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Rovio has announced some more incredible numbers for December. This time, the Finnish company has noted they had 263 million active users last month, to go along with their other 2012 milestones: 2012 was a milestone year for us: More than 1 billion downloads (30 million during Christmas week alone), and we had more than...

iOS hacker and jailbreak expert @pod2g has released his first iOS app called podDJ, a djing app for iPad which will be hitting the App Store on January 12 (already available in the New Zealand App Store). The app claims to be the fastest scratching app in the App Store that transforms your iPad into a real mixing engine....

F-Secure Chief Risk Officer Mikko Hyppönen has just tweeted a photo of his Windows Phone 8 smartphone which apparently crashed during boot up showing an error screen that says “Insert Your Windows Installation Disc". The only question is, where? (via The Loop). "Windows Phone failed to boot. Please insert your Windows installation disc...": twitter.com/rkkski/status/…#wontfit —...

Turns out former Apple CEO John Sculley was right when he said Apple was going through a significant change in terms of product cycles, and was after reducing the product release cycle to six months, at least according to Brian White, a Topeka Capital Markets analyst (via AppleInsider). (more…)

Apple appointed Luca Maestri, former Xerox vice president and CFO, as the company's new corporate controller, The Next Web reports. (more…)

Phil Schiller, Apple's SVP of worldwide marketing, cooled down the rumours of a cheaper iPhone in an official interview (verified by The Next Web) with the Shanghai Evening News, saying that a cheap iPhone will never be the future of Apple's products. (more…)

Former Apple Safari Engineering Manager, Don Melton (a hire by Scott Forstall), continues to share his anecdotal accounts of his experience working for the Cupertino company. This time around, he shares what it was like when Steve Jobs announced Safari to the world at MacWorld back in 2003: Steve started the Safari presentation with, “So, buckle...

AllThingsD reports on an interview with Beats headphones CEO Jimmy Iovine and how the latter once tried to sell Steve Jobs on music subscriptions, but ultimately was unsuccessful, even after three years of pursuing the matter. Universal Music head Doug Morris told Iovine to talk to Jobs: In 2002, 2003, Doug asked me to go...

Japanese Twitter user @morisatoh has created one of the most interesting iPhone accessories I've seen. It's a quick draw sleeve contraption that is quite interesting, only because of the way it's being demonstrated on video. The man behind the video is performer Shota Mori. His video has references to the movie Taxi Driver and is kinda...

Apple will receive an Emmy Engineering Award tonight (via The Loop) at CES 2013 for winning in the following category: Eco-system for Real Time Presentation of TV Content to Mobile Devices without the use of Specialized Television Hardware Launched in 1948, the awards honour "development and innovation in broadcast technology and recognize companies, organizations and individuals...

This week's free App of the Week from Apple is the puzzle game KooZac, made by Square Enix. The concept of KooZac is simple: position the falling blocks on top of each other to create the target numbers. The game features 60 levels with three different modes and can be described as Tetris-like arithmetic game...

Right: Apple SVP Phil Schiller is currently in China; via M.I.C. Gadget Apple executive Phil Schiller is in China with CEO Tim Cook and in a recent interview with the Shanghai Evening News, the former noted cheap smartphones will not be developed by Apple in order to grab marketshare. The Next Web confirmed with Apple...