Despite an increasingly volatile and uncertain economy, Microsoft has managed to maintain the top spot in the game console market, with 308,000 units sold in the United States in the month of August alone.
Apple has always been a victim of counterfeiting, with fake iPods and iPhones flooding the grey market, and more recently fake Apple Stores which have popped in both China and Iraq. To top it off, a Chinese game maker has made a fake Apple website in order to promote their game.
Apple is really getting the hang of losing iPhone prototypes before launch, and we’re sure by now you're likely aware that an iPhone 5 prototype was spotted at a San Francisco bar earlier this month, causing Apple to begin an ambitious investigation to locate the lost product, in coordination with the San Francisco police, deeming the device "priceless". Conan O'Brien felt like he could contribute to Apple's narrative with a comedy sketch.
Earlier today, we reported on the possibility that Sprint, one of the major cellphone carriers in the United States, might be getting the next-generation iPhone with an unlimited data plan. If you weren't happy with that and needed more evidence, consider this: Sprint is keeping all of its employees for taking time off in the first half of October ahead of "a major phone launch".
Apple has just seeded iTunes 10.5 Beta 8 to all existing developers enrolled in Apple’s developer program which brings in better support for iTunes Music Match service.
Nowadays, powering on a Windows 7 computer involves a great deal of waiting, even if it's just a few seconds. While the current version of Windows has made improvements in this area, Microsoft doesn't consider it enough and has completely revolutionized the way the Windows operating system is loaded up in Windows 8.
Apple and Samsung have been in the middle of a vigorous legal battle to ban each other's products for several months, with lawsuits being filed in Europe, Korea, the United States, Australia and more recently Japan. Apple has now managed to get the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet banned in Germany after a judge ruling.
Released just yesterday, the developer community has already found out a way to gain privileged access (read: “root” access) to the Motorola DROID Bionic. As a matter of fact, the DROID Bionic was rooted before it was publicly released, but the method has now been tested and is confirmed to be working. If you’re interested, you can follow our guide after the break.
Apple's clever code-monkeys in Cupertino have managed to make their mobile operating system, iOS, a relatively stable one. Apple's own apps tend to behave themselves, running when they're asked to, and quitting only when told to. It's how the world of software is supposed to work, and for the most part, iOS does.
These days, many major technology and internet-based companies have been trying to figure out a way to take over a slice of the music business. Google's answer, which was introduced earlier this year, is Google Music, a cloud service, currently an invite-only and US-only beta product, that stores the user's entire music library on the cloud. While initially only available for Windows, Mac and Android, an iOS version of the said service is now available.
