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Many years ago, before the iPhone was announced, Nokia released a web browser for their Symbian powered smartphones that used WebKit. Since then the entire industry has standardized around that browsing engine, most famously Apple in iOS, but also Google with Android, and more recently RIM, who purchased Torch Mobile to accelerate their time to…
Apple has just surpassed Google as the world’s most valued brand as the Cupertino-based company reached $153 in terms of brand value. Google, on the other hand, slipped to $111.5 billion followed by IBM and McDonald’s. Apple has largely been helped by its iPhone and iPad devices, along with the new iMac computer that launched…
Apple has reportedly been in talks to purchase the voice-recognition technology provider Nuance. Even if this turns out to just be a rumor, it’s pretty clear that the next version of iOS will have some strong voice-recognition technology. An Apple, Nuance deal would cost in the billions, as some have pegged it at $5-$7 billion…
The Amazon Cloud Player for Android has been an excellent way to get access to your home collection through a browser or native app but it hasn’t been a great experience on the iPhone or iPad yet. It looks like Amazon has tweaked some of its code in order to make this fully work on…
Apple sold 4.69 million iPad 2 units during its last quarter but the company said it could have sold more if it could make more. a new report suggests the shortage could be attributed to a snag in production from LG Display. LG Display, which is a separate company than than the LG which makes…
The Adobe Connect Mobile iOS app has just been updated to the 1.5 version and it includes an optimization for tablets and two-way video chatting. If you’re not familiar with the Adobe Connect Mobile iOS app, it’s a business collaboration tool that lets you connect for meetings. The big feature is the two-way video conferencing,…
Hot on the heels of the IDC report yesterday, Comscore has just released its report for March 2011 in the US market. While Samsung may be the fourth largest handset manufacturer globally, the company is the largest in the US, followed by LG and Motorola. Samsung holds the top spot in the US with 24.8%…
You nature lovers out there should definitely check out the LeafSnap iPhone app because this is basically an electronic field guide for identifying trees. The really neat thing about this is that it will let you snap pictures of leaves to identify a tree. I tested out the LeafSnap iPhone app this morning on my…
That didn’t take long, did it? PwnageTool and redsn0w will now support iOS 4.3.3 users who want an untethered jailbreak solution. I can’t remember the last time three successive jailbreak solutions for the iPhone came out just days after Apple updated its software. One has to wonder whether Apple has bigger things in mind, or…
Apple is slowly-but-surely rising to greater heights worldwide as it just took Nokia for its top spot in smartphone market share in western Europe. The shift is significant because that is Nokia’s stomping grounds. If there is any name in mobile technology trusted and respected in that part of the world, it’s Nokia. However, without…