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Worldwide shipments of smartphones, tablets, desktop PCs and notebook PCs (or smart connected devices) grew 29.1% on a year-over-year basis, crossing the 1 billion units shipped milestone, IDC reports. (more…)

People's Daily, the Chinese Communist Party propaganda machine's mouthpiece, accused Apple of declining journalists' request for interviews and replying with a self-praising report after China's national television broadcasted a critical report. (more…)

Taiwan based Hon Hai Precision a.k.a Foxconn Technology Group, the world’s largest contract manufacturer of electronics, has posted record quarterly profit with net income climbing 5.6% to NT $37 billion ($1.2 billion), according to data compiled by Bloomberg. It is believed that company's record profits are the result of its boosted production efficiency and output of iPhone 5 and...

Preview for the first chapter of "Steve Jobs" manga has just been released on the web, as the title hit store shelves today in the April issue of Kiss magazine. Japanese manga publishing house Kodansha released the comic's first images. According to Crunchyroll, Steve Jobs manga biography is being penned by noted manga artist and winner of...

Pebble has updated its smartwatch to v1.9, which aims to bring an improved user interface, new watchfaces and enhanced ambient light detection. Alongside this welcome improvement, the update also brings the classic game of Snake as one of its watch faces. (more…)

The Korea Economic Daily has published a report that Apple will no longer be using displays manufactured by Samsung in its next generation iOS devices (via AppAdvice). The publication also claims that Apple will instead obtain screens from LG Display, Sharp, Japan Display and AU Optronics. Apple has reportedly sent out a request for quotation (RFQ) to...

An Apple patent filing published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office called "Protective Mechanism for an Electronic Device", indicates that the Cupertino company is working on a system that could protect the most fragile components of an accidentally dropped iPhone, including its glass screen, by "detecting when a device is falling and shifting the handset's center...

According to a Bloomberg report, Apple may face court-ordered penalties over its information-sharing practices in a privacy lawsuit. U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul S. Grewal says that the company’s document production “has more than doubled since the court got involved" in policing information-sharing obligations. Apple is accused in the lawsuit of improperly collecting data on the locations of customers...

Kevin Lynch, Apple's new VP of Technology who is going to work for company's well-respected executive Bob Mansfield, seems to have become the target of outrage from some of the most influential Apple bloggers on the internet, all because of his previous job at Adobe i.e the development of Flash (via Business Insider). Apple has always...

Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang chose the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose to unveil the company's Volta, their upcoming GPU. Unfortunately, this will not be available until 2016. (more…)

The Toronto-based startup Whirlscape is aiming high: to improve touchscreen typing by reducing the three-row keyboard to a single dimension and opening up the touchscreen space for interaction possibilities allowing precision-entry. Introducing Minuum, a new kind of virtual keyboard. (more…)

Warren East, the man who helped build ARM into a chip-design powerhouse supplying Apple's iDevices announced that he would step down as company CEO on July 1, 2013. (more…)