Smartphones

Despite the fact that she worked at Google for the past 13 years, Yahoo’s new CEO Marissa Mayer wants all her employee to use an iPhone. Mayer has been using Apple’s smartphone for years, even during her tenure at Google, and the executive has enjoyed the device so much that she is considering reaching into Continue Reading →

Apple on Monday became the most valuable U.S. company in history — sort of. The company’s market capitalization surpassed the previous record of about $619 billion achieved by Microsoft in December 1999, though that figure balloons to $842.5 billion when accounting for inflation. According to Topeka Capital Markets analyst Brian White, Apple will soon become Continue Reading →

Microsoft is getting brickbats from developers unenthused by its forthcoming operating system(s), and the BBC is the latest to join the chorus. When asked about bringing iPlayer to Windows Phone, the corporation’s on-demand honcho, Daniel Danker, responded by saying it’s not cost-or-time effective for the system — thanks to a lack of support for HTTP Continue Reading →

The “iPhone 5” may not be here yet, but that isn’t stopping companies from trying to make money off it. Install or Not has spotted some new accessories from retailer Spigen.com that purport to be designed specifically for Apple’s next-generation iPhone being released next month. So far plastic screen protectors are the only iPhone items Continue Reading →

A major security flaw that has existed in Apple’s iPhone since the device was first released in 2007 has been revealed by a well-known hacker. The iOS security researcher, known publicly only as “pod2g,” on Friday published details about the vulnerability, which affects all versions of iOS through to the latest beta release of iOS Continue Reading →

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 →

Microsoft has decided to stop publishing new apps for Windows Phone on Marketplace, while it addresses an issue that led to users experiencing problems with application downloads this week, the company said in blog post on Tuesday. The problem is related to an issue with the digital certificates that are used to sign apps. It Continue Reading →