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Judge Lucy Koh presiding over the patent trial between Apple and Samsung warned the two companies that now is their last chance to make peace with one another. She foresees that the jury’s verdict will cause both of them to make some sacrifices. “I see risk here for both sides if we go to a…
Since day the first iPad was released on April 3, 2010, people have questioned whether it could be used as a content creation device. There was never any doubt that it was perfect for content consumption, but people today still laugh at the idea of the iPad ever being used as a serious tool for…
Microsoft released the SkyDrive cloud storage app for iOS and Windows Phone back in December without any signs of an Android version coming in the near future. Sure enough it never did. Here we are eight months later, though, and Microsoft is finally releasing SkyDrive in Google Play as well as updating the current apps…
MacRumors says its been receiving numerous reports over the past few weeks that Apple is indeed beginning to lay off many of its employees — particularly those who have been employed there for six months or less — in retail stores across the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada. Part-time employees are also facing cutbacks in…
There’s two dates we keep hearing as affiliated with the launch of the next iPhone: September 12th and September 21st. September 12th is looking like the date Apple has scheduled to make the big announcement and the 21st is the likely release date in most of the top countries around the world. Now iMore is reporting…
Apple has long been rumored to be replacing the 30-pin dock connector that has been an essential hardware component in every iOS device with a smaller 19-pin dock connector, which would create more space inside for other hardware parts. Now leaked images put out by Cult of Mac suggest the dock connector might be even smaller…
iOS “specialist” Sonny Dickson decided to mockup some screenshots of what apps might look like on the next iPhone with a 4-inch display. They look quite accurate — the screenshots are specifically taller, not wider, and larger portions of content now fill the screen in a way that was previously only possible on Android or…
Google is unveiling a new feature aimed at “understanding your intent” more when you perform a search. The Voice Search functionality will launch in an update as part of the standard Google Search app, but it focuses much less on searching and a lot more on just getting you the answers you want as quickly…
Just in case you were losing sleep without it, Foursquare updated its smartphone app with one not-so-new feature. The Nearby Friends view was removed with the release of the total Foursquare redesign a couple of months ago, but now it’s back. It acts as a filter for all of your friends’ activity to just display…
We reported just a few days ago that Sprint for no apparent reason started selling the 16GB iPhone 4S at $149.99 with a two-year contract, well below its standard price of $199.99. The 32GB and 64GB models got a $50 discount as well. Now Apple retail stores are getting on board with the price cut…