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The new, still-theoretical version of Apple TV won’t disrupt the TV industry. It will play by the TV industry’s rules. Whatever, comes the response from some of Apple’s most ardent fans. That’s what they said about the iPhone five years ago, and now look what’s happened. True enough! And we should also note that there’s Continue Reading →

Microsoft and Nokia have just announced plans for a Sept. 5 event in New York to talk about the latest in their joint phone efforts. That puts their event the week before what is expected to be Apple’s announcement of the next iPhone. Nokia is also holding its Nokia World event in Finland on Sept. Continue Reading →

With 100 million mobile subscribers, Nigeria stands among leading mobile markets in the world. Its mobile content sector is quite fascinating — this is a market where $100 apps can debut at the No.3 position on Apple’s list of top iOS apps. Bible and Quran apps are a major feature of the Nigerian mobile content Continue Reading →

Among the more than 200 new features that Apple plans to incorporate into next month’s release of iOS 6 will be an update to the software’s alarm clock application that will have you stumbling out of bed in the morning to your favorite tune. The little-mentioned feature, which originally turned up in the first betas Continue Reading →

Customers who bought Samsung’s Android phones since 2010 may not have been as confused as Apple says, according to an internal survey released on Tuesday evening as evidence in the ongoing Apple v. Samsung trial. Apple conducted the survey and published it internally in January of 2011, as noted by CNET. The goal was to Continue Reading →

What happens when you change one port? Quite a lot, actually. Apple introduced the 30-pin iPod port on April 28, 2003. That makes the technology – a fairly streamlined solution for 2003 – nine years old and, thanks to the iPhone’s popularity, essentially ubiquitous. Now, however, as news leaks about either a 19- or 9-pin Continue Reading →

The worldwide mobile phone market shrank in the second quarter of this year, with sales falling by 2.3 percent compared to the same quarter a year ago, according to research company Gartner. The reason for the decline was the “challenging economic environment,” Gartner said, as well as phone owners holding out for high-profile device launches Continue Reading →

Apple will begin taking preorders for the next-generation iPhone on the same day it unveils the new phone, according to a new report. iMore, the same website that first pegged September 12th as the date for Apple’s “iPhone 5? announcement, on Monday reported that the Cupertino, California-based company plans to take preorders on September 12th Continue Reading →

In the five years since Apple launched the iPhone, the popular device has gone from a malicious hacker’s dream to law enforcement’s worst nightmare. As recounted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Technology Review blog, a Justice Department official recently took the stage at the DFRWS computer forensics conference in Washington, D.C. and told attendees Continue Reading →

If you have an iPhone, hopping on a wi-fi network is good is you want to connect to an AirPlay device, or wi-fi based storage device, or save some battery. But if the actually internet connection is really crappy or non-existent, that means you’re essentially cut off from the world (unless you’re trying to talk). Continue Reading →