This morning RIM sent out media invites to announce its BlackBerry 10 unveiling, with simultaneous events set for New York City, London, Paris, Toronto and more as part of a worldwide launch. The event date was previously announced by RIM back in November. BlackBerry 10 is important for RIM as the company attempts to regain...
The same survey by Morgan Stanley and AlphaWise that revealed almost half of iPad Mini buyers are new Apple customers, suggests that majority of iPhone buyers are choosing the latest model i.e the iPhone 5 this year, showing more customers then ever are "willing to pay for the best device" available, reports AppleInsider. More than 1,000 U.S. smartphone buyers...
Turns out Apple's competition (and suppliers) is low on creativity when it comes to marketing campaigns, as it is much easier to poke fun at Apple than to come up with something original. It started with Samsung, and now LG has joined the line with its new ad posters pushing its handsets. (more…)
Apple has just issued a press release to announce iPhone 5 sales in China have exceeded 2 million in its first weekend: Apple® today announced it has sold over two million of its new iPhone® 5 in China, just three days after its launch on December 14. iPhone 5 will be available in more than...
Google has announced it will be shutting down Google Sync and Google Calendar Sync, as part of a blog post titled "Winter Cleaning". The change is only for new users signing up after January 30th, 2013: Google Sync was designed to allow access to Google Mail, Calendar and Contacts via the Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync® protocol....
Apple has today launched its latest and greatest iPhone 5 in 33 more countries, including China, whose 2nd largest wireless carrier China Unicom received 100,000 online pre-orders last week on 1st day of reservations. Fortune is reporting that the iPhone 5 saw mixed reception in different countries, with China getting a low turnout in chilly weather...
Apple has released iTunes 11.0.1 via Software Update which includes the following changes: addresses an issue where new purchases in iCloud may not appear in your library if iTunes Match is turned on makes iTunes more responsive when searching a large library fixes a problem where the AirPlay button may not appear as expected adds...
Looks like some holiday offers are coming in for iPhone 5 on three year terms at Future Shop and Best Buy. Starting tomorrow December 14th to the 20th, the following discounts will be available to the iPhone 5: 32GB iPhone 5: $199 (save $80) 64GB iPhone 5: $279 (save $100) Available on 3 year terms...
Apple has updated their status page for various services, stores and iCloud. The new layout makes it much easier to see what services (a total of 36 are detailed) have issues via green and amber icons. There is also more specific information related to each service from Apple. For example, under Services there are individual...
Research In Motion (RIM), a one-time pioneer in the smartphone industry, has announced that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) is going to begin a pilot program on its new line of BlackBerry 10 smartphones. Reuters reports that the U.S. federal agency has been previously been planning to move away from BlackBerry in favor of iPhone. ...
Facebook's Year in Review for 2012 has been published and it takes a look back at the most popular trends and events this past year. In the Technology category, two Apple-related items made the list--the iPhone 5 and Siri. The former was fifth on the list, while the latter was ninth. Instagram, originally an iOS-only...
Former Rovio employees who played a vital role in the development of the original Angry Birds game, have debuted their first iOS game Noble Nutlings, under a new setup named Boomlagoon. The Finnish firm has initially launched the game in a few international App Stores, including Canada, as a free universal iPhone / iPad download. As pointed...
