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According to a report published by TechCrunch, Intel is preparing to launch a set-top box and an accompanying subscription TV service at the Consumer Electronics Show on January 7. The source claims that the company also has a plan to secure the necessary licensing agreements to release such a product. Intel will reportedly launch the service on a...

While Facebook and Instagram apps continued their run of being among the most downloaded apps of the year, YouTube and Angry Birds were the top free and paid apps respectively at Apple's App Store in 2012, reports Reuters. A lot of new games released in 2012 quickly joined the ranks of the top downloaded and revenue grossing...

Apple's 12 Days of Christmas promotion is ongoing in Canada, the UK and other countries in Europe as well. Day 6 of the promotion in the UK currently has this game as their daily freebie, and it is available for free around the world: The original platform jumper is back as Sonic leaps up an...

During the height of the iOS jailbreaking scene, numerous users eagerly anticipated new jailbreak releases to get their hands on Installous again, the popular and controversial piracy app made by the Hackulous team. The app allowed users to pirate pretty much every iOS app you could think of and at the end of the day...

Day 5 of Apple's 12 Days of Christmas has the pilot episode of the TV series How I Met Your Mother. The episode originally aired back in September of 2005 and comes in as a 263MB download in SD: In 2030, Ted tells his children the story of how he met their mother, beginning back...

Back in 1990's, Frog Design, a company founded by German designer Hartmut Esslinger, partnered with Apple to design many of its products, including the 'Snow White' design language that was introduced with the Apple IIc. Today, Designboom has published some photographs from Hartmut's new book Design Forward, revealing prototype designs of Apple computers and tablets from that era (via The...

Day 4 of Apple's 12 Days of Christmas promotion is the novel The Red Pole of Macau by author Ian Hamilton: The "cool and stylish heroine kicks it up a notch" (Terry Fallis, author of Best Laid Plans), in the gripping fourth installment of Ian Hamilton's Ava Lee Series. In The Red Pole of Macau,...

According to a report by Reuters, Apple has removed the Samsung Galaxy S III Mini from the list of of recently added devices it had patent claims against: Apple Inc has agreed to withdraw patent claims against a new Samsung phone with a high-end display after Samsung said it was not offering to sell the product...

A spot of humour for today: In a video that went viral, a Thai elephant expressed its thoughts about the most sought-after gadget in the world, Apple's iPhone -- well, sort of. Since the elephant couldn't speak English, it used sign language. It swallowed a Chinese visitor's iPhone while she was immortalizing how her friend...

If Apple decides to definitely stop sending Samsung processor orders, the South Korean manufacturer isn't likely to be affected, a Digitimes Research estimation shows. Horace Dediu of Asymco was quick to take the numbers under his loop, only to find that the transition would end in 2014. (more…)

Apple has been hit by a Beijing court today for allegedly selling unlicensed copies of books written by local writers on its iBookstore, reports The Wall Street Journal. According to state media, the Chinese court has ordered the Cupertino giant to pay 1.03 million yuan ($165,000) to the writers. The lawyers representing the writers had argued that software available from...

A new promo today from Rogers looks to end the year with more activations. From today until December 31st, new three year activations on Rogers will get the first three months free and activation fee waived, according to an internal doc, notes MobileSyrup. The promo is applicable to all Rogers locations, dealers and corporate stores....