NewDigitalCafé

Macworld is almost upon us, and despite the unfortunate news this past week of Steve Jobs’ health problems, Apple’s management team must charge ahead as it has done in years past. Macworld is coming a little later in the month that in some years, and it’s clearly separated from CES, which is a blessing.  There’s [...]

This week AT&T became the first major US operator to move away from unlimited data plans, including those on iPhones and iPads. The new plans go into effect June 7 and offer subscribers two choices— a 200MB data limit for $15 per month or 2GB for $25. Tethering is now available to 2GB subscribers for an extra [...]

Apple has purchased Siri and its development team for an undisclosed sum. The Siri Assistant is a free voice-activated virtual assistant iPhone app that uses location information and relationship knowledge while integrating with many web services— such as StubHub and OpenTable, to make recommendations for consumers. It employs Nuance’s speech recognition technology applying search algorithms [...]

I’m following up on post by Liz Gannes over at GigaOM, where it was reported that OneAppAtATime, a new startup led by Evan “Rabble” Henshaw-Plath has announced it will enable developers to convert their Flash-based games into full-fledged iPhone apps. According to OneAppAtATime “part of the service we provide is expertise in navigating the Apple [...]