Month: April 2014

 Apple has confirmed the exit of long-time iOS designer Greg Christie, who was a Vice President in Apple’s design department. Read More

smaxp writes: “If the cable and satellite live television providers were to comment on the latest Amazon Fire TV or reports of the new Google Android and Apple TVs, it would likely be in the voice and character of Charlton Heston: ‘We will give up our remotes when they are pried from our cold dead…

Read More “Apple, Google, and Amazon’s Quest For One Remote Control Is Futile” »

 Apple has hired away a former Vice President of Search Technology from Amazon, according to 9to5Mac. Benoit Dupin’s profile was removed from Amazon A9′s leadership site, and his LinkedIn now lists him as a Director at Apple. The new role is said to be involved in revamping search specifically as it relates to Apple Maps,…

Read More “Apple Poaches Amazon A9 Search Exec For Maps And App Store Search Improvements” »

theodp (442580) writes “GeekWire reports that a Microsoft researcher’s 1991 video could torpedo Apple’s key ‘slide to unlock’ patent, one of 5 patents that the iPhone maker cited in its demand for $40 per Samsung phone. Confronted with what appears to be damning video evidence of prior art that pre-dates its ‘invention’ by more than…

Read More “Apple: Dumb As a Patent Trolling Fox On iPhone Prior Art?” »

 Apple has just released updating figures around iOS version adoption as measured by its own tracking of app usage, and iOS 7 and up now accounts for 87 percent of all iOS devices by that measurement, with iOS 6 making up 11 percent and older versions accounting for just 2 percent of the total picture….

Read More “Apple Puts iOS 7 Adoption At 87% As iOS 6 And Older Fade To Black” »

The Microsoft Xbox One, which released towards the latter stages of last year, already boasts a sizeable catalog titles. But while those rocking the old Xbox 360 cannot enjoy the cutting-edge graphics offered by the latest machine, the range of games is much broader, and naturally, many gaming fans have appealed for Microsoft to introduce…

Read More “Microsoft Planning To Bring Xbox 360 Emulation To Xbox One” »

Documents revealed by the second Apple vs Samsung patent trial are not just giving us a peek behind the corporate curtains at 1 Infinite Loop, but also a glimpse into Samsung’s Seoul boardroom. A slide from a Samsung business forecast from 2011 shows the company viewing “beating Apple” as its number one priority for 2012 …  The presentation, entitled 2011 Summary…

Read More “‘Beating Apple is #1 priority, everything must be in context of beating Apple’ – internal Samsung docs” »

If you have even the slightest inclination to attend the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, you probably want to throw your name in the hat for your chance to purchase a ticket before the window closes in less than four hours. Unlike years prior, Apple has decidedly opted for a random selection lottery system of sorts to…

Read More “Reminder: Less than 4 hours to join the WWDC 2014 ticket lottery” »

The ongoing Apple vs. Samsung patent trial has managed to capture and hold our attentions for a number of reasons. The bitter legal wrangle currently shows no signs of subsiding as both companies continue to flex their legal might in the hope of claiming even the smallest of victories over the other. Continue reading this…

Read More “Apple Admits To Need For Larger iPhone, According To Leaked Internal Documents” »

Patent trials generally aren’t the most exciting of events, but documents revealed through the second Apple vs Samsung case are certainly providing a lot of fascinating glimpses behind the scenes. The latest is the above summary of research Apple carried out among early buyers of the iPhone 5 to find out what they thought of…

Read More “Early iPhone 5 buyers were already asking for bigger screens, reveals confidential document” »

I’d find this video hard to believe were it not for its credentials. The WSJ reports that StoreDot, the start-up behind the technology, has its background in the Nanotechnology department of Tel Aviv University, and it’s been demonstrated at Microsoft’s Think Next conference. Ultra-fast battery charging has been seen before, but using special (and not very portable) battery technology. This…

Read More “30-second smartphone charge demonstrated using biological semiconductors” »

In August of last year, Apple launched a trade-in program that allowed iPhone customers to turn in their old iPhones in exchange for a discount on a new device. The program has expanded to several countries since it launched last year. Starting today the company now extends the offer to German customers as well. German users of…

Read More “Apple launches iPhone trade-in program in German retail stores, offers big savings on new iPhones” »

We all like to customize our devices. It’s why multi-colored cases sell so well, and why we agonize over whether what color smartphone we want to buy every time a new one gets released. People like to think that they’ve got something different to what everyone else has because they like to be different. Continue…

Read More “How To Make iOS 7 Automatically Change Home Screen Wallpaper At Regular Intervals [VIDEO]” »

Hot on the heels of Apple’s CarPlay, Microsoft’s effort is decidedly similar to that of the iPhone maker. Windows in the Car follows the same approach in that it will allow users of Windows Phone devices to take over a car’s built-in entertainment and navigation systems using the Mirrorlink standard, with all input duties then…

Read More “Microsoft Shows Off ‘Windows in the Car’, A Direct Competitor To Apple’s CarPlay [VIDEO]” »

Real multi-app multitasking may be on its way to iOS thanks to jailbreak developer Ryan Petrich after he released a teaser video showing a tweak that he is currently working on. It’s still in its early stages of development, but the video is enough to get us very excited indeed. Continue reading this article at…

Read More “Ryan Petrich Shows Off Picture-in-Picture Style Multitasking For iOS 7 [VIDEO]” »