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Consumer Intelligence Research Partners collected survey responses from 6,316 people who purchased an iPhone in the U.S. during the last quarter of last year, specifically October 14th (the launch of the iPhone 4S) to the end of the year. They then did an analysis on the responses of 365 of those people and what they…
Tired of those Samsung versus Apple ads the Korean company is pumping out at an amazing rate? Hope not, because we have another one that’ll liven up the start of your work week. This time around, the ad focuses on a camping trip the barista guy is talking with his Apple fanboy friends. Before he…
If you have an iPhone 4S like me, you probably spent the weekend jailbreaking it and testing out new jailbreak apps and tweaks. I spent some time in Cydia and compiled a list of five packages you should install on your 4S. They’re good enough to make me think twice about going back to stock iOS when Apple rolls out its…
Companies rarely insult each other in public these days, for reasons we don’t quite understand; being politically correct is boring. Samsung though, they’re on a roll. It started out with an ad that showed a bunch of people waiting in line for the iPhone 4S when all of a sudden they see a Samsung Galaxy…
LA-based HipGeo launched a new version of its iPhone app that makes it super-easy for travelers to track, document and share their trips. Available as a free download, the application is designed to let users post text, places and photos which are recorded, organized and displayed around a user’s travels or places graph. Some of…
OtterBox unveiled a special edition Commuter Series case for the Apple iPhone 4/4S that supports LIVESTRONG, brand of the Lance Armstrong Foundation which serves people affected by cancer and empower them to take action against the disease. In that sense, a portion of the proceeds from every purchase of an OtterBox Commuter Series LIVESTRONG case…
Apple held its press event in NYC this morning and unveiled a suite of new and updated apps for education and book publishing. Front and center was iBooks 2, an updated version of the eReader app that’ll support interactive textbooks for all education levels. These textbooks will mix traditional text with interactive multimedia content. These textbooks can be updated on a regular basis and will offer students the opportunity…
Apple has launched a recycling service in the UK, allowing users to either get some cash for their old gear, or if the hardware they have doesn’t have any value – recycle it for free. Run by Dataserv GmbH, the Reuse and Recycling Program accepts all Apple-made devices — including iPhones, iPads and Macs —…
A Dutch hacker used his knowledge of SSH and jailbreaking to compromise the handsets of unsuspecting iPhone owners in the Netherlands. According to the Ars Technica report, the hacker used a port scanning tool to detect iPhones on T-mobile Netherlands that were running SSH. Many of these owners had installed an SSH daemon and failed to change the root password.…
It was another banner quarter for smartphones, as the latest Nielsen numbers said that over 60 percent of those who bought a phone within the last three months chose a smartphone over a feature phone and most of these users chose an Android or iPhone. Android still led the U.S. market for the latest period…