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RIM made its debut in the Greenpaece Guide to Greener Electronics this month, and it’s not a good start. The maker of BlackBerry is dead last among other electronics manufacturers, including LG, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, Nokia, and Apple. RIM gets a beating in the ratings for not providing external verification of its greenhouse gas emission…
Charlie Miller cleverly identified a unique security flaw in iOS recently and it cost him his membership to the iOS Developer Program. Miller is an iOS security researcher and he created an app called InstaStock and submitted it into the App Store in September. On the surface, it allowed users to track their stocks, but…
Demand for the iPhone 4S stays very strong almost one month after its release. The vast majority of Apple stores are running out of iPhone 4S units on a daily basis, says one analyst. His name is Chris Whitmore of Deutsche Bank, and he took a poll of 30 different Apple stores, revealing that between…
Motorola won a preliminary injunction targeting the sales of Apple’s iOS devices in Germany recently. This would ban Apple from selling any devices there that infringe on two of Motorola’s wireless technology patents. Apple isn’t too worried about it, though. Motorola only won by default, since a representative for Apple didn’t even show up in…
Rumors are circulating around the internet that say one of the highlight features of the iPhone 4S, Siri, is currently being tested by Apple employees on other devices. For those of you who have been living under a rock these past few weeks, Siri is Apple’s personal assistant that you interact with using your voice.…
Czech mobile provider O2 (division of Spanish Telefónica) decided not to sell the iPhone 4S and will additional stop selling all iPhone models. According to a report by local Czech paper Hospodarske Noviny, the carrier said Apple’s business terms were the reason for stopping the iPhone sales. This, however, doesn’t mean Czechs aren’t be able…
I thought Siri on the iPhone 4S was an interesting first step in using our voice for controlling and interacting with computers but I felt frustrated whenever you hit its predefined limits. Thank goodness for the hackers and developers out there, as one enterprising fellow has created a way for Siri to control your home…
Canaccord Genuity has been doing its homework crunching the numbers, and it has come up with the conclusion that the iPhone 4S will almost certainly be the top-selling phone in the United States for this quarter. “Our monthly channel checks indicated very strong sales trends for the new iPhone 4S and lower priced legacy iPhone 4…
You know that iPhone that millions of consumers want and Sprint spent $20 billion to be able to sell? U.S. Cellular said it passed on the device because it would have cost too much and Apple’s terms were too onerous, according to a report from FierceWireless. With just 5.62 million subscribers, U.S. Cellular is playing…
The patent war between Samsung and Apple intensifies with investigation under way over in Europe. The South Korean-based manufacturer has been trying to impede the selling of all Apple devices in Europe including the recently-launched iPhone 4s. This is all for naught, because the 3G patent complaints have flagged an antitrust investigation by Europe’s top competition…