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Siri is a powerful tool that accompanies all iPhone 4S devices and many jailbroken iOS 5 devices. The voice assistant can do almost anything, from setting reminders, to giving directions, to sending messages, and then some. Unfortunately, most of Siri’s location-based functionality is limited to the United States, as asking her to look for something when you are in a foreign country yields the following message: “I can only look for businesses, maps, and traffic in the United States, ...

Apple finished second on Forbes Fast Tech 25, jumping 14 spots from last year.

Forbes ranks the fastest growing tech companies on the annual list and despite Apple's gargantuan size the company's growth shows no signs of slowing even after posting quarter after quarter of record earnings.

Forbes creates the list by looking at over 5,000 publicly traded tech companies with a minimum ...

If you checked out our review of Ori Kadosh’s new Dashboard X jailbreak tweak, which allows you to remove Notification Center widgets from Notification Center and dedicate Notification Center to notifications only by creating a separate interface for widgets, then chances are you were wondering when widgets would start being made just for the sole purpose of Dashboard X. It seems widgets are being developed for Dashboard X already ...

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A new report by 9to5Mac claims Apple’s next version of iOS will drop Google Maps support in favor of Apple’s own mapping software.

Rumors surrounding Apple dropping Google Maps in favor of their own mapping software resurfaced last year with Apple’s acquisition of C3 Technologies. According to 9to5Mac’s source Apple’s Maps app will provide a “cleaner, faster, and more reliable ...

Apple’s iCloud Beta Web site seems to have been updated with the addition of the familiar Notes and Reminders applications (pictured above) from iOS 5. These applications allow us to jot down helpful hints, such as grocery lists, for our complex lives and remind ourselves when we have to go and do things each day. You can visit the Beta version of the iCloud Web site and see the additions for yourself ...

As we reported just earlier this week, MuscleNerd was working on an update for redsn0w that would allow iPhone 4S, iPad 2, and The new iPad (A5/A5X) users to downgrade their firmware if they had their SHSH blobs saved. iPhone 4S and iPad 2 users have the ability to downgrade as low as iOS 5.0.1 and The new iPad users have the ability to downgrade as low as iOS 5.1. A4 users have been able to downgrade since the dawn of time due to a shiny ...

Foxconn chairman Terry Gou leaked information potentially confirming the existence of Apple's HDTV. At the very least it confirms the chairmans belief that Foxconn will be involved in the manufacturing of Apple’s much rumored HDTV.

In an interview published in the China Daily Gou said that Foxconn is making preparations for Apple’s new HDTV.



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This little bit of praise flew under the radar Wednesday. Brad Arkin, Adobe’s senior director of security, products and services, commended Apple for disabling old Flash Player versions in a recent Safari update.

The older versions of Adobe’s flash player were potentially susceptible to malicious code and other security vulnerabilities.



The Safari update (version 5.1.7) automatically disables ...

Rumors of a smaller iPad priced to compete with the Kindle Fire resurfaced today with an iMore report claiming that Apple is targeting an October release date for a 7-inch iPad.

The report claims that Apple will price the new 7-inch iPad in the $200-$250 range and the device will “be identical in every way” to the current iPad except for the display size. If the smaller iPad retains the Retina Display ...

Although China tends to attract most of the Apple-related headlines across Asia, Japan is no small player in the iOS ecosystem. And we're now beginning to see concrete data to back up this suspicion.

A new report from MM Research out of Asia today shows that iPhone sales topped seven million in 2011 across the nation of Japan. Those impressive figures translate to Apple being the country's top smartphone ...

While the iOS pass code system can be quite secure as long as people don’t see you type it in, it still becomes a pain having to enter it when you’re in a safe situation where there is no chance of anyone getting into your iOS device. A new free jailbreak tweak dubbed AutoProtect by iOS developer FlloTouch will make the pass code system more intelligent so you don’t have to enter it at every waking moment of your life that you try to use your iOS device. ...