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iOS devices refer to any of Apple’s hardware that runs the iOS mobile operating system which include iPhones, iPads, and iPods. Historically, Apple releases a new iOS version once a year, the current version is iOS 10. Here is the complete list of iOS 10 compatible devices.

Boom! Google becomes a Gigabit Fiber to the home ISP

Avatar for Seth Weintraub Feb 10 2010 - 10:32 am PT
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The US has been falling behind the world in Broadband capacity to the home largely because of the complacency of the telcos and cable service providers.

Google might get them to switch into high gear with their announcement today, however. Google will be running Gigabit(!!) fiber to the home for a reasonable price to up to half a million households. That is 100 times most current Internet speeds.

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iPad has a unique spell check in Safari

Avatar for 9to5 Staff Feb 10 2010 - 9:23 am PT
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Update: OK, maybe not thesaurus. Results we got were close in spelling only. Meaning was coincidental.

Think of it as half spell check and half thesaurus.  The new iPad Safari has a feature that when you select a word, you get the option of “Replace..”.  If the word is spelled incorrectly, you get a few spelling choices.  If it is spelled correctly, you get the option of a few similar words.

If you spell something incorrectly, you simply have to tap on the word and it goes pink with suggestions:

iPhone gains, BlackBerry loses US smartphone marketshare

Avatar for 9to5 Staff Feb 9 2010 - 4:42 am PT
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Apple iPhone gained one percentage point share in the US smartphone market while BlackBerry lost a point in the last three months of 2009, said comScore.

The researchers reported Monday that BlackBerry remains the most widely used smart phone system in the US, with 41.6 percent of the market – one point less than in the previous quarter.

Apple gained 1.2 percentage points to reach 25.3 percent of the US smart phone market.

Microsoft took 18 percent of the market, followed by Palm with 6.1 percent and Google with 5.2 percent.

Motorola remained top US handset hardware maker in the quarter, with 23.5 percent market share. Its closest competitors, LG Electronics and Samsung, made 21.9 percent and 21.2 percent of all phones used in the US, followed by Nokia Corp. and RIM.

Sling says they didn't work with AT&T to optimize app, it was always optimized. AT&T caught in big fat ugly lie.

Avatar for 9to5 Staff Feb 5 2010 - 9:39 am PT
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Another classy one from AT&T:

Ars contacted Sling to see what exactly they did to optimize their code for it to get accepted by AT&T.  They said there had been no changes since the original submission over a year ago and that it had always been optimized for 3G network streaming.  

“We didn’t change anything,” Sling Media’s John Santoro told Ars. “AT&T never discussed any specific requirements with us.”

Santoro explained that SlingPlayer Mobile has always contained code to adapt the stream quality to the given network conditions. AT&T has been in discussions with Sling since it was first released last year, but AT&T never asked the company to make specific modifications. No changes were made to the app’s 3G streaming capabilities between its being barred from AT&T and now.

That makes AT&T a big fat liar.  From their press release yesterday: