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After getting a petition passed (and rather favorably answered) to "make unlocking cell phones legal," 27 year old Sina Khanifar has teamed up with digital rights advocates and other organizations to go one step further and "fix the DMCA."

The FixTheDMCA campaign, backed by organizations including the EFF, Y Combinator, reddit, mozilla, and saurik, is attempting to have section 1201 ("The Anti-Circumvention Provision") of the DMCA repealed. They note effects such as the clear and ...

Those of you that are modders – and we know there’s a lot of you out there – you can grab a new jailbreak tweak in Cydia today called CalliFy by iOS developers D3@TH and Aehmlo that will let you customize the text on the call button in the Phone application (iPhone only).

The default text string of the call button in the Phone application is “Call,” however the tweak lets you change this string to anything you want – as long as it’s within ...

Although BlackBerry and Windows phones are hoping for a trickle-down effect in the smartphone space (that is, picking up users leaving Android or iOS) it appears that the majority of iOS and Android users are going to stick with one of these two dominant platforms.

These days, in fact, when Android loses smartphone market share, it goes almost exclusively to iOS. That's according to the ...

Twitter has just launched an update to the free iOS application in the App Store, bringing it to version 5.4 this Wednesday afternoon.

The update makes note of some improvements to searching for things on Twitter – according to the change log, you will receive more results pertaining to your query in real time and suggestions will pop up when you add a hash tag or Twitter handle to a Tweet. Also, when searching ...

iOS 6 shipped with a new panorama feature for the Camera application. The feature is enabled on the iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, and iPod touch 5G. While the feature is nice, Apple left out one important feature – what do you do when the lighting conditions aren't great? Apple has actually disabled the ability to use the flash while taking a panorama shot.

To fix this, a new jailbreak tweak called Flashorama by iOS developer PoomSmart will give the ...

With a growing number of industry watchers watching out for Apple's rumored iWatch, there is rampant speculation about the device's potential market impact.

Will consumers flock to a "smart watch" with the same gusto observed upon the release of Apple's iPod touch, iPhone, and iPad? One credible name in the field of wristwatches doesn't expect any seismic shifts in his industry.

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A recently released report claims to have inside knowledge of a meeting that took place in late February, where Cook and Beats Audio CEO, Jimmy Iovine discussed a music service dubbed “Project Daisy.” Reuters reported that Apple’s Chief of Media, Eddy Cue, also joined the meeting. Sources are saying that Cook expressed interest in the service’s business model and future plans but no official ...

In a recent update to its traditional special priced Mac offerings for educational institutions, Apple is now offering the redesigned 21.5-inch iMac for $1,099. For the price tag, buyers will be getting a 3.3 GHz dual-core Intel i3 processor, 4GB of RAM and a 500GB HDD.

When compared to Apple’s previous iMac for education, which featured a 3.1 GHz dual-core i3 CPU, 2GB of RAM and a 250GB ...

As shares of Apple stock recently hit a 52-week low, analysts at Goldman Sachs remain very optimistic about the company’s fortunes. One of the analysts even went as far as saying AAPL is the most undervalued stock the firm covers.

According to Goldman Sachs analyst, Bill Shope, AAPL is still rated as a “Buy” despite the cautious outlook that other analysts are providing. Shope ...

According to a recently released study by Appthority, the most popular free apps on Apple’s iOS platform are sharing significantly more user data than the most popular apps on Google’s Android platform. Appthority’s App Report for February 2013 looked at the top performing free mobile apps across both the iOS and Android platform. Surprisingly, despite Android’s reputation as a less secure platform, it ...

Late Tuesday, word emerged from the far east that suggests production on Apple's forthcoming iPhone 5S has begun.

Macotakara, the Japanese Apple blog, reports that both the iPhone 5 and iPhone 5S are now being produced on the sames assembly lines at Foxconn. Given that the respective designs of both phones are practically the same, Apple is mass-producing both devices simultaneously. ...