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Facebook Mobile Apps to Receive Filters Soon, Skype Video Chat Support [Update]
Update 1: Facebook Canada's PR company contacted us and clarified these new filters are only available to camera phones (non-smartphones): We just wanted to clarify this was just an announcement for the Facebook for Every Phone app which is only for camera-enabled feature phones. According to a post on the Facebook Brazil page, upcoming versions...
iLounge Shares Details Of iPhone 5 Including Its Size, Screen & Dock Connector
Commonly dubbed as 'iPhone 5' or the "New iPhone", Apple's next handset is going be longer and thinner than the iPhone 4 and 4S if sources of Jeremy Horwitz, the editor-in-chief of iLounge, are to be believed. The new iPhone, which is expected to be launched by Apple this fall, was previously rumored to get a teardrop-shaped design but now,...
RIM’s BlackBerry 10 Future Portrayed Perfectly by The Joy of Tech [COMIC]
The Joy of Tech's best comic yet. Especially after RIM's 'Wake Up' campaign in Australia. BlackBerry 10 was revealed yesterday.
Time Waster Of The Month: Mobigame’s Edge [Video Review]
For May's Time Waster of the month I'm going back in time - back to December of 2008. That's when Mobigame released Edge, a 3D puzzle game for your iOS devices. There's nothing super fancy about this game. You take control of a cube and try to navigate it around various worlds. The object is...
IKEA Launches Mobile App To Make In Store Shopping Easier
If you enjoy complicated, 3D puzzles, with instructions in a foreign language, then you probably like to shop at IKEA. :P IKEA is the place to go for affordable, stylish home furnishings. Their retails stores can seem like a maze, and finding what your looking for can be a challenge. When buying furniture at...
Liquidmetal Inventor: “Apple Will Find a Way to Use This Technology in a Breakthrough Product”
Business Insider spoke with one of the inventors of Liquidmetal, Atakan Peker about the prospect of Apple utilizing his technology in future products. What makes Liquidmetal special is its strong and durable qualities. Apple owns exclusive rights to use Liquidmetal in specifically for cases and enclosures. Peker recalls when he first noticed Apple used his...
Dazzling iPhone ‘Puzzle’ Cover of Fun’s ‘We Are Young’ [VIDEO]
YouTube user Mystery Guitar Man and his crew have put together a video cover of the song 'We Are Young' by Fun. With the guitar cover playing in the background, four iPhones are arranged in complex synchronization with lyrics being shown on the displays. The final video took 238 takes to get it right. Check...
Another iPhone 5 Liquid Metal Concept [GALLERY]
Well, there must be some bored designers out there, as we seem to be getting a new iPhone 5 concept everyday. Although these concepts are purely based on rumours of what the next iPhone might look like, they are still fun to look at. This one comes from a French blog called Nowhereelse, and is...
Pebble E-Paper Watches Will Be Integrated with RunKeeper, Funding Surpasses $8 Million
The Pebble e-paper watch on Kickstarter has become the all-time highest backed project, and just broke $8 million in funding. The project's leader Eric Migicovsky was born in Vancouver. Now, RunKeeper has announced details on their blog about being approached by the Pebble team--and that RunKeeper will be integrated into watches when they are available:...
Apple VP of iOS Scott Forstall Nets $38.7 Million After the Sale of Apple Stock
The man in charge of iOS at Apple netted $38.7 million in sale of Apple stock, as noted last Friday via SEC filings. Last month Scott Forstall, the senior VP of iOS had 120,000 restricted stock units from 2008 vest and sold 55,849 of those shares to offset taxes due at conversion. The remaining 64,151 shares...
Dropbox SDK To Be Updated to Prevent Further Apps from Being Rejected by Apple
As noted by The Next Web, some developers had experienced their apps being rejected by Apple due to a bug in the Dropbox SDK that allowed users to create Dropbox accounts and even access to paid upgrades--a violation of Apple's SDK policy on in-app purchases as it bypasses the 70/30 split with Cupertino. Developers noted...
Twitter Was in Talks to Acquire Photo App Camera+
Bloomberg reports sources tell them Twitter was in talks to acquire popular photography app Camera+, shortly after Facebook acquired Instagram for $1 billion. It was reported earlier that Twitter made an offer for Instagram, but was outbid by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The reason the deal didn't go down between Twitter and Camera+? Apparently the...