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Rovio Mobile’s latest Angry Birds game, the Angry Birds Space that took the crown of becoming the fastest growing mobile game ever by surpassing 50 Million downloads in just 35 days of its launch, has just received its first major update. The update takes you to a food-themed planet with 10 new levels featuring pop corns and jelly trampolines. From the official Angry Birds blog:...

Earlier this month, Foxconn CEO announced that his company and Apple will share the initial costs to improve working conditions for their factory workers. However, a new Reuters report claims that working conditions at Foxconn's factories have barely improved according to workers' rights activists and employees. Earlier this year, Apple allowed the U.S.-based Fair Labor Association (FLA) to conduct an extensive audit of Foxconn's...

  One of the growing players in the Apple accessory world, Moshi, has found recent success with its ultra-light, ultra-durable iGlaze line. Just last week, Moshi introduced the iGlaze series (iGlaze 11 and iGlaze 13) for the Macbook Air, to complement iGlaze cases for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad.   Fans of the iGlaze...

AllThingsD has just uploaded all the videos and audio of Steve Jobs appearances at D from 2003-2010 in iTunes, available for free. These are the priceless videos where Jobs answers interview questions candidly and script-free. Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher: So, as a memorial to a great man and in the spirit of sharing a...

A new job listing at Apple is looking for a "Connector Design Engineer". The listing suggests that the company may be looking to redesign the dock connector found on iDevices. The job listing indicates that the candidate will be “responsible for managing multiple connector designs and developments in support of the iPod product lines.” The...

This isn't news, I love taking pictures with my iPhone 4S. Photography has become a huge part of the iPhone, and thus we see a TON of photo editing apps in the App Store. So many so, it can be tough to distinguish them all. But Wood Camera from Bright Mango really sets itself apart,...

According to reports, some Apple Retail Store employees may be working late during the days leading up to Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) next week. The report comes from an Apple Store in Texas where Back-of-House (Apple inventory staff) employees and Specialists (Apple sales staff) have reportedly been asked to work late starting June 5. The employees...

MobileSyrup is reporting Rogers plans to increase its 'Unlimited Value Plans' by $2/month starting June 1st. The increase brings the starting price of monthly plans to $26.75 to $44.75 per month, based on an internal memo: Beginning June 1, 2012, the monthly service fee on all Unlimited Value Plans will increase by $2/month. Customers will...

Aside from Apple CEO Tim Cook being featured at D10, Aaron Sorkin, the man behind the upcoming movie about Steve Jobs, also had an interview. Sorkin is the one who has signed on to write the Steve Jobs biopic based on Walter Isaacson’s biography and made by Sony Pictures Entertainment. Speaking with Walt Mossberg, Sorkin...

Yesterday 9to5Mac posted some purported leaked images of metal-backed shells for the next generation iPhone 5 in both black and white. Now, they report sources have told them these are in fact being tested internally: …sources in position to know say that the structure of the shells do match up with what is being tested...

Today, scattered reports indicate that Apple may have acquired Redmatica, a small Italian startup company that specializes in digital music-editing applications. The report was first issued by Italian blog Fanpage. The blog also managed to find a document from the Italian communications regulator to prove the recent acquisition. The company's software is Mac-based and includes...

Cisco, the global leader in producing networking equipment, has released the latest version of its Visual Networking Index (via ArsTechnica), that measures global Internet usage and predicts future trends. The statistics claim that by 2016, WiFi will account for 51 percent of all internet traffic while cellular data will take a 10 percent share. Cisco's numbers show the proportion of traffic...