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Apple iPhone and iPod touch owners running the now antiquated iOS 3.1.3 are having trouble browsing through the App Store and worse, downloading any new apps. A thread on Apple Support Communities was started four days ago bringing the complaint to public attention and it still has not received an official confirmation from Apple. The…
The U.S. Justice Department is probing Verizon Wireless after it made deals with Comcast and Cox Communications that will contribute to Verizon’s cable and wireless services. The Justice Department is stepping in to determine whether these new deals put too much cable and wireless power in the hands of Verizon while preventing competition from getting…
It seems that the new Google/Samsung Galaxy Nexus is having a little “antennagate” of its own. After Twitter user Jack Doyle tweeted to Verizon about signal strength issues he’s experiencing with his Galaxy Nexus, the Verizon Wireless Support team confirmed: “The signal strength issue is currently being investigated. We don’t have an ETA, but a…
Apple released a new build of iOS 5.0.1 a few days ago, but no one knew what differentiated it from the previous build until now. It was actually issued to fix SIM card errors that certain iPhone 4S owners have been experiencing, according to one Apple support page. Specifically, the phone would have trouble recognizing…
Google announced today via Twitter that the Samsung Nexus S devices of yesteryear will get Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich within a month. This news was already announced back in October, so it shouldn’t be much of a surprise to Nexus S owners, but the rollout is finally commencing. Unfortunately, only users on a GSM network…
Jan-Michael Cart is best known around the Internet for working with MacRumors to create a concept design of the iOS Assistant, which would later become Siri on the iPhone 4S. The mockup shown in the photo above turned out to be remarkably accurate. He certainly proves his design skills here. Oh, but don’t take my…
Apple seeded iOS 5.1 to developers in November, and the recently released beta 2 brings a feature we’ve all been longing for since iOS 5.0: the ability to delete individual photos from the Photo Stream. One of the great advantages of Photo Stream is that it’s so effortless. Snap a photo, and it’s already in…
Google made its first significant update to the Gmail app for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad and it includes some handy new features for organizing labels, notifications, and we’ll say “expressive” communication. The Gmail app always had support for labels, a very popular feature among Gmail users, but now Google has added the ability to…
The National Transportation Safety Board is proposing a strict ban on any type of cell phone use while driving and this may make it illegal to use your cell phone while operating a vehicle. Car crashes related to distraction were the cause of death for over 3,000 people in the United States this year, and…
While it’s not the first time we’ve seen the latest version of Android on a tablet, it’s fun to see Qualcomm loading Android Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0.1 onto its Snapdragon S4 developer tablet. This will be the ultimate tablet for developers to test their Android apps on, thanks to the impressive hardware specs and Qualcomm’s…