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Prominent Samsung Chip Designer Leaves to Join Apple
Samsung's Austin, Texas plant The Wall Street Journal reports a lead Samsung chip designer has left the company to join Apple instead: Samsung recently raised eyebrows by beefing up its team of Texas-based chip designers, including those whose backgrounds pointed to an interest in chips for server systems. Now one of the most prominent of those recruits...
Samsung Launches the 4-Inch Galaxy S III Mini [PIC]
Engadget goes hands on with Samsung's latest Galaxy S III Mini, a smaller 4-inch version of their flagship Galaxy S III: Now Samsung's spilled all the beans, and revealed the new Galaxy S III mini, a slightly paler version of its bigger brother in specs as well as screen size. Our own short time with the...
Huge Google Street View Update Includes New Places in Canada
Google has announced one of their largest updates to Street View ever and in it includes numerous new places in Canada such as parks, golf courses, community centres and universities. Here's where you can get in-depth and on the ground: Alberta Banff Sunshine Village Edmonton Devonian Botanical Garden University Of Alberta BC North Vancouver Capilano...
iFixit’s New iPod Touch Teardown Reveals A Powerful Device With Poor Repairability
During their iPhone 5 teardown, folks over at iFixit said "it is the most repairable iPhone we’ve seen in a while" but unfortunately, they found the new 5th generation iPod touch much harder to get inside and gave it a low 3 out of 10 repairability score. Nonetheless, they did discover 512 MB of Hynix RAM inside its...
iPhone 5 Accounts For 20% Of Smartphones Activations In US & Canada Since Its Launch [INFOGRAPHIC]
According to statistics released today by iQmetrix, the leading retail management software solutions provider in U.S and Canada, iPhone 5 accounts for 20% of smartphone activations in North America since its launch on September 21st. The analysis sampled 7,000 independent wireless retailers across the region, revealing year-over-year buying trends in the past year. Looking at the analytical data, it...
Google Brings New Services Sidebar To Its Mobile Home Page
In addition to updating its Google+ iOS app with full support for iOS 6 and iPhone 5?s larger display, Google has also issued a redesign of its mobile search homepage (via The Verge). A new services task bar listing all Google products now replaces the old tabs at the top of the screen (shown below). On visiting Google.com in...
Google’s Eric Schmidt: “Apple Should Have Kept Our Maps”
In an interview with AllThingsD tonight in New York City, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt sat down with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher to talk about everything including the Apple-Google spat over maps. Here's a portion of the interview where Mossberg brings up Apple and Google Maps: 8:20 pm: Time to talk about maps. Schmidt: “Apple should...
No You’re Not Going Crazy, Your iPhone 5 May Be Flickering
Have you been experiencing an odd screen flicker when using your brand new beloved iPhone 5? Did you think you were seeing things? Rest assured you’re not, as a number of users have reported the same thing. This appears to be affecting a number of iPhone 5’s, (including yours truly,) given the growing discussion thread...
Apple Uploads their iPod TV Ad – Bounce [VIDEO]
Earlier today, Apple's press embargo was released on reviews of its new iPod touch and iPod nano offerings, announced at the iPhone 5 keynote. Just a while ago, Apple uploaded the iPod ad it first aired at the keynote to its YouTube channel. If you missed it, check it out below--it's called 'Bounce': Every iPod...
How to Opt Out of Interest-Based Ads from the iAd Network
Daring Fireball links to this Apple support page on how to opt out of interest-based ads from Apple's iAd network: iAd, Apple's mobile advertising platform, strives to provide relevant ads to you based on your interests. To enable us to continue providing you with the best advertising experience, we recommend you keep interest-based iAds enabled....
Developers Alerted Apple About Maps Quality Issues Prior To iOS 6’s Release
When Apple released iOS 6 to the general public on September 19th, the Cupertino-based giant was well aware of the issues tagged along with the Maps application. A large segment of the public began to assume Apple wasn't aware of any Maps issues because they stalled on issuing a public statement for well over a week....
‘Purple Haze’ Is Not Exclusive To iPhone Camera, Androids Also Have It [Consumer Reports]
When users began complaining about a ‘purple lens flare’ in photos taken with their iPhone 5?s camera, Apple responded with an official statement, explaining how the phenomenon is not exclusive to iPhone 4S or iPhone 5 cameras. Now, Consumer Reports has echoed Apple's claims confirming that the iPhone 5 camera is not the only one that yields lens flare but also the latest devices...
