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There sure have been a large amount of Facebook updates for iOS lately. Facebook has been brought to version 5.3 this evening with major speed improvements to the News Feed and user Timelines. Facebook touts a completely re-built Timeline, which means that speed and stability will be noticeable in this update.

The speedier Timelines should make it so that slight delay in speed when trying to load a ...

Last week MMi reported that T-Mobile is finished existing in the shadow of the nation's top three wireless carriers. In 2013, T-Mobile will join the ranks of Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint by formally carrying the iPhone across its network - a network that is actively being upgraded ahead of this major development.

On Thursday, T-Mobile launched its upgraded HSPA+ systems in five key regions ...

If you have ever wanted to look at the online status of Apple’s services, such as iCloud and iMessage, Apple would show you whether or not they were down or fully functional from their System Status page on their Web site. The only problems with the interface were the lack of graphical information and the limited information.

Apple has today updated the look of their System Status page on their Web site (follow this link) so that the information is much easier to ...

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster is at it again. The perpetual Apple watcher conducted a new survey involving some 800 U.S. shoppers in the market for a new smartphone. As it turns out, the findings of the survey come as great news for Apple.

In the survey, Munster asked participants which smartphone they were most likely to purchase in the next three months. The options included a device ...

A significant blow was delivered to Apple Thursday as a U.S. District Court determined that Apple's iPhone infringes on several patents owned by MobileMedia Ideas.

Jurors in Wilmington, Delaware, deliberated for about four hours, Bloomberg confirmed this morning, after a week-long trial. “We’re very pleased,” MobileMedia CEO Larry Horn commented after the verdict. “We think it’s justified.” ...

Following Apple’s bad luck with their Maps application, users have anticipated Google launching their own Google Maps application in the App Store for a long time. Now that it has been out in the App Store for free for just one night, the application has already skyrocketed to first place in the top free App Store applications.

Google Maps is followed in the App Store’s top free applications section ...

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission recently proposed a set of guidelines regarding emergency text-to-911 messages that would require cellular carrier and internet-based messaging providers like Apple to support the initiative. According to the new statement from the FCC, the body hopes to add messaging services like Apple’s Messages app to an existing voluntary commitment from the four largest U.S. cellular carriers, ...

After all of that waiting, iOS 6 users can now get the beloved Google Maps back on their iOS devices without having to go through Mobile Safari, as can anyone else with an iOS device running iOS 5.1 or higher. The official Google Maps application is now available in the App Store for free from Google.

Google Maps brings Google’s own well-recognized maps, including turn-by-turn voice navigation, street view, bus, train, subway, and walking ...

For those of you who have been following Samsung’s advertising campaigns, you already know that the South Korean manufacturer has no problem ragging on Apple. Their newest advertising move is no different as the company has put together an elaborate showcase in Australia that takes a jab at Apple over a recent Victoria police announcement which warned travelers against using iOS Maps to navigate to the ...

After the long time disappointment from many users due to Apple’s mapping solution replacing Google Maps for iOS in iOS 6, the wait to get a Google Maps application on your iPhone may finally be over. AllThingsD reports that Google is set to release their official Google Maps application in the App Store tonight.

The Google Maps application has been in its beta stages for several weeks now and was ...

If you're hearing rumblings today about an abundance of chips in New York, it has nothing to do with the snack food industry. On Wednesday, reports surfaced that Apple may have a role to play in rumors of a major manufacturing plant coming to the Empire State.

The greatest source of this information is New York's top political powerhouse, Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The Albany Times Union reports that it was Cuomo who ...