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I have to admit that I don't know how long this has been there, I just noticed it last week. iOS (on my iPad) can finally use LastPass...

Usually I hate and hence avoid to slam an app or service like this, but the podcast player in iOS9 really sucks. At least for video on an iP...

For some while now, the Austrian Railways (OeBB) offer free Wifi at least on their premium trains ("railjet"). The trains are goo...

I always found that one of the core features or tasks of a publisher it to spend money made with best-selling artists on the newcomers. Th...

And finally... on my iPad in Safari I use the Reader. It has about the same features as Evernote Clearly , except that it is not an exte...

A bit more than three years ago I bought an iPad (Generation 1 from today's point of view). 64GB, Wifi only. There were good reason to...

1.  I finally gave up (to wait for JB ever to be released by HTC for the S3 variety of the One S) and had my "old" HTC One S (th...

In tablets we currently observe two business models: The Apple model -  make money on the hardware, therefore lock users in,  and make ...

Since I updated my iPad[1] to iOS 5, I frequently had the problem that the video app that comes with iOS is simply frozen, when you open it...

Nice easy reading for the holidays...  a collection of Steve Job's email responses... and no, it's not just a book full of "...

I just recently had to do the routine password change on my corporate email/calendar.  Not a big deal. However,  why does an iOS device (b...

Apple's just announced  multimedia cloud storage thingy , iCloud [1] looks like a real threat to Dropbox. Especially if well integrated...

The recent (if not still ongoing)   Lodsys v. Apple fight  over patent infringement around in-app purchase revealed another important criter...

A couple of weeks ago I read iWoz: How I invented the Personal Computer and had fun doing it by and about Steve Wozniak . Only I forgot to...

It is really odd how developers use the iOS datepicker[1]... The built-in calendar app - which has many other shortcomings  - only lets yo...

Finally, yesterday the 4.2 update for the iPad arrived . Well for other devices as well, but the iPad I cared most for. I had to install it...

This is a bit embarrassing, but I still post it here... so you others don't have to admit you didn't know this... of course you knew...

So this is the rigid quality control on the Apple App Store ?? How could that pass?

So I got my iPad yesterday... No - actually I got it Tuesday, but I managed to hold back until yesterday evening to unbox and activate it...

So, HP bought Palm ... not Apple, as has been rumored over the last couple of weeks. Palm and 3Com [1] finally re-united. IMHO (and as a f...