New 27″ iMacs Can’t Be Used As External Monitors

At the moment, the new line of 27″ iMacs can’t be used as external displays for devices using the DisplayPort to DVI adapter that Apple sells. As the new system only works with devices equipped with a Mini DisplayPort of their own. This is real bad news for people whose devices such as laptops and/or video game consoles only support VGA, DVI, or HDMI outputs. Though, it is expected that Apple itself, or another third party company will develop a new adapter that works. Until then, there’s nothin

Crazy Big iPhone Numbers – iPhone OS Growing Faster than the Internet in Its Early Days

Copyright © 2009 PatrickJ . Visit the original article at http://justanotheriphoneblog.com/wordpress/iphone-news/crazy-big-iphone-numbers-iphone-os-growing-faster-than-the-internet-in-its-early-days/ . This has been yet another good week for astonishing iPhone numbers. We had huge sales figures reported amongst Apple’s latest quarterly results at the beginning of the week , and the charts and data presented by a Morgan Stanley internet analyst (Mary Meeker) are even more impressive.

Smartphones will become textbooks as well as game consoles

The image above is Apple.com’s display of iPodtouch features — most of which would be superb features for the sort of educational products that will soon replace paper and ink bound textbooks. The textbooks have the same fatal digital age flaws that game consoles are revealing, as reported in a New York Times story today titled, “Apple’s Shadow Hangs Over Game Console Makers.” From the article, reporting the Tokyo Game Show: Among the questions voiced by video game executives: How can Nin

Game console makers looking over their shoulder at Apple

As video game giants like Sony and Microsoft touted their new gizmos at the Tokyo Game Show this week, industry executives had more than the coming holiday sales season on their minds.Apple’s recent foray into video games — with the iPhone, the iPod Touch and its ever-expanding online App Store — is causing as much hand-wringing among old industry players as the global economic slump, which threatens to take the steam out of year-end shopping for the second consecutive year.Among the questions v

Netflix Sees Apple Partnership, iPhone Streaming to “Come Over Time”

Netflix, which mails DVDs and Blu-Ray discs to subscribers and streams movies and TV shows directly to Xbox 360 and other set-top box owners, commented on the likelihood of their working with Apple, and specifically providing an app for the iPhone: “[A partnership with Apple] is something that’s likely to come over time, but nothing in the short term. [With] movie watching, we are not focused on mobile yet, but on the TV, on Blu-ray and on the video game consoles. We will get to mobile ev

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