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The previous comScore MobiLens report for the three month period ending in January 2013 grabbed Apple the No. 1 US smartphone manufacturer position and now, the latest comScore report for the three month period ending in February 2013 shows that Apple has remained the top U.S. smartphone maker. While Android is still the top mobile operating system,...

In order to battle Apple's highly successful chain of retail stores worldwide, Samsung has decided to partner with Best Buy and open 1,400 Samsung Experience shops within the retailer’s existing stores, AllThingsD is reporting. According to Ketrina Dunagan, the Samsung VP of retail, the Korean company has made this decision because 70% of consumers live within 10 miles of...

Apple has withdrawn an iOS application from the Chinese App Store claiming the app includes content that is illegal in China, reports the Financial Times. (more…)

Apple's futuristic "Campus 2" project, that resembles a giant spaceship nestled in a forest of trees, is running more than a year behind schedule and $2 billion over budget, according to a new report by Bloomberg. The budget for company's new campus, which was announced back in 2011 by Steve Jobs himself, has reportedly risen from $3 billion to nearly...

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Apple has been awarded a patent for a convertible MacBook design by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, that shows a a touch-sensitive screen which can be separated from the base, notes TechCrunch. Even though the design looks familiar to the ones available from many Windows device makers and some older Android tablets with a detachable keyboard, the screen...

Google has announced it will no longer be using the WebKit rendering engine to power Google Chrome. Rather, the company will soon launch Blink, a new rendering engine based on WebKit that will be open source: However, Chromium uses a different multi-process architecture than other WebKit-based browsers, and supporting multiple architectures over the years has...

Apple has tweaked the App Store as we know it by adding a small information box placed below the title and developer's name (via Apple Insider). With this move, age rating gets a welcome highlight; this information is now one of the first things users will notice prior to downloading the app. (more…)

Officials with the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) reportedly complain that iMessages sent with Apple's encrypted chat service are impossible to crack. An internal document obtained by CNET, reads "it is impossible to intercept iMessages between two Apple devices," even with a court warrant. The note is entitled, "Apple's iMessages: A Challenge for DEA Intercept." (more…)

In a bizarre and creepy case in Winnipeg, a man has been convicted of voyeurism after it was discovered he had planted an iPhone in the washroom of a Fountain Tire location on Warman Road. Arcel Gagnon was a commercial tire tech at the time and last April a customer stumbled upon an iPhone recording...

With more then a billion users using mobile devices and applications – the result of the past five years of mobile computing – Flurry comes to share some interesting thoughts about how they see US consumers using mobile devices. (more…)

Twitter has announced it has updated its iOS app and also mobile.twitter.com with some changes. For the iOS app and web, expanded tweets now show more content such as photo galleries, apps and product listings. Also, if content is shared from another mobile app (such as Flickr for example), you will be able to open...