iPhone 4’s yellow spot issue goes away with a bit of time?

Engadget is reporting that they are starting to hear a few reports of the dreaded yellow spots disappearing from the iPhone 4’s display after a day or so of use. Interestingly, someone posting on the AppleInsider forums seems to know why: Apple is using a bonding agent called Organofunctional Silane Z-6011 to bond the layers […]

Figuring Apple’s App Store gross profit

Apple’s iTunes App Store may be the biggest mobile application around, but it’s not much of a revenue generator for the company. The company claims it runs the App Store at ‘a bit over break-even’ and, according to an analysis by Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, that is indeed the case. Extrapolating from metrics provided […]

UK Police To Allow Gun Users To Renew Licenses With iPhone App

Sussex police are creating a number of iPhone apps for the public, including one to renew your gun license. Unsurprisingly, the plan has some anti-gun groups upset. Lyn Costello, of Mothers Against Murder and Aggression (MAMAA), said, ‘This isn’t suitable, especially in light of what happened in Cumbria. We’ve got to be extra careful giving […]

Sizing up the iPhone 4 for shutterbugs

The original iPhone launched with a fixed-focus lens and a paltry (even for 2007) 2 megapixel sensor. The camera didnt get any improvements with the iPhone 3G, but gained another million pixels, autofocus, and a ‘tap-to-focus’ system—which links the focus control and autoexposure system to a specific point in the image—with the iPhone 3GS. It […]

Apple Seeds Build 10F569 of 10.6.4

World of Apple, noted that today Apple gave a select number of developers access to the eighth build of Mac OS X 10.6.4. 10F569 includes the same seed notes as the last couple of builds and continues to contain no known issues. Mac OS X 10.6.4 build 10F569 weighs in at 613.8MB in its delta […]