Lonely Planet launches audio walking tours in London

This is a cool new feature in travel apps that I'd like to see a lot more of: Lonely Planet has released some walking audio tours as apps on the App Store. Unfortunately, all of the tours so far are just based in London, but the apps will walk you around some of London's most interesting areas, including Covent Garden and the West End, bringing along audio reviews and insight from Lonely Planet's editors and experts. The apps ...
My So-Called Cellphone

My So-Called Cellphone is part of a series of retrospectives where the editors of Engadget detail their first brushes with technology. Join them, won't you?
The first laptop was a major life change for the nerds among us, but the first cellphone has become a milestone in life that nearly all of humanity can share. It seems like every year kids are getting phones at a younger age, racking up bigger SMS bills than ...
This iPhone 4 Exploded

How would you feel if your iPhone 4 burst into flames on your wooden table, flames licking the laquer and scaring your girlfriend half to death? That’s what reader Omar had to deal with this week when his iPhone completely exploded. He writes: The phone got hot then started smoking then blew up. My wife and kid were in the room and it set off my fire alarm. It slighty burned my hand when I tried to pick it up. Basically the battery caught on fire. Helpfully, ...
Kindle for iOS updated, adds page numbers and progress meters

The Kindle app for iOS (my personal reading app of choice) got a nice update yesterday that brings "real" page numbers into the app. Now, as you read along in some ebooks, you'll get to see where you'd be in the printed version, so if you're reading Kindle books along with a class or book club, you can find the same pages you're all reading together. The update also adds information on the homescreen that shows your progress through the books ...
Google CEO: Android Activations Pass 350,000 Per Day

As we’ve told you many times in the past Google’s Android has quickly become one of (if not the single) leading mobile platforms on the market. Not only have devices like the HTC EVO 4G and Samsung Galaxy S helped Android on its conquest for world domination but tablets are quickly helping as well.
In fact, with the introduction of Android Honeycomb many tablets like the Motorola XOOM and LG Optimus Pad have come under the media spotlight ...
Verizon refreshes FiOS app, launches free iPhone program

Verizon updated its FiOS DVR manager for the iPhone, an application that lets you use your handset as a remote control for your FiOS television service and its DVR. In a fun feature, FiOS users with a penchant for taking photos with their iPhone can also easily flick their photos and watch them on their TV. The latest update was rolled out today and added support for multiple DVRs, a landscape view for the Guide, and the ability to change the ...
iPhone mini to be half the size of iPhone 4?

Rumors of a smaller iPhone, an iPhone mini if you will, have been going around ever since the iPhone was originally launched and now folks over at the Wall Street Journal have added fuel to the fire by stating that folks familiar with the matter claim to have seen a device that is about half the size of the iPhone 4 and is codenamed the N97. If the rumors are true, this iPhone mini will be only about ...
Greenpois0n Strikes Again, For Apple TV Too

With the latest GreenPois0n release , we are now able to jailbreak the latest iOS update, iOS 4.2.1. All iDevices including the Verizon iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and now Apple TV 2 , can undergo untethered jailbreaking. The latest GreenPois0n, RC6, can be applied over RC5 and will fix general bugs with the emulators. [via OSXDaily ]
Read more crunchgear
Mac App Store highlights "apps for the creative home"

Apple has set up its first highlighted section for the Mac App Store, in which it displays "apps for the creative home." There are five apps featured in each of four categories (covering things from design to music and photography), and there are some good picks in there, from Apple's own apps to TUAW favorites like Pixelmator, djay, and a few others.
To be honest, while apps getting featured tends to be good for ...
Sony hints at pulling music from iTunes

Sony introduced Music Unlimited in Europe last year and is slated to kick off the streaming music service in Australia soon. The subscription service has a library of 6 million tracks that can be streamed wirelessly to Sony TVs, Blu-ray players and the PlayStation 3 with support for portable devices and mobile phones in the future. Before this Australian launch, Michael Ephraim, the CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment, sat down with The Age, a Melbourne-based newspaper. ...