Apple Sued Over iPad Apple Inc., is being sued with claims that the device over­heat­ing quickly in the sun. The com­plaint, filed July 23 in fed­eral court in Oak­land, Cal­i­for­nia, seeks unspec­i­fied dam­ages and class action, or group, sta­tus. It claims the iPad “does not live up to the rea­son­able consumer’s expec­ta­tions...

Library Of Congress: Jailbreaking and Rooting Legal Did you jail­break or root your device? The Library of Con­gress under­stands. They’ve even cre­ated an anti-circumvention excep­tion to the DMCA. Basi­cally all they ask is that you don’t pirate the soft­ware, in return you can make your device do what­ever you like. From the Library of Congress: Com­puter...

Apple Starts Shipping iPhone 4 Bumpers; Costs Them $175 Million? You’ve prob­a­bly heard by now that Apple has begun ship­ping iPhone 4 bumpers to fix the “grip of death” issue. Accord­ing to Apple’s CFO, Peter Oppen­heimer, the com­pany will be set­ting aside $175 mil­lion of the iPhone 4 rev­enue dur­ing Sep­tem­ber to give away bumpers and cases. The bumpers...

App Store Error — Ratings Not Showing [UPDATE] Looks like Apple is hav­ing issues with the App store. If you try to go to the cat­e­gories and view any free apps, you’ll notice it says no rat­ings. How­ever, if you visit the paid sec­tion, the rat­ings show just fine. While the prob­lem may get fixed soon, check out the pic below. [UPDATE 1] Looks like the...

Nook for Android Now Available, Includes eBook Lending You know that we love the Nook, and Android devices, so nat­u­rally a Nook Android App would be a per­fect addi­tion to Android devices run­ning soft­ware 1.6 and higher. With Android phones becom­ing even big­ger by the minute, (Evo, Droid X, Dell Streak) eBook read­ing will even­tu­ally become more enjoy­able...

Skype For iPhone Updated; Enables Multitasking, Free 3G Calls To Stay The app update also includes graph­ics that take full advan­tage of the iPhone 4’s retina dis­play and says it “allows you to make calls with high qual­ity sound.” No fur­ther details are given about either one of these two attrib­utes, but they are welcome. Skype also announced that it no longer has plans...

Nexus One Sold Out From Google’s Store — What’s Next? After many rumors and sto­ries of Google to end Nexus, today is the day that you can’t order it again. It is sur­pris­ing how quickly they ran out of them, and now they’ll won’t be restocked. If you think you can get a last minute unit, no luck, the web­page dis­plays, “the Nexus One is no longer avail­able...

Faceoff: TomTom Vs. Navigon With iOS 4 With the release of iOS 4, there’s been a lot of updates to improve app capa­bil­i­ties to work with the new OS. Two big updates are for the two iPhone GPS super­pow­ers — Tom­Tom and Nav­igon. Won­der­ing which to buy? We’ve got you covered! Fea­ture Tom­Tom Nav­igon Price $49.99 $79.99 Nav­i­ga­tion...

Apple Announces Third Quarter Earnings Today was Apple’s quar­terly earn­ings call, which, as we expected, was impres­sive. You can hear the whole earn­ings call here. …The Com­pany posted record rev­enue of $15.7 bil­lion and net quar­terly profit of $3.25 bil­lion, or $3.51 per diluted share. These results com­pare to rev­enue of $9.73 bil­lion...

Apple Tidbits: July 12–19 Apple Tid­bits is part of a weekly roundup cre­ated by Sim­Flecks, where we review the high­lights and smaller hap­pen­ings of Apple dur­ing the week. We com­bine our arti­cles and other related blog arti­cles to cre­ate the best roundup. Last week was pretty hec­tic for Apple, as far as the media is con­cerned....

Droid 2 Being Prepared for Launch on August 23rd? Images Leaked The newest phone in the Droid lineup has been leak­ing all over the place recentlyy, with the lat­est leak being the pic­tures of Ver­i­zon get­ting ready to launch the next Droid. It looks like the Droid 2 won’t be launch­ing until August 23rd, but this is def­i­nitely a big, fat rumor at this point. Also, the...

Netflix Service Coming to Canada This Fall This is big news for all you Cana­di­ans out there, Net­flix is com­ing to Canada this fall. Net­flix is the pop­u­lar movie-streaming web­site that lets you watch movies instantly on your TV via your PS3, Wii, or XBox 360. You can also watch movies on your com­puter through their web­site. In addi­tion to...