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As pointed out by 9to5Mac, Apple has officially shut down MobileMe services as expected, and has also removed the iDisk and MobileMe Gallery apps from the App Store. MobileMe users who haven't migrated to iCloud yet can still make the switch, download their photos and files from Gallery and iDisk respectively. Apple introduced iCloud last...

According to a report by Business Insider, Apple's former senior vice president of Mac Software Engineering Bertrand Serlet, who left the company in March last year after 22 years of service with Steve Jobs at NeXT and Apple, is secretly working with at least two other former Apple employees to launch a cloud computing startup in downtown Palo...

Apple gained control of 'iPhone5.com' domain last month which hosted a small active forum dedicated to the discussion of the iPhone 5. The domain is now controlled by Corporation Service Company, most likely on Apple’s behalf. Now, the Cupertino giant wants to acquire 'iPad3.com' domain and has filed a claim with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) as pointed out by Domain Name...

Reuters reports Apple has been granted an injunction to ban Galaxy Nexus sales in the U.S., which comes to a blow to Samsung. Earlier in the week, Apple won a preliminary injunction against the Galaxy Tab 10.1. According to Judge Lucy Koh: "Apple has made a clear showing that, in the absence of a preliminary...

Gene Munster from Piper Jaffray has published the results of an unscientific test to put Siri against Google text searches. iPhone 4S and new iPad users know Siri is able to return Google search results via voice--but how accurate are they compared to actual text searches? Here are the results from asking Siri 1600 questions...

According to a survey of 1000 iPhone and iPad customers, Bill Shope from Goldman Sachs estimates this vital customer base is worth roughly $295 billion dollars, based on the calculated lifetime value of each customer at $1,053 multiplied by an estimated installed userbase of 281 million. Other questions posed to users included how likely they would...

Remember Steve Jobs' 'thoughts on Flash' back in April of 2010? It turned the tech world upside down from that day on, and further supplanted the fact that iOS devices did not support Flash and Apple was not willing to put their faith into a third party company like Adobe. Critics leveraged the lack of...

The original iPhone activation screen Today marks five years since the original iPhone went on sale. It was only available in the USA, but Canadians and others were able to easily buy one down south and bring it home. After visiting the Alderwood Mall Apple Store in Lynnwood and having played with the iPhone a...

As the shares of Research In Motion continue to plunge at a steeper than expected rate, the Canadian company's executives are facing an immense pressure to come to a decision whether to sell the network business or form an alliance with Microsoft, reports Reuters. The Blackberry maker has once again delayed the release of its next-generation...

A brand new iOS app called Wickr offers military-grade encryption for protecting text, photo, audio or video messages on an iPhone. Wickr is so easy to use that "a 3-year-old can send encrypted messages", says the app's co-founder Nico Sell (via CNET). All messages you send using Wickr disappear within six days, unless you want them to self-destruct earlier...

Back in 2010 when AT&T was an exclusive carrier of iPhone in the U.S., the carrier reportedly asked Blackberry maker RIM to produce a capacitive touchscreen handset that could compete with Apple's iPhone, according to The Wall Street Journal (via Apple Insider). It seems that AT&T was worried that the popularity of the iPhone could give Apple too much...

AgileBits, the makers of popular 1Password app for iOS and OS X, have just announced a 30% discount on all of their products in celebration of Canada Day and Independence Day festivities. The announcement was made in a blog entry, pointing out the two big national celebrations in Canada and U.S coming up next week.The 30% sale will run for...