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A recent patent filing from Apple shows that the Cupertino California company is researching the idea of interchangeable lenses on the iPhone. While the chances of an idea such as this one coming to fruition are highly unlikely, it is interesting to see what kind of planning goes on behind the doors at Apple.

The company realizes how popular photography is on their iOS devices, ...

According to the latest IDC Worldwide Quarterly Media Tablet and eReader Tracker, Apple’s iPad will get back some of the market share it lost to Android tablets in 2011. It is being forecasted to take over 62% of worldwide sales. This bump is part of an overall rise in tablet sales for 2012 which IDC estimates to reach 107.4 million units, up from the 69.6 million in 2011 and 19.4 million in 2010.

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Apple along with others such as Google, LinkedIn, and Path know that privacy is heavily based on users’ information. The Cupertino California company is finally taking action toward attempting to right its wrongs by requiring user permission in iOS 6 before apps can access any sensitive information.

It has been made aware to everyone that apps uploaded data earlier this year, data such as entire contact lists, to servers ...

Customization is always a popular aspect of the jailbreaking scene. Because of this, Cydia is packed with all kinds of modifications that can be used to sway you away from Apple's stock appearance. With a new jailbreak tweak dubbed SpringRolls by iOS developer greensnow, you can enable different kinds of animations for application badges, folders, and toy around with your application icon layouts.

The demonstration video above helps to illustrate how the tweak animates SpringBoard to make your iPhone better ...

If you are among the parents fortunate enough to discover the wonders of iDevices at keeping your kids content and quiet on long car rides, the folks at Amazon must have had you in mind with their latest Kindle App update for iOS (and Android).

On Thursday, Amazon pushed out an update that delivers support for a wide assortment of children's books, comic books and even graphic novels for the older ...

Thursday was a day of mixed emotions for mobile giant Nokia in the headlines. In addition to confirming the acquisition of Sweden-based Scalado, which is aimed at strengthening Nokia’s imaging assets, the company also revealed some less-than-optimistic developments.

Nokia says it is cutting approximately 10,000 jobs from the company's global workforce by the close of next year. The cost-cutting measures ...

Exactly one week removed from the kickoff of WWDC and Apple's tantalizing tease of iOS 6, Microsoft will capture the tech limelight and reveal the newest slate of tablets that will challenge the iconic iPad in the rapidly growing tablet computer market.

According to sources speaking with All Things D, a "major Microsoft announcement" is coming Monday, June 18th at the software giant's media ...

If you like tethering, but don’t enjoy having the extra large status bar that compresses everything and causes issues in some applications, then maybe this new free jailbreak tweak dubbed TetherStatus by iOS developers moeseth and satropuk is something you need to look into. It makes the status bar not only more pleasant to look at, but also more application-friendly.

By compressing the enlarged status bar into its original sized ...

Surely it would be nice if Apple didn’t make you delete every text message conversation one-by-one in the stock Messages application. It seems like a given that it would be a luxury to have at least the option to delete all of them at once. With a new free jailbreak tweak dubbed iDelete-MSG by iOS developer iMokhles, a new ‘Delete All’ button will be added to the Messages application so you can clear the application of all your conversations.
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Skype for the Mac platform has been updated to version 5.8.0.865. The update includes performance and stability improvements as most Skype updates do. In addition, it brings the peace of mind of finally being OS X Mountain Lion-ready. This means when OS X Mountain Lion is officially released to the public, you can be darned sure that Skype will run as expected on it.



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It has been emphasized over and over that only developers should be installing iOS 6 beta. Well, the same logic comes around with jailbreaking iOS 6 beta. According to the iPhone Dev Team Blog, redsn0w 0.9.13dev1 has been released with the ability to jailbreak iOS 6 beta TETHERED. The jailbreak will also only work on the iPhone 4 (CDMA or GSM), iPhone 3GS, or iPod touch 4G. There are a lot of considerations for the ...