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Zynga's popular game Words with Friends has received an update to allow more competition for players that have signed in without Facebook. These users can now challenge their Facebook friends to play. Plus, there is now better support for the iPhone 5 as the app now takes advantage of the faster A6 processor. What's New...

Cross platform messaging giant WhatsApp has announced on Twitter it reached a new milestone for total messages processed in one day: 18 billion. Those messages were sent on New Year's Eve and totalled 7 billion messages inbound and 11 billion messages outbound. The discrepancy between inbound and outbound messages is due to the nature of...

Last year's holiday week has raised the bar for both app developers and manufacturers. As Flurry reports, we've seen record device activations on Christmas day, and record app downloads as well, but this has risen yet further during the week between Christmas and the New Year, which recorded the highest device activation and app downloads...

Do you use Ubuntu? Canonical has announced Ubuntu OS for smartphones, scheduled to arrive on devices in early 2014: "We expect Ubuntu to be popular in the enterprise market, enabling customers to provision a single secure device for all PC, thin client and phone functions. Ubuntu is already the most widely used Linux enterprise desktop,...

Apple recently debuted a new commercial to feature 'Do Not Disturb' mode, which ironically failed to turn itself off yesterday. According to this Apple support document, the 'Do Not Disturb' bug will fix itself: Do Not Disturb scheduling feature will resume normal functionality after January 7, 2013. Before this date, you should manually turn the...

U.S. Court Judge Phyllis Hamilton today dismissed Apple's claim that Amazon's use of the word 'Appstore' is false advertising. The latter had implemented the name of the 'Amazon Appstore', their market for selling apps for Kindle Fire tablets. The court ruling noted: "Apple fails to make clear how the use of the mark constitutes a...

If you have an old stereo dock for your iPhone, it's probably still using the old 30-pin dock connector which means it won't work with your iPhone 5. The solution is to purchase a Lightning to 30-pin adapter from Apple which fixes the problem. Although it isn't completely solved because your iPhone or iPad resting...

Brian White, an analyst at Topeka Capital Markets, has predicated that Apple will release the 'iPhone 5S' in June with multiple colour options and two different screen sizes, reports BGR. With this, the analyst has also maintained his buy rating on Apple shares with a price target of $1,111. The analyst claims that according to checks with Apple...

Waze, the popular social turn-by-turn navigation company, is reportedly being eyed by Apple for acquisition. According to TechCrunch, Waze is already a partner in Apple's new Maps app and that an acquisition would greatly help Apple in improving its mapping services. When asked about the acquisition, an Apple spokesperson said, “we don’t comment on rumors or speculation.”...

Day 8 of Apple's 12 Days of Christmas brings us two singles from California native pop star Ke$ha's latest album, Warrior, which was released at the end of November. Up for grabs are tracks "Only Wanna Dance With You" and "Past Lives". You can click here to download the free songs. Let us know what...

According to a report by The Next Web, Apple has struck a deal with chip maker Broadcom to bring the super-fast 802.11ac 5G Gigabit Wi-Fi to its 2013 Mac lineup. The inclusion of 802.11ac will roughly triple the speeds seen with the current 802.11n Wi-Fi standard. The source details that consumer electronics that offer 802.11n connectivity provide connections up to 450Mbps with...

While there are tons of Cydia tweaks that let you modify or replace your iPhone's carrier logo, a new Mac application developed by Kevin Ko (@uhelios) and Daniel Levi (@Pix3lDemon) called CarrierEditor lets you do this without jailbreaking your device, as pointed out by AppAdvice. Simply follow the steps given below to change your iPhone's carrier logo (a...