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General Motors is taking steps into making driving and talking on your phone much more safe. The automotive company said it has figured out a way to carry out Apple’s voice assistant service Siri to two of its smallest cars: the Chevrolet Spark and Sonic. This will allow drivers to safely do task such as…
A report in AllThingsD claims Apple has quietly fired Rich Williamson, head of the mapping team. This move was allegedly made by Eddy Cue, Senior Vice President of Internet Software and Services. Cue has taken over Apple’s Siri and Maps projects now that former iOS chief Scott Forstall has left the company. Apple’s Map application has been the…
Gene Munster of the Piper Jaffray investment firm, known for snooping around to gather data about Apple, did exactly that this Black Friday when he sent his team over to the Mall of America in Minneapolis to monitor foot traffic and sales. They spied on the Apple Store for eight hours, but this year they…
If you want the hot-new iPhone 5, have nothing against AT&T but don’t want to pay 200 bucks for the benefit – we have a piece of good news for you. The “original iPhone carrier” is now offering refurb iPhone 5 units for less, $100 less to be more precise. So instead of paying $199.99…
HTC has finally shed some light on its 10-year cross-licensing agreement it recently struck with Apple. The word around the industry was that Apple would get somewhere in the range of $6-$8 per HTC phone in this settlement. Well, that rumor turned out to be completely off base said the Taiwanese based manufacturer. According to chief…
A few days ago, news hit that 3,600 iPad minis were stolen from a cargo hold at New York City’s JFK airport. Now we’ve learned that the FBI has arrested a person suspected of masterminding the heist. The suspect in question, Renel Rene Richardson, allegedly stole almost $2 million worth of iPad minis, was outed by other…
The iPhone’s silent mode isn’t “silent enough” for many people. If you hold your beloved smartphone on a hard surface, it will create a rattling noise often times more disruptive than a normal audible tone. To prevent this annoyance, Apple is patenting a new way that will make future iPhones “more silent.” The company’s patent…
According to The New York Post, approximately 3,600 iPad minis were stolen from a cargo hold at New York City’s John F. Kennedy Airport. The report suggests that at least two individuals took a truck into the cargo area at JFK around 11pm on Monday night, and used forklifts to load two pallets of iPad…
With the new version of iOS, Apple made it tougher for hackers to jailbreak their way into the iPhone. That, however, doesn’t mean you won’t be able to get full access to your shiny smartphone, it’s just that you’ll have to wait for few more weeks or months. What we have here is the first…
Apple is promoting the merits of its iPad mini in a new ad campaign released this week. The ads are strategically debuting right before the big holiday shopping season that kicks off next week after Thanksgiving. Rather than focus on the hardware, the ads show off iBooks and iPhoto on both the mini and the full-sized iPad. It’s…