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According to a report in Strategy Analytics, mobile phone and smartphone shipments in 2012 continued to climb. Metrics from analysts and reported quarterly shipments suggest an impressive 1.6 billion mobile phones and 700 million smartphones were shipped in 2012. Not surprisingly, Samsung, Nokia and Apple were the leaders in both mobile phone and smartphone shipments.…
Twitter came out with a few interesting announcements today. Not only did it announce it’s acquisition of Vine, a service that is being touted as “the Instagram of Video,” but also announced its very own Vine app for iOS. While there currently isn’t an Android version of the app available just yet, videos made via…
It’s late at night. You’ve just gotten home from too many drinks at the bar, and you haven’t eaten in hours. Opening up the freezer you grab a frozen burrito and throw it into the microwave. You look around for your iPhone 5, readying your shaky fingers for some drunk texting. But wait…where’s my iPhone?…
Apple announced its first quarterly earnings today for FY2013 and confirmed that it sold a record 47.8 million iPhones and a record 22.9 million iPads in the quarter. These numbers are up from last quarter, during which the Cupertino company sold 26.9 million iPhones and 14.0 million iPads. Apple also posted record quarterly revenue of $54.5 billion…
According to a report in TechCrunch, both the official 500px app and the third-party ISO500 app were pulled from the iOS App Store because they violated App Store rules surrounding pornography. 500px is a popular photo sharing service catering to professional photographers and artists. The accompanying iOS app has been in the App Store for well over a year…
Straight from Apple’s supply chain is a wild rumor that suggests Apple is working on a new iPhone model. Previous rumors claim that Apple has a less expensive iPhone mini in the works, while the latest one ups the ante with the idea that Apple is working on an oversized phone. The unsubstantiated report in…
Last week, a judge allowed the sale of Kodak’s digital imaging patents to a gang of 12 tech companies, including Apple, Google, and Amazon. The picture company ended up selling its patents for $527 million to Intellectual Ventures, which represents Apple. The sale holds 1,100 Kodak patents in total. And the patents include 700 related…
According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple cut its orders for iPhone 5 components due to lower-than-expected demand for the flagship handset. Sources for the Wall Street Journal claim Apple notified suppliers last month that it would need about half the components that it had previously planned to order. The Cupertino company slashed orders for…
Apple’s CEO Tim Cook met with China Mobile’s Chairman Xi Guohua last Thursday to discuss “matters of cooperation,” a China Mobile spokesman said. No further details were given due to a confidentiality agreement signed, and we’ll rather have to wait for another few weeks or months to get something new on this. Apple currently has…
Wall Street Journal’s report yesterday that Apple is secretly working on building a less expensive iPhone to compete with the cheap Android devices that are selling like hot cakes in emerging markets struck me as odd. This rumor has been flying around for years — that Apple would eventually expand the iPhone line with an iPhone…