With the rise of app-laden smartphones like the iPhone and Google’s Android OS, now on T-Mobile’s G1, many penny-pinching shoppers have downloaded barcode scanning applications onto their mobile devices. These apps allow consumers to compare the prices of merchandise on a store’s shelf to competing stores in the area just by taking pictures with their [...]

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Few have been spared the satire of Matt Groening’s long running animated sitcom. Last night, The Simpsons took on Apple, or uh, Mapple for a full 6 minutes of lampoonery — a pretty harsh ride at a two-joke per minute pace. It all starts when the Springfield mall gets its very own Mapple store, “it’s [...]

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Macbooks
You heard the rumors, now get the details. Apple has just released a major update to the MacBook line, leaving the original white plastic model in the mix but lowering the price to $999; the two new models are priced at $1299 and $1599. You can see a video overview of the new beasties at [...]

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In a move that surprised everybody and nobody simultaneously, Apple has released a brand-new 24-inch LED Cinema Display to spruce up the languishing product line.
In addition to a new form factor that brings their look in line with newer iMacs (and now the new MacBook and MacBook Pro models announced today), the displays have an [...]

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Reports out on the web today say Apple has just sent out invites to a special media event on Apple’s campus for October 14. The invite reads, “The spotlight turns to notebooks,” and has a ray of light shining over the back of an unidentified Apple notebook.

he invite-only event will be taking place at Apple’s [...]

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Obama Campaign launches iPhone app
Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign launched an iPhone application on Thursday that turns the vaunted device into a political recruiting tool. You can learn more about this app at the Obama iPhone app Web site.
The most notable feature “organizes and prioritizes your contacts by key battleground states, making it easy to [...]

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Apple’s MobileMe service has proven to be a horror It’s been a curious thing to watch: Apple makes mistakes all the time, but they are usually small mistakes, easily swept aside in the tide of their own user’s enthusiasm. But MobileMe wasn’t just a cool service with some flaws: it ripped itself out of Apple’s [...]

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It’s no secret that I’m not a big fan of “analyst” Rob Enderle, but to me, this takes the cake. In his latest “column” on TechNewsWorld, among discussions of Steve Jobs’s health, Enderle also talks up Dell’s plans to launch a digital music player and download service, which we discussed last week—and, as you might [...]

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Yesterday I made a post about how the new iPhone application, Loopt, was causing a lot of angst amongst some top bloggers, and people I admire, about their completely idiotic way in which they handle user invites. The main issue dealt with privacy concerns stemming people getting invites from people they didn’t know - people [...]

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As many of you may or may not not no, Loopt the social networking “service” stalks your location wherever you go, and broadcasts it to your friends, but beware of the “invite friends” screen. Apparently a “bug” (yeah right) causes you to invite everyone through SMS spam, and there’s no way to unsubscribe either.
Notable bloggers [...]

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