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Investors obviously expected much more from Apple with the company’s stock falling as much as 5% after the iPhone 4S announcement. To be fair there are some neat services that were also announced, some of which pretty much open new businesses for the Cupertino-based company. However, few words we wanted to hear never came out…
One of the fluffier bits to come out of the Apple event today was a new app called Cards. It lets you make greeting cards on an iPhone, and Apple will ship it anywhere in the U.S. for $2.99, or $4.99 outside of the U.S. Push notifications are included in the app, so you know…
Apple just announced during its iPhone 5 event this morning that there are now over 250 million iOS devices out there. And it is making a killing on apps along with its developers. There are more than 500,000 apps for iOS, and over 140,000 made specifically for the iPad. Impressive compared to Android’s paltry numbers.…
Eager to hear about Apple’s iPhone announcement today? So are we, and so are some of Apple’s Japanese webmasters, by the looks of things. Official information about Apple’s Ginza store in Tokyo is announcing the iPhone 4S will be available starting 8:00 AM local time on October 14. That’s a date we’ve been hearing a…
There is a lot of scuttlebutt going around that Apple and Facebook could make a major announcement during the Oct. 4 iPhone 5 announcement that could create much deeper ties between the two tech powerhouses. Apple and Facebook have reportedly been at odds for a while, as Apple wanted Facebook integration with Ping but said…
We’ve been hearing about Facebook’s iPad app for quite some time and now Mashable has learned it will be unveiled at Apple’s iPhone 5 launch event on October 4th. What’s more, the social network will also introduce a revamped iPhone application and possibly an HTML5-based mobile app marketplace. The last part is not confirmed but…
Analyst Mark Moskowitz of JP Morgan is putting his two-cents into all the rumors regarding the iPhone 5. He is fairly confident Apple will announce two new models. The big brother will be the iPhone 5 and the little brother will be something along the lines of an iPhone 4 Plus. While he expects the…
After finding the app controversial, Apple decided to ban an iPhone app called “Jew or Not Jew” in France. As you might expect, the app allows users to search for a specific person and find out whether or not the person is Jewish. The database contains over 3,500 well-known people. The developer, Johann Levy, says…
As you might have heard, Apple lost an iPhone 5 prototype recently, and went on a search with the aid of San Francisco police to find it. How do Apple investigators feel about the whole thing? Well, probably not too happy, and they’re likely revolutionizing the art of pain to get it back. Or at…
Digitimes is reporting a few interesting numbers for the mobile industry, particularly Apple’s smartphone business. Their research concludes that total smartphone shipments in 2011 will quite possibly exceed 462 million units. This is a 60 percent increase from 2010, in which 288 million units were shipped. Apple alone is expected to ship over 86.4 million…