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Jessica Lessin at the Wall Street Journal reports Apple CEO Tim Cook has initiatives to keep employees happy, with one latest perk taking a cue from Google. The "Blue Sky" program allows a small group of employees take two weeks to work projects outside of their regular responsibilities: Earlier this year, Apple told some employees about...

Readdle has their app Printer Pro for iPhone as a free download today, as part of an App of the Day promotion. The app allows iOS users to print from your iPhone wireless to any Wi-Fi printer (or use the option to PDF print your files and images): Printer Pro is the application that lets...

After a large company releases a much-anticipated new product, the public relations department should have time to rest and enjoy a job well done; unless of course you do this job for Microsoft. Ballmer is at it again, using the wrong words in the wrong place at the wrong time and describing sales of their...

A new report released by Chitika based on hundreds of millions of U.S. and Canadian online ad impressions reveals Safari and mobile Safari users are the most verbose when it comes to search queries: Mobile Safari users average 5.17 words per query (WPQ) and Safari users at 5.08. Opera users average the least at 3.88...

Earlier this month, the UK Court of Appeal in London ordered Apple to remove the misleading statement citing a judge comparing the designs of the Apple and Samsung products and replace it with a new notice. Apple showed compliance by publishing a revised notice, acknowledging that Samsung did not infringe Apple’s patents and therefore did not breach U.K....

Folks over at DisplayMate have ran an in-depth series of Mobile Display Technology Shoot-Out tests in order to examine the performance of the Microsoft Surface RT as compared to Apple iPad 3 and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 (for the best display among 10 inch Android Tablets). Find out who wins after the jump! DisplayMate's test revealed that Microsoft Surface RT's display outperforms all...

Apple's online store has updated its iPhone 5 shipping times. Previously set at 3 to 4 weeks, all models of the iPhone 5 are now showing availability as 2 to 3 weeks: Pre-orders took place on September 14th and within an hour or so shipping estimates slipped to 2 to 3 weeks, then eventually 3...

Apple has released iOS 6.1 beta 2 to developers, build 10B5105c, an over-the-air update. Also made available is a new beta version of Apple TV software and Xcode 4.6 Developer Preview 2. The iPhone 5 update comes in at roughly 98MB. iOS 6.1 beta 1 was released to developers on November 1st. Stay tuned to see...

A cool Kickstarter project by the name of Romo, is an affordable, personal robot that uses your iPhone or iPod touch as its brain. According to the developers, this next-gen Romo is almost everything a personal robot should be i.e cute, responsive and really fast, though it's still not capable of doing all that stuff you see in the...

If you have a problem with your iPhone and turn to the best place to take care of the issue -- the Genius Bar at your local Apple Store -- you'll will now have to comply with an new requirement before being allowed to make an appoint to see a Genius. You will now be...

Thorsten Heins, President and CEO of Research In Motion, has today announced in a press release that the company is going to hold the BlackBerry 10 launch event on January 30, 2013. The event is set to take place in multiple countries around the globe, where new BlackBerry smartphones and their availability will be revealed. RIM's highly anticipated...

Although Apple's press release doesn't mention it, HTC will have to pay Apple licensing fees for each Android device it sells, which may shrink the Taiwanese manufacturer's profit margin. (more…)