Apple

The highly successful personal magazine app known as Flipboard has been updated to a universal version that now also works on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Some of the features that are included in the latest update for Flipboard include the following:

• Cover Stories for iPhone, a selection of interesting articles and photos being shared with you right now. And it gets smarter every time you use it. (Coming soon to iPad.)
• Speed.

...

A person familiar with Apple’s retail operations reportedly told John Fortt of CNBC that the benefits of the new retail self-checkout program Apple introduced in November have so far outweighed the cons. Apple previously launched the retail self-checkout program known as EasyPay, which allows customers to pay for an in-store transaction on their iPhone without speaking to a store employee.

According ...

The folks over at JiWire requested information from approximately 289,000 public Wi-Fi locations in the United States then used the information to produce a quarterly report on mobile devices. The latest report for Q3 2011 confirms what many Apple fans probably already know, iOS devices come out on top in the connected device category.

To clarify a little here, a “connected device” is any device that connects to the Internet. For this ...

Steve Jobs famously proclaimed “people don’t read anymore” in a 2008 New York Times article where he slammed Amazon’s Kindle e-reader as irrelevant and doomed. So it seems just a wee bit ironic Walter Isaacson’s authorized Steve Jobs biography is already the bestselling book on Amazon for 2011.

Released just over a month ago, the book debuted at #13 on Amazon’s Best Sellers list and sold a reported 383,000 ...

Do you ever read eBooks at night?

When you're in the dark, a little screen with an LED back light can feel like a flashlight in your face. This effect is dramatized by brighter colors and people generally prefer to be looking at darker colors on their screen when they are sitting in a pitch black room with an LED back-lit screen in their face. Thanks to Apple's new iBooks, you can have just that, with a new night-time ...

Twitkafly has a ton of features for Twitter on the go!

Recently in the release of the new Activator for iOS 5 (okay, maybe not to recent, but it's still a new feature as of late) you could invoke an Activator action to compose a lone tweet from anywhere on your iDevice. There was a significant lag when invoking this feature as the Twitter dialogue box hadn't opened for several seconds. iOS jailbreak Developer, Moeseth, brought us a tweak a while back that lets you tweet from anywhere in SpringBoard without the lag of the default Activator ...

On Tuesday, Consumer Reports - the venerable consumer watchdog - published the results of its 2011 survey of U.S. carriers. And it turns out that Verizon is the big winner, while AT&T finished dead last.

Of the four major U.S. national cell-phone standard service providers, Verizon scored the highest in this year’s Ratings. In second was Sprint. "Survey respondents gave very good scores ...

Senator Al Franken of Minnesota, who happens to head the Senate Security Panel, continues to hold no punches in his effort to get to the bottom of the Carrier IQ debacle.

Franken sent a letter to Carrier IQ earlier in the week asking Carrier IQ to specifically state what data are logged, what data are transmitted and whether or not they believe they operate in accordance with federal ...

The European Union is investigating whether Apple and five other book publishers engaged in anticompetitive practices in the e-book market.

The Euro Commission is investigating alleged illegal pricing agreements between publishers restricting competition. The investigation is looking at Apple, Hachette Livre, Penguin, Harper Collins, Simon & Schuster, and Verlasgsgruppe Georg Von Holzbrinck. And ...

Compuware APM has shown an intriguing graph that shows a new trend in shopping this holiday season. It’s a little something researchers are calling “couch commerce” at its finest. Shopping via the web has obviously increased lately and according to the data, a large number of the shopping is from the iPhone and an even larger percentage from the iPad. Web users have been avoiding the crowded ...

Remember Ac1dsn0w by the Pwn Dev Team?

Ac1dsn0w is an alternative TETHERED JAILBREAK tool that iOS 5 iDevice owners can choose from amongst Redsn0w and Sn0wbreeze. If you remember correctly, the Pwn Dev Team was hammered hard with their first release with both disappointment in that the jailbreak was still tethered and also that the tool infringed on copyright laws by using Apple's own material a myriad of times ...