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Yahoo! has updated one of its iOS apps – Sportacular. The new version (2.1) of application is made to sing along the brand new iOS 5, while also packing some other improvements such as: Twitter integration – Fans are now able to easily tweet the latest news and scores from Yahoo! Sports. Local trending games…
Samsung managed to ship over 20 million smartphones in Q3 2011, one report says, and this means it shipped more smartphones in that quarter than any other company, including Nokia and arch-nemesis Apple. The two latter manufacturers cranked out 16.8 million and 17.1 million smartphones last quarter, respectively. Samsung has proven itself to be the…
Earlier this month, news of a new Fruit Ninja game was released, although it wasn’t an official sequel or anything along those lines. Instead, the new Fruit Ninja game would star Puss in Boots as you slice up wave after wave of fruit. If you’ve been looking to add some latin, swash-buckling flavor to your…
If you’re a regular viewer of the Colbert Report, you’ll know Stephen Colbert has been completely obsessed with Apple products ever since the show started in 2005. Colbert has, on a number of occasions, used his show to communicate with Apple to receive their latest and greatest devices. As was expected, he got his hands…
Social travel site Gogobot is going for the iOS users with their brand new app. Available as a free download, the application promises to “transform how we explore new places and capture and share our travel experiences.” By harnessing the power of your social network, you get to access trusted travel advice and share trip…
In an odd oversight from Apple, the voice-controlled personal assistant Siri will let you have access to a locked iPhone 4S without having to enter the passcode. That’s right, you’ll be able to send texts, phone calls, schedule appointments and more on someone else’s locked iPhone 4S. I thought this was poppycock when I first…
“Better” doesn’t necessarily mean innovative or mobile as we can learn from Better Business Bureau, which has finally decided to launch a mobile app for iOS-based devices. Not sure why it took them so long, but the good thing is that they’ve finally took that step. That said, we’re hoping apps for other platforms will…
What you’re looking at below is an image from a patent that was filed by Apple in 2006 for a device that looks like your typical feature phone. We like to think of it as the iPhone nano that failed to make the transition from a mere sketch done by an Apple engineer to a…
In June of this year we published a story that said Apple was considering switching from Samsung to TSMC for future processors. Note that while yes, Apple designs their own chips, they depend on companies who have fabs, slang for semiconductor fabrication plants, to make the little chips that power your iPhone, iPod touch, and…
Exactly one year ago today Steve Jobs said this on a conference call when asked about rumors of a smaller 7 inch iPad: “The reason we [won’t] make a 7-inch tablet isn’t because we don’t want to hit that price point, it’s because we think the screen is too small to express the software.” According…