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Reports today point to Apple doing some research into development techniques to maximize lithium batteries by ensuring they run longer without making the batteries physically larger. Such batteries are found in Apple's MacBook line of computers and iDevices. AppleInsider reports on an Apple patent filing called "Increasing Energy Density in Rechargeable Lithium Battery Cells". The technique...

We mentioned earlier in the day about Steve Jobs and other tech titans meeting with President Obama. What will they talk about? The future of Silicon Valley? iPhone 5? The Oatmeal speaks the truth: Priceless. [The Oatmeal]

The New York Times is reporting that Apple does not have plans for a smaller iPhone "anytime soon", and that engineers are busy finishing the next iPhone 5, which should be ready by this summer. There's more to this. According to the NYT's second source: Another person who is in direct contact with Apple also...

Popular Mechanics has some interesting "confessions" of an anonymous Apple retail store employee. Are these real? Maybe. Here are a couple of my favorites: The Phone Room The worst is when we have to work the Phone Room, which is where calls to the store are answered. The other day, I felt like I was...

Previously available only on the Blackberry and Android platforms, the UPS app for iPhone is now available in Canada. If you've been using the UPS app on a Blackberry or Android device, the iPhone version has the same functions, such as calculating shipping rates, creating and tracking shipments, finding the closest UPS location, and much more!...

This week, reports indicate that Apple may be looking, via sent job listings, to use OLED display technology in future products. Apple reportedly sent out similar job listings in mid-2008 during their focus on AMLCD displays for future iPhone and iPad products. Now Apple is looking for flat panel display engineers that specialize in OLED...

Update 1: The LA Times has an official list of all the attendees meeting Obama tonight in San Francisco. Talk about a list of tech industry giants: John Doerr, partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Carol Bartz, president and CEO, Yahoo! John Chambers, CEO and chairman, Cisco Systems Dick Costolo, CEO, Twitter Larry Ellison, co-founder...

We've talked about how to enable Emoji (from the Japanese iOS keyboard) on your iPhone via free apps in the App Store. Currently, just by searching the term "emoji" in the App Store produces many solutions to satify your Emoji needs. But what about getting universal emoticons on your iPhone? Emoji can only be seen...

Apple gets the most attention at conferences they don't attend. Think about that for a minute. Apple's final conference was the 2009 Macworld Expo, where typically new products and announcements would be made. The Mobile World Congress is an annual gathering of the most influential companies in the mobile industry. Apple didn't bother attending, but...

Have you encountered that message above? There is a problem with the configuration of your iPhone. Please restore with iTunes and reinstall iBooks. Are you looking for a fix for iBooks after jailbreak iOS 4.2.1 via Greenpois0n? A solution is now available in Cydia that will solve the problem of iBooks refusing to open content...

Google recently introduced a new security feature to help protect your account even further: 2-step verification. We live in a Google world nowadays and a compromised Google Account is the last thing we need. Google's 2-step verification can increase security, but it requires work to setup and maintain. Once enabled, users logging into their Google...

Update 1: A fix is now in Cydia, called "iBooks Fix". Click here to find out how to install it. This week, Social Apples reports that a change made in the reent Apple iBooks app detects whether an iDevice has been jailbroken, and if so, refused to open content purchased from the iBookstore! Since using...