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Ever wonder why your Android phone has poor battery life? A new report from Purdue University and Microsoft suggests that this may be due to in-app advertising. The report suggests that in-app ads can be the cause of up to 75 percent of app-related battery drain. This kind of makes sense, as these work by…
Microsoft reportedly will be putting the finishing touches on Windows 8 over the summer as it gears up for an October debut, according to a report from Bloomberg. The report suggests that we’ll have a ton of new products which can run the tile-based Windows 8 but what interests us is the speculation that there…
In what is now a tried-and-true tradition, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak waited in line overnight to get his hands on the brand new iPad and he explains his reasoning in the video below from What’s Trending. Woz has shown a penchant for waiting in line for new products, even though he could get all of…
In what is quickly becoming an IntoMobile tradition, some of the team braved an overnight campout for the brand new iPad. Check out a few of the photos from the line. There were plenty of lines around the world but it appears like stock is pretty good. One friend of IntoMobile said he walked into…
AOL has acquired the photo-sharing app Hipster for “low seven figures,” according to TechCrunch and this may signal the decline of the photo-sharing app boom. For those who don’t know, Hipster is an iOS app which lets you send “digital postcards” via your phone. This could then tie into your Facebook feeds for sharing and…
Along with any new Apple product, you can expect the wizards at iFixit to tear the thing apart for our pleasure and that’s exactly the case with the new iPad. The folks over at iFixit have torn apart the new iPad and revealed all of its secrets. iFixit says the rear panel looks nearly identical…
It’s hard to believe it but the Amazon App Store is now celebrating its one-year birthday and you know Amazon is going all out by offering multiple free and discounted apps. When the Amazon App Store opened a year ago, it was a neat way to get a free premium app a day. Other than…
Congress had already poked Apple about its mobile app privacy policy following the Path debacle but the company’s response apparently wasn’t good enough, as the government is demanding that Apple answer a few more questions. To catch you up to speed, when it was found out that the Path app uploaded your contacts to its…
It’s been a while since I’ve switched to the iPhone full time and it’s mostly been a great experience but I still think that the standard e-mail client is kind of a mess, particularly for Google-backed accounts. The folks at Sparrow are trying to fix this with a new iOS mail app and while it’s…
The new iPad is being well received for its new Retina Display and its lightning-fast support of 4G LTE but don’t try and make FaceTime calls over that 4G because the Apple video calling service is still limited to WiFi. According to the Verge, when you connect try to make a FaceTime call over 4G…