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Demand for the iPhone 4S stays very strong almost one month after its release. The vast majority of Apple stores are running out of iPhone 4S units on a daily basis, says one analyst. His name is Chris Whitmore of Deutsche Bank, and he took a poll of 30 different Apple stores, revealing that between…
Motorola won a preliminary injunction targeting the sales of Apple’s iOS devices in Germany recently. This would ban Apple from selling any devices there that infringe on two of Motorola’s wireless technology patents. Apple isn’t too worried about it, though. Motorola only won by default, since a representative for Apple didn’t even show up in…
Canaccord Genuity has been doing its homework crunching the numbers, and it has come up with the conclusion that the iPhone 4S will almost certainly be the top-selling phone in the United States for this quarter. “Our monthly channel checks indicated very strong sales trends for the new iPhone 4S and lower priced legacy iPhone 4…
It looks like Siri is undergoing its first major outage today, as iPhone 4S users take to the Web to complain. Attempting to use the service only results in a kind message from that nice robot lady saying: “Sorry, I am having trouble connecting to the network.” So, if you’re noticing that Siri hasn’t been working,…
One of the reasons why Android has become so popular when you look at it from a market share perspective is because of hardware choice. Consumers can choose a top of the line Android phone selling for $300 on contract or lower range handsets that can get as low as $30 or even free. Does…
Square, the mobile payments service created by none other than Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, updated its Card Case app today with some convenient new features. The new automatic tabs feature makes payments nearly effortless, thanks in part to iOS 5’s new geo-fencing technology. All you need to do is walk within 100 meters of a…
Verizon started posting advertisements at retail stores for a new phone in its 4G LTE lineup, the HTC Rezound, but it seems the carrier got a little ahead of itself. Neither Verizon nor HTC has made any announcement about such a device. Will we see the news break sometime soon? HTC already has an event…
Apple Stores will soon offer customers the ability to buy in-store items right from their iOS devices, MacRumors reports. Apple would release an update to the current Apple Store app with a new self-checkout option. Users currently in a store can make a purchase and charge it to their iTunes Store account with the help of…
After Nokia previewed its upcoming Kinetic device prototypes with flexible displays, Samsung wants to make sure it gets a share of the spotlight too. The company showed off its own flexible display technology at CES 2011, and is now ready to declare that it aims to start shipping them in 2012. The first batch of flexible…
Hola. Ciao. Hallo. Hej. Dobrý den. If you understand any of that, chances are you are just fluent in a lot of languages, or in a country where the iPhone 4S is now sold. Apple’s iconic new smartphone is now available in Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway,…