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Apple Paid $6 Billion In Federal Corporate Income Taxes In Fiscal Year 2012
In a statement today, Apple has said that it is one of the top corporate income taxpayers in the U.S, having paid $6 billion in federal corporate income taxes in fiscal year 2012, reports The New York Times. The statement has been released as the congressional investigators are wrapping up an inquiry into the accounting practices of technology...
Planetbeing: I Have An Untethered iOS 6.0.2 JB Running On My iPhone 5
Famous iOS hacker Plantebeing has today written a comment on Reddit, clarifying why an untethered jailbreak solution for iPhone 5 has not yet been released. He commented on hacker Pod2G's tweet in which he suggested his return to jailbreak development, urging community not to lose hope. Planetbeing explained that there are a couple of reasons why an...
Here is Ciccarese Design’s ‘iPhone 6’ Concept [PICS]
Ciccarese Design has posted what it calls its 'iPhone 6' concept based on the iPod nano form factor that runs a fusion operating system of iOS and OS X called iOSX. It’s a possible iPhone 6 version, it is remake from a test [prototype] description. Like Apple style, I show you next iPhone with new...
Mountain Lion Accounts for 32% of all Mac Web Traffic
Apple's latest desktop operating system, OS X Mountain Lion, accounts for 32% of all Mac Web traffic measured by Net Applications. This is the first time Mountain Lion has surpassed the popular Lion OS, which now dropped to 28%, Techcrunch reports. (more…)
Apple’s Free App of the Week: Blueprint 3D
Apple has updated their free App Pick of the Week and this time around it's the game Blueprint 3D. The game features over 300 levels with 11 themes: Each level begins with a mysterious clutter of seemingly chaotic dots and lines. Underneath all the chaos, however, lies a beautiful blueprint image waiting to be uncovered....
Analyst Predicts Pandora-like iRadio for 2013
Driven by the consumer habit of listening to radio at least two hours per day, radio is another intense area of interest for Apple – or at least this is what a BTIG analyst thinks (via MacRumors). This means we can assist in the launch of a Pandora-like iRadio, á lá Apple, and it is...
MacBook Sales Decline 6% Over 2012 Holiday Shopping Season [Report]
While Wall Street analysts bet high on iPhone and iPad sales, the discount on Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Thanksgiving Day couldn't boost MacBook line sales, according to a recent NPD Group report (via Appleinsider). (more…)
Rogers, TELUS and Bell to Face Competition in Upcoming Wireless Spectrum Auction
2013 looks to be the year wireless competition could continue to heat up in Canada. The upcoming auction for the coveted 700MHz wireless spectrum brings some advantages to our new wireless entrants WIND Mobile, Mobilicity and Public Mobile, which looks to turn the heat up on incumbents Rogers, TELUS and Bell. According to Peter Nowak,...
Apple’s 12 Days of Christmas Day 10: The Photo Cookbook
Day 10 of Apple's 12 Days of Christmas offers up the culinary app, The Photo Cookbook - Quick and Easy (regularly priced at $3.99). This app shows you how to make meals in an easy way as simple images elegantly displayed show you exactly what to do. Every recipe starts with a photograph of all...
How Did Apple Keep Safari Hidden From Server Logs?
You know, one of Apple's characteristics is (was?) secrecy; and that includes all of its products, both software and hardware. We've already written about how Safari ended up with the name "Safari," and Don Melton decided to share another piece of the Safari puzzle: how did secrecy work at Apple? Jump into the time machine...
Apple to Retain 33% of the Global Smartphone Market in 2013 [Report]
Strategy Analytics forecasts a 35% growth for Samsung this year, which means the South Korean manufacturer will increase its lead over Apple, driven by its broad product lineup, Reuters reports. (more…)
Apple’s 12 Days of Christmas Day 9: The xx Single, “Sunset”
Day 9 of Apple's 12 Days of Christmas is a single from English indie pop group, the xx. The free track is Sunset (Jamie xx Edit) along with two videos from the album Coexist, released this summer: Angels (Live in Tokyo) and Chained. The band was formed in 2008 and consists of: Romy Madley Croft,...