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Alongside the announcement of the iPhone 5, Apple also introduced the iPod touch 5G. It wasn’t released on the same date as the iPhone 5, but customers were able to pre-order the device. It appears that customers who did pre-order the iPod touch 5G are starting to get shipment notifications today. Just yesterday, Apple started sending shipment notifications for their Lightning to 30-pin connector adapter.
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Apple and Google spent more on patent lawsuits and patent acquisitions last year than research and development.

This sheer amount of money each company has wasted in courtrooms across the world is staggering. The gem of information detailing just how much each company is spending was more an afterthought in a larger New York Times piece detailing problems with the current U.S. patent system.



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If Apple doesn't release a so-called iPad mini before the end of 2012, sales of the touchscreen tablet computer will likely still exceed 21 million units. But if the iPad mini does come, a barnburner could be in store for Apple's final quarter of the year.

Analyst Amit Daryanani of RBC Capital Markets believes Apple could sell more that 30 million iPad units by December 31st if the iPad ...

When using the iOS keyboard, you may have noticed that between the extra symbols keyboard and the numbers keyboard, the second to last row of keys is exactly the same. Being that this is a redundant set of keys, a clever iOS developer by the name of iAmharic thought it would be useful to replace this row of keys with Emojis! The new tweak is free and it's called QuickEmoji.

As shown above, the whole row is completely replaced by Emojis only on the extra symbol ...

If you’re not big on using SpotLight (like most of us), then give this new free jailbreak tweak a try. It’s called NCLight by iOS developer Bradley Friedman (S1ReX). The tweak doesn’t completely disable SpotLight, but it will open Notification Center when you swipe over to SpotLight.

When you swipe to SpotLight, you will see the interface for a brief second and then Notification Center comes flying down the screen to the rescue. As soon ...

Not too long ago, Rovio worked with NASA to bring us Angry Birds Space, which was a bit of a twist for the game being that the physics were completely different. Rovio also just launched their Bad Piggies game, which puts the gamer in the pigs’ shoes instead of the birds’ shoes for once. Now, Rovio is announcing Angry Birds Star Wars edition, which will go live in the App Store on November 8th. Above ...

With the announcement of the iPhone 5, Apple made sure to say that they would not have been able to fit all of this new technology into the iPhone 5 without the new Lightning Connector, since the Lightning Connector uses much less internal space in the device. Although the transition to the new connector has some people angered that their accessories will no longer work with the new Lightning Connector, ...

Tomorrow AT&T will cut their returns and cancellation period in half.

Yes, as if AT&T and the other telecom providers already didn’t enjoy screwing customers over enough the company plans to shorten the time consumers have to return a phone, or cancel their service from 30 days to 14 days. Good news for prospective buyers in California, their return and cancellation period will remain the same as ...

Today Foxconn confirmed reports of two separate workplace disputes that surfaced over the weekend.

The disputes in question occurred between factory line workers and quality assurance personnel on October 1 and 2 at the company’s Zhengzhou plant. Reports last week claimed that thousands of workers had started a work-stoppage in response to the incidents. However, Foxconn claims that is not the case. ...

Here are the best jailbreak creations for the week of October 1st until today, October 7th as per the opinion of our staff. This is a weekly recap.

1. BTC Mouse & Trackpad – $4.98

BTC Mouse & Trackpad is a great new jailbreak tweak by iOS developer Matthias Ringwald that adds support to the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch for Bluetooth pointing devices such as computer mice and trackpads. The tweak comes with options for adjusting the acceleration ...

Complaints have been flying around the Internet since the release of the iPhone 5 about the camera having a “purple haze” when pointed near an extremely bright light source, such as the sun or a light bulb. Apple has just released a statement about the issue, stating that users should point their cameras at just a slightly different angle when the purple haze effect occurs:



The issue appears to ...