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According to a report by MG Siegler over at TechCrunch, his sources note Facebook could introduce a phone next week at the company's mystery media event: And so, with that in mind, multiple sources have told us that they expect some sort of Facebook Phone to be on display on Tuesday. Now for the caveats...

A weakness has been discovered in Java 7 security making hundreds of millions of business and consumer users vulnerable to a serious flaw. The threat is serious enough that the US Department of Homeland Security has warned users to disable or uninstall Java software on their computers, ZDNet informs. Turns out the issue affects not...

German site Apfellike has created a round up of some interesting concepts they'd like to see in iOS 7. They cover some nice looking concepts such as a redesign of the iOS lockscreen; a new dashboard similar to Widgets in OS X for controlling toggles such as LTE, Bluetooth and more; a redesign of notification banners...

Earlier this morning Reuters suddenly pulled their article that cited Apple had no plans to pursue a less-expensive iPhone, information from an interview Apple SVP Phil Schiller had with the Shanghai Evening News. Now, in a follow up article Reuters clarifies why it pulled the original story. It was because the Shanghai Evening News (SEN)...

Bloomberg reports U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Allan Gropper in Manhattan approved the $527 million deal Apple, Google and other tech companies bid to purchase patents from Kodak. The latter was "disappointed" with the final price, as a previous advisory firm estimated the company could get $2 billion out of the patents: Michael Torkin, an attorney for Kodak,...

With winter in full swing it's always better to be well-informed and prepared if you're a traveller. If you live in Calgary, the city has created a free app to provide its citizens with real-time traffic updates and also views of traffic cameras as well: The City of Calgary Road Conditions app is designed to...

Microsoft’s Surface tablet has been hacked by programmer Steve Troughton-Smith to run an early version of Mac OS. The hack is based on a jailbreak tool released by hacker Netham45 and allows the Mac OS to run inside Windows RT (via VentureBeat). By exploiting a setting in the Windows RT, hackers have released a jailbreak tool that simply...

As awkward as it may sound (or look), "iPotty" by CTA Digital is one of those crazy products to come out of CES 2013, which claims to serve as a toilet training iPad accessory for babies. The iPotty comes with a clip-on cover to transform the potty for a child to use as a seat and a cover to protect...

Rovio has announced some more incredible numbers for December. This time, the Finnish company has noted they had 263 million active users last month, to go along with their other 2012 milestones: 2012 was a milestone year for us: More than 1 billion downloads (30 million during Christmas week alone), and we had more than...

iOS hacker and jailbreak expert @pod2g has released his first iOS app called podDJ, a djing app for iPad which will be hitting the App Store on January 12 (already available in the New Zealand App Store). The app claims to be the fastest scratching app in the App Store that transforms your iPad into a real mixing engine....

F-Secure Chief Risk Officer Mikko Hyppönen has just tweeted a photo of his Windows Phone 8 smartphone which apparently crashed during boot up showing an error screen that says “Insert Your Windows Installation Disc". The only question is, where? (via The Loop). "Windows Phone failed to boot. Please insert your Windows installation disc...": twitter.com/rkkski/status/…#wontfit —...

Turns out former Apple CEO John Sculley was right when he said Apple was going through a significant change in terms of product cycles, and was after reducing the product release cycle to six months, at least according to Brian White, a Topeka Capital Markets analyst (via AppleInsider). (more…)