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If you think it doesn’t matter what the default search engine is on a phone, then you should check out the data from Chitika: the company said that more than 96% of Apple iPhone users search with Google. The Google App, one of the more popular entries in the App Store, accounts for 8.68% of…
That beautiful Retina display on the Apple iPhone 4 may be more susceptible to cracks and breaks, as a new report says it breaks 82% more than the screen on the Apple iPhone 3GS. The data comes from Squaretrade, which provides warranties for the Apple iPhone and other cell phones. The company said the iPhone…
Foxconn, the manufacturer of devices like the Apple iPhone and products for Nintendo, Dell and others, is publicly responding to reports which say many of its employees face physical abuse while at work. A government study leaked to the press and found that the abuse rates were up to 50% in some Foxconn facilities and…
Apple has received a lot of heat because that manufactures its popular iPhone, Foxconn, has been in the news due to a string of worker suicides. Things don’t appear to be getting any better, as a new study said about 50% of Foxconn workers have been abused physically at some point at work. The report,…
This is why I love science. As part of a science project, a Dad, his son, and others who are part of the Brooklyn Space Program sent a capsule attached to a weather balloon into space with the hopes of recording some stellar video and retrieving the unit when it fell back to earth. The team designed…
When I think Yahoo! Messanger, I think old people who can’t be bothered with keeping up with the times, or Asians. Anyway, it doesn’t matter if you’re a senior citizen or that your most prized possession is a rice cooker to enjoy the fact that Yahoo! is going to introduce their Messanger client for both…
A new study suggests that your Apple iPhone apps may be a gigantic privacy hole, as your Unique Device IDs may be transmitted to a variety of third parties. The report comes out of Bucknell University and it said that 68% of the apps it studied sent out UDID information to servers from advertisers or…
Finland, Finland, Finland, country where I want to be! Wait a minute … I’ve been here for 3 years now! I’ve also only used Nokia devices until this February when I switched to Android after buying a Nexus One. The only reason I own an Android device and not an iPhone, and I’m serious when…
Word out of China on Sunday suggests the iPhone 4 is flying off the shelves and China Unicom is struggling to meet demand. According to the Wall Street Journal, China’s #2 wireless carrier sold up to 240,000 iPhones yesterday with a total of 200,000 pre-orders and 40,000 in-store purchases. This number contrasts sharply with the iPhone 3GS…
The Apple iPhone, the Jesus Phone, the phone that changed everything, the phone that enslaves young children in a prison built by the tyrannical Steve Jobs, or whatever you want to call the damn thing, has broken the 1 million units sold barrier in South Korea. Available exclusively on SK Telecom, who once had a…