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When you get into a phone call in iOS, your iPhone will automatically dim the display for you when you put the iPhone close to your face because the proximity sensor detects when the iPhone is close to something.

While the feature is nice, it’s not exactly perfect. A new jailbreak tweak called DimInCall by iOS developer snakeninny makes it so the iPhone display dims during a call no matter what, whether the iPhone is close to your face or not. This guarantees ...

Apple has changed the layout of their Apple Store home page Wednesday morning, adding a Father’s Day theme to the design to the Web page.

Father’s Day is on June 16th, which is only 25 more days from today. For those looking to give their father a decent gift this Father’s Day, an iOS device would fit the picture perfectly. Apple knows that, and that’s why they’re remodeling their Web site ...

Google has issued an update to the desktop version of Google Chrome Wednesday, bringing the desktop build to version 27.

The update adds the voice search feature that has been rumored to be added to the desktop version of Google Chrome for the last week. The voice search feature has been available in the iOS Google Search application for some time now, and is liked for the extremely accurate text-to-speech ...

The video-on-demand service, Vudu, recently rolled out a major update to its Vudu Player iOS app. The update grants users the ability to download movies and TV shows directly onto an Apple device for offline viewing. To be more specific, with Vudu Player version 2.0, both iPad and iPhone users can purchase and download Vudu and Ultraviolet content straight to their devices, negating the need for an Internet ...

Apple CEO Tim Cook, CFO Peter Oppenheimer, and Tax Operations Head Phillip Bullock, took the witness table recently at a congressional hearing on Capitol Hill to face U.S. senators who grilled the three men on Apple’s offshore tax practices. The Cupertino California company published Cook and Oppenheimer’s opening statements that detail its now widely reported stance on a comprehensive U.S. corporate tax code form.
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Google is looking to bring a version of its Chrome OS app launcher to the Mac, possibly as an add-on to the Chrome browser. This would allow users to access a slew of Web apps that they previously could not use. The news comes from Chrome developer François Beaufort who revealed on his Google+ page that the Internet search giant is working to bring the app launcher to the Mac.

Since the Chrome OS platform ...

Those of you rocking the Velox jailbreak tweak are already enjoying the additional features that you get right from the home screen without actually having to open any applications. If you haven't tried it already, you should definitely hop aboard the train and give the tweak a shot!

If you’re using Velox already and you want to continue to spice its features up on top of the multiple add-ons that give the tweak for functionality than ...

The American Customer Satisfaction Index (ASCI) recently released its annual rankings of customer satisfaction for mobile phones in the United States. Although Apple had the highest customer satisfaction index score for the second year in a row, its score has fallen slightly while competitors such as Motorola Mobility, Nokia, and Samsung have all ended up gaining in scores. Apple still remains at the top of the list when it ...

Apple seems to be spending extra effort to offer deep social network integration in its mobile operating system. This was first seen with Twitter integration in iOS 5 and then Facebook integration in iOS 6. According to 9to5Mac, Apple will be expanding its social network integration even further with iOS 7 by including support for both Flickr (the photo sharing site) and Vimeo (the video sharing site).
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Those of you looking to enhance the capabilities of your notifications in iOS should check out a new jailbreak tweak called Badger by iOS developers Aehmlo Lxaitn and Brett Schuster.

Badger is unique, because it gives you tons of options right from the home screen whenever you have notifications to deal with. For example, when you receive a text message or iMessage from someone, you can swipe up on the Messages application to reveal a pop-up interface that shows you your notifications for the Messages application. The pop-up interface shows you ...

Although Intel lost the opportunity to help power the iPhone, the company is hard at work to make sure they don’t get completely shut out of mobile hardware. To accomplish this, they are hiring some of Apple’s old talent. To help lead the charge in its plans to build “smart devices” Intel has hired former Apple Vice President, Mike Bell, to head up Intel’s new Smart Devices unit.

Bell and his team will be diving ...