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Two new iPhone commercials, NOAA adopts iPhone, ATT talks 2GB throttling

zmicier — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:42:25 +0000

Apple has started to run a pair of new commercials for iPhone 4S. Both of the commercials focus on Siri and show off some the things the voice assistant can do. The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration otherwise has NOAA has moved to the iPhone and iPad. The migration to the iPhone was away from RIM devices. If you’re one of the many they were concerned about the 2GB data throttling of the unlimited data plans of AT&T, you aren’t alone. AT&T is now trying to explain that throttling a bit and still maintains that would only affect top 5% of users.

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DoDonPachi Blissful Death Out Now, Will It Be Cave’s Last Shooter?

Andy Boxall — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:23:45 +0000

The latest from bullet hell shooter specialists Cave has arrived today, DonDonPachi Blissful Death. The game is an iOS port of the arcade version, and comes with four levels of difficulty, Game Center and OpenFeint compatibility, massive weaponry and three different characters to choose between. Cave are the masters of bullet hell on iOS, but have

iOS 5.1 rumor, Apple Store protests, Siri may get additional languages

Social Park — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:36:51 +0000

A new rumor is floating around that iOS 5.1 is close to the public launch. The rumor claims that March 9 is when we will see the next version of iOS surface. Apple stores across the world are facing possible demonstrations against allegedly poor labor ethics. Apple’s manufacturing partners in China have faced a lot of bad press for allegedly poor work environments in factories building Apple devices. Siri is rumored to be getting support for new languages . The new languages rumored to be coming include Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, and Russian language.

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Five of the Best and Funniest Spoof Siri Videos

Andy Boxall — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:30:22 +0000

Siri, the virtual assistant introduced with iOS 5 and exclusive to the iPhone 4S, has already become a household name. This is not only due to the iPhone’s huge success and its mainstream acceptance, but also for videos like the ones you see below – clever spoofs and parodies featuring the software. This list is inspired

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iMessage bug, Google hires Apple worker, switching between the iPhone 4S and Android

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:22:49 +0000

Over the last few days, there’s been a lot of talk about a flaw in iMessage that allows people to spy on your text messaging. If you want all the details on the not so easy to exploit glitch, check get it here. Google has successfully wooed Apple’s Simon Prakash come work for it, marking the highest level Apple employee to leave to work for Google yet. Prakash was Apple senior director for project integrity and at this point, it’s not clear exactly what he will be doing for Google. If you ever wondered what hard-core Android geek would think if he had to switch from Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to the iPhone 4S SlashGear/Android Community’s Chris Burns is doing just that. Check out what he thinks about the move here .

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Apple patent app shows exercise tech, Apple pulls 3G iPhone in Germany, iPhone five may luncheon June

zmicier — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:02:22 +0000

A patent application has turned up that shows interesting new tech for people who like to exercise. The patent app from Apple shows tech that let you share real-time information about your workout with people local or around the world. Samsung landed a sales injunction in Germany against Apple products having to do with patents for 3G tech Samsung holds. The result is Apple has been forced to pull its products using 3G technology from its German online store. Rumors are swirling that the iPhone 5 may be revealed in June. If true, the phone will surface for the first time at WWDC.

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Five Great-Looking Retro iPhone Games Coming Soon

Andy Boxall — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:18:33 +0000

Retro games remain very popular, especially on iOS, and there are plenty of great games in production at the moment that fans of the genre should know about. We#8217;ve gathered together five retro games that are coming soon for iOS, mixing some remakes of old classics with some #8216;retro-inspired#8217; titles from developers with an established history pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/3Qw6lFTrTAFsjg1zk8AL9c6jqWc/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/3Qw6lFTrTAFsjg1zk8AL9c6jqWc/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/3Qw6lFTrTAFsjg1zk8AL9c6jqWc/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/3Qw6lFTrTAFsjg1zk8AL9c6jqWc/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/iphone-freak?a=UzmVFCo8Jiw:KINv-PyeM2I:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/iphone-freak?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/iphone-freak/~4/UzmVFCo8Jiw” height=”1″ width=”1″/

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Apple predicted to sell 40 million iPhones in China, Apple gets new retail chief from Dixons, iPhone 5 get strong NFC support

Social Park — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:38:49 +0000

Morgan Stanley is predicting that Apple could sell as many as 40 million iPhones in China by 2013. That of course is contingent on Apple landing contracts with the other two carriers in China and the next version of the iPhone supporting China Mobile’s TD-LTE 4G network. Apple has landed a new retail chief who came over to Cupertino from European retail chain Dixons. The new retail chief is John Browett. A new rumor has surfaced claiming the iPhone 5 will have strong NFC support . NFC is required use contactless payments and many other phones already support NFC.

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T-Mobile improves support for iPhone and Samsung suit booted from court

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:29:16 +0000

T-Mobile doesn’t officially sell the iPhone on its network, but has more than 1 million unlocked iPhones operating on its networks despite the fact. The catch is that the unlocked iPhones operating on the T-Mobile network don’t work that well according to most users. The reason is that the iPhones operating on the network only have access to T-Mobile’s old 2G network, because they lack the support for T-Mobile’s 3G spectrum. The good news for iPhone users on T-Mobile is that the carrier is planning to improve the support for iPhones starting on January 30, which is today. The carrier is adding a special iPhone support page, which will help iPhone users that need assistance. Alas, the phones was still be only 2G capable. Last week Samsung saw its second 3G patent suit against Apple rejected by the courts. The suit in question was in German courts, the judge Andreas Voss rejected Samsung claims without a clear explanation of why. I would imagine Apple doesn’t really care why, it’s just glad the claims are rejected. I doubt this is the last time we hear of lawsuits between Samsung and Apple.

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Cook not happy at offensive factory claims

Andy Boxall — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:04:22 +0000

Apple CEO Tim Cook isn’t happy at all about the claims that are making rounds claiming the company is knowingly using manufacturing facilitates where labor abuses are common. Cook said, “We care about every worker in the worldwide supply chain.” He also said that the accusations were offensive. The NYT recently issued a report that talked to current and previous execs at Apple and at Chinese factories. The claims allege that Apple and others knowingly work with Foxconn even though workers often complain about conditions. Cook wrote: “As a company and as individuals, we are defined by our values. Unfortunately, some people are questioning Apple’s values today, and I’d like to address this with you directly. We care about every worker in our worldwide supply chain. Any accident is deeply troubling, and any issue with working conditions is cause for concern. Any suggestion that we don’t care is patently false and offensive to us. As you know better than anyone, accusations like these are contrary to our values. It’s not who we are. For the many hundreds of you who are based at our suppliers’ manufacturing sites around the world, or spend long stretches working there away from your families, I know you are as outraged by this as I am. For the people who aren’t as close to the supply chain, you have a right to know the facts. Every year we inspect more factories, raising the bar for our partners and going deeper into the supply chain. As we reported earlier this month, we’ve made a great deal of progress and improved conditions for hundreds of thousands of workers. We know of no one in our industry doing as much as we are, in as many places, touching as many people” Tim Cook, CEO Apple [ via SlashGear]

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