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Yesterday TechCrunch ran a story noting its sources said Apple was in talks to acquire mapping company Waze, with various updates citing the latter wanted $750 million in a deal. Now, a follow up story by MG Siegler notes no deal is happening whatsoever: That information comes from multiple sources close to the situation. And...

Rovio announced this morning the company experienced a huge Christmas season for game downloads. During Christmas week (Dec. 22-29), the company experienced 30 million game downloads, with 8 million alone on Christmas Day: To top it all off, we had 30 million downloads during Christmas week (December 22-29) and, on Christmas Day, over 8 million...

comScore, the global leader in digital business analytics, has just published its report for November 2012 US mobile subscriber marketshare, reflecting pretty much the same figures as seen in the company's report for October 2012 US marketshare, with Samsung retaining the top spot and Apple maintaining a steady growth. comScore’s MobiLens service, that surveyed 30,000 US mobile subscribers...

Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs has revealed in an interview with Venture Beat's Charlie Rose that he had no choice but to strike a deal with Palm, after his attempts to convince Apple to put a Qualcomm radio in the Newton PDA failed during the 90s. The Newton PDA was developed by Apple during the 90s,...

Pod2g, the hacker that is supposed to be working with the members of the Chronic Dev Team on an untethered jailbreak solution for iOS 6 and iPhone 5, has had a pretty interesting conversation with i0n1c today. (more…)

Pebble, the Kickstarter watch project that shattered records, has announced it will be holding a press conference at CES 2013 to announce some "big news". For those not able to attend in person at CES, you will be able to watch the announcement streamed live at getpebble.com on January 9th, 9:00AM PST. Pebble has not...

The folks over at Soundwaves of Tampa, who are famous for their latest in car entertainment system installs, have installed the iPad Mini in the dash of a 2010 VW Jetta as an in car entertainment front end. They have demonstrated the integration of iPad Mini with the Sony CDX-GS600BT controlled by Sony's App Remote (via iMore). Those looking...

A couple days ago the added extras to Fido's $57 unlimited plan expired--the 1GB of extra data and $1 off. Some of you procrastinators missed out but you're in luck because this morning Fido brought them back, as their website reflects the change: The reason for the return of these promos? Probably because rivals Koodo...

In an effort to beef up its popular gaming unit the Xbox, Microsoft has acquired Silicon Valley based id8 Group R2 Studios Inc., a small home-entertainment technology startup, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. Microsoft has also acquired some patents owned by the startup related to controlling electronic devices as part of the deal. While...

Although the App Store has been heavily criticized by many, it has won ABI Research's Competitive Assessment of mobile application storefront (via CNET), pushing Google Play into second place, while Microsoft's Windows Phone app store ranked third. (more…)

Forbes has an interesting article that reveals some details on how AT&T (when it was still branded Cingular Wireless in 2006) chief operating officer, Ralph de la Vega, helped Steve Jobs and Apple create the original iPhone. Jobs had questions about smartphone radio design in 2006 and called up de la Vega for advice: ‘How...

The China Times reports (via AppAdvice) that Apple is already testing Chimei Innolux's touch-on-display technology, which -- if the results are positive -- will be used in the next-generation iPhone(?). (more…)