iPhone and iPod Touch
Apple's new budget iPod Touch is the first iOS device with a black bezel and silver metal back since the first iPhone.
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Stop validating email addresses with your complex Regex →
17% of British adults believe Google has their best interests at heart →
Instacast for Mac beta →
Very, very flat →
The new interface is said to be “very, very flat,” according to one source. Another person said that the interface loses all signs of gloss, shine, and skeumorphism seen across current and past versions of iOS. Another source framed the new OS as having a level of “flatness” approaching recent releases of Microsoft’s Windows Phone “Metro” UI.
The New York Times gets its Pulitzer for picking on Apple →
It didn't matter that every major U.S. electronics company assembles its products under the same working conditions -- or worse. Or that Apple was actually doing something about them. (Tim Cook called the Times' implication that Apple didn't care what happened to its subcontractors' workers "patently false and offensive.") The fact is, the New York Times knows how to win Pulitzers -- better than any other journalistic operation. It has now won a record 112. It employs editors who specialize in identifying Pulitzer-winning topics and assigning reporters who will bring them home. And that's what it set out to do -- with Apple as its conspicuous subject -- in seven major stories capped with a self-serving kicker that suggested that it was Times' reporting that led to substantive changes in the working conditions in China's electronics factories:
Don't be a Padhole →
Samsung Galaxy simpler than iPhone according to Samsung's ad agency →
Similar to last month's BBC gaff, CNN reports that Siegel+Gale found in a 'survey' that Samsung Galaxy phones are simplier than iPhones.
Google wants to control new 'dotless' search domain →
The most interesting plan here is to use .search to operate a redirect service on the “on the ‘dotless’ .search domain (http://search/) that, combined with a simple technical standard, will allow a consistent query interface across firms that provide search functionality, and will enable users to easily conduct searches with firms that provide the search functionality that they designate as their preference.”
Apple didn't ban comic but got the blame anyway →
We did not interpret the content in question as involving any particular sexual orientation, and frankly that would have been a completely irrelevant consideration under any circumstance. Given this, it should be clear that Apple did not reject Saga 12. After hearing from Apple this morning, we can say that our interpretation of its policies was mistaken. You’ll be glad to know that Saga 12 will be available on our App Store app soon.