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Apple’s iPhone and Samsung’s Galaxy S II smartphones are in the strange company at Israel’s customs service, with Viagra also holding a prominent spot at the country’s most smuggled goods list. The information comes from the customs authorities at Ben-Gurion International Airport, which also said that in 2011 they caught undeclared goods 10,082 times, up…
Starbucks, which is not only the leading coffee chain but also an innovator in the mobile payments industry, yet again updated its iPhone apps, making it even easier to pay for your favorite hot drink using nothing but your phone. The application now support PayPal, allowing you to use the popular payment method to Reload…
Chunli Fu of Qingdao, China was the winner of Apple’s big 25 billion download promotion. She was revealed as the winner earlier this month and now she has traveled from her hometown to Beijing to collect her prize. According to a report in M.I.C. Gadget, the woman is a new iPhone owner who is still…
So you want to watch governments in the Middle East falling but you don’t have an Android or BlackBerry smartphone? No problem, Al Jazeera released an iOS app for its English service, allowing you to keep up with the latest news coming from one of the most violent regions in the world. Available as a…
The iPhoto app for the iPhone and iPad has more than 1 million users after 10 days of being released, Apple told LoopInsight. The $4.99 app lets you view and edit your photos on your iDevices but because it’s designed by Apple, it really feels well-designed for these products. I mentioned it in my iPad…
For all the struggles that Research In Motion has been going through over the last few years, its BlackBerry still held the top spot in its home market of Canada. That comfort is now gone, as the latest data suggests the iPhone outsold BlackBerry in RIM’s home turf last year. Data from IDC and Bloomberg…
The first iPhone hit store shelves in June 2007. Since then each successive generation has received a bevy of updates, but there’s one thing that hasn’t changed, and that’s the form factor. For close to half a decade Apple has absolutely refused to budge from 3.5 inch displays. According to a report from Reuters that…
Apple is the leader in the tablet market and soon it may become the top manufacturer of mobile processors. According to a study by In-Stat, Apple was close to Intel in 2011 and its continued success in 2012 could help it overtake the chip company later this year. In 2011, Intel was the number one…
Microsoft certainly has high hopes for the Windows Phone OS. Less than a day after the first Windows Phone device started selling in China, the HTC Eternity, Microsoft predicts it will pass the iPhone and Android in market share in China over the next few years. Simon Leung, CEO of Microsoft for the Greater China…
It’s been a bumpy ride for Sprint so far in 2012, as the Kansas-based cell phone provider not only had to endure its LightSquared LTE deal go down the tubes, but have its own board vote against a MetroPCS acquisition. Sprint’s CEO Dan Hesse has been on the hot seat lately had he found himself defending…