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According to the China Times, the rumored iPhone 5S may be incorporating some new technologies in its hardware, such as NFC and a fingerprint sensor. The two hardware components could work together to provide a new security protocol pertaining to NFC payments, allowing users to authorize payment with their fingerprint. Last year, Apple acquired a security firm,…
Egnyte, a paid service geared toward “enterprise file sharing” across devices, did an experiment tracking which mobile operating systems a sample of 100,000 of its paying customers were using to access it. While Android’s market share remained at a standstill for the majority of 2012, the iPhone (iOS) has started thinning out Android’s slice of…
PC Magazine columnist John C. Dvorak conducted a driving directions test between Apple Maps, Google Maps, and the crowd-sourced Waze app to see which of the three performed best at least in his own area: California. It turns out that despite the controversy surrounding Apple’s contender, Apple Maps actually bested Google and Waze in Dvorak’s…
Apple has changed its sales tactics over the years, allowing their devices to be available on multiple carriers across the United States. Major distributors like AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon and Sprint have been selling the iPhone for a while now, and today a regional carrier Strata announced it will be offering the iPhone 5 on their…
Google Maps for iPhone just got updated with some new features today. Version 1.1 adds some polish to an already impressive application, including integration with Google Contacts so you can quickly search for friends’ addresses by name. Users also get better local places search for finding businesses around you with keywords like “restaurants” and “bars.”…
Looks like Apple is gearing towards signing a deal with China Mobile to bring its iPhone to the world’s biggest mobile operator. According to Patently Apple, China Mobile is about to start testing its TD-LTE network in more than 100 cities across China in an effort to bring 4G mobile Internet to more than half…
A high-profile report from Bloomberg this morning talks of the long rumored Apple iWatch and its apparently imminent release. Despite rumors of an Apple television, gross margins on watches are averaged at about 60 percent which is about four times more than with TVs. Apple always goes where the money is. Throw in the dozens…
We have two juice iRumors to share with you, one involving an iPhone with a bigger, 4.5-inch screen that could hit the daylight at some point next year. Of course, nothing is confirmed at this stage and since this is Apple we’re talking about, many things could change in the meantime. Just remember how they…
Leap Wireless confirmed in a SEC filing earlier this week that it is struggling to sell its allotment of iPhones. If sales don’t pick up, the company could be stuck with $100M in unsold iPhones by the end of the year and $150M by mid-2014. The wireless company started selling the iPhone in June 2012…
HTC is releasing it HTC One smartphone in March, and the Korean company is hoping to convert Apple iPhone users to its new flagship device. HTC is making it as painless as possible for iPhone users to sync their data with the new HTC One smartphone. HTC’s sync software, which functions on both Windows and OSX,…