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Apple’s iPhone 4 launched in June of last year on AT&T and has proven to be one of the most popular mobile phones, smart or not, to ever hit the market. Many will have different reasons for picking it up, some need to wipe the drool off their face after taking a look at the…
Avon UK launched new applications as part of the marketing campaign for its new Advance Techniques Professional Hair Colour collection. The SuperStyler app is available for iPhone, Android and Facebook, allowing customers to instantly restyle their hair, try different styles and shades — all on a picture of themselves. There are over 50 hairstyles and…
Before the advent of capacitive touch screen technology, many devices on the market came with the resistive variant that required strong physical presses. Such devices, usually personal digital assistants, better known as PDAs, came with an accessory called a stylus. Show one to a teenager and they’ll laugh that such a concept existed, but Apple…
Apple set another record for its iTunes App Store when it finally hit the 15 billion download mark. Just six months ago, the store hit 10 billion downloads where a lucky woman was given a $10,000 award from Apple for being the 1o billionth download. To date, Apple has the most prolific and successful app…
Apple is due to announce a new iPhone this year, to state the bleeding obvious, and depending on which websites you read you know it’s either going to be called the iPhone 5 or iPhone 4S. Several of the standout features of this next generation iPhone are (again, this is all rumors) an improved 8…
The rumors of the iPad 3 coming out this Fall have been bouncing around for a while now but an analyst is lending a bit more credence to the fact that we may see a followup to the Apple tablet soon and it may have a boosted screen. “We hear Apple could migrate the iPad’s…
The legal tussle between Apple and Samsung seems nearly endless with lawsuits and complaints being filed just about everywhere they can be filed. This time, Apple has taken to the ITC, just as Samsung did last week, to file a complaint against the Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab maker. Just like the complaint brought against…
If you were wondering if the Apple iPad is a fad or not, you should know that the folks at NetMarketShare said the Apple tablet accounts for more than 1 percent of the global web traffic and 2.1 percent of all U.S. traffic. While that may not seem like much in the grand scheme of…
The latest numbers have come out from comScore and it has some revealing stats about the state of the U.S. smartphone market. Basically, Apple and Android are winners while RIM and Microsoft are the losers. Perhaps helped by the Verizon iPhone, Apple iOS was able to surpass RIM’s BlackBerry OS in overall market share. Apple…
The iPhone has been available from AT&T since June 2007, but until now it has never had any standard insurance options from the carrier. It has been surprising, after all, since it’s a pretty popular smartphone and a relatively delicate one, too. Getting it lost, stolen or damaged has been a nightmare since the only…