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This week Google announced a refresh to their hardware line up and unveiled the  Nexus 4 smartphone and Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 tablets. The Nexus 4 is made by LG and sports a 4.7 inch screen that rivals the industry standard Retina display (326 ppi) when it comes to pixels per inch with 320. ...

According to a report from the New York Times, Twitter is going to add filters to pictures to compete with Instagram: In the coming months, Twitter plans to update its mobile applications to introduce filters for photos that will allow people to share altered images on Twitter and bypass Instagram, the popular mobilecentric photo-sharing network,...

Apple was defeated in a key legal battle over the iPhone name in Mexico just the day before it planned to enter the country with the iPhone 5. (more…)

Yesterday, Rovio published another one of those Angry Birds Star Wars teaser trailers featuring Han Solo & Chewie. Previously, we've seen gameplay trailers showing characters like Luke and Leia and R2-D2 and C-3PO. Now, another exclusive gameplay trailer for the upcoming Angry Birds Star Wars game has been published that features Obi Wan & Darth Vader, the two core characters from Star Wars franchise....

Repair Labs has tested the iPad mini versus other iPad displays under a 150x zoom microscope. The iPad mini's display is compared to the iPad 2 and Retina display equipped iPad 3/4 and the results are shown on an HDTV to get a better picture of what the differences are. Here is the iPad mini...

According to the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft continues its new goal to start making its own hardware like Apple, and is testing smartphone designs with its suppliers in Asia: Microsoft is working with component suppliers in Asia to test its own smartphone design, people familiar with the situation said, suggesting the computer-software giant is increasingly...

This is a quick heads up: if you're in the hunt for some iTunes Card sales, Rexall Drugs will have $25 iTunes Cards on sale for $5 off as long as you show the following coupon, (available from the flyer in-store): Funding your iTunes Account with 20% off iTunes Cards will ensure every single app...

We have all heard stories about young people performing acts of heroism beyond their years in emergency situations in order to save a life. What happens when something happens and the only phone in sight is an iPhone locked with a passcode? Anybody with an iPhone setup to require a passcode has likely noticed the...

So you've seen various Angry Birds Star Wars teaser trailers including the one showing Luke and Leia gameplay and another one with R2-D2 and C-3PO. Today, another one of Rovio's exclusive gameplay trailers for its upcoming Angry Birds Star Wars game have been published on the web and this time, it features Han Solo & Chewie. Here's what Rovio says:...

Apple filed their 10-K this afternoon to the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC). The report is required by law to be submitted within 60 days after the end of a fiscal year (Apple recently announced their 2012 Q4 earnings) and also contains more detailed info compared to regular annual reports. Here are some detailed numbers...

So the iPhone 5 has done quite well for itself. Big surprise. It's about to do a whole lot better. According to sources in Apple's supply chain, Digitimes claims shipments of key components (required to build the iPhone 5,) will be increased to 13-14 million units in November and 16-18 million units come December (that's a...

According to The Province, a Surrey woman is suing Apple alleging the company has violated her privacy and security rights via their iOS devices. Amanda Ladas filed a lawsuit today in B.C. Supreme Court and alleges Apple's iPhone, iPad and iPod touch tracks the movements of her and son--without them knowing: “Ladas is concerned that,...