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Driven by the consumer habit of listening to radio at least two hours per day, radio is another intense area of interest for Apple – or at least this is what a BTIG analyst thinks (via MacRumors). This means we can assist in the launch of a Pandora-like iRadio, á lá Apple, and it is...

While Wall Street analysts bet high on iPhone and iPad sales, the discount on Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Thanksgiving Day couldn't boost MacBook line sales, according to a recent NPD Group report (via Appleinsider). (more…)

You know, one of Apple's characteristics is (was?) secrecy; and that includes all of its products, both software and hardware. We've already written about how Safari ended up with the name "Safari," and Don Melton decided to share another piece of the Safari puzzle: how did secrecy work at Apple? Jump into the time machine...

  Corning has announced it will debut its Gorilla Glass 3 at CES 2013. The new glass will be even more durable and according to Engadget, the glass will feature a proprietary technology called Native Damage Resistance (NDR) that will reduce flaws, scratches and have overall improved strength: GG3 claims a three-fold improvement in scratch...

Yesterday TechCrunch ran a story noting its sources said Apple was in talks to acquire mapping company Waze, with various updates citing the latter wanted $750 million in a deal. Now, a follow up story by MG Siegler notes no deal is happening whatsoever: That information comes from multiple sources close to the situation. And...

In an effort to beef up its popular gaming unit the Xbox, Microsoft has acquired Silicon Valley based id8 Group R2 Studios Inc., a small home-entertainment technology startup, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. Microsoft has also acquired some patents owned by the startup related to controlling electronic devices as part of the deal. While...

Forbes has an interesting article that reveals some details on how AT&T (when it was still branded Cingular Wireless in 2006) chief operating officer, Ralph de la Vega, helped Steve Jobs and Apple create the original iPhone. Jobs had questions about smartphone radio design in 2006 and called up de la Vega for advice: ‘How...

Tired of listening to Siri try to pronounce those difficult names, and failing miserably? While one may give her an "E" for "Effort", it may quickly become annoying. Here's a tip that some of you may not know. For each entry in the Contacts app, iOS allows you to enter fields called "Phonetic First Name"...

Do you use Ubuntu? Canonical has announced Ubuntu OS for smartphones, scheduled to arrive on devices in early 2014: "We expect Ubuntu to be popular in the enterprise market, enabling customers to provision a single secure device for all PC, thin client and phone functions. Ubuntu is already the most widely used Linux enterprise desktop,...

Apple recently debuted a new commercial to feature 'Do Not Disturb' mode, which ironically failed to turn itself off yesterday. According to this Apple support document, the 'Do Not Disturb' bug will fix itself: Do Not Disturb scheduling feature will resume normal functionality after January 7, 2013. Before this date, you should manually turn the...

If you have an old stereo dock for your iPhone, it's probably still using the old 30-pin dock connector which means it won't work with your iPhone 5. The solution is to purchase a Lightning to 30-pin adapter from Apple which fixes the problem. Although it isn't completely solved because your iPhone or iPad resting...

Brian White, an analyst at Topeka Capital Markets, has predicated that Apple will release the 'iPhone 5S' in June with multiple colour options and two different screen sizes, reports BGR. With this, the analyst has also maintained his buy rating on Apple shares with a price target of $1,111. The analyst claims that according to checks with Apple...