The New York Times points to some interesting comments, regarding Apple, made by AT&T's chief executive Randall Stephenson at the Milken Institute's Global Conference earlier this week.
During an on-stage interview, the CEO discussed a wide range of topics including his regret for initially allowing iPhone users to have unlimited data, and how it affected AT&T's bottom line...
Run by Paul Graham's funding firm Y Combinator, Hacker News has grown to become a popular destination for news stories about hacking, startup companies, interesting technologies and trending topics. Actually, the site attracts over 120,000 unique visitors on an average weekday.
Given the site's popularity, it really doesn't come as a surprise that there's no shortage of unofficial Hacker News clients for the iOS platform. Today, we bring the spotlight on Hacker News * (asterisk included), a clean, efficient and simple to use front-end to the Hacker News website...
As you've no doubt heard by now, Samsung has challenged Apple's smartphone dominance with yesterday's introduction of the third-generation Galaxy S smartphone at the Unpacked event in London.
Featuring an incremental bump up in specs and a host of software enhancements, you'd assume Samsung's marketing folks would proudly show off the device in official advertising.
Not so fast. A side-by-side comparison of the iPhone 4S and Galaxy S III commercials indicates Sammy's got a whole lot of learning to do: their 60-second advert features the flagship handset three times less frequently than Apple's commercial...
Apple tends to yank apps over duplicate functionality, use of private APIs and those that look and feel very much like stock iOS programs. So it goes without saying I was surprised to learn that the company approved Track 8, a $1.99 music player program by Ender Labs. That Apple greenlighted an app resembling a rival platform's UI rather than flaltly reject it is news in and of itself, you'll admit.
Maybe the company just doesn't care because Windows Phone is failing? Be that as it may, people will wonder if a Metro-style interface makes sense on iOS...
Giving credit where credit is due, Apple now properly acknowledgeds use of crowd-sourced map tiles from OpenStreetMap for its $4.99 iPhoto photo management program for the iPhone and iPad.
The proper attribution has been discovered in yesterday’s iPhoto 1.0.1 maintenance update, tucked away in legal text found under the Apps section in device Settings.
With that off our backs, we wonder when will Apple make an iOS-wide switch from the Google Maps backend to its own mapping solution...
Among the third-party retailers that sell Apple's handset, Walmart typically has some of the lowest prices. In fact, it's been selling 16GB versions of the iPhone 4S for just $188 since last November. And it looks like it's about to get a lot cheaper.
Cult of Mac has learned that Walmart is dropping the price of Apple's latest smartphone (AT&T model) down to $114 with a 2-year agreement. It also appears that the retail chain is lowering the price of its 8GB iPhone 4 as well, down to $34.
Unfortunately, discounts were a glitch in the system, Walmart confirmed in an official statement...
Although Apple has created one of the strongest (likely the strongest) digital content stores in the world, it's far from perfect. The iTunes Store has a number of fundamental problems, including the lack of a proper refund system.
Perhaps no one is more aware of this than Robert Herskowitz. The iTunes user was recently billed twice for the same song — Adam Lambert's "Whataya Want from Me" — and was denied a refund by Apple. So he's suing them...
When Apple announced that it was going to continue selling the iPad 2 for $399 alongside its new tablet, the company never mentioned any changes. After all, it's the same iPad 2 that it's been selling for more than a year. Right?
Not exactly. The folks over at AnandTech uncovered a minor, but perhaps significant, change in the discounted tablet's A5 processor that gives the slate nearly two hours of added battery life. Keep reading to find out how...
Things are starting to pick up regarding the iOS 5.1 jailbreak, as we've just received word that pod2g has hit another major milestone in his efforts to hack the latest version of Apple's software.
The security expert just tweeted "Heya! My iPhone 4 running iOS 5.1 is now untethered :-)" This is good news, considering the only jailbreak currently available for iOS 5.1 is tethered...
Even though iDB is primarily an iPhone-focused blog, we like to keep tabs on what the competition is up to. Earlier this week we told you about RIM's all-new BlackBerry 10 platform, and today we've got some news regarding Samsung's latest handset.
The Korean manufacturer unveiled the Galaxy S III earlier today at a media event in London. Packed with a 4.8-inch Super AMOLED display and a host of other high-end components, the device certainly looks impressive on paper. But is it?
Carrier options for US iPhone customers have dramatically multiplied over the past two years. The handset, which was once only available from AT&T, is now offered on nine wireless providers across the country.
Actually, 10 carriers if you count Straight Talk. You may or may not know this, but the nationwide prepaid provider is compatible with the GSM iPhone. You don't even need to unlock your handset to switch to it...
A whopping 91 percent of tech moms want it for Mother’s Day instead of flowers, teachers deem it the future of education (though DoJ disagrees), it's used everywhere for work, has managed to break Amazon’s monopolistic grip on the publishing industry - and yet it shows no sign of slowing down.
And even as rivals face downturn, folks are picking their iPads like there’s no tomorrow. This is the crux of latest market tablet survey by research firm IDG which pegged Apple's worldwide tablet share in Q1 2012 at 68 percent, up from 54.7-percent in the year-ago quarter.
Apple's growth largely came at the expense of Amazon’s Kindle Fire which plummeted from 16.8 percent share in Q4 2011 to just four percent share in Q1 2012. That's a staggering 12.8-percentage points market share loss in just one quarter. Another way to look at it: Amazon shipped only 700,000 Kindle Fire units in Q1 2012...