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Apple's Tim Cook said the Cupertino company had huge plans for Passbook, yet it's seen as a boring, useless iOS 6 feature at the moment. In attempt to shed some light with the feature, one airline finally may be ready to utilize Passbook. No, it isn't Air Canada, it's actually an Australian airline. An Australian traveler was...

Apple has begun minor preparations for next Wednesday's iPhone event at the Yerba Buena Center early last night. They haven't had the chance to hang more than one Apple logo, but it's a start. On September 12th, 2012, at 10:30 Pacific time, Apple will unveil what's likely to be the next-generation iPhone. There is some uncertainty, but we may...

Reuters reports Apple has reduced its reliance on memory chip orders from Samsung for the upcoming iPhone 5: Apple has reduced its orders for memory chips for its new iPhone from key supplier and competitor Samsung Electronics Co, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said on Friday. According to the report, confidential sources...

This evening The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple is looking to develop a "Pandora-rival custom radio service." The service would be available through Apple's line of iOS devices along with Macs. They even noted possible support for computers running the Windows operating system. The source noted was "people familiar with the matter." Such...

Reuters reports Audience has noted to shareholders its top customer, Apple, most likely won't use its noise-cancellation technology in the next iPhone, which has caused the company's shares to drop 46 percent in after hours trading: Audience shares were down at $10.11 in trading after the bell. The stock closed at $18.86 on the Nasdaq...

The iPhone 5 announcement is quickly approaching and Foxconn must really have some major mass production going on currently. According to The Shanghai Daily and China National Radio 200 students were pulled from the Huaiyin Institute of Technology to produce the iPhone 5. The Shanghai Daily learned later that Foxconn pulled out students from at least five other colleges too. A student...

Facebook has announced today that they've finally completed the acquisition of the photo-sharing network Instagram. The deal was formed on April 12th, 2012 for $300 million cash and 23 million shares of stock. Facebook is committed in supporting the network's growth and notes "Instagram isn't going anywhere." Here is more from the Facebook Newsroom: As we said...

This video is late if you consider the timing of the "Shit ____ says" YouTube video genre. But alas, it's well done and is funny as hell if you're an Apple fan. Check it out below: ...and if you're Canadian, 'Shit Canadians say' below: [via @Applespotlight]

According to a report by The Telegraph, sources tell them Apple will soon drop the iPhone 3GS from its line up as the entry iPhone model, to be replaced by the 8GB iPhone 4, with suggestions an 8GB iPhone 4S could be introduced as well. The iPhone 3GS (or originally the 3G S; remember that...

I've seen multiple iPhone 5 concepts that I've wished were real, and here is another one. Aatma Studio had previewed a iPhone 5 concept at the end of August that racked up 60 million Youtube hits. Now the same design company is back with their sequel, previewing some more mind blowing features. The video that we are about to...

Just the thought of cracking my iPhone's display has me cringing. The display on my iPhone has only cracked once, courtesy of my cat pushing it off the table. Luckily the Apple Genius Bar fixed it free of charge, on the other hand though, some customers have had a more aggravating experience with Apple. In...

We have learned from Reuters this morning that Samsung is currently under investigation by South Korean regulators over abusing wireless technology patents. We learned previously that Samsung owns a majority of the industries LTE patents and had plans to sue Apple if a 4G capable iPhone was released. Considering LTE is an industry standard, Apple...