Mike Schramm

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Mike has worked in the Joystiq Network since 2006, as lead blogger and senior editor on WoW.com and one of the founding editors on Massively.com. Currently, he is a contributing editor on Joystiq, and also writes and podcasts for various outlets, including The Unofficial Apple Weblog.

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Daily iPhone App: Plume is a simple and charming social network-powered reader

by Mike Schramm (Sep 20th 2012 7:00PM)

Plume was recommended to me a while back by fellow TUAWer Brett Terpstra, and while it does look lovely on first site, it's one of those apps that really only shows its usefulness after a while. Plume is a reading app (currently for iPhone only) that pulls links and content automatically from ...

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Samsung 'likely to add' the iPhone 5 to its Apple lawsuit

by Mike Schramm (Sep 20th 2012 6:00PM)

The Wall Street Journal reports that Samsung is "likely" to add Apple's new iPhone 5 to its ongoing patent lawsuit against the company from Cupertino because, well, why not, right? Apple demolished Samsung in the recent ruling, and Samsung is now carrying out a second lawsuit against eight more ...

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Chinese high school gives free iPads to senior students

by Mike Schramm (Sep 20th 2012 4:45PM)

Here's another instance of students getting to use iPads in the classroom, but in a slightly different setting: China. A high school in China has given iPads to all of its senior students, allowing them to replace textbooks and download lectures and texts from all over the world. In all, 21 ...

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Apple, Google sued by mobile web pioneer

by Mike Schramm (Sep 20th 2012 4:00PM)

A pioneer in the field of mobile browsing has now set its sights on Google and Apple with a brand new patent lawsuit. A company called Unwired Planet, which used to be known as OpenWave (and helped to create the original mobile browser protocol known as WAP) has filed a patent infringement ...

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iOS 6: Accessibility gets a boost

by Mike Schramm (Sep 19th 2012 9:00PM)

There are a number of new accessibility options in iOS 6 today, and you don't necessarily need to be disabled to use them. For example, I accidentally dropped my iPhone 4 a few weeks ago and broke the Sleep button on top of the unit, and since then, I've been using the AssistiveTouch feature in ...

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iOS 6: iTunes, App Store, and iBooks all remodeled

by Mike Schramm (Sep 19th 2012 6:00PM)

One of my most-used apps on the iPhone is actually the App Store app itself -- I download lots and lots of different apps for review, and I constantly need to search around and find information on apps for posts. So I'm excited to see that all three of Apple's major content stores on iOS have ...

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Daily iPhone App: Square Enix's Unreal game is called Demons' Score

by Mike Schramm (Sep 19th 2012 5:30PM)

Oh man, Square Enix's entries to the App Store just keep getting weirder. We heard a while back that the company would be working on an original game using Epic's Unreal engine for iOS, and here it is: It's called Demons' Score, and it's a rhythm-based shooter. No, really. The idea of the ...

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Satechi's Swift BT Speaker provides some impressive functionality in a very affordable package

by Mike Schramm (Sep 19th 2012 8:00AM)

The Satechi Swift BT Speaker is a surprisingly affordable little speaker (at just $29.99) that performs quite well. It's small and fairly stylish, and though its functions are about what you'd expect from a Bluetooth speaker, the Swift accomplishes them with an understated flair that I really ...

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GDC Online coming to LA, rebranded as App Developers Conference

by Mike Schramm (Sep 18th 2012 10:00PM)

For the past few years, the Game Developers Conference has held a satellite show in Austin, Texas called GDC Online (and I went there a few years back for TUAW to cover the mobile gaming track). But GDC has announced that this year is the last year it'll do GDC Online in Austin. Starting next ...

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Daily iPhone App: Space Holiday asks you to connect the stars

by Mike Schramm (Sep 18th 2012 8:45PM)

Space Holiday is a recently released puzzle title that definitely tries something new, with varying degrees of success. It's sort of a line-drawing puzzle game: You play for a little space traveler who needs to open up portals by connecting stars on a 2D field, and the idea is that you connect ...

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