Will Apple TV get FaceTime, too?
Daniel Eran Dilger
Everybody is talking about the expected new release of Apple TV 4.0, running iOS apps, streaming shows, and perhaps sporting a new iTV name. But the most interesting new potential of the device isn’t even being mentioned: FaceTime.
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August 27, 2010 42 Comments
How Oracle might kill Google’s Android and software patents all at once
Daniel Eran Dilger
Another major war is exploding in the tech world, but alliances have shifted in interesting enough ways to ensure that this will be one of the most fascinating events ever to hit the technology world.
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August 14, 2010 78 Comments
Major developer turns attention to Google’s Android
Daniel Eran Dilger
After a couple years of collecting little more than hobbyist shareware supported primarily by ads rather than commercially viable software, Google’s Android platform is finally engaging the interest of a major developer. Unfortunately, it’s not the kind of interest Google wants.
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August 13, 2010 37 Comments
Podcast: Android security, iPhone jailbreaking and app sideloading

Gene Steinberg of the Tech Night Owl invited me to talk about Android security, iPhone jailbreaking and app sideloading, and more.
You can tune into the live broadcast stream Thursday nights from 6:00 to 8:00 PM Pacific, 9:00 to 11:00 PM Eastern, at http://www.technightowl.com/radio/. An archive of the show will be available for downloading and listening at your convenience within four hours after the original broadcast.
You can also access the show’s Podcast feed, now available at: http://www.technightowl.com/nightowl.xml. Gene Steinberg’s Tech Night Owl LIVE program is now being syndicated on the GCN radio network.
Listen live, pull up earlier podcast episodes via iTunes, and subscribe to the Tech Night Owl RSS feed at:
August 6, 2010 9 Comments
Podcast: Antennagate

Gene Steinberg of the Tech Night Owl invited me to talk about WWDC and iPhone 4.
You can tune into the live broadcast stream Thursday nights from 6:00 to 8:00 PM Pacific, 9:00 to 11:00 PM Eastern, at http://www.technightowl.com/radio/. An archive of the show will be available for downloading and listening at your convenience within four hours after the original broadcast.
NOW PLAYING! July 17, 2010 — Daniel Eran Dilger, John Martellaro and Robb Moore
You can also access the show’s Podcast feed, now available at: http://www.technightowl.com/nightowl.xml. Gene Steinberg’s Tech Night Owl LIVE program is now being syndicated on the GCN radio network.
Listen live, pull up earlier podcast episodes via iTunes, and subscribe to the Tech Night Owl RSS feed at:
July 17, 2010 20 Comments
How to speed up your iPhone 3G running iOS4
Daniel Eran Dilger
Many users with an iPhone 3G have found their phone almost unusably slow after upgrading to the latest iOS 4. If you’re suffering with a slow phone, here’s something that’s worked for a lot of people: a cold hard reboot. And turn off Spotlight search.
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July 7, 2010 35 Comments
Reality Check: No, Daily Tech, EU isn’t forcing Adobe Flash on the iPhone
Daniel Eran Dilger
Jason Mick at Daily Tech writes that the EU is gearing up to push a “Digital Agenda” intended to foster interoperability, then wildly jumps to the conclusion that this means it will force Apple to implement Adobe Flash on the iPhone. He’s wrong, here’s why.
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July 7, 2010 11 Comments
Exclusive emails from Jesus Christ!
Daniel Eran Dilger
Nobody else has printed email replies from the chief executive of Christianity. That makes this exchange, which I paid a source hundreds of dollars for, newsworthy and legitimate, even if it’s all just sensationalized banter between somebody important and recognizable and a drunk nobody. I expect leading media sources from around the world to syndicate this as hard news.
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July 3, 2010 24 Comments
Apple updates “formula 1” iPhone bars
July 2, 2010 21 Comments
Reality Check: CDMA/Verizon iPhone is nothing like Mac OS X for Intel

Daniel Eran Dilger
It’s become fashionable among Mac writers to refer to a secret CDMA iPhone that’s been under development all this time in parallel to the GSM/UMTS version Apple actually sells, and to compare this to the Intel build Apple secretly maintained for Mac OS X. It’s not really accurate though.
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July 2, 2010 55 Comments
Reality Check: the iPhone 4 launch in perspective
Daniel Eran Dilger
It’s not just the Gizmodo bloggers under investigation in the iPhone prototype case who are painting the electronic world’s biggest launch as a fair to middling failure. The mainstream media is also in on the act. How delusional are they? Here’s a look.
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July 1, 2010 29 Comments
Support for iOS 4 multitasking, iPhone 4 Retina Display easy to add
Daniel Eran Dilger
Updating existing App Store titles to support new features in Apple’s iOS 4, from multitasking to the higher resolution Retina Display of iPhone 4, are relative easy and straightforward to do, developers report.
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June 21, 2010 36 Comments
Podcast: WWDC & iPhone 4

Gene Steinberg of the Tech Night Owl invited me to talk about WWDC and iPhone 4.
You can tune into the live broadcast stream Thursday nights from 6:00 to 8:00 PM Pacific, 9:00 to 11:00 PM Eastern, at http://www.technightowl.com/radio/. An archive of the show will be available for downloading and listening at your convenience within four hours after the original broadcast.
NOW PLAYING! June 17, 2010 — Jim Dalrymple, Daniel Eran Dilger and Molly E. Holzschlag
You can also access the show’s Podcast feed, now available at: http://www.technightowl.com/nightowl.xml. Gene Steinberg’s Tech Night Owl LIVE program will soon be syndicated on the GCN radio network beginning Saturday, July 10, 2010 at 9 PM Central.
Listen live, pull up earlier podcast episodes via iTunes, and subscribe to the Tech Night Owl RSS feed at:
June 17, 2010 4 Comments
Reality Check: Apple not killing the Mac OS for iOS at WWDC 2010
Daniel Eran Dilger
Dan Lyons of Newsweek , in a desperate bid to get noticed again, has abandoned his iPhone rejection / Android adoption schtick and has raced back to the Apple tent to announce his latest revelation: Apple is deemphasizing the Mac OS X platform to focus on iOS this summer, therefore the Mac is dead and Apple will seek out its remaining desktop users and beat them to death and leave them to die in their own blood (I’m exaggerating slightly).
June 9, 2010 49 Comments
Apple’s iOS WWDC strikes back after Google’s Android I/O
Daniel Eran Dilger
Google and its supporters enjoyed intimating an all out war on Apple during the company’s I/O conference a couple weeks ago, disgorging a sea of propaganda that likened Apple to North Korea and its iPhone platform as a dystopian “1984” world. At its own WWDC, Apple never really turned up the rhetoric on Google, but the company did deliver a series of real, competitive assaults that will matter.
June 8, 2010 54 Comments


