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With modern smartphones getting bigger screens, the problem handset makers face is making batteries big enough to take users throughout the day. Luckily today’s screens, especially OLED-based ones, are less battery intensive than what they were in the past. Still, we do notice differences between multiple devices. When it comes to web browsing, Samsung Galaxy…
According to a report by AllThingsD, Apple is supposedly adding William Stasior to its ranks and will use the search expert to head up its Siri unit. Stasior hails from Amazon where he ran A9, the retail giant’s search and search advertising unit. Prior to his work at A9, Stasior was the Director of Advanced…
It’s always interesting when stories pop up pitting Apple’s flagship iPhone 5 against Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S III device. This time it’s web traffic volume between the two devices. The iPhone 5 has been out for a little under a month now, and in fact Apple announced it one month ago from today, but in…
John Paczkowski ofAllThingsD reported on Friday that Apple will hold an invitation-only event on October 23rd to announce the iPad mini. Details on the event’s location were not available, but Paczkowski believes the event could be held on Apple’s Cupertino campus at the company’s town hall auditorium. Sources told him the iPad mini will include…
According to a report in TmoNews, T-Mobile is no longer allowed to use the Apple iPhone name when marketing its “Bring Your Own Device” program. The BYOD program offered discounted rates to iPhone owners who switched to T-Mobile. This policy change was announced in a leaked internal memo obtained by TmoNews. T-Mobile is the only…
With the launch of the iPhone 5 last month, Apple also unveiled a revamped iPod Touch and iPod Nano, which have both started making appearances in some Apple stores around the world this morning. The iPod Touch comes complete with the elongated 4″ display and most of the innards found in the latest iPhone, sans…
Those of you who’ve purchased an iPhone 5 in the last few weeks, only to find that your old accessories no longer work due to Apple’s migration to the 8-pin Lightning connector, have reason to celebrate this morning. Customers in Australia are reporting this morning that they’ve received notification that Apple’s long-awaited 30-pin to Lightning…
At 1 p.m. Beijing time today, about 3,000 to 4,000 Foxconn production workers (ironically) went on strike due to strict demands to keep up with high quality standards for products, namely the Apple iPhone 5. There have been multiple conflicts, sometimes physical, between inspectors and workers that Foxconn decided to overlook plus high pressure to meet…
The release of the iPhone 5 is just a few weeks removed, and its success has been talked about around the world. The latest Apple iPhone sold a record 2 million handsets during its first weekend. As a result, Apple’s out of this world success with the iPhone has caused crime to rise in the…
Verizon owners of the iPhone 5 may be in for a bit of a surprise when they look at their data usage statistics. A bug in the software on the Verizon iPhone 5 caused cellular data to be used in some instances when a user was also connected to WiFi. Fortunately, Verizon caught the bug…