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Apple included an interesting little feature in the latest version of iOS 6 that allows someone’s iPhone to use cellular data when Wi-Fi connections become sketchy.

The feature called Wi-Fi Plus Cellular allows apps that have trouble communicating via Wi-Fi to switch to cellular data instead. A similar feature debuted in an earlier version of iOS 6 that allows users to decide ...

Apple’s iOS platform seems to have had a huge impact on gaming with more people choosing to get their entertainment on the iPhone and iPad rather than dedicated handheld consoles such as those created by Nintendo and Sony. By the end of the year, analysts are expecting Game Center accounts on iOS to surpass the 200 million milestone, making it the world’s largest gaming platform. According to Apple, there ...

ArsTechnica tested just how much OS X Mountain Lion affects the battery life of some of Apple’s laptops, and their findings were pretty significant.

Reports of OS X Mountain life draining laptop batteries abnormally fast began emerging shortly after the OS’s release filing Apple’s online support forums with complaints. ArsTechnica’s tests show Apple’s latest OS does indeed shorten the battery ...

Apple is already readying builds of OS X 10.8.1 to seed to developers according to MacRumors.

The report claims Apple is making preparations to release the first maintenance update to OS X Mountain Lion which debuted two weeks ago. Apple’s turnaround time for the first update to their new OS X releases is traditionally rather quick as problems that need addressing begin popping up shortly ...

Apple’s own two stock Notification Center widgets are wonderfully made and useful at times. However one useful widget that would fit right in with the two of them is an RSS feed widget. Fortunately, a new free Notification Center widget has been introduced to Cydia – iRSS Widget for Notificaiton Center by iOS developer andreamela.

As illustrated above, the widget looks professionally done – simple, elegant, and displays news by scrolling right to left just ...

If you don’t like using your time to highlight text and delete text in the Messages application, or repeatedly tapping on the backspace button or holding own on the backspace button to delete text in the Messages application, then a new jailbreak tweak called ClearButton by iOS developer Sirex will let you instantly clear the text field to make room for a new message.

As illustrated above, the tweak adds a new button to the Messages application ...

A recent rumor has been spotted on Reddit indicating that Apple may be in the works of getting asymmetric screws for their devices to keep users out. Citing Cult of Mac, the rumor comes from a leaked e-mail that supposedly came from Apple's design department in Cupertino, CA. The screw, pictured above, has a completely bizarre head pattern that will render most, if not all, known screwdrivers useless in attempting to remove the screw by ...

iOS and Android have obliterated the smartphone market shares of BlackBerry, Symbian and Windows. And the dominance is only growing more pronounced.

According to the latest data presented in the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, Android and iOS smartphone shipments for the second quarter of 2012 amounted to 85% of all smartphone shipments.

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Taiwanese Apple rumor site, Apple.pro, recently published scans of an article that originally ran in the paper edition of the Chinese-language Apple Daily, in which the publication took measurements of one of many leaked enclosures that are believed to represent a genuine pre-production parts for the next-generation iPhone. The enclosure measures 58.47mm wide, 123.83mm long, and 7.6mm thick. The measurements point towards ...

With the Apple vs. Samsung trial gaining popularity and becoming quite entertaining for some (think about Best Buy customers mistakenly purchasing Samsung tablets thinking they purchased iPads), hilarity continues to ensue. In a funny sneak preview clip, Conan O'Brien plays a video from a “Samsung Vice President,” named Nick Wood, who appears in the video to tell us how innovative and completely different ...

While the Apple vs. Samsung patent infringement trial continues, a major piece of evidence in Apple’s favor has recently surfaced. The evidence is a 132-page internal Samsung report discussing why the Galaxy line of smartphones (in the case of the document, the S1) should behave more like an iPhone and feature a similar user interface.

For those of you who didn’t already know, the basis of Apple’s ...