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Apple Enhances & Adds More Web Apps To Its iCloud Website
Apple is actively working to enhance their iCloud Beta website as today they've added and upgraded five web-based applications. We have the Mail, Calendar, Notes, Reminders, and Find My iPhone web-apps all receiving minor upgrades. We previewed a few of the upgrades back during July, if you remember. This is simply an overview of the features...
Economist: iPhone 5 Sales Could Add $3.2 Billion to the U.S. Economy
Marketwatch reports the upcoming iPhone 5 could be worth up to $3.2 billion dollars to the U.S. economy in the Q4 period, according to J.P. Morgan economist Michael Feroli. He predicts 8 million iPhones sold in the fourth quarter, and with an assumed price of $600 per device plus $200 worth of imported goods per...
Netflix CEO: “I Don’t Quite Understand” Why Canada Has Very Low Internet Caps
In a recent video interview with The Globe and Mail, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings spoke about Canada's capped internet plans compared to the rest of the world. We transcribed one of the most interesting questions posed to Hastings about Netflix doing business in Canada: The Globe and Mail's Omar El Akkad: How difficult is it...
Apple vs Amazon: Quarterly Profits Compared [CHART]
Apple and Amazon can be considered two competitors in the tablet market, yet the two companies offer varying sized devices. Apple obtains a majority of its profits from the ridiculously high priced devices on the market. Amazon tends to price devices low hoping to bank on sales of e-books, music, apps, etc. Now who has the better...
Will High Carrier Subsidies Put An End To $0 Phones?
Carriers throughout Canada and the United States are known for having a selection of paid and free phones for consumers to choose from. The iPhone 3GS for example; when the iPhone 4S was released, the price dropped to free. Our carriers can do this courtesy of long-term two-to-three year contracts. When the iPhone is announced...
Google Drive For iOS Updated With Document Editing Features & More
Google has today released the much awaited update to its Google Drive iOS app that now allows users to edit their documents on the go. Users can now create new documents, edit existing documents and format text in addition to creating new folders, move files into folders and upload photos & videos, all from within the Google Drive app....
Noreen Krall: Apple’s Chief Litigation Counsel Who Led The $1B Patents War [Bloomberg Profile]
Noreen Krall, the 47 year old who led a team of lawyers from inside Apple and some of the top U.S. law firms to fight Samsung and making the world's biggest smartphone maker pay Apple more than $1 billion for infringing design patents, has today been profiled by Bloomberg in an interesting article that highlights how she became...
Pinger: The #1 Free Texting & Calling Service In U.S. Launches In Canada
Pinger, the leading iOS app for unlimited free texting and calling in the U.S. has today made its debut in Canada and is now available for download in the Canadian App Store for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. The free app is also one of the top 5 iOS apps of all time in U.S. With...
iSkin Preps New Accessories, Launches iPhone 5 Giveaway
Numerous accessory makers are gearing up for the launch of the iPhone 5 this Wednesday, and Toronto's iSkin is ready for the launch: “Apple practically announced the iPhone 5 with its Sept. 12th press invitation,” says Andrew Ackloo, CEO of iSkin. “It’s going to be the most feature-packed iPhone launch in Apple’s history, and we...
Florida Company Reveals Anonymous Stole Apple UDIDs from their Servers, Not from FBI
NBC News reports exclusively the previously leaked 1 million Apple UDIDs by Antisec did not come from an FBI laptop, but rather stolen from a Florida publishing company called Blue Toad, as discovered by researcher David Schuetz, who tipped the company: Paul DeHart, CEO of the Blue Toad publishing company, told NBC News that technicians...
Samsung to Sue Apple Over iPhone 5 for Infringing on LTE Patents
The Korea Times reports Samsung will indeed sue Apple over the upcoming iPhone 5 based on infringing on LTE patents: Samsung Electronics said Monday that it will sue Apple over its release of the iPhone 5 for infringing on its fourth-generation (4G) long-term evolution (LTE) connectivity patents, according to ranking officials. ``It’s true that Samsung...
New iMacs and 13″ Retina Macbook Pros Have Began Mass Shipping [REPORT]
According to a report from Digitimes, Apple's 13.3 inch Retina display Macbook Pros and iMac have hit the mass shipping stage, citing "sources from the upstream supply chain." An exact release date wasn't provided, but they were able to determine a September or October release is plausible for 13.3 inch Macbook Pros: The sources estimated that the...