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The Apple App Store has been a phenomenal success and the company is about to reach the 25 billion download mark. It wants to celebrate and reward one lucky fan out there: if you wind up downloading the 25 billionth app for the iPhone, iPod touch or iPad, you could win a $10,000 App Store…
Ou pals over at BGR got their hands on what they claim to be iOS 5.1 and this new version of the Apple software includes a revamped lock screen and a more intelligent Siri. One of the cool new features of iOS 5.0 was the ability to double tap the home button on the lock…
Once Path issued an apology for violating users’ privacy by sending their address book information to its servers, people turned to and blamed Apple for even allowing this to happen. Apple has finally publicly responded by saying apps will soon require users’ permission to access contact data. “Apps that collect or transmit a user’s contact…
Apple is in a bit of hot water with the government thanks to some privacy violations committed by popular social networking service, Path. Recently, the photo sharing company was caught with its hand in the cookie jar, as it uploaded users’ address books to its servers without permission and Congress sent a letter to the…
There are some interesting iPad actions going on in China, as the popular tablet has been pulled from China’s Amazon service but it’s unclear why this is happening and what this will mean for the upcoming iPad 3. Our friends over at TechCrunch have done a good job of digging through it but let’s give…
Siri likes to talk, and it seems her chattiness has leaked some information about one of her upcoming features says a report from 9to5Mac. It all started when someone asked Siri what languages she speaks, and she answered with a simple German, Japanese, French and English. That’s a great answer except Japanese is not officially supported by…
Four months ago we filed a report saying LG Display and AU Optronics sent Apple 7.85 inch LCD panels so that they could start working on a smaller iPad. Two months ago we said that sources in Taiwan are essentially confirming the 7.85 inch form factor exists and that said smaller iPad is due to…
Apple shipped a hair over 40 million iPads during 2011. The company plans to increase that number by as much as 75% to 70 million units according to a report from ChinaTimes, which says Apple made an order for between 65 million and 70 million LCD panels from LG and Samsung. Said panels are said…
It’s almost a given that the Wall Street Journal will come out with a clutch rumor from “people within the know” when an Apple product is close to announcement. The newspaper didn’t disappoint us when it leaked some early information on the iPad 3 on Monday night. The Journal confirmed Apple would introduce its iPad…
The late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was being considered for an appointment by President H.W. Bush and this required a stringent background check that has just become public. This 191-page FBI document reveals multiple details about Jobs including his drug use, “abrasive” nature and his ability to distort the truth to reach his goals. The…