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Apple didn’t spend very much time at last week’s press event discussing the details of its newest mobile operating system because, naturally, most people wanted to hear about the iPhone 5. While the focus on Wednesday, when the software becomes available for download, will be on how iOS 6 works on the iPhone there’s a Continue Reading →

I’m not sure who at Samsung thought this would be a good idea, but the company recently got all social and asked Facebook users which electronic gadget they’d want if they were stranded on an island. (Let’s pause here for a second. How long have you been using the Internet? Longer than a week or Continue Reading →

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo announced on the Today Show Tuesday morning that Twitter is launching a new look that allows users to highlight photos and media. The new design is reminiscent of Facebook’s Timeline, and provides users with a more personal and visual feel. The most conspicuous feature is a dominant photo in the upper Continue Reading →

Apple’s iPad Mini doesn’t even exist, but yet again, a mockup of what the device could look like when it launches has surfaced. Chinese tech site BoLoPad today published photos of what it claims is the iPad Mini. The images show a 7.85-inch tablet with an aluminum back casing. That casing includes the Apple logo, Continue Reading →

Apple is a huge fan of Snapseed, the mobile photo editor for iPad and iPhone from Nik Software. So much so, in fact, that Apple named it the 2011 “iPad App of the Year.” But Snapseed has an even bigger admirer in Google, which just bought the German company behind the app, according to a Continue Reading →

Microsoft hasn’t been very forthcoming about what it plans to charge customers for its soon-to-be-released Surface tablet, but CEO Steve Ballmer told the Seattle Times that the device will be priced more to compete with Apple’s iPad than with low-cost tablets such as the Kindle Fire HD or the Google Nexus 7. Specifically, Ballmer said Continue Reading →

Voice control is the way of the future, or at least that’s what Apple wants people to believe. With the launch of Siri on last year’s iPhone 4S, Apple opened up a new world of using a natural language user interface to the masses. Today, Siri is on the iPhone 4S, iPhone 5 and iPad, Continue Reading →

I think my boredom with PCs is about to come to an end. I’ve been covering the PC industry since IBM introduced its first PC in 1981 and, for the most part, the news coming from PC makers has been pretty ho-hum. The original IBM PC was big news, as was introduction of the Apple Continue Reading →

Apple has launched the new official version of iCloud.com — its web portal for cloud services — to all users, reports 9to5Mac. The site features versions of its Mail, Contacts and Calendar and Find my iPhone apps that were previously available through the MobileMe service, as well as new apps like Notes, Reminders and iWork. Continue Reading →

Right. Now what’s next? Wednesday, Apple revealed its iPhone 5, a slender metal-backed machine that, last year, was tipped as Steve Jobs’ final close-held design project. It’s a tech tour de force, and represents an upgrade of almost every iPhone system. It’ll likely sell by the millions. But we’re pretty much already over it. If Continue Reading →