Apple on Friday said it would begin accepting submissions for iPad apps next week to launch with the grand opening of the iPad App Store.
Apple’s e-mail, provided to Wired.com by a developer who asked to remain anonymous, told developers to submit their apps by March 27, 5 p.m. PT if they wished to release their [...]
Chip maker Marvell wants to get into the tablet business and it is showing a prototype that will offer web access and high-definition content at a price that would beat the competition by a wide margin.
The prototoype tablet, called Moby, is targeted mainly at students who may be looking for a digital device that could [...]
Spring is upon us, and as the days lengthen and we venture out into the world after our pizza-n-TiVo hibernation, we are confronted with the dual problems of extra belly-fat and extra long lawn-grass. A clever invention could take care of both these modern scourges in one go, but instead offers a kind of poor-man’s [...]
Spanish gadget blog Clipset has the details of the upcoming HP Slate, with some quick hands-on time too. Previously, then Slate has only been seen in a teaser video promo.
First, the price. The Slate will apparently be €400, which translates literally to $543, but is likely to be less in the US. Clipset says this [...]
You’re sick of tinny, vapid MP3s. You’d go back to CDs, only you tossed them and you haven’t the stomach to re-buy them over again. Besides, where’s the warmth and romance in a silver disk? So you decide to try vinyl, but that means buying a turntable, amp, speakers… Lord, what a hassle. Or is [...]
Remember the old toilet-seat iBook from Apple? What’s that, you’d done your best to forget it? Yeah, us too. Sorry to dig up those bad old memories. The point, though, is that the candy-colored computer had a handle, and despite its aesthetic flaws, a notebook with a handle is, well, handy. Zhang Shouze’s Playing By [...]
This is the MoviePeg, and it’s the simplest gadget you’ll see this week, and possibly, like, ever. The MoviePeg is no more than a little plastic rectangle with a notch cut from one side. This notch matches the thickness and radius of your iPhone’s edge, and forms a snug stand.
We love it. You can use [...]
Idapt’s new i4 is a charging dock for pretty much all of your gadgets. Like the company’s previous stations, the dock reduces cable-clutter, but this time it does it in shiny, piano-black style.
The hot-looking dock plugs into the mains and sits on your desk or night-stand. In the top are three virgin sockets, into which [...]
If you can’t pitch the press, pay them. That’s the proposition some review sites have for publicity-starved iPhone developers.
Several websites dedicated to iPhone app reviews are requesting payments from developers in exchange for writeups of their apps, Wired.com has learned. Those payments are not always clearly disclosed to readers, and the practice hasn’t received much [...]
A wonderful iPhone app for beginning piano players just landed in the App Store.
Called Etude, the app displays digitized sheet music and teaches you to play piano songs with an on-screen keyboard.
On its main screen, Etude, developed by independent iPhone programmer Dan Grover, uses the familiar Delicious Library metaphor of a book shelf from which [...]