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In a recent interview, Tim Cook spilled gas on the fire, saying the television industry is an intense area of interest, which triggered a huge amount of speculation that Apple television set may (or may not) possibly be on its way to consumers in the near future. Here are the latest mockups compiled by Brightcove...

Turns out Apple's competition (and suppliers) is low on creativity when it comes to marketing campaigns, as it is much easier to poke fun at Apple than to come up with something original. It started with Samsung, and now LG has joined the line with its new ad posters pushing its handsets. (more…)

This summer Halfbrick Studios, the makers of popular iOS game Fruit Ninja, celebrated their two year anniversary by giving away free copies. Now, to end 2012 with a bang, the Australian-based developer is giving away Fruit Ninja along with every single game they have ever made, for 24 hours only (6:00am GMT on Monday December...

Here's a quick tip on how to use Siri to open the Google Maps iOS app for directions to any place instead of Apple Maps. All you have to do is add the phrase "via transit" at the end of your request. So for example you might ask Siri the following: "Give me directions to...

Apple has just issued a press release to announce iPhone 5 sales in China have exceeded 2 million in its first weekend: Apple® today announced it has sold over two million of its new iPhone® 5 in China, just three days after its launch on December 14. iPhone 5 will be available in more than...

Timotheus Wischniowski, a student and traffic engineer from Germany, has created an insanely detailed mind map of all the settings from an iPhone 5 running iOS 6.0.1. Below is just a tiny fraction of what is available: The full-sized PNG image download is just over 12MB, and the mind map was created using OmniOutliner and MindNode...

Apple's free App of the Week released on Thursday was Toca Band. This app is geared for children aged 2-9 to to explore music with their parents. The app lets your kid try out 16 characters that play their own instruments within the app, which also includes 48 fun sound loops. There is no right...

(Image credit: Apple Inc.) New Apple Stores opened this weekend around the world in China, Australia and Sweden. One of the most significant openings was the new store in Causeway Bay in Hong Kong. This stunning location's front facade consists of 30-foot tall sheets of glass that provides a transparent look into the three levels of...

Here's some Saturday afternoon reading, courtesy of the New York Times on their piece about how Instagram has resulted in some smart entrepreneurs: These entrepreneurs have realized that they can piggyback on the popularity of Instagram, which has more than 100 million users, and create their own businesses, some of which have turned out to...

For those running a tethered iOS 6.0 jailbreak on their iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, and iPod touch 4th gen, a new tweak has arrived in Cydia to allow you to set the latest Google Maps for iOS app as the default map app (it also works for those on iOS 5) for links. MapsOpener is a...

The TidyTilt+ case for the iPhone 5 has debuted on Kickstarter, alongside the JustMount. The latter is a magnetic mount that secures to any surface to hold your iPhone 5 in the TidyTilt+ case, keys or just about anything that is magnetic. The TidyTilt+ made news earlier as their 'folding panel' resembles an iPad Smart...

Google has announced it will be shutting down Google Sync and Google Calendar Sync, as part of a blog post titled "Winter Cleaning". The change is only for new users signing up after January 30th, 2013: Google Sync was designed to allow access to Google Mail, Calendar and Contacts via the Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync® protocol....