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Fortune notes that in Greenpeace's latest Guide to Green Electronics Apple ranked forth among its consumer electronics peers by environmental criteria. HP, Dell, and Nokia lead the way respectfully. What's significant is that Apple has moved up five spots in last years report. The Greenpeace report reviews three categories: energy, greener products, and sustainable operations. It praises Apple for...

Recently it has been discovered that iOS 5 has a hidden built in panorama mode for the native Camera app. Enabling the option allows users to tap and move the camera from left to right along a blue line after hitting the shutter button to capture a panoramic image. Even though @chpwn has released a Cydia package installing which...

A couple of days back, iOS developer and hacker Charlie Miller found a major security exploit in iOS using which he was able to upload a malware-infested app into the App Store, leading to a permanent shut down of his developer account by Apple. In the light of this development, @pod2g has instructed users to stay away...

The Canadian War Museum has launched a new iPhone app to bring a new experience for visitors. It includes an interactive floor guide, plus visitors can use the app to scan QR codes at various points of interest. If you're visiting the museum to remember, this is a must-have app. This application is designed to...

A report published by DigiTimes indicates that Apple has instructed its major iPhone / iPad parts suppliers such as Foxconn to delay a portion of their shipments for the final quarter of 2011 to the first quarter of 2012. It is claimed that Apple has taken this decision in light of lower-than-expected pre-sales of iPhone 4S. All iPhone...

Adobe has announced they will shut down Flash support for mobile devices and concentrate on Adobe AIR and HTML5: Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app stores. We will no longer continue to develop Flash...

Earlier today the Apple Store app was updated to include support for Canada, and to also debut the new self-checkout feature called EasyPay (U.S. only at the moment). Curious to know how this self-managed system works for accessory purchases? The Mac Observer went hands on today with the feature to purchase a $200 accessory. Users...

With all the breakthroughs lately in ports of Siri over to the iPhone 4, iPod touch, and iPhone 3GS, some have wondered whether the voice feature will make it onto older devices. Apple has confirmed Siri will not be supported on older devices, in response to a developer's bug report submitted to Apple. The developer...

Google’s Eric Schmidt is in Korea this week meeting with senior government and business officials, including South Korean President Lee Myung-bak. During a press conference this morning he was asked, among other things, on his thoughts of Steve Jobs’ claims that Android is a “stolen product”. While first calling Jobs a “fantastic human being” and saying he is...

Boeing and MIT have developed technology to control an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) from anywhere, as demonstrated this summer at Boeing's Seattle research centre. The team was able to control a UAV over an athletic field 2500 miles away in Cambridge, Massachusetts, home of MIT: Boeing engineer George Windsor sat in a small room at a...

HeyTell is a fun app that turns your iPhone into a walkie talkie, essentially bringing Push-to-Talk to your device. It has just been updated to support iOS 5 and Bluetooth. What's New In Version 2.3.1 * New languages: Chinese (Simplified), Danish, Russian, Swedish. Many, many thanks go out to both Jonas Bohdén for providing the...

Here's a pretty interesting infographic giving you an insight into the fact that cell phones are playing a big role in shaping up the lives of college students. Students love their cell phones more than anything else with more than 94% texting their friends and colleagues every day. In fact, over 60% of these students...