Edward Colligan, CEO of Palm, has revealed that the late Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs threatened patent litigation if Palm wouldn’t agree to stop hiring Apple employees. Colligan made this allegation in a statement dated August 7th, 2012, which has been brought forward by Reuters, in the light of recently released evidence shedding light on Silicon...
According to Nielsen’s State of the Media: 2012 Year in Sports report, almost 60 percent of smartphone and tablet owners access sports content on their device at least once a day. The report, led by the success of the London 2012 Olympic Games, is a compilation of media highlights, advertiser trends and consumer insights across leading sports properties. The...
Fancy street photography? Well, here's your chance to share your photography skills with the world through Streets of Chrome, a photo contest being held by Chrome Industries, makers of bombproof bags, footwear and apparel, to find the world’s next great street photographer in conjunction with the drop of their new camera bag, the Niko Camera Backpack. The contest is open for...
Design firm MisoSoupDesign has developed the world's fist ramen bowl that features a built-in iPhone dock. Called the "Anti-Loneliness Ramen Bowl", the bowl will hold your iPhone at the ready so you'll never eat alone again (via TIME Tech). With Anti-loneless, you can keep in contact with friends and loved ones while you eat. There’s currently no word...
In collaboration with Geeksphone and Spanish carrier Telefonica, Mozilla has announced that it will release two “developer preview” smartphones running its Firefox OS, reports AllThingsD. Mozilla's Firefox OS is a web-based platform where all the features and apps are created using the HTML5 web standard. The company has already previewed some ZTE devices running Firefox OS and is hoping...
Yesterday, we showed you how to use the Newsstand folder for placing unlimited number of apps inside without requiring any jailbreak. Today, we'll tell you how you can get rid of the iOS status bar in certain apps using a simple tweak, once again without having to jailbreak your device. The tweak is called NoAppStatus, and works in all...
Apple has been working on waterproofing its future iOS devices for the past couple of years. Latest evidence regarding the company's efforts in this regard came from an Apple patent filing made public by the US Patent and Trademark Office in 2012. Today, a British firm P2i's Stephen Coulson has told CNN that they have developed a "liquid repellent...
Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs' home became a victim of burglary last year in August, in which several computers and personal items worth more than $60,000 were stolen. Kariem McFarlin, who was arrested and charged with residential burglary, has today been sentenced to seven years in state prison by a Santa Clara County Superior Court judge (via Palo...
With less than ten days before RIM is set to officially hold the BlackBerry 10 launch event, BGR has obtained a handful of leaked screenshots of the BlackBerry 10 operating system running on a BlackBerry Z10 handset. As we reported back in July 2012 that BlackBerry 10 is expected to introduce a Siri-like functionality, one of...
A neat trick shared by the folks over at iDB shows how you can use the Newsstand folder for placing unlimited number of apps inside, in addition to your news and magazine subscriptions. The trick needs a little bit of practice and once you get it right, you'll have a scrollable Newsstand folder that can accommodate unlimited...
I wouldn't be exaggerating if I said that I absolutely love my AluPen Pro™ stylus from Just Mobile. It's something that I keep in my pocket virtually all the time. I've been using it for almost a year now and I don't think I've come across a better functioning stylus than this one. The same silky smooth soft...
Recently, we've been seeing a number of iOS 7 design concept videos being shared on the web such as new Notification Banners or a customizable ‘Quick Settings’ panel, hoping that Apple might pick on some of these brilliant ideas. One such fantastic concept for a new Lock Screen has been shared by Jean-Marc Denis, that reinvents the idea...