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Apple dishes new iPad details on 3G, iBooks, more (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - The availability of pre-orders isn’t the only new development in iPad-land. Apple also updated its site with a plethora of new details about its latest and greatest device, from information on the 3G networking capabilities to a more in-depth description of the iBooks application. Let’s take a look at what caught our attention.more
An iPhoneographer's six favorite apps (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - There are 2,920 photography apps available in the App Store, and more are being added every day. Sorting through and testing each new release—every faux film filter, cropping, and tilt-shift tool—could amount to a full time job. Thankfully, Glyn Evans narrows it down for you on his site iPhoneography.com.more
Apple Now Taking IPad Pre-Orders: Five Things To Consider (PC World)
PC World - Apple began taking pre-orders Friday for the iPad. Just like clockwork, the Apple Store opened at 8:30 a.m. ET and began selling the iPad. Interestingly, Apple limits people to a maximum of two iPads per pre-order (sorry, want-to-be iPad hoarder). As of this writing the iPad pre-order portion of the Apple Store site was not suffering from any crush of traffic.more
iPad now available for pre-order (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - If you’ve left one of your browser tabs open to the Apple Store for the past seven days, your payoff is finally at hand. As promised last week, Apple made the iPad available for online pre-order on Friday morning, meaning you must now once again reset your countdown clock timer for the device's ship date of April 3.more
Apple Now Accepting iPad Pre-Orders (PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - Apple is now accepting pre-orders for its hotly anticipated iPad tablet.more
iPad available for pre-order at 5:30 Pacific (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - If you're looking to be first in line to pre-order Apple's new iPad, then set your alarm, because Steve Jobs's latest creation is available for pre-order in the U.S. early on Friday, March 12: 5:30 a.m. Pacific Time or 8:30 a.m. for those of us on the East coast.more
iPad available for pre-order at 5:30 Pacific, 8:30 Eastern (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - If you're looking to be first in line to pre-order Apple's new iPad, then set your alarm, because Steve Jobs's latest creation is available for pre-order in the U.S. early on Friday, March 12: 5:30 a.m. Pacific Time or 8:30 a.m. for those of us on the East coast.more
iPad Goes on Pre-Sale Friday Morning (PC World)
PC World - The world is one step closer to holding the Apple iPad in its shaking hands: consumers can pre-order iPads on the Apple Website starting tomorrow, Friday, March 12, at 5:30 a.m. PST.more
Firemint wins four Pocket Gamer Awards (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - On Wednesday, Firemint was honored with four awards from handheld gaming Website Pocket Gamer at a ceremony held at the annual Game Developers Conference. The company behind Flight Control () and Real Racing () has few titles on the iPhone market—virtually every one has become a mega-hit.more
New iPhone OS Rumored To Finally Allow Multitasking (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Version 4.0 of the operating system for Apple's iPhone, iPod touch, and the forthcoming iPad will represent a major overhaul of the software and will feature a "full-on solution" to one long-standing gripe about Apple's devices -- their inability to multitask.more
Safari 4.0.5 offers improvements to Top Sites, third-party plug-ins (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - Whether you’re a fan of Apple’s Web browser, or just having some problems with its competition, there’s now a new Safari update available just for you. Well, you and everybody else—you wouldn’t want them to feel left out, would you?more
Razer, GPG pledge Mac support; DICE investigating (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - Now that Valve has pledged to support the Mac with the forthcoming release of Steam on Mac OS X and simultaneous Mac and PC releases for all its upcoming games, several in the gaming industry have been quick to respond with their own pledges of support.more
OnLive Plans On-Demand Streaming of Video Games (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - In a move to shake up the online gaming industry, OnLive has announced PC and Mac versions of its on-demand, instant-play games will roll out in June during the E3 2010 show. Here's the rub: Gamers don't have to buy a console, and they can get broadband speeds.more
Text message erasing application goes international (AFP)
AFP - A California start-up on Thursday went international with a TigerText iPhone application that lets people kill embarrassing text messages after they have been sent out.
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Rumor: iPhone OS 4.0 Update Adds Multitasking (PC World)
PC World - The iPhone will finally support multitasking for third-party apps as part of Apple's iPhone OS 4.0 release, according to AppleInsidier sources. It is just one of many iPhone 4.0 rumors surfacing as interest in what's next for the iPhone's OS mounts.more
Namco unveils new cross-platform SDK (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - On Thursday, Namco announced UniteSDK, its new propriety cross-platform technology. During a demonstration on Tuesday night at the Game Developers Conference, Namco revealed Macs, PCs, and mobile platforms like the iPhone will be able to play games simultaneously against each other. Namco also demonstrated Pool Pro Online 3 for iPhone, which was created using the UniteSDK. Pool Pro Online 3 is now available for $5 at the App Store.more
Novothink debuts solar charging case for iPhone (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - Sure, the App Store has plenty of ways to help survivalists fend off a zombie apocalypse, or figure out what plants are safe to eat—but without electricity, those useful guides quickly become very useless data on a dead paperweight. Thankfully, Novothink may have a solar-powered solution.more
Pink Floyd and iTunes could split after court ruling (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - It’s “A Great Day For Freedom”—at least for the members of Pink Floyd. As BBC News reports, the band has emerged victorious in a legal battle with record label EMI, accompanied by a ruling that could soon lead to the band’s entire discography getting pulled from iTunes.more
GDC: Khronos group unveils OpenGL 4.0 and 3.3 (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - The Khronos group has released versions 4.0 and 3.3 of the OpenGL spec, the latest version of the cross-platform, royalty-free 2D and 3D graphics API used on all major desktop operating systems, including Mac OS X. It also serves as the basis for OpenGL ES for smart phones and the upcoming WebGL standard for Web browsers.more
No Camera on Apple's iPad, After All? (PC World)
PC World - Apple's latest iPad software development kit nixes references to video calling and chatting, creating uncertainty about the chances of a camera coming to the iPad.more