Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Retail , Found Footage The day is Thursday, October 22nd. You’re in Scottsdale, Arizona, and you walk into a brand new store being opened by a multinational corporation that produces technology products, including popular operating systems for computers and mobile phones, music/media players, and ‘cloud’ email and storage services for consumers. As you walk into the store, employees in brightly-colored t-shirts cheer and applaud.

Filed under: Multimedia , Odds and ends Fast Company is reporting that there is a Kindle reader application coming for the Mac. At the Windows 7 launch this week, Microsoft said there is a Windows version of the e-reader on the way, prompting a promise from Amazon that a Mac version was coming as well. Amazon hasn’t released sales figures for the hardware-based Kindle reader, but under pressure from Sony and the new Barnes and Noble ‘nook,’ Amazon is working hard to increase the share of Kindle users.

Filed under: iPhone The wait for a new carrier for the iPhone in the UK appears to be nearly over. The Times Online out of the UK says Orange will add Apple’s thrice-super phone to its stable on November 10, one day after O2’s exclusivity for the device ends

Filed under: Gaming , iPhone , iPod touch Wanna blow up the Death Star? There’s an app for that! At least there should be soon. StarWars.com has word of the upcoming iPhone and iPod Touch game ” Star Wars: Trench Run ,” letting players do the cool stuff Luke Skywalker did in Episode IV (minus the whining), namely: blow up the Death Star.

iPhone Dev Team released PwnageTool 3.1.4 for iPhone OS 3.1.2 couple of weeks back to allow users to jailbreak their iPhone and also preserve the baseband firmware so that they can unlock their iPhone. This step-by-step guide will show iPhone 3GS users how to use Dev Team’s PwnageTool 3.1.4, which..

Filed under: Hardware , Hacks , iMac You know by now that once Apple announces a new piece of hardware , it’s only a matter of time before someone gets their hands on one only to rip it up and tear every little piece out to see what’s in there. And that’s exactly what iFixit did with the brand new iMac — most of us would kill to get one and keep it, and they got one and killed it. But at least we can learn from their destruction: the LCD panel is the same resolution as the 30″ Cinema display , and the screen itself weighs 11 lbs.

We’ve reported before about the legal spat between Mobigame, makers of fine indie game Edge, and Tim Langdell, who appears to make his money by suing anyone daring to use the name Edge in a videogame, and makes rather spurious claims regarding how he ‘spawned’ almost any major property with the word ‘Edge’ in its

The U.S. space agency NASA with the New Media Team has released the first NASA iPhone application that enables users to stay on top of the latest NASA news.

It has just been over a year since the Apple app store was launched and it is just amazing how fast this has grown. Today, the App Store has crossed yet another milestone. According to AppShopper, over 100,000 iPhone apps have been approved till date

The NASA folks have released a free iPhone app that shows you NASA missions, images, videos and twitter updates. The NASA app is loaded with a ton of quality photos, and videos that you can view on…

Rescuing the damsel in distress is a staple in Disney movies and fairy tales, but what if Prince Charming was…a green blob of an alien? This is what 4A Volcano Computer Tech. imagined and created in…

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — On opening night, Microsoft’s first retail store here drew lots more visitors than the long-established Apple store right down the street. Microsoft’s store might be a plank-for-plank remake of Apple’s groundbreaking shops, but it’s got one thing Apple’s stores lack — walls of Xboxes

Filed under: iPhone , iPod touch , App Review There are a lot of space geeks out there. You know the type; they wake up in the early hours of the morning to watch launch coverage or live feeds from the International Space Station, they follow NASA astronauts on Twitter , and they’re married to people in the space biz. Oh, wait — that’s me! Yeah, I’m a bona-fide space geek and proud of it, so I was thrilled to hear that the official NASA iPhone app [ iTunes Link ] is now available free of charge.