Bryan Chaffin

We all know the story about how Apple disrupted the mobile phone market with the iPhone, but have you heard about the startup that wants to disrupt the bra industry using the iPhone? That's ThirdLove, a company using in-house imaging technology to turn two 2D, self-shot images of a woman's breasts to make a 3D…

If you aren't convinced yet—and really, you should be—The Wall Street Journal has added its journalistic weight behind the “Apple's gonna ship two new iPhones in September” narrative. Citing unspecific sources, the newspaper said that Apple's suppliers have been asked to ship both a high-end iPhone and a new low-cost iPhone model in September, a…

Researchers at Georgia Tech have used a specific technique to sneak malware onto Apple's heavily curated App Store. The team wrote an app, submitted it to the App Store, and won approval even though the app had significant malware because of the way the malware code was hidden within the app. Code Gadgets & Jekyll…

Apple and Yahoo! have rolled out neighborhood-specific weather in their respective weather apps for iOS. This isn't just in iOS 7—where it was first noticed on reddit—but also for iOS 6 and iOS 5, and possibly others. The change appears to have been pushed by Yahoo!, whose data powers Apple's default Weather.app for iOS as…

Microsoft and Google are tussling over access to YouTube on Windows Phone devices. Microsoft has released not one, but two apps on its Windows Phone Apps+Games Store, and Google has blocked both of them. The Verge reported that Microsoft had reverse-engineered an API key for access to YouTube, a key that Google then deactivated. This,…

CBS had us going on Monday with a clip of Larry Ellison seemingly saying that Apple will crash and burn without the late Steve Jobs. The full interview offers a slightly different take, however, one in which Mr. Ellison calls Steve Jobs “irreplaceable” and says that Apple won't do as well without him. Mr. Ellison…

Apple has run into trouble in Norway completing its 3D “Flyover” views in Apple Maps. The government of Norway is denying Apple permission to photograph the capitol of Oslo over security concerns, a problem not faced by competitors like Google that rely on satellite imagery. The image below compares Apple's Flyover imagery for Oslo and…

That Tri-tone Feeling Apple's marimba-based “Tri-tone” alert sound is ubiquitous. It's the default sound for incoming text messages on the iPhone, but it wasn't actually created inside Apple. A programmer and musician named Kelly Jacklin posted a blog entry that describes how he created the sound for the makers of SoundJam when they wanted an…

I have one word for this rumor: Please. OK, four more words: Let it be true! The story comes from GameInformer [via Joystiq], who was “approached” by people “who have knowledge of the in-development hardware,” most likely people outside of Amazon itself. VentureBeat published a response story where it said it had independently “heard rumblings…

 Jeff Bezos Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is adding another hat to his vast collection, newspaper publishing. The New York Times reported that Mr. Bezos has purchased The Washington Post for US$250 million in a deal that brings with it several other newspaper properties. The purchase is being made by Jeff Bezos himself, rather…

The U.S. Department of Justice doesn't want much, just control over Apple's entire iTunes business. This, because Apple had the audacity to do something that same DOJ had failed to do, which was bring competition to the ebook market. We've covered the news aspect of this twice today—once explaining the DOJ's proposed remedy, and a…

Apple Inc. has responded to the U.S. Department of Justice's proposed antitrust remedy, calling it draconian, unprecedented, punitive, and overreaching. The DOJ proposed on Friday morning a sweeping series of remedies to correct price fixing behavior Apple was convicted of engaging in. That proposed remedy would prohibit Apple from entering into deals with book publishers…

Steve Jobs was interested in the phone industry as early as 1984, according to his former boss, John Sculley. In an interview at the Young Turks conclave (reported by YourStory), Mr. Sculley said that even then Mr. Jobs was focused on the importance of saying no more often than you say yes. John Sculley, Former…

Samsung announced its own developer conference for the end of October. The company said it will hold the event at the Westin St. Francis Union Square in San Francisco, though it's not yet clear what the conference will focus on. My question is, why? The company made the announcement by launching a website that would…

[Warning: This article includes profanity, as quoted from lawsuit documents – Editor] A lawsuit has been filed against Apple asking for damages because Apple didn't protect an idiot from porn. AboveTheLaw reported that a Nashville man named Chris Sevier is suing Apple for not installing filters on the company's Macs that would prevent him from…

So get this: there's a ceramic developed from a rare mineral that makes our smartphones and tablets touch-sensitive. The mineral used to make that substance is rare, and known sources could run out in the next ten years. According to GigaOM, the search for a replacement involves new nanomaterials developments. The mineral is indium, and…

Amazon is in the process of updating its Kindle Fire line of media tablets in time for the holidays. Citing unnamed sources, BGR reported that Amazon is planning on upping the specs and introducing new industrial design concepts to its tablets. Amazon's 2012 Kindle Fire Family (Kindle Fire HD 8.9″, Kindle Fire HD, Kindle Fire)…

Douglas Engelbart, the man who invented the computer mouse, died on Wednesday. Mr. Engelbart was 88 and died of kidney failure, according to The New York Times. Douglas Engelbart in 2008 Source: Published Under Wikimedia Creative Commons The mouse was first envisioned in the early 1960s, and it was shown to the world—or at least…

You've heard it threatened for more than a year, and now it's here—the first Firefox OS-based “smartphone” will be released on Tuesday in Spain. The ZTE Open will be priced at €69 (roughly US$90), and that includes €30 (roughly $39) in pre-paid credit. Is this something Google and Apple should be concerned about? Yes and…