App Watch: Stamped Launches Version 2.0

By Pui-Wing Tam Stamped–the maker of an app that helps people record and share their favorite restaurants, movies, books and more–said it was launching a new version of its iPhone app and that it has closed a new round of financing. The New York-based company, founded by several former Google employees, said its latest app …

Apple iPhone 4S Battery Life Still Circling the Drain?

Apple iPhone 4S users are in the worst place Apple users can be: somewhere between a possible iPhone 4S battery life pandemic and official acknowledgement of the issue by Cupertino with usage guidelines and a fix timeframe. Apple’s newest iPhone hit shelves in the U.S. on October 14, and since then threads have appeared across …

Apple’s Visionary Redefined Digital Age « Din Merican: the Malaysian DJ Blogger

New York Times RemembersSteven P. Jobs, 1955-2011Apple’s Visionary Redefined Digital Age Steve Lohr contributed reporting. Steven P. Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple who helped usher in the era of personal computers and then led a cultural transformation in the way music, movies and mobile communications were experienced in the digital age, died Wednesday. He …

Marin residents remember Steve Jobs as visionary, revolutionary

Marin residents remembered Apple cofounder Steve Jobs as a visionary who transformed the tech world. “He made an incredible difference in our lives,” said Ed Catmull, a Kentfield resident and president and co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios. “He had a clarity of vision about taking what he thought was obvious and making it real,” said …

Instagram 2.0 adds full-size images and live filters

Photo-sharing mobile application Instagram released a major update to its iPhone, iPod touch and iPad apps today, finally increasing its image size to the maximum allowed by the various Apple devices. Instagram is a hugely popular photo-filter app that has more than 9 million users and 250 million shared photos. in addition to the increased …

Red Robot launches Life is Crime game with location-based play (exclusive)

There’s got to be more to location-based mobile games than checking in. that was the thinking behind the game startup Red Robot Labs and its first game, Life of Crime. The game debuted on the Android Market yesterday, and it’s one example of the growing number of game developers who are targeting Google’s mobile operating …