iPhone News

Activist investor Carl Icahn could push Apple to buy Nuance

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated August 4, 2016

A lot of watchers hit the panic button after the billionaire investor Carl Icahn announced taking a "large position" in Apple (think north of $1 billion), which more often than not acts as a Wall Street code-word for impending board/CEO changes and hostile takeovers. But these people needn't worry if an article by the New York Post is anything to go by.

As it turns out, Icahn may be simply looking to leverage his newly acquired influence to force Apple into buying Nuance Communications, whose technology powers Siri's speech recognition. Icahn just recently has conveniently increased his stake in Nuance and now owns 16.4 percent of the company.

Coincidentally or not, the investor said that both Apple and Nuance in his view are currently undervalued...

Baldur’s Gate II: Enhanced Edition is coming to iOS

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated January 26, 2016

Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition, BioWare’s classic role-playing game set in the Dungeons & Dragons universe, launched on the App Store last December combining the original Baldur’s Gate game, the Tales From the Sword Coast expansion pack, an additional monk character, a new ‘Black Pits’ adventure and lost more content.

The game was yanked from the App Store a few months later due to a number of contractual issues with published Beamdog. It has since returned to the App Store as those problems had been resolved in a mutually satisfactory manner and now we're hearing that the official sequel, Baldur’s Gate II: Enhanced Edition, will launch on the iPhone and Android later this year...

Shazam previews now play right in Twitter

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated November 29, 2016

Apart from bringing out the ability to purchase multiple songs at once through iTunes back in June, the music discovery service Shazam has been pretty quiet in terms of its iPhone and iPad app, releasing only a few maintenance updates. Today's version 6.2.1 update changes that.

The just-refreshed application now features way faster song recognition on older devices and brings integration with Twitter, allowing everyone to play tweeted out Shazam song previews right in Twitter, thanks to Shazam's new Twitter Card.

The micro-blogging service recently released an iOS music discovery app called #music so this Shazam update ups the ante in terms of social music discovery. More tidbits right after the break...

Blue iPhone 5C packaging surfaces online, gets removed at the request of a ‘relevant party’

Christian Zibreg ∙ September 2, 2013

After sharing blurry photographs of the supposed plastic iPhone 5C showing the devices's packaging and printed manual, the same Chinese source is back at it and now has posted a pair of new images. The photos appear to picture the blue, white and yellow iPhone 5C units in their boxes and a close-up shot of the blue iPhone 5C.

The latter is especially interesting as we're treated to a nice scene of the device's supposedly rounded edges, part of its Unibody enclosure in matte finish. It's quite compelling, have a look below...

Alleged red iPhone 5C running Safari shown off in blurry video

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated October 6, 2016

This past weekend, a set of blurry photographs sourced from China claimed to have showed us the plastic iPhone 5C packaging along with color-matched wallpapers and the Quick Start manual.

As we approach Apple's September 10 reveal, a suspicious looking video has now surfaced online showing what looks to be Apple's plastic iPhone running the Safari browser.

Needles to say, the clip is making rounds and has already prompted a pretty heated exchange among the Apple watchers, have a look below...

Images of alleged iPhone 5C packaging and manual hit the web

Cody Lee ∙ Updated January 29, 2017

A new image surfaced online this weekend, claiming to depict a dozen iPhone 5C units in their retail packaging. The phone, which is believed to be Apple's long-rumored budget iPhone, is shown in a transparent box similar to that of the iPod touch.

The image was accompanied by two other photos, which also claim to show 5C packaging material. If legitimate, they offer a sneak peek at the handset's user manual, including a device diagram and legal information, and its SIM card ejection tool...

New GlyphPatch tweak patches recently exposed DoS exploit in iOS

Cody Lee ∙ Updated April 13, 2018

Filippo Bigarella has released a new jailbreak tweak this weekend called GlyphPatch. The utility patches the recently exposed DoS exploit which targets Safari's WebKit engine and causes apps to crash when rendering a malicious sequence of characters.

The bug, which was made public last week, affects users on both iOS and Mac and can be triggered through a few different surfaces: SMS, iMessage, the web, and network SSID. But jailbroken iOS users can protect themselves from it with this new tweak...

Verizon to pay Vodafone $130 billion for its 45% stake in Verizon Wireless

Cody Lee ∙ Updated March 15, 2018

Verizon has reached an agreement with Vodafone to purchase its 45% stake in Verizon Wireless for roughly $130 billion, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal. The outlet says that the deal isn't final yet, but it could be announced as soon as Monday.

The acquisition would be the second-largest ever of its kind, coming in about $40 billion behind another Vodafone deal—a $172 billion buyout of Mannesmann AG in 1999—and would cement Verizon's control of the biggest wireless carrier in the US by subscriber base...

This week’s top stories: 6.1.3 untether, iPhone 5S, iPhone 5C, iOS 7 and more…

Sébastien Page ∙ Updated April 25, 2017

Like every Sunday, we bring you the stories that were the most popular on iDB during this past week. Whether it is a news piece, an editorial, a tutorial, a new jailbreak tweak, or an accessory review, we sum it all up in one convenient place.

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Hacker claims to have iOS 6.1.3 untether binary First hands-on video comparison of gold iPhone 5S/5C/5 casing emerges OpenJailbreak portal now open to the public Graphite iPhone 5S rear shell tipped in new HD vid? Rumor: iPhone 5C to come in at least 4 colors, graphite iPhone 5S shell shown Rumor: iPhone 5S’s A7 chip is 31% faster, has separate motion tracking core Top Apple blogger debunks September iPads, iPhone 5S scratch test and other crazy rumors Ahead of September’s reveal, Apple now asking devs to submit app icons at new iOS 7 sizes How to make your iPhone jump to full brightness when launching the Camera What to do when there is not enough iCloud storage to backup your iPhone BitTorrent Sync iOS app launches on App Store Patent struggles may keep this MagSafe-like headphone adapter from being made Wallpapers of last week: blue gradients with tasteful grunge

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AT&T’s new Aio Wireless prepaid brand goes nationwide mid-September

Christian Zibreg ∙ August 30, 2013

Responding to pressure from T-Mobile, AT&T in May announced Aio Wirelelss. The new wireless prepaid brand features data plans starting as low as $40 a month for 250MB and all the way up to $70 a month for seven gigabytes of high-speed data.

After having tested the service in Florida, Texas and Atlanta markets, AT&T said Friday that Aio Wireless will be available online to everyone beginning mid-September. And to raise awareness, AT&T is planning to give new customers their third month of service free.

Bunny Bonker reinvents whack-a-mole for a more modern sensibility

Lory Gil ∙ Updated March 14, 2018

I know I’m going to get razzed by some of our readers for spotlighting this app today. It is super cutesy, based on a Chuck-E-Cheese game, and features a whistle-performed indie song that makes you think of an Amazon Kindle commercial.

But, mark my words, Bunny Bonker is challenging and fun and at least half of you will thank me for telling you about it…

Plants vs Zombies 2 racks up 25 million downloads

Christian Zibreg ∙ August 30, 2013

Just ten days ago, Electronic Arts announced PopCap's hotly anticipated Plants vs Zombies sequel topped sixteen million download since its August 16 App Store debut. Today, the super publisher shared another milestone: players have now downloaded Plants vs Zombies 2 twenty-five million times. That's nine million downloads in just ten days, averaging to a download rate of nearly a million copies per day...