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According to a new report, Apple has moved some of its patents to the patent-licensing firm Digitude Innovations, which is prompting accusations of the Cupertino giant aiding a so-called “patent troll.” Digitude Innovations filed a suit against a number of tech giants this week including RIM, HTC, LG, Motorola, Samsung, Sony, Amazon, and Nokia. Apple was one of the few companies notably absent from this list.

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Samsung continues with its anti-Apple campaign, this time with a new advertising depicting Apple fans still waiting on absurdly long lines for a new iPhone. It isn’t quite clear why a company like Samsung would possibly insult potential future customers but the new Galaxy S II commercial seems to exploit the line waiters theme, which was first seen in last month’s commercial and the company’s Facebook page.
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The folks over at MIC Gadget are reporting that China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) have finally issued the network access permit for the iPhone 4S earlier this week. According to the report, this permit was the last obstacle standing in Apple’s way to officially sell the iPhone 4S in China. In response to the news, China Unicom has said that it expects to launch the device by the ...

The idea behind this tweak is very simple...

The iCloud Photo Stream is the part of iCloud that lets you take photographs (screenshots included) and have them saved to a server on the internet that distributes the photographs to all of your devices instantaneously. Some people really hate the fact that iCloud takes every single photograph you take and stores it on an online server and it further disturbs them that there is no way ...

Next week only, Radio Shack will be offering sales on AT&T's iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S.

How often do you see Apple products go on sale? It's a rare sight, that's for sure. Holidays are always the best time to catch these sales and Radio Shack is going to let you off $30 on your next AT&T iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S purchase; if you buy it next week that is. They will be selling the 8GB iPhone 4 and 16GB/32GB/64GB iPhone ...

Flight Control is a popular strategic game for iOS.

Today only, you can grab Flight Control, a strategic iOS game, for free as a part of Daily Deals. Yesterday, we featured Mirror's Edge as it was the free game yesterday.

Flight control is a game by Firemint that requires you to direct air traffic strategically so that none of the aircraft crash. The longer you play, the more aircraft fill the air. Additionally, some aircraft are faster ...

Last week, many people noticed that the wait time for build-to-order iMacs with 2TB hard drives had leaped up to 5 to 7 weeks. The folks over at AppleInsider have recently reported that the wait time has now dropped to 2 to 4 weeks. For those of you who had been contemplating whether or not to purchase one, now might be a good time. Especially if it was a planned holiday gift, in which case ...

Apple’s largely successful retail branch was headed by Ron Johnson (now CEO of J.C. Penny) until November 1st, 2011. Since he announced his leave in June of this year, there have been many discussions in regards to the successor of Apple’s vital retail division’s leader. Ron Johnson held three central executives responsible for the upkeep and success of Apple’s retail business - Vice president of Merchandising, ...

With Apple’s release of iOS 5 for its newer devices and iPhones dating as far back as 2009, the company has had a significant impact on its integration partners. Twitter noted a 25% increase in new accounts and Wolfram Alpha stated that Siri boosted its query volume 20 fold, changing the status quo in search and web services.

After Apple added a single-sign on Twitter integration as a top feature in iOS 5, providing users ...

Once you've built your iOS 5.0 custom firmware, downgrading is easy.

As I reported earlier this week, iH8sn0w released iFaith version 1.4 which allows you to save your iOS 5.0 SHSH blobs and APticket so that you can create a custom iOS 5.0 firmware file to use in downgrading your iDevice back to iOS 5.0. The guide on saving your iOS 5.0 SHSH blobs and APticket can be read here. iFaith works with iOS 5.0.1 too. But since people are nervous that the Chronic Dev Team's untethered jailbreak for iOS 5 might not work with iOS 5.0.1, there is all the more reason to just play it safe and get insurance for iOS 5.0 as I like to call it. Since we just posted ...

iFaith was updated as insurance for iOS 5.0 for you.

iH8sn0w released the updated iFaith not too long ago as I reported earlier this week and it allowed you to save your SHSH blobs and APticket for iOS 5.0 and let you build a custom '.ipsw' file that you could use to restore to iOS 5.0 in iTunes at any time. We already went over that though and there will be another guide coming up that explains how to use that custom '.ipsw' file to downgrade to iOS 5.0. In this guide, we will be showing you how to save your information and build your '.ipsw' file.

YOU WILL NEED:
1. A Windows machine (or Mac running Windows)
2. iFaith version 1.4
3. An iOS 5.0 iDevice.

The first step is to plug your iDevice into your computer and download iFaith from ...