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According to information from MacRumors and ifoAppleStore, Apple is encouraging its retail store employees to enter in map corrections as a way to improve the company’s beleaguered Maps application. The rumored program would use store employees, who would manually check map data and send corrections to Apple using an internal Apple portal. Sources for MacRumors suggest…
Samsung and Motorola have a long history of bashing the iPhone in its advertisements, and now Nokia is following suit. The Finnish company recently released a cartoon-based ad that compares the Lumia’s multiple color choices with the bland black and white of the iPhone. The short clip appeared on YouTube and it is not known…
The purple fringing seen in photos taken with the iPhone 5 camera is perfectly normal, said Apple support to at least one customer who inquired about the problem. Gizmodo posted what it claims is an email from AppleCare support representative Debby to iPhone owner and Gizmodo reader Matt Van Gastel. She writes, “Our engineering team…
This is the third installment in our ongoing series about the businesses that made the wireless industry what it is today. We’ve already taken a look at LG and HTC. Now, it’s time to focus on an American manufacturer, Motorola. We will start with a history of Motorola and then cover some of the company’s…
Motorola Mobility did a 180 today and filed a motion with the ITC to withdraw its second complaint against Apple. This infringement complaint was filed in mid-August and includes seven non standard-essential patents covering messaging and multimedia application control. A few weeks ago, the ITC announced it would formally investigate the complaint and assigned Administrative…
AT&T announced on Friday that is adding three Android smartphones and one Android-powered tablet to its mobile device lineup. All four devices will work on the carrier’s growing 4G LTE network, which it is rolling out at a feverish pace. The four devices include the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 tablet and the Samsung Galaxy Express, Galaxy…
Regional wireless carrier Cellcom announced that it will start selling the iPhone 5 on Friday, September 28. To compete with the bigger carriers, Wisconsin-based Cellcom has chopped $50 off the price of the iPhone 5 and will sell the 16 GB model for $149, the 32 GB for $249 and the 64 GB for $349, each…
RIM announced its earnings for Q2 2013 and the company performed better than expected. RIM posted a net loss of $235 million in the quarter, which is significantly better than the $518 million loss reported in Q1. Revenue climbed slightly from $2.8 million in Q1 to $2.9 million in Q2, a 2 percent quarterly increase.…
iFixit and Chipworks used their high-tech imaging equipment to dissect Apple’s new A6 processor. Besides producing a handful of pretty pictures that detail the die, the two companies also uncovered the unique design of Apple’s processor. Rather than a traditional computer software-based chip design, the A6 appears to be laid out by hand. This manual…
One of the major features of the iPhone 5 is its LTE connectivity, which brings the Apple smartphone on par with its Android counterparts. Carriers recognize the importance of LTE as a way to attract customers and are boosting their 4G network coverage before the iPhone 5 launch. Verizon will flip the switch on 19 new markets…