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At the end of November, Nokia sought to ban BlackBerry sales as RIM was told by the latter it was not entitled to ship products with the WLAN standard since it wasn't covered in their original patent license agreement. Now, RIM has agreed to pay Nokia for these WLAN patents (as expected). Nokia made an...

In order to bypass the Great Firewall, a system that blocks content by preventing IP addresses from being routed through in China, Apple has adopted HTTPS for searches and downloads on the version of iTunes used in China, reports The Register. Apple's move has come at a time when Chinese government is preparing to step up regulation of...

Rogers and TELUS have introduced some iPhone 5 sales for the holidays. Rogers is offering the 16GB  iPhone 5 for $79 on a three year contract, which is a savings of $100. TELUS is also offering the same deal on the 16GB model, but has also slashed its 32GB and 64GB models by $100 as...

Apple reached its highest ever smartphone market share in the US, according to the latest smartphone sales data provided by Kantar Worldpanel ComTech (via BusinessInsider). (more…)

Although Safari is now one of the prominent icons of the Mac OS X dock, you would have expected Apple to have called its Web browser iNavigate, or iBrowser . . . or something like that. On Safari's tenth birthday (this month) Don Melton, the guy who started the Safari and Webkit projects at Apple, decided to tell...

An unclassified National Security Agency (NSA) document, intended as a security manual for network administrators in the law enforcement agencies, acquired by Fast Company has revealed how American agencies are using spying capabilities of iPhones and Androids. Some years ago, government employees turned to BlackBerry as a "secure smartphone" but now, times have changed. Majority of government agencies have...

Yesterday TIME Magazine announced Apple CEO Tim Cook had made a list of shortlisted candidates for the 2012 TIME Person of the Year Award. The winner announced this morning was President Barack Obama: Cook, "the Technologist" according to TIME, was second runner up for leading Apple during its most prosperous years. Apple is world's largest...

RIM recently sent out their media invites to their BlackBerry 10 launch event set for January 30th. This is seen by many as RIM's possible comeback into the smartphone game, which they had dominated before the launch of the iPhone. Over at Gadget Masters (via N4BB), they have posted a browser speedtest comparing the new...

Now you can get all your Tweets, including Retweets, going back to the day you joined Twitter by downloading your Twitter archive, a new feature introduced by Twitter today. With your Twitter archive, you can view your Tweets by month, or search your archive to find Tweets with certain words, phrases, hashtags and @usernames. To...

Early reports by Chitika noted no significant changes (only a 0.2% increase) when it came to iOS 6 adoption rates over two days after the release of Google Maps for iOS, which was released on a Wednesday. Now, according to the MoPub mobile ad network, which covers more impressions and a wider range of networks...

Twitter, the popular online social networking and microblogging service that allows its users to send and read text-based messages of up to 140 characters a.k.a "tweets", has turned 6 today with over 200 million active monthly users, doubling its number of users in just over a year. Since its launch, Twitter has become one of the ten...

The Wall Street Journal is reporting we could soon see Foursquare local data displayed within Apple Maps, as both companies are in discussions: Apple Inc. is in early discussions to integrate local data from Foursquare Labs Inc. into its mapping application, according to people familiar with the talks, as the company continues to build an arsenal...