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Victory for Samsung! The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, which Apple has accused of being a copy of its iPad tablet, can now go on sale in Europe except in Germany. The two companies have been suing each other for patents and design over the past few months, and it seemed like Apple was gaining the…
Is your head spinning with iPhone 5 rumors? Would it be a huge relief if the Apple smartphone was announced already? If iPhone 5 rumors weren’t enough to induce nausea, try rumors of another future Apple smartphone – one with LTE capabilities. It is certainly inevitable, but it seems as though Steve Jobs & Co.…
Sprint announced today the new BlackBerry Bold 9930, and BlackBerry Torch 9850, its first BlackBerry 7 devices. The two smartphones will be using RIM’s newest version of its smartphone software, which should be exciting for long-time and dedicated BlackBerry users. The Bold 9930 and Torch 9850 will also be the most powerful BlackBerry smartphones out…
Apple and Samsung have been in the heat of an intense legal battle across several countries, but it looks like Apple has taken the upper hand. We recently heard that Samsung had decided not to sell its Galaxy Tab 10.1 Android tablet in Australia due to the legal issues with Apple. This time around, the…
Apple is airing a new iPad 2 commercial called “We’ll Always.” The general idea is that our daily routine, our daily lives and the things we’ve always done will remain the same, but the way in which we do these things won’t. In it, we see the ease at which home videos are edited, recipes…
Google Plus, or Google+, is now available for iOS in the iTunes App Store. The social networking service, in which you divide up your friends, family and acquaintances into “Circles,” has taken off in the past few weeks and has even seen defectors from Facebook. When the service launched, we said that mobile users might…
Google’s Eric Schmidt decided to chime in on the Apple lawsuits brought against its hardware partners. The former Google CEO says that Apple is feeling threatened by its competitors, and instead of firing back with new innovations, the iPhone maker is just hitting everyone else with lawsuits. To be fair, Schmidt ought to look at…
Microsoft is looking for a software engineer to work on a secret project for Windows Phone. Details are scant, but a few items can be gleaned from the job listing where Microsoft says, “GO BIG! DISRUPT THE MARKET!” The job listing stresses building a good user experience and getting this version one product out within…
Last week we learned that Google was seeing 550,000 Android activations per day, but according to a recent ChangeWave study, it seems that the demand for iOS is beginning to outpace Android. The two platforms saw equal demand last year and early this year, except for the month of June 2010 when the iPhone 4…
Apple said two weeks ago that it was aware of an iOS security flaw that could leave iPhone and iPad users vulnerable to attack via malicious PDF files. The exploit could have been used by hackers to gain access to Apple mobile devices and view user data, or infect the devices without user knowledge. Apple…