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If new reports from overseas are correct, Apple has lost a major power player in its foreign operations.

Le Figaro (a French media outlet) reports that Pascal Cagni has resigned from his lofty post as Apple's vice president of operations - a position that spanned Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

As of this writing, it isn't known why Cagni left, assuming that the news of his departure ...

Is Apple finally traveling down the stylus road? That could be the case according to new published reports this week. Of course, if you're expecting something of a traditional variety, then you don't know Apple very well.

Our friends at Apple Insider have discovered a patent application straight out of Cupertino that suggests
Apple is tinkering with technology related to styluses that ...

Organizers of the Hack in the Box Security Conference just announced 1-day passes for May 25th for the HitBSecConf 2012, currently being held at the Okura Hotel in Amsterdam. It has been announced that pod2g and the Chronic Dev Team will be releasing Absinthe 2.0, the untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.1.1 at the event.

This was confirmed with the following tweet by the organizers of the HitBSecConf 2012:


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Apple recently aired two new television commercials promoting the iPhone 4S, this time starring popular actor John Malkovich, who starred in hit movies such as “Of Mice and Men.”

The two commercials follow the trend of previously aired iPhone 4S commercials, all of which show off the highlight of the device: Siri. The first commercial titled “Joke” highlights Siri finding the weather, getting calendar information, ...

GameFly, the subscription game rental service recently announced that it will begin publishing titles for iOS and Android later this year.

The service, which has been deemed as the “Netflix for video games” released a press release detailing its plan to create a “game development fund” that will help publish apps from independent mobile developers. According to co-founder Sean Spector, ...

While it may not mean a whole lot for everyone in the world that uses an iOS device, a new free jailbreak tweak dubbed Coordinates for Maps by iOS developer Pau Ochoa will add a GPS coordinate indicator to the Maps application. Coordinates show your Longitude and Latitude. The indicator is small, clean, accurate, and it displays the coordinates in the bottom left of the Maps application in a transparent, black rectangle.

Important to realize right off the bat is ...

Don’t you hate it when you get banner or alert notifications when you are in the middle of watching a movie, playing a video game, or looking at photos due to the wasted pixels on the screen dedicated to the alert that is displaying? A new free jailbreak tweak dubbed NotiQuiet by iOS developer thekirbylover will let you silence notifications depending on what application you have opened. When you install it from Cydia, you’ll be greeted with the nice welcome message ...

Court ordered talks between Apple and Samsung have resulted in... nothing.

As MMi has previously reported, Apple and Samsung were recently forced into an involuntary meeting and discussions to try to scale back their patent infringement war.

In April, Judge Lucy Koh ordered the tech titans to "comment on their availability for an Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) effort." Both sides were cooperative, ...

Big things are on the horizon at Apple. That much is clear from the comments and non-specific revelations this week from Apple design boss Jonathan Ive. Ive was interviewed at length by the U.K. Telegraph, and his comments have left people buzzing.

According to Ive, major developments are in the works at Apple. In fact, Ive refers to ongoing work there as
"the most important and the best work" that Apple has ...

iOS' slide to unlock feature has been nice while it lasted, but it’s time to bring some new unlocking animations to iOS. A really nice, new animation can be found for free in Cydia today, dubbed Unfold by iOS developer Jonas Gessner. The tweak will make it so you can fold your lock screen and see all of SpringBoard’s contents under the unfolding animation. The animation is smooth and beautiful and works with any iOS 5 devices except for the iPad, however the developer ...

As it would appear, Siri and iCloud are viewed as potentially problematic security risks at IBM. So much so, that the company blocks the use of Siri and iCloud from all of the iPhones of their staff. The reason? Siri queries send information over to Apple’s servers and IBM sees this as unsecure due to the ignorance of what happens with the data as it is processed on Apple's end. Additionally, iCloud stores the employees’ ...