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Earlier this afternoon a SEC filing noted the impending retirement of Apple's corporate controller, Betsy Rafael. Soon after, Apple issued a press release to announce the retirement of Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering, Bob Mansfield: Apple® today announced that Bob Mansfield, Apple’s senior vice president of Hardware Engineering, will retire and the role will...

Security Exchange Commission filings today reveal Apple's Vice President and Corporate Controller, Betsy Rafael is slated to retire from Apple as of October 19, 2012. Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers (b) Betsy Rafael, Apple Inc.'s Vice President, Corporate Controller and Principal...

Today Vancouver-based Hootsuite has announced more apps to their app directory, and it now includes the popular iOS (and Android) photo-sharing network, Instagram. So for those that use Hootsuite to manage their social media on the web, Instagram can be installed as a tab alongside your other networks. You will be able to share photos,...

Apple's next generation iPhone a.k.a the iPhone 5, is expected to be introduced later this year at an Apple event sporting a larger 4-inch display, a thinner and longer chassis and an aluminum backplate in addition to packing NFC and 4G LTE capabilities. This highly anticipated iPhone upgrade is expected to be the leading handset of...

At day two of Google I/O 2012, the company has announced Chrome for iOS. Yesterday we heard Google Chrome was launching with the new Nexus 7 tablet, but later today we will see Google Chrome for iOS hit the App Store, available or the iPhone and the iPad. Users will be able to use Chrome's...

With the latest addition of Apple Maps in iOS 6, we received a new 3D view for select locations around the world (we compared Apple Maps to Google Maps in Canada here). How do these new 3D maps compare to those from Google Maps in the latest maps from Android 4.1 Jelly Bean (I still...

Rovio Mobile, the makers of Angry Birds franchise, announced the company’s next major project for iOS last month called Amazing Alex, a puzzle game based on another iOS game named ‘Casey’s Contraptions’. Today, Rovio has released the first teaser trailer for Amazing Alex along with the announcement that the game will be launching very soon on iOS and...

BlueStacks, a company that released a beta version of its "App Player" for Windows a few months back that allows users to run Android apps directly on their Windows PCs, has now released a public alpha version of its Android App Player for OS X today at Google I/O, reports MacRumors (via Engadget). The software is ipowered...

The iPhone has come a long way since its initial launch in 2007 when it was released exclusively on AT&T network with merely a handful of Apple created apps sporting a 320 X 480 resolution display, a 2-megapixel camera and 8 GB of memory. Tomorrow, Apple will be celebrating the five-year anniversary of its most popular invention...

Adam Satariano and Andy Fixmer report for Bloomberg that Apple plans to overhaul iTunes by the year's end to further integrate iCloud features and better sharing media, according to their sources: Apple Inc. plans an overhaul of iTunes that would mark one of the largest changes to the world’s biggest music store since its 2003...

Waze, the maker of popular free GPS apps for iPhones and Android devices, is planning to bring its social mapping software to the cars later this year, Bloomberg reports. Waze’s social mapping software provides turn-by-turn navigation as well as traffic and incident reports submitted by other drivers. Company's CEO Noam Bardin said that Waze is working with most...

Last year, an interesting Apple patent revealed company's plans to introduce wireless or inductive charging of iOS devices via a pair of headphones and now, another patent won by Apple points at an iOS docking station based on similar inductive charging concept, reports Patently Apple. In fact, the source believes that this new patent opens the door for...