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Apple has just announced its iPad sales numbers for the first weekend, and Tim Cook seemed thrilled about the high demand for the iPad mini and fourth-generation iPad. But since the press release kept the exact iPad mini sales data under lock and key, the main question remained unanswered: how did the iPad mini perform?...

A new report by Guardian claims that Google employees that are working on the dedicated Google Maps app for iOS, are suspecting that Apple will not approve it in the App Store (via CNET). However, if Apple does reject the Google Maps app on grounds that it is by a competitor, approval of other maps apps currently...

Back in August, Empirical Magic put out an iOS support matrix to support to detail what devices are supported on the various version of iOS. Today they let us know the matrix has been updated to support the iPhone 5, iPad mini and 5th generation iPod touch. It's a handy matrix to check out and...

Previously, Apple’s largest manufacturing partner Foxconn Electronics was reported to be buying an 11% stake in Sharp and that it will be investing up to $1B to boost display panels production. However, a new IDG report is pointing out that since Sharp has shown doubts about the company's ability to continue operating, its stock price continues to fall. To rescue the...

While the iPad mini launch attracted fewer buyers across the globe, some areas in Canada and in the US have completely sold out the latest Apple gadget within a few hours. To put that into numbers: Apple sold 3 million iPads in three days, which makes a million iPads per day, the company announced. (more…)

Primate Labs has posted about iPad mini benchmarks showing up in Geekbench from five different models of the smaller iPad. Considering the iPad mini uses the same A5 processor found in the iPad 2, the results aren't surprising at all, with a score coming in at 745. Check it out below: The iPad 2 fares...

Equal parts military strategy and tower defense, Air Patriots delivers addiction every bit as strong as the developers at Amazon Games promise. You begin your journey as a rookie, a situation that will give you entirely too much confidence because as you work your way through to the Veteran and Pro levels, the game gets...

The latest iOS 6.1 beta build was recently seeded by Apple and it has already been jailbroken using the latest version of redsn0w 0.9.15b3. However, this doesn't work for all devices as it is pre-A5 only. This means you can only obtain a tethered jailbreak on iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and iPod Touch 4G running...

Time magazine used Instagram to cover the effects of Hurricane Sandy and found out that the results were pretty impressive. An article by Forbes details why one of the world's leading news magazine turned to an iPhone app to cover this historic natural disaster. The report details how Kira Pollack, Time’s director of photography, rounded up five photographers from the region...

The Dev-Team front man @MuscleNerd has tweeted a screenshot of his iPad Mini showing that he has successfully gained root access to the device, pretty much confirming the device is jailbreakable. As usual, he didn't add any more information to his tweet. Here's what the jailbreak master tweeted: https://twitter.com/MuscleNerd/status/264795310285520896 While he didn't elaborate as to what he...

Popular teardown analysis website iSuppli has just completed its report regarding the Apple iPad Mini teardown and according to them, the base model for Apple's smaller tablet i.e a Wi-Fi-only 16 gigabyte iPad Mini that retails for $329, costs at least $188 to build (via AllThingsD). The reports claims that 32GB or 64GB additional memory adds only incremental cost i.e $31...

Anybody who read Apple's first attempt at an apology will agree with the courts in the UK: nice try, but do it again... this time, with feeling (or at the very least, with accuracy). The revised notice made appearances in UK newspapers earlier this week. (more…)