Simon Prakash, Apple’s former senior director of product integrity, has just been hired by fierce rivals Google to begin work on a supposed “secret project”, details of which are currently unknown.
The smartphone industry is full of analytics, metrics and research companies that love nothing more than tearing through sales figures and producing lovely graphs and pie charts which detail every little intricacy about a company’s product sales. Needless to say, in recent times a lot of this attention has been centered around Apple and Samsung, not only because they are constantly competing against each other to be the largest smartphone vendor in the world, but also because the two electronic giants also seem hell bent on battling it out in the courts.
We've been hearing rumors and counter-rumors of an Apple television for a couple of years now, but things have really heated up of late.
What do you get if you cross a British rock band, a stylus, a Hollywood movie director, a Korean electronics company and a mobile device big enough to sink an ocean cruise liner? Yes, that's right, you get a truly cringe worthy Samsung Super Bowl commercial.
If you're an observant type, then you've probably noticed in the past how Apple's iPhone ads always seem to show its handset displaying the same time - 9:42. It's a curious thing, and one that has led to much speculation over the years.
At the end of January we brought you quite an exciting article which focused on a new project called iOSOpenDev which aimed to make the process of creating 'open' iOS tweaks for jailbroken devices significantly easier. The idea alone of a project such as iOSOpenDev should be enough to make the world stand up and take notice that the art of jailbreaking an iDevice isn't going anywhere anytime soon, but the actual release of the initial version is surely enough to prove that the community means business.
When using a PC or Mac, you can readily configure iTunes, VLC or your media player of choice to deliver a little bubble or popup whenever a new song played. Some like it, others don’t.
Siri is a polarizing feature for many iPhone 4S owners. Some claim they they just couldn't live without it while others have no real use for it other than to show off to their friends once in a while. Setting the odd alarm is also the extent of Siri's use for many.
Ever since the confirmation of native Twitter integration in iOS 5, there has been a marked uprising in not only third-party App Store apps, but also jailbreak tweaks related to those using The Twitters.
Siri has arguably been the main focal point of iOS 5 since Apple’s latest and greatest mobile operating system dropped in mid-October of last year.
