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Analyst Mark Newman of Stanford Bernstein told Reuters that Samsung may be prepping an unbreakable display for its upcoming Galaxy handsets. These panels would take the form of OLED displays that drop the glass and replace it with an unbreakable plastic substrate. Samsung has been working on flexible display sand recent rumors suggest that those…
Tim Cook had a chat with the folks over at Businessweek that covered many things such as the departure of Scott Forstall, the future of Apple TV and the disaster known as Maps. In addition, the Apple boss revealed the company’s plans for next year, which includes spending $100 million to bring some manufacturing jobs…
Deutsche Telekom confirmed in a press statement that T-Mobile USA will start selling Apple products in 2013. The company failed to name the products or give a launch date, but we can presume it is talking about the iPhone and the iPad, and the launch will likely coincide with the debut of T-Mobile’s 4G LTE…
It’s shaping up to be a Google type of day today. The search giant was happy to talk about some impressive numbers about its social network Google+. This comes after the company launched Snapseed’s photo editor app for Android and making it free for iOS. Google decided to spill the beans on numbers for its…
Back in September, Google purchased Nik Software, makers of the popular Snapseed application for iOS. The move was largely viewed as a grab for the company’s Google+ software, with Snapseed aimed at become the photo filter service of choice for Google’s social network. Today, that dream comes closer to reality with Snapseed for Android, which…
Tim Cook has been the Chief Executive Officer at Apple for over a year now, taking over after the death of Steve Jobs. Cook sat down with Businessweek and talked about his experiences and company changes during his freshman year as head of the company. In the 11-page interview, Cook talks about the rocky departure…
Autocorrect on smartphones can be amazingly helpful or infuriatingly difficult. It can also be incredibly funny when the feature goes wonky and people start sending unintended phrases to their friends and family. Popular blog Damn You Auto Correct compiles these online gaffes and has combed through their user submissions to pick their top eleven texts…
RIM may block users from using common, easy-to-hack passwords on their BlackBerry 10 phones. The BlackBerry blog, RapidBerry, first noticed the blacklisted passwords buried deep inside BlackBerry 10. The list of banned phrases now includes 106 words, and this list may grow as RIM adds new phrases over time. History has shown time and again…
Dish Network is apparently planning to use what’s left of Blockbuster’s brick-and-mortar stores to sell phones to the users. Blockbuster has recently started selling phones on its website using the name “Blockbuster Mobile,” offering a number of different devices from few carriers, including Verizon Wireless, Sprint, T-Mobile, Boost Mobile, Virgin Mobile, MetroPCS, Cricket, TracFone and…
Just like the iPhone 5, inventory of the iPad mini is finally starting to improve. Since its launch, production of the $329 iPad mini has struggled to keep up with high demand. Customers looking to buy the smaller tablet faced low in-store inventory and online shipping delays of two weeks. This situation is gradually improving as ship times in Apple’s…