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Apple Wireless Lightning Adapter Patent May Be The Answer To Incompatible Cable Issues
A report by Apple Insider points out that Apple has been awarded a universal adapter patent for media players that will communicate with accessories using wireless technology. This may actually provide a solution for all cable and adapter incompatibility issues faced by iPhone 5 buyers that sports the new 8-pin Lightning connector, suggests the source. The U.S. patent...
Apple May Introduce A New, Lower-Priced iPhone Model To Address Developing Markets [Report]
When Apple introduced iPhone 5, it decided to discontinue the iPhone 3GS replacing it with iPhone 4 as the company's new entry-level offering. Charlie Wolf with Needham & Company has now released a statement that Apple might introduce an inexpensive iPhone model to address developing markets, though he doesn't think that will happen anytime soon, Apple Insider...
The iPhone Can Now Be Used To Diagnose Thyroid Disease
Hypothyroidism is a condition characterised by symptoms of sluggishness, depression, feeling cold, tired, constipation, muscle cramps and weight gain. This occurs when the thyroid gland produces insufficient quantities of thyroid hormone in the body. As a result, TSH (Thyroid Stimulating Hormone) is produced in larger quantities leading to its increased blood levels, which is why detecting the...
Apple Updates Developer Guidelines Prohibiting Third Party App Promotion
Apple has once again updated its App Developer Guidelines, prohibiting promotion of third party apps and affiliate services, as pointed out by PocketGamer. The update adds a new clause to the guidelines that reads “Apps that display Apps other than your own for purchase or promotion in a manner similar to or confusing with the App Store...
Tim Cook Emails Apple Employees Thanking For An Incredibly Successful Year, Announces Extra Holidays For Thanksgiving
Apple CEO Tim Cook has today sent an email to all company employees, thanking them for an incredibly successful 2012. He also announced that they will get the entire week of Thanksgiving in the United States off with pay (via 9to5Mac). Last year, Tim sent a similar email to his employees thanking them for a successful year and...
Apple Now Tracking 800,000 Factory Workers For 60-Hour Work Week Compliance
Apple has today updated its Labor and Human Rights page, detailing the company's efforts in restricting excessive work load on workers in its suppliers factories such as Foxconn, the TNW points out. Apple claims that to ensure its workers never work more than 60 hours in a week, which is also in line with Chinese labor law, it is now...
Apple’s Plans To Launch Its Own Streaming Radio Service Delayed Due To A ‘Last-Minute Snag’
Negotiations between Sony/ATV, the world’s largest music publisher, and Apple regarding a music-streaming service native to iOS, has reportedly hit a last-minute snag, delaying Cupertino giant's plans to launch its own radio service to rival Pandora, according to an exclusive report by New York Post. It appears that Apple couldn't agree on a per-song rights fee that...
Google’s “iLost” Motorola Ad Used A Fake Address To Make iOS 6 Maps Look Bad [PHOTOS]
Remember that dumb Motorola ad we wrote about a few days back which mocked Apple's iOS 6 Maps app? Turns out that Google owned subsidiary used a cheap tactic in an attempt to make Apple's newly introduced Maps app look bad by showing an address lookup in Manhattan that doesn't even exist in reality. What a shame!...
Diary of an Apple Fan [Editorial]
First of all, let's get one thing straight: I am not an Apple "fanboy". I am not an "iSheep". Or at least by my definition. Yes, those people do exist, but I am not one of them. This article is about my experience as an Apple fan. In other words, someone who simply prefers Apple...
Amazon Asks Judge To Throw Out Apple’s Lawsuit For Misuse Of “App Store” Name
Following the launch of Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet last year, Apple filed a lawsuit accusing Amazon of misusing its "App Store" name to solicit developers for a mobile software download service. Today, Amazon has asked a federal judge to throw out Apple's false claims saying that the term "App Store" has become so generic that its use could...
Apple Found Ordering Carbon Fiber Parts For An Upcoming Product [RUMOR]
According to a recent anonymous source that has talked to Japanese blog Macotakara, Apple was caught red-handed purchasing a large 'sample' of carbon fiber parts. It is unknown what type of product Apple is testing this carbon fiber with, but we will go over one possibility below. First off, here are the exact words of our source:...
Samsung Using Apple’s WebKit Software To Develop Its New Mobile Browser
Samsung's president of consumer electronics division Yoon Boo-keun was quoted a few weeks ago by Korean Times saying that we will innovate and "raise the quality of our products and services by pressing further for software, design and solutions", something that company has apparently learned following the great loss in patent dispute with Apple. Ironically, Samsung has just begun developing...