Latest news

Grooveshark Launches HTML5 Music Player that Streams in the Background

Grooveshark announced this morning it has launched a new HTML5 music player that works on all iOS devices right within Mobile Safari. The controversial music service plagued with lawsuits from the music industry allows users to search for any artist and stream songs for free. It was kicked out of the App Store and is...

Sony Bringing ‘Music Unlimited’ Service To The App Store

Sony will be bringing its “Music Unlimited” service to iOS devices at some point this quarter, assuming they don't get another rejection. The announcement came from head of the Sony Entertainment Network, Tim Schaaff, at a media event yesterday at CES. Android devices and PCs have already been a home to the service for some...

Camera+ Exceeds 6 Million Downloads, One App Sold Every Three Seconds

Tap tap tap has just released some stunning numbers for their popular photography app (and one of my favourites) Camera+. The app has reached its 6 millionth sale milestone, with over 950,000 downloads in the past month alone. Last June, they hit 3 million total downloads. After Apple's 30% cut, the taptaptap team notes they...

Apple Publishes its Supplier Responsibility Progress Report for 2012

Apple has posted its Supplier Responsibility Progress Report for 2012 on its website that details the steps it takes in dealing with suppliers and how workers are treated. All companies must adhere to Apple's Supplier Code of Conduct if they want to do business with them, and part of that includes both scheduled and surprise...

iPhone 4S Sales In Retail Stores Blocked By Apple In China

The highly anticipated launch of iPhone 4S in China turned into a total chaos today after violence broke out around Apple retail stores. Customers and scalpers looking to sell the latest iPhone in the black market by employing migrant workers to fill the line and bypass Apple’s limit on how many handsets each person could buy,...

Apple Is Testing 3D UI With Motion-Sensing Capabilities For iOS Devices

A new patent application (via Patently Apple) published today reveals that Apple is testing a new 3D UI for iOS devices with touch-free, motion sensing capabilities that would allow users to simply wave their hand over an iOS device equipped with motion sensors. The patent suggests that the GUI could appear as a virtual room that could...

Intel Hopes To Provide their ‘Medfield’ Processors For iOS Devices

Intel has approached Apple with hopes of sneaking their new Medfield processing chip into future iOS device releases. We’ve previously reported the likelihood of a quad core chip in upcoming iOS devices which makes this possibility curious. The Medfield chip is actually a single core processor. “We don’t frankly see the need for dual core....

iBooks Fix to Be Released in Corona Update via Cydia Says Pod2g

Are you suffering from the iBooks error in the latest iOS 5.0.1 untethered jailbreak (A4 devices)? If you haven't tried the iBooksFix2 solution, pod2g has just sent out an update and notes the fix will be coming in an update of Corona via Cydia: @xvolks worked to include @comex sandbox patches into the Corona GIT....

New Stunning Mockups of the ‘iPhone SJ’ Emerge Plus Virtual Tour [VIDEO]

Antonio De Rosa from ADR Studios earlier showed us some stunning 'iPhone SJ' concept images, a device dedicated to Steve Jobs. Now, the design studio has released further images of its latest concept, plus a new virtual tour. The new images are described as: "Totally glass capacitative screen on a polycarbonate light-weight body. New design,...

The Next iPhone Could Support AWS According to T-Mobile

According to recent interview conducted by T-Mobile's chief technology offer, Neville Ray, the next generation iPhone could support the AWS spectrum. He originally stated the next iPhone chipset would support AWS, only to retract his statement later to clarify he has no knowledge of the iPhone roadmap, notes CNET: "The next chipset will support AWS,"...