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Apple had an amazing third quarter and the company was never going to lay out its plans for the next iPhone or iPad but it did release a nugget of information by saying that it will be having a “product transition” soon which would impact its next quarter. “We have a future product transition that…
Apple had another monster quarter for its third-quarter and the company exceeded expectations for sales of its iPhone and iPad on its way to $28.57 billion in revenue. The company sold 20.34 million iPhones in the quarter and I’d imagine that the bulk of these were iPhone 4 units but I’m sure that it gets…
Google Plus, or Google+, is now available for iOS in the iTunes App Store. The social networking service, in which you divide up your friends, family and acquaintances into “Circles,” has taken off in the past few weeks and has even seen defectors from Facebook. When the service launched, we said that mobile users might…
Apple is reportedly launching a contract-free iPhone this year for the low price of $350. Typically, an out-of-contract iPhone model fetches anywhere between $600-700, so this is a pretty big deal for those who want the Apple smartphone without the burden of signing a contract. Last month, Apple decided to start selling the iPhone 4…
CNN is making a big push to have its news network be everywhere and the company will be streaming its broadcast 24 hours a day online and to its iOS app. You news junkie will now have more ways to get your fix. Don’t think that you can cut the chord quite yet, as you’ll…
Last week we learned that Google was seeing 550,000 Android activations per day, but according to a recent ChangeWave study, it seems that the demand for iOS is beginning to outpace Android. The two platforms saw equal demand last year and early this year, except for the month of June 2010 when the iPhone 4…
Apple said two weeks ago that it was aware of an iOS security flaw that could leave iPhone and iPad users vulnerable to attack via malicious PDF files. The exploit could have been used by hackers to gain access to Apple mobile devices and view user data, or infect the devices without user knowledge. Apple…
Nuance has just announced Dragon Go! for the iPhone, a voice search service that does more than just hear you and populate with search results based strictly on what it hears, but it’s also contextual in that it understands what you’re asking and may offer relevant content, too. Nuance says that these results can come…
Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman explained how powerful smartphones and the app explosion can be, as he said the first Yelp app on the iPhone in 2008 fundamentally changed its business. Prior to that app, users could be directed to Yelp via Google searches or could go directly to the site to learn about the latest…
If you’ve ever played Flight Control or Real Racing, then you’re familiar with the work of mobile game developer Firemint. That’s why we were all excited to hear they were finally moving on to a new IP which was called Agent Squeak when it was announced back in March. Since then, Firemint has kept mum…