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Entries from June 2010

Don’t hold your iPhone 4 that way!

June 29th, 2010 · 1:48 am

Apple released the iPhone 4 with a potentially critical flaw. If you hold the iPhone a certain way, the device will lose it’s signal, as the antennas are placed on the left and right side of the device. The flaw is especially bothersome for left-handed users. Apple’s response will not go in the textbooks for [...]

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Multi-domain support added to Google Apps

June 24th, 2010 · 7:57 am

A great new feature was added to Google Apps–Google’s business fleet of web-based office software. Google Apps now supports multiple domains. Prior to this update, if you owned multiple web domains, you would need to have several Google Apps accounts–one for each. As part of the upgrade, there is a new admin control which gives [...]

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Facebook Revenue Just Shy Of 800 Million

June 19th, 2010 · 6:47 pm

Facebook’s 2009 revenue was almost 800 million, according to a report by Reuters. Facebook also turned part of that revenue into solid net profit. This revenue is higher than previous estimates of 500 million. “They are downplaying their performance…” stated one Reuters source. If Facebook is heading towards an IPO, than they would be better [...]

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Half Of Android Market Dominated By Android 2.0 Users

June 18th, 2010 · 2:19 am

Google has made strides to move many of the Android users over to the Android 2.0 environment. Google recently released statistics that show that 50.4 percent of all Android devices that connected to the Android marketplace in the past two weeks of early June 2010 were running Android mobile OS 2.0 or higher. There has [...]

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Overnight Prints List of Top 5 Marketing Products

June 16th, 2010 · 3:20 pm

Overnight Print’s blog featured an interesting article on “Top 5 Small Business Marketing Products” that provide ideas like instead of “getting t-shirts printed with your business name on, go a step further and find out if a local sports club would like to have their uniforms sponsored by your business!”. The idea of printing on [...]

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HTML 5 Why Is It Important?

June 11th, 2010 · 8:41 pm

Web Designer NY put out a brief outline of HTML 5, and what it will be for web designers. It is a very high-level look at the new core language for the web. We found this useful for those that are not familiar with the features of HTML 5, but might be interested in learning [...]

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The Price And Release Dates of iPhone 4 | Ironpaper: Current

June 8th, 2010 · 7:18 am

The new iPhone is coming out this summer. Here are the prices and the dates of release for the US. The Price And Release Dates of iPhone 4 | Ironpaper: Current.

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Meet Hello Kitty iPhone Twitter App!

June 3rd, 2010 · 4:29 pm

The race for the ultimate iPhone Twitter app did not slow down after Twitter.com purchased and relaunched Tweetie. No, no, no… now there is a Hello Kitty iPhone Twitter client in the marketplace. This absolute game changer is probably making Tweetie managers cry at their desks. The app was developed by Digital Garage–makers of the [...]

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