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Waze announced last night (the post has since randomly been taken down) it had hit a total user base of 34 million people using their app in 2012. Along with their announcement, the company stressed again their goal was to save every Wazer 5 minutes per day in commute times. They estimate Waze will be...

Some use their iPhones to play games to fill their spare time, but this isn't the case for Reddit user Igor Cheban. He likes to use his fingers and the iPhone's touch screen to paint, and I was amazed when I first saw his drawings when Igor decided to share his art with the world....

Samsung Electronics, Apple's biggest rival and global leader in mobiles and memory chips, has today announced that the company has earned a quarterly profit of $8.3 billion, selling almost 500 handsets a minute, reports Reuters. While the Korean company has been setting back to back record quarters for over a year now, investors believe that this run may end...

Qualcomm has today announced the all new Snapdragon 800 and 600 mobile processors at its CES 2013 keynote, designed to meet the demands of high-end smartphones and tablets. The company's new flagship processor, the Snapdragon 800, promises to deliver 75% better performance its previous top of the line chip, the Snapdragon S4. The Snapgragon 800, which is capable of speeds...

Netflix is a great streaming content service for TV and movies, but for households with multiple users it gets really messy. Recommendations turn into a mixed bag with so many people watching different shows all the time. GigaOM was able to get access to Netflix's upcoming feature of personalized profiles at CES 2013. Essentially, every...

A fresh report by Taiwanese publication DigiTimes is claiming that Apple is expected to release a cheaper iPhone for emerging markets, such as China, during the second half of 2013. The report further suggests that some sources inside the supply chain have actually seen the low-priced device, that packs the same larger display as the...

Amazon continues to expand its services to Canada. Back in December the company launched their Amazon Kindle Store here and today they have announced the launch of Amazon Prime for $79 per year. Customers part of Amazon Prime will receive unlimited two day shipping all year round (with no minimum purchase order), and is great...

Despite being an innovative and interactive exploration of the ongoing civil war in Syria, Apple rejected the iOS game called Endgame: Syria, according to io9 (via The Verge). (more…)

Highlighting the importance of the Asian market, Tim Cook made his second visit to China in less than a year to meet with China’s Minister of Industry and Information Technology Mao Wei for a discussion of the “state of the IT and communication industries in the country,” Bloomberg reports. (more…)

Last year Liquipel debuted their nano coating, which required customers to send in their devices to be sprayed down entirely, making them fully waterproof enough to be submerged in water. This year at CES 2013, the company has announced Liquipel 2.0, their next generation nanotechnology, that the company claims is 100 times better than its...

Nokia currently partners with Microsoft and their Windows Phone 8 mobile OS, but in an interview with Gizmodo es Español the CEO said "anything is possible" when asked about launching an Android phone: El País: Do you discard launching an Android phone next year? Elop: In the current ecosystem wars we are using Windows Phone as...

Hyundai is the latest automobile manufacturer to announce it will jump on Apple's Siri technology and Eyes Free mode. Eyes Free mode: Hyundai will integrate Siri, the intelligent assistant that helps drivers get things done just by asking, and the much-anticipated Eyes Free mode into its vehicles. Through the vehicle's infotainment system, drivers with a compatible iPhone* running...