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Earlier this week, Apple recently improved its in-house Maps offering by activating nearby search functionality in the following countries: Australia, Canada, France and Germany, while adding Flyover locations were simultaneously added for Europe, Asia and North America. According to the updated Apple’s Maps Feature Availability webpage, the company’s “Nearby” local search feature has been extended beyond initial offerings ...

A new report from research firm IDC reveals that Apple and Samsung are still in the lead when it comes to the worldwide smartphone market. However, it was noted that Chinese smartphone company Huawei had a 60.9% market share growth in the past year. This increase is definitely impressive, we’d say this really adds pressure to other industry giants.

The report noted that Samsung is still ...

This morning we noted that U.S. electronics retail chain Best Buy began accepting Apple TV preorders and Apple started the same thing a few days ago. Now, 9to5Mac has reported that the 4th generation set-top box will be available in Apple Retail Stores beginning Friday, October 30th. Apparently the news comes from Apple Retail employees.

This date is likely to be true as those ...

Walgreens is getting on board with Apple Pay in a whole new way, according to published reports Wednesday. And the plans in place could manifest very, very soon.

MacRumors is hearing that Walgreens has designs on Apple Pay integration for its Balance Rewards loyalty rewards program. Nothing is official yet, but we're told plans are in place.

With retail giants like Kohl's having already ...

U.S. mobile carrier T-Mobile recently announced that Apple’s iPad mini 4 and iPad Air 2 is now part of the company’s Jump On Demand program. This means that customers can upgrade up to three times per year and get a device on a 18-month lease. The tablets are available in all different storage sizes, so upfront fees and monthly payments will vary depending on which model the customer chooses. ...

Popular U.S. electronics retail chain Best Buy started taking preorders for Apple’s new 4th generation Apple TV today with a release date of Wednesday, November 4th. Best Buy is carrying both the 32GB and 64GB Apple TV, so consumers will be able to choose which size they want. The smaller 32GB device will cost consumers $149.99 and the larger one is priced at $199.99. It is noted that those ...

Those of you that use alarms on your iOS device(s) a daily basis will come to appreciate Safe Alarm 2 by iOS developer Douglas Soares. If you don't already have this tweak, you're really missing out on a much more immersive alarm experience on iOS.

Safe Alarm 2 adds a slew of new options to the alarm creation interface:



For those unfamiliar with alarms in iOS, the options above the "Safe Alarm 2" toggle switch are all you get with a stock installation of iOS. When you install Safe Alarm 2, you get all of ...

Mobile Safari allows for a multi-tabbed experience, letting users have many Web site open at once just like a fully-featured desktop Web browser. Although the current tab-switching interface is effective, some would prefer a UI that is laid out better and more fun to access. That's where a new jailbreak tweak called BrowserTabs by iOS developer Rene Tejeda comes into play.

With BrowserTabs, rather than tapping on the tabs button, you ...

If you don't like how when you tap on the play button to watch a video in the Messages application that the video plays in the small preview bubble rather than expanding to full-screen so that you can actually see everything, then a new free jailbreak tweak called FSVideoOnlyMessages by iOS developer Nathan Ingraham is for you.

With FSVideoOnlyMessages, rather than playing videos inline with the rest of your message bubbles ...

On Wednesday, the Pangu jailbreak team has released a Mac OS X version of its once Windows-only jailbreak tool for iOS 9.0-9.0.2 that was released two weeks ago.

The new tool will run on Mac OS X without the need to set up a Windows virtual machine. As many Mac OS X users aren't Windows fans, the news that a Mac OS X version of Pangu9 is now available will be music to the ears.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook said today during the company’s quarterly earnings call that 30% of iPhone purchasers this quarter switched over from Android smartphones. Cook noted that this is the highest rate of switchers they have ever seen and measured in a single three-month period. The 30% statistic however, refers to those who upgraded from an Android and not first-time purchasers.
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