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A senior Chinese official with the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) has said today that Proview Technology is the rightful owner of the iPad trademark, not Apple Inc., notes The Globe And Mall. Proview is already battling Apple in a Chinese court over the iPad trademark but according to the company's lawyer, talks with Apple's lawyers have not...

U.S. ITC Judge Thomas Pender has issued a ruling in favour of Motorola Mobility today, stating that Apple has infringed a 3G related patent owned by the company, reports Bloomberg. However, this ruling isn’t much of a victory for Motorola. For one thing, the ITC ruled in Motorola's favor on only one out of four disputed patents. For...

Update 1: Google Drive is now live. Check it out here https://drive.google.com Here's a video overview of Google Drive, as announced on Google's blog: With Google Drive, you can: Create and collaborate. Google Docs is built right into Google Drive, so you can work with others in real time on documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Once you choose...

A lot of us are holding our breath waiting for an untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.1. It looks like we're going to turn blue and keel over, before we see a release. Pod2g tweeted late last night that a release for his latest jailbreak could be a month or 2 away. Pod2g explains that the...

On Tuesday afternoon (2pm PT) Apple is set to announce its 2012 Q2 earnings and rival Samsung is set to do the same this Friday. Both companies are expected to report record jumps in net earnings, notes the WSJ: The two companies were the only major smartphone makers to gain share in the fourth quarter....

Facebook today released an updated amendment to its S-1 document for its upcoming IPO filing and within it we learn the social network now has over 500 million monthly active users, either via their official apps or mobile sites. There are currently 901 million monthly active users in total. Also within the S1, we discover...

Appleberry.com has announced the release of an updated Gevey SIM, that now unlocks the GSM iPhone 4, on iOS 5.1. It also supports all firmwares and basebands back as far as iOS 4.1. It requires your iPhone 4 to be jailbroken. The new GEVEY™ Ultra unlocks your GSM iPhone 4 running iOS 5.1 and earlier...

Dropbox has announced today on their blog the new ability for users to share and send a link to their files and folders: Anyone with the link gets access to a snazzy page where they can view (but not edit) your stuff. Our gallery pages give your photos, videos, and even docs the gorgeous, full-browser...

About a month ago we told you the Toronto-based Capybara Games had their iOS game Superbrothers: Sword and Sorcery EP was nominated for Game of the Year at the 2012 Canadian Video Game Awards. The announcement of winners took place this Saturday at Fan Expo Vancouver, with Capybara taking home 5 wins out of the...

Looks like a Chinese parts reseller named TVC-Mall (via Apple Bitch) has already got hold of the next-generation iPhone a.k.a iPhone 5's home buttons and is now listing them for sale on its website. Available in black and white colors, the buttons are indeed slightly different from the rounded home buttons found in current iOS devices. While these purported iPhone 5 buttons...

A brand now jailbreak tweak has just hit the Cydia store which lets you add a pretty neat weather widget to your iOS lock screen. It's called Forecast and has been developed by iOS developer @Stimpy5050. Once you download and install the Forecast tweak, you'll be able to display the weather along with time and date, replacing the default...

A few months back, Microsoft launched its iOS app for SkyDrive, a Dropbox-like cloud based storage service available to all Windows Live users. Today, the company has announced an all new SkyDrive app for Mac OS X as well as an update to the Windows version. The updated desktop apps allow easy management of SkyDrive stored content with features...