Category: Computers

Is Apple silently fixing the iPhone 4 antenna issue?

iFixit has reported: Reports started surfacing today that Apple may have quietly revised the iPhone 4 to add a nonconductive coating to the metal band on the sides of the phone. This would fix the sudden signal drop from electrically bridging the antennas by touching the band in the bottom-left corner with your hand. via […]

The 3 Stooges? on my computer? (What is Moe.exe?)

So you\’ve found moe.exe running on your Windows system, and have no idea  why it is using memory and CPU time.  You haven\’t started it, so is it dangerous? So What Is It? Moe.exe is the Mesh Operating Environment, which is the core syncing engine for the new Windows Live Sync Beta, as well as […]

iPhone 4\’s yellow spot issue goes away with a bit of time?

Engadget is reporting that they are starting to hear a few reports of the dreaded yellow spots disappearing from the iPhone 4\’s display after a day or so of use. Interestingly, someone posting on the AppleInsider forums seems to know why: Apple is using a bonding agent called Organofunctional Silane Z-6011 to bond the layers […]

Figuring Apple\’s App Store gross profit

Apple\’s iTunes App Store may be the biggest mobile application around, but it\’s not much of a revenue generator for the company. The company claims it runs the App Store at \’a bit over break-even\’ and, according to an analysis by Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, that is indeed the case. Extrapolating from metrics provided […]