Pocket Now takes us through a neat browser comparison between the iPhone 4 and a Windows Phone 7 device (Nexus One too! Meh). Keep in mind the Windows 7 experience you will see below is still in beta form but both of the other platforms should improve during the time it takes Microsoft to ship their product. As you will see in the video, each have their strong points, but I'm still digging that perfect intertial scrolling on the iPhone. Oh and the Microsoft won't do HTML5 (or Flash).
Pocket Now takes us through a neat browser comparison between the iPhone 4 and a Windows Phone 7 device (Nexus One too! Meh). Keep in mind the Windows 7 experience you will see below is still in beta form but both of the other platforms should improve during the time it takes Microsoft to ship their product. As you will see in the video, each have their strong points, but I'm still digging that perfect intertial scrolling on the iPhone. Oh and the Microsoft won't do HTML5 (or Flash).
Admittedly, I'm more into this technology than perhaps the use case here, but check out the video above. You wave your magic little barcode scanning iPhone over the product you wish to evaluate, then in a few seconds, you get a readout on how terrible it is.
According to El Reg, Google is building an iPhone version of its Google Goggles product.
"We're working on an iPhone version, and hope to have it out by the end of the year," David Petrou, a Google staff engineer working on the Goggles project, told his keynote audience at Monday's Hot Chips conference at Stanford University in California.
A web app for Goggles, Petrou said, isn't current;y an option, even with HTML5's enhanced media-capture abilities. "There is a new part of HTML5," he said, "that allows you to acquire an image from a camera. And that's really nice and really useful, but we don't think it's sufficient for something like Goggles that needs very fine control over the camera.
While it doesn't seem immediately useful, I'm looking forward to playing with this on my iPhone.
Patently Apple does what they do and today found some patents related to a touch based iMac-type computer. These patents cover the sensors in the hinge that would change settings based on the orientation of the iMac Touch.
Fortune reports that analyst Charlie Wolf has broken down IDC numbers on Apple's Mac sales for June and shows incredibly high growth in government spending.
Not only did Mac share triple in government, but it doubled in large business as well:
Wolf also points out that Mac sales are booming in European homes, likely a benefactor of the iPhone halo effect. He notes the halo effect is much stronger in Europe because the iPhone has grabbed a much larger market share. That, he says is due to the fact that the iPhone is available on all carriers.
Digg founder, Kevin Rose is jumping on the iTV bandwagon. He doesn't have any new technical news but he does think Apple will launch the new device in September.
"From what I hear we should expect to see the iTV launch in September. Also, keep an eye onGoogleTV - this is going to be a hot space in 2011."
Facebook for iOS has over 100 million active monthly users, yes, 100 million. As we pointed out the other day, that's almost as many as iOS devices walking the planet.
In other milestones, the App Store is sitting at almost 250,000 apps and 300,000 apps approved all-time. 50,000 apps have been pulled (by Apple and by choice)?! Apple usually throws up some promotional banners about these huge milestones.
We're going to let App Store Chief, Phillip Shoemaker, sum up this joint milestone for Apple and Facebook with his kind words for the original Facebook app developer, Joe Hewitt:
