Right. Before we go any further, please follow along as we have a collective rant about 'people familiar with the matter' and other such madness.
It's an interesting milestone for both Facebook and Google, and one that perhaps has always been on the cards, but Facebook's Android app now has more active daily users than the same app on iOS does. The news is made slightly more interesting when you remember that the Android version of the Facebook app was only made available in September of 2009 - more than 12 months after its iPhone-based cousin was made available.
Everyone is getting into the Christmas spirit, with less than a week to go before the big day and the inevitable over eating that it always entails.
Apple released their much awaited music-in-the-cloud service, iTunes Match, approximately one month ago in the United States. The $24.99 price tag came along with a product that differed slightly from the cloud services of Amazon and Google. Apple’s pitch was that uploading music to the cloud would be a breeze. Once purchased, the service would scan your iTunes library and match songs that Apple already had available on their servers. No uploading required.
Contrary to an early notion, Apple managed to deliver more than a couple of surprises when it re-released iOS 5.0.1, which was specifically seeded for iPhone 4S users suffering battery issues.
Yesterday we reported on Apple releasing a firmware update for its Apple TV device, which brings a series of bug fixes in a rather run-of-the-mill release.
DigiTimes is at it again, folks; citing “sources in the supply chain” who appear to make stories up faster than 5 year olds who, today, sources claim that Apple is looking to launch a smaller iPad for release sometime later next year.
Apple has updated the firmware of its Apple TV (2G) to version 4.4.4, citing a series of negligible bug fixes as the reason behind the new release.
Yesterday we covered how the lawsuits between Apple and Samsung may have fueled sales for the new Galaxy Tab in Australia. Now, it looks like Samsung is putting money where their mouth is and making it a marketing campaign.
Apple's iMessage is touted as the end of SMS, thanks to its integration with the already in-use Messages app and the most important part of the deal - iMessages are completely free. One are where SMS does appear to have the upper hand though is invoked when your iPhone is stolen, or just plain lost.
