodTouch / iPad and have jailbroken it, you might have heard about Cydia & Rock. For folks who are not aware of Cydia Store & Rock.app Stores, these are two store for 3rd party iPhone apps, tweak, themes …
Brad Linder / Liliputing:Google: Android isn’t designed for tablets… yet — Google clearly didn’t have tablets in mind when it designed the Android operating system. Way back in 2007, tablets were generally expensive computers running Windows software which often had a full keyboard, a screen on a swivel …
AppleInsider:Apple to move aggressively on FaceTime, camera-equipped iPads — Apple’s iPad is unlikely to endure the company’s traditional 12-month product cycle for iOS device refreshes before seeing its first major enhancements, AppleInsider has been told. — A version of the tablet device with a built …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:Apple Starts Evicting App Store Name Squatters — As you’ve probably heard, Apple has been taking steps to make whole iPhone/iPad/iPod touch app development process a bit more orderly. They actually now have some (quirky) guidelines in place to help developers, and they’ve un-banned the use of some third-party development tools.
Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:Yahoo Revamps Mail Service — Makeover Comes as Service Faces Slide in Users Amid Competition From Rivals — Yahoo Inc. is redesigning its email service to help stem a user decline and counter offerings from longtime rivals Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. as well as social-networking services such as...
Cade Metz / The Register:Google search index splits with MapReduce — Welds BigTable to file system ‘Colossus’ — Exclusive Google Caffeine — the remodeled search infrastructure rolled out across Google’s worldwide data center network earlier this year — is not based on MapReduce, the distributed number-crunching platform …
Ryan Tate / Gawker:The Secret Dealer for Farmville Addicts — The company behind Mafia Wars and Farmville doesn’t like to talk about the sad addicts who fuel its profits. But it does quietly run a special store for them, where imaginary credits are bought with very real bank transfers.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:“YouTube Instant” Dude Can’t Go to Work for Chad Hurley, Because He’s Already Working For Mark Zuckerberg — There are lots of ways to become famous on the Internet. It took Feross Aboukhadijeh three hours of coding. — When he was done, he had built “YouTube Instant,” a great riff on...