Apple Bloog

Microsoft tonight showed off the first production device running Windows Phone 7. Revealed during a taping of the Engadget Show, the early prototype is an LG-made QWERTY slider that bears a strong resemblance to the eXpo. Not much is known about the device itself besides its 5-megapixel camera, but it will have to [...]

Apple’s new supplier responsibility report, issued last week in advance of its shareholder meeting, is now being used to attack the company for auditing its foreign suppliers’ labor practices and acting to stop worker exploitation.

New statistics released this week show that the market share of Mac OS X in Web use has grown by 29.4 percent in the last year, while Windows has decreased 3.8 percent.

Apple chief executive Steve Jobs was still standing on stage addressing an auditorium full of media reps last month when higher-ups at Amazon began phoning publishers in an effort to extract details on the deals they were given to supply content on the new iPad device he was touting.

Apple’s new iPad is facing criticism for using the streamlined iPhone OS rather than the full Mac OS X, but Apple has a number of reasons for aligning the iPad with the iPhone rather than its desktop Mac platform.

The Associated Press is building an iPad app that provides subscription access to news reports, countering the primarily ad-only model for news on the Web.

A forum thread has been generating some buzz around the Mac web by suggesting that Valve will be porting their Steam platform to the Mac. Steam is a digital distribution system for PC games — essentially an PC game App Store. A Mac versio…

MacNN has reviewed ifrogz’ new EarPollution Luxe Microbud earphones featuring an in-line microphone. With a retail price of $25, the Luxe sits amongst a wide variety of affordable alternatives produced by competing companies. Despite the low price, the earphones were found to provide well-balanced sound with adequate noise isolation….

The Associated Press today announced plans to create a new business unit known as AP Gateway that will focus on mobile platforms, with an application for Apple’s iPad tablet device set to serve as the launch product from the division. AP G…

The continuation of Windows Mobile 6, Windows Phone Classic, will have an extra low-end version kept alive for the developing world, a Microsoft spokesperson confirmed today. Labeled Windows Phone Starter Edition, it will mimic the role of Windows 7 Home Basic and Starter by giving certain countries a less advanced, less demanding but cheaper [...]