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Earlier, news spread quickly that Google was caught bypassing Apple’s privacy settings to track iOS users with mobile Safari. Not surprisingly, the top Consumer Watchdog thinks Google is deceiving users with these questionable practices and has asked the FTC to investigate. “Google has clearly engaged in ‘unfair and deceptive’ practices,” said John M. Simpson, Consumer Watchdog’s…
The wildly popular social networking giant, Facebook, plans to generate $1.2 billion from mobile advertising, according to UK-based analyst firm Mobile Squared. This bit of news has circulated for some time now, as we recently reported the social networking site was working on bringing ads to smartphones and tablets in the near future. The $1.2…
Apple may have broken sales records last quarter selling 37 million iPhones, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the company’s mobile phone business is booming everywhere around the world. iPhone market share dropped in China for the second quarter in a row, while cheap, locally-produced smartphones take over. Apple’s smartphone market share in China fell to 7.5…
A recent Best Buy ad is jumping the gun a bit, suggesting that the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet has access to apps for Twitter and Kindle, when sadly it does not. Instead of assuming Best Buy just got their facts wrong, it’s much more likely that it knows something we don’t: Twitter and Kindle are coming…
Well, the battle between Apple and Proview over the iPad name continues, as the Chinese-based manufacturer seeks up to $2 billion from the maker of all iProducts. The company originally planned to get millions from the iPad maker, now it wants billions as it prepares to sue Apple in the U.S. to collect what it…
Hero Academy has been taking a lot more of my spare time than I originally anticipated as the game is perfect in its ability to keep players engaged for small moments at a time. There have been times when I have been woken up from a deep sleep to the chime of it being my…
Last week HTC gave the world an idea of what handsets to expect to get the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update in the coming months. The line up includes the entire Sensation line, as well as a handful of other handsets, but HTC wasn’t finished. A new Facebook post named “Ice Cream Sandwich Updates:…
Think you’ve had your fill of Angry Birds with Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons, Angry Birds Rio, and Angry Birds Facebook? Think again as Rovio has just announced the next Angry Birds game, Angry Birds Space, is a little over a month away from release on multiple mobile platforms. Information on Angry Birds Space is…
The Apple App Store has been a phenomenal success and the company is about to reach the 25 billion download mark. It wants to celebrate and reward one lucky fan out there: if you wind up downloading the 25 billionth app for the iPhone, iPod touch or iPad, you could win a $10,000 App Store…
Ou pals over at BGR got their hands on what they claim to be iOS 5.1 and this new version of the Apple software includes a revamped lock screen and a more intelligent Siri. One of the cool new features of iOS 5.0 was the ability to double tap the home button on the lock…