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Latest market share data from Net Applications shows that Apple's Safari browser is still winning the mobile browser war, capturing 61.79% of all mobile browser web traffic in March (via AllThingsD). Safari browser's share has actually increased from 55.41% in February, reaffirming Apple’s dominance in the mobile browser market. Despite a plethora of devices on which...

In December last year, Apple refused to approve any updates to SkyDrive app for iOS, as Microsoft allowed SkyDrive users to purchase paid storage upgrades on their iOS devices directly, bypassing Apple’s in-app purchases. It seems that Apple is no longer blocking updates to Microsoft's app as version 3.0 of SkyDrive for iOS has just been released...

Rovio has announced Angry Birds Friends, a game exclusively launched on Facebook last May, will soon have its own iOS app for the iPhone and iPad. This latest addition will allow iOS users to challenge their Facebook friends in various weekly tournaments: Pop some piggies with your friends wherever you are! Angry Birds Friends spruces...

Late Apple co-founder, chairman, and CEO Steve Jobs, passed away on October 5, 2011 at the age of 56, due to complications of pancreatic cancer. The visionary inventor is known for revolutionizing the way music, movies and mobile communications are experienced today. Rememberum, a website that allows users to create beautiful, permanent online memorials to...

The folks over at CNET have dug up a bunch of documents from 1978, revealing how Apple created the company's first disk operating system. The article basically tells the story of how "Apple booted up", digging into documents ranging from contracts signed by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs to design specs and pages of schematics and code,...

Numerous rumours have pointed towards Apple releasing a budget iPhone made with a plastic backing. We previously saw concept images of what a lower-cost iPhone would look like, but what about a phone with translucent backing taking a page from the iMac G3? Nickolay Lamm has posted some impressive concepts of what this would entail,...

Apple has just received another hit in the far east: Democratic Progressive Party legislator Gaeo Jyh-pend claims the company has been interfering in the pricing of iPhones sold by telecom companies in Taiwan. (more…)

Based on fresh information received by Brian White of Topeka Capital Markets during an Apple suppliers tour of China and Taiwan, he believes Apple will release three new products: iTV, iRing, and iWatch. (more…)

If history repeats itself, WWDC 2013 should take place in a couple months in June. Last year, we saw Apple unveiled iOS 6. Could iOS 7 be delayed this year? That's the word on the street according to John Gruber from Daring Fireball, as noted from his participation in this Branch thread regarding the production...

Last week it was rumoured Facebook was set to announce an Android-powered smartphone, made by HTC, to be unveiled at an event held this Thursday morning at the social network's Menlo campus in California. Yesterday Android Police reported on a dump of the phone's Android build, codenamed "Myst", confirming earlier specs revealed by Unwired View this is...

Back in February, Fido introduced a 'limited time offer' on a new $40 Canada-wide calling plan that included 150 daytime minutes and 200MB of data. This morning, Fido updated its website to update this $40 plan to make it one dollar cheaper at $39/month, but also include 450 daytime minutes and 400MB of data. The...

It appears Apple has dropped the prices for iTunes movie rentals on most library titles to $4.99 in Canada. Previously, movie rentals were priced at $5.99 but over the long weekend users noticed price drops on titles available on Apple TV and iOS devices. As of today, most rentals within iTunes reflect a $4.99 charge,...