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Apple was recently successful in blocking the sale of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Android tablet in Europe, and it looks like it may seek an injunction against Motorola for its Xoom tablet as well. Google, maker of the Android mobile platform, has openly accused Apple of going after Android hardware makers because the iPhone…
The iPhone is not just big business for Apple with other companies throughout the eco-system competing for their slice of the pie. Aside from the end users, mobile operators and accessory makers – resellers are also looking forward to the iPhone 5 (or whatever it’s going to be called) launch. Their pitch is simple –…
When I moved from Android to the iPhone, the app ecosystem was a big reason why, so I thought I’d periodically point out some apps that I’m digging. These aren’t the Apps I Can’t Live Without but are neat programs which I’ve been using a lot lately. I’ll try and do this as often as…
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…
While the rest of you may be watching your portfolios crumble as the stock market goes haywire, Apple briefly passed Exxon Mobile today to become the largest publicly-traded U.S. company in terms of market capitalization and this was primarily due to the company’s success in the mobile space. Reuters reports that Apple was valued at…
The folks at Boxee have just released a new media manager app for the iPad and this aims to turn your Apple tablet into an even stronger media machine. Boxee is a company which creates software which finds most video content on the web and organizes it into a pretty interface. The company fist gained…
Apple is continuing its battle against HTC, and this time the International Trade Commission, or the ITC, is reviewing five patent complaints from the iPhone maker. According to Reuters, Apple is claiming that HTC “HTC infringed five patents related to software architecture and user interfaces in portable electronic devices, hardware for touch screens and movement…
The iPhone 5 will be announced within a month or so and I started wondering whether Apple will be able to impress us… again. We think we know pretty much all of the features, leaving little space for a surprise. According to various rumors we’ve been hearing during the last couple of months, the iPhone…
The founder of Taiwanese PC manufacturing firm Acer, Stan Shih, obviously isn’t too excited about certain Apple products saying that super portable notebooks like MacBook Air and tablets are “short-term phenomena.” He went forward urging notebook component suppliers to innovate and make more value-added products. However, Acer obviously thinks differently, having announced 7 and 10-inch…
Over the weekend, Apple released iOS 5 beta 5 for developers and early adopters on the beta program. Several new changes were added to the iOS 5 beta 5, and some believe that this is probably close to the last beta, if not the last one, before Apple decides to pull the trigger on the…