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Apple has filed a new “antisuit lawsuit” aimed at unraveling Motorola’s litigation efforts and attempts to block iPhone 4S using standards essential patents. Apple is also asking for damages that could reach multibillion dollar figures. In its patent battles with Apple, Motorola chose to rely upon its standards essential patents that are required to build [...]
Looks like the iPhone 4S is getting its “Shawshank Redemption” moment today. A jailbreak for the new iPhone and its A5-based cousin, the iPad 2, has been spotted. The “corona untether” jailbreak for A4 devices running iOS5 was released in December, and since then a “dream team” of iOS hackers including the iPhone Dev Team, [...]
The International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is all about the latest smartphones, tablet computers and other devices. But what about the old gadgets? Don’t they get any love? Actually, one machine at the show is designed to help recycle gadgets, giving old phones a fitting end, or a better home. Drop your phone [...]
The shares of Apple (AAPL) have resumed their uptrend, as expected, and I obviously still like the shares at this stage. What’s more, with a P/E of about 15, Apple is not cheap, but it’s not overly expensive, hence now may be your last chance to catch this train before it leaves the station: I [...]
Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s voice recognition software Siri has prompted owners of the iPhone 4S to use almost twice as much data compared with the handset’s predecessor, placing greater pressure on operators, network firm Arieso said. “Voice is the ultimate human interface,” Arieso Chief Technology Officer Michael Flanagan said in an interview in London. Voice recognition [...]
When Apple unveiled its iPhone 4S in 2011 — and we realized that our dreams of a proper iPhone 5 were at least a year off — the biggest new feature was undoubtedly the built-in virtual assistant called Siri. Siri allows users to simply ask for things like directions, weather reports, or message dictation, and [...]
Those who believe Google Android products are cheap knockoffs of Apple’s iPhone and iPad were given more ammo this week when it emerged that Samsung hired the same child actress as Apple to star in the ads for its new tablet. Separately, Google was forced to pull a voice control app called “Siri” from the [...]
Despite Microsoft’s claims earlier this year that its Windows Phone 7.5 Mango devices running IE 9 would beat out mobile Safari in browser benchmark tests, the latest video comparison uploaded by 359gsm shows quite the opposite. Placed side by side, the iPhone 4S and the iPhone 4 both beat out the Nokia Lumia 800. The [...]
Jonathan Ive, the designer of some of Apple’s most successful products, including the iPod and the iPhone, has received a knighthood in the New Year Honours. Ive, who is Apple’s senior vice president of industrial design, receives a KBE from the Queen “for services to design and enterprise”. “I am keenly aware that I benefit [...]
For a slow holiday news week, there’s been plenty of chatter over the last few days about Windows Phone 7. It all started Tuesday when several tech blogs posted editorials on why Microsoft’s operating system was failing, a fact that Mobile Burn’s Dan Seifert wryly pointed out on Twitter. And then, almost as if in [...]
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Fly, be free! Jailbreak for iPhone 4S, iPad 2 released