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Not surprisingly, Google Maps now tops the chart for free apps in the iOS App Store. The Apple Map alternative debuted in the App Store Wednesday night and offers turn-by-turn navigation, street view and more. After Apple dropped Google and offered its own mapping solution, customers have been clamoring for the return of Google Maps…
Dell is dismantling its smartphone business and pulling out of the market globally. Jeff Clarke, head of Dell’s consumer business, confirmed that the company is no longer interested in smartphones. “It needs a lot of investments to really be successful,” Clarke told Forbes reporter Jean-Baptiste Su. This move is not surprising as Dell has been slowly…
As rumored, Google’s version of Maps for iOS landed in the App Store overnight. The navigation app offers turn-by-turn navigation, street view and traffic in a pretty vector map package. Those expecting a UI like the Google-backed Apple maps of iOS 5 will be disappointed as this is a version of Maps designed by Google…
Sprint confirmed in a regulatory filing that it plans to purchase the remaining 48.3 percent of Clearwire stock that it doesn’t own. Sprint would pay $2.90 per share in a $2 billion deal that would put Clearwire’s value at about $4.23 billion, according to a report in Reuters. Earlier this year, Sprint bought a chunk…
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…
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…
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…
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…