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Apple may be on a brink of trouble in Russia where the third major operator has joined the other two and has quit selling the iPhone. After MTS and Megafon, Vimpelcom’s Beeline is next to stop selling Apple’s smartphone, citing the company’s harsh conditions as a reason for taking this route. According to Russian Hi-Tech…
Yesterday, Ebay announced a new app that aims to simplify the designing and purchasing of custom 3D printed items. “Exact“, out now for iPhone lets you customize and purchase your own items from within the app. Steve Yankovich, Vice President of Innovation and New Ventures for eBay spoke highly of his company’s new app: “Shoppers today not…
A China Business News story says Foxconn is hiring new workers as we speak to get ready for the next iPhone production. Though the report refers to the product as the “iPhone 6,” we think that’s nothing but guesswork, with the next iPhone model likely being called the iPhone 5S. Plus, let’s not forget that…
Nearly two-thirds (65%) of Brits think that the next version of the iPhone will generate poor sales, with 59% forecasting that Samsung will become a more popular mobile phone brand in the UK. The research, conducted by a mobile phone comparison site MobilePhoneChecker.co.uk, polled 2,007 18+ adults from across the country to determine perceptions and…
Let’s all give a warm “happy birthday” to the Apple App Store, which turns five years old today. The store officially opened on July 10, 2008 through an iOS software update, a few months after Steve Jobs gave it a proper unveiling at the iPhone SDK keynote address. It started out with a mere 500…
An interesting bit of code was discovered inside the recent iOS 7 betas by 9to5Mac that suggests a new camera feature coming in the next-generation iPhone, rumored to be the iPhone 5S. The camera feature, codenamed Mogul, will allow for 120fps (frames per second) video recording. 120 fps captures so many frames per second so that…
Apple and Amazon have apparently buried the hatchet in the long running dispute over the phrase “App Store”. Apple has relented in its trademark suit, allowing Amazon the rights to use the term ‘app store’ in its Amazon Appstore for Android. Since Amazon began using the name “appstore” for its Android store in March 2011,…
Well what do you know, I never realized there’s iPhone loyalty in South Korea, a home to two large handset makers – Samsung and LG. Apparently I was wrong and most iPhone users still prefer Apple’s hardware rather than something made by a different company. However, a decline in loyalty has been noticed. According to…
Apple has seeded beta 3 of iOS 7 today to developers, as some expected. It was exactly two weeks ago that it released beta 2 and as always Apple likes to do things at 10 a.m. pacific/1 p.m. eastern. It’s unclear what iOS 7 beta 3 has in store, but I think we’re all hoping…
Speaking in Mexico City, Steve Wozniak had a few choice things to say about Apple. As reported by The Economic Times, Wozniak defended the company saying that this down time is expected because it is in between innovations. “I think Apple is in one of these waiting periods waiting for the next big direction. You can’t…