Apple facing antitrust inquiry over iPhone developing restrictions

Brandon Davenport May 3, 2010 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Apple, News, iPhone, ★Featured Post

Apple’s risky decision to block third party developing tools, like flash, to have the ability to make iPhone apps has gotten every tech-enthusiast all hot and bothered, and has come back to bite Apple in the butt.

The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice are currently contemplating over which agency should be tasked with a potential antitrust inquiry to be shot at Apple for those decisions.

This is going to make somewhat of an up-roar in the industry, and if this goes through, it will be a benefit for developers, probably allowing them to use third party tools to develop iPhone and iPad apps.

Apple is inching closer and closer to becoming a completely closed platform - not allowing third party anything, and herding everyone into the pen of a locked system. Since they are gaining huge amounts of power in the mobile market, they are leveraging it to be the top dog, and maybe eliminate the competition completely.

LA Games Conference 2010 Round Up

Hey gang, I was absent from the T3chH3lp HQ (our own little batcave, if you will) a couple of days last week because I was down in the city of Angles, Los Angeles, California, attending this year’s LA Games Conference. And while it’s no E3, it was an insightful look into what analysts and insiders are making of today’s current trends and patterns happening with the video games industry. And while before it was all about console sales and how to get those into the homes of more people, now it’s all about how can to facilitate and keep a hold of all the influx of new users the “gaming” structure as a whole has been able to garner. Senior Vice Presidents, General Managers, Research consultants, all of these guys for the big companies such as EA, Activision Blizzard, and Sony were on hand to try to put a definition as to what exactly constitutes a hit nowadays, and which blockbuster ideas are one hit wonders or permanent staples.

HTC Incredible suffering from random reboots: Could it be not so incredible?

Daniel Carey May 3, 2010 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Mobile, Smartphones

Could the HTC Incredible be not so incredible after all? Customers of Verizon’s latest smartphone have been reporting irregular boot patterns… to say the least. Currently owners in and around the great state of North Carolina have noticed that their Incredible’s are rebooting all on their own accord. Affected users have apparently tried new phones, combinations of wireless settings and other remedies, all of which have had little effect over the problem. Verizon Wireless is said to be aware of the current issue, and it’s rumoured to be blamed on tower switching in low signal areas. If you’ve been affected, let us know what’s exactly going on, we’d love to have some more details.

Brandon Davenport May 3, 2010 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Apple, News

You can run Mac OS X in VirtualBox

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The latest VirtualBox beta has experimental support for Mac OS X guest systems. So that means it should be possible for you to run Mac OS X inside Windows and Linux, and for me that is huge!

Being able to load up Mac OS X inside my Windows 7 Machine will be amazing, allowing me to browse, and explore the web without the risk of viruses. So in the end, yes this means you can run OS X in a virtual machine, but dont expect it to be stable - Learn more

Motorola CLIQ XT gets updated, unfortunately Android 2.1 skipped out

Daniel Carey May 3, 2010 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Mobile, Mobile Software

The Motorola CLIQ XT (also known as the CLIQ’s keyboardless cousin) is getting a software update; however, much to your dismay it’s not Android 2.1. Instead, this update focuses on “overall phone performance” along with tweaking visual voicemail, Bluetooth, touchscreen accuracy, messaging and camera issues. According to the information provided by T-Mobile, you’re welcome to wait for the OTA update via on-screen notification, or you can choose to manually download the update by going into Settings. Either way, enjoy your new update.

Brandon Davenport May 3, 2010 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us News, iPad

iPad / iPad 3G 'Spirit' Jailbreak Download available

At May 3, 2010

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Don’t expect the new “Spirit Jailbreak” site to work because it is being pounded right now (obviously) but you have to give the Dev-team props for getting the Jailbreak out to the public, a month after the iPad launch.

You can download the Spirit Jailbreak from the official website, and we will hopefully have a guide soon, if we feel that it is a little difficult - Download “Spirit”

What you can do when your Mac dies

Brandon Davenport May 2, 2010 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Apple, How to, Laptops

Macs are such an art piece, a valuable element to your workflow - and that means dork squat when it crashes and dies, and you are hyperventilating and trying to make it all better. Now, thanks to TUAW, we have a helpful guide to sort though and find out the steps we need to take when our Mac crashes, and becomes a beautiful brick. So sit back, and somewhat relax, and make sure you know how to fix problems with your Mac, and more importantly, prevent them.