The App Store has long-since been a commercial juggernaut, underpinning the ever-increasing success of Apple's iDevice range. It contains many great apps which undoubtedly make life a whole lot easier, but you have to filter out a lot of the junk in order to find those worthwhile additions to your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch.
Patently Apple has brought to our attention a patent which sheds some light on Apple's potential plans for inductive charging, comparable to the Touchstone charging hub on the market for those HP's webOS-based devices.
An alleged spy shot of the next-generation iPhone has come up today! The blurry spy shot, which was discovered from a thread on MacRumors Forums, shows a very slim iPhone-like device which the uploader claims to be the hotly anticipated iPhone 5.
According to a leaked AppleCare document, Apple has begun selling bootable OS X Lion USB drives to users who are in dire need. These thumb drives will allow those users to perform clean installs of Lion without carrying out the painful task of setting up Snow Leopard first.
With the release of the next iPhone anticipated in around 4 weeks' time, it is still unclear what exactly to expect in terms of features. A report over at Giz-China appears to confirm that one thing that we can expect is 4G capability.
We have come across a very, very useful app today on Android, it’s called DeskSMS and it lets users send and receive text messages from their desktop/laptop using a web browser, Gmail or Google Talk.
Today, two well-known members of the jailbreak community won awards for very different kind of work. Comex, the developer of the well-known JailbreakMe 3.0, has earned an Pwnie Award for discovering such an exploitable vulnerability. George Hotz, the man who first unlocked the original iPhone back in 2007, won a very different kind of prize: read on!
On Wednesday, Randi Zuckerberg, Mark Zuckerberg’s sister, stepped down from Facebook in order to start her own Web 2.0 company. While both her and the company are in good terms with each other, this news came as a shock to many given that Randi had been with Facebook for 6 years.
Google Inc. has issued a formal statement against Microsoft and Apple on their official blog today, stating that the two companies have joined up to battle against Android using the power of patents.
After several reports pointing to a lower-end iPhone set to be released this fall, a new source is now suggesting that along with the iPhone 5 we’ll see a “simplified iPhone 4”, as reported by the Chinese language website Sohu.com.
