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Government Investigating Makers of Cellphone Apps

WASHINGTON — The government is investigating whether software companies that make cellphone apps violated the privacy rights of children by quietly collecting personal information from mobile devices and sharing it…

Apple Redraws Maps After Australian Drivers Led Astray in the Bush

The Guardian: Apple has updated its new maps system after police in Mildura, Australia, said a number of people trying to find the town of 30,000 people became hopelessly lost…

From Devices to Apps

New Research Shows Bring-Your-Own Trend Fueling Consumer App Adoption in the Workplace WOBURN — While tech’s bring-your-own or ‘BYO’ trend is most commonly associated with employee-owned smartphones and tablets entering…

Tech Giants Bid for Patents

Apple and Google have joined forces to offer more than $500 million ([euro]388 million) to buy Eastman Kodak’s patents out of bankruptcy, according to sources. They partnered after leading two…

iPhone Likely Coming to T-Mobile

NEW YORK — T-Mobile will likely start carrying the iPhone next year after its parent company, Deutsche Telekom, said it has reached a new deal with Apple. T-Mobile USA had…

Judge May Trim Apple’s $1B Patent Verdict

SAN JOSE, CA — A federal judge on Thursday appeared ready to reduce a $1.05 billion jury verdict Apple Inc. won over Samsung Electronics. During a hearing in a San…

Windows Phone a Hidden Gem

Microsoft has gotten loads of attention this year with the launch of Windows 8 and the Surface tablet. Yet the hype train has obscured what has become my favorite piece…

Japan Overtakes U.S. for Google Play Revenue

SAN FRANCISCO and BEIJING — App Annie today unveiled the App Annie Index™, a monthly report that charts and analyzes major revenue and download trends within the iOS and Google…

New iMacs on Friday!

Apple Inc. says the smaller version of its new, slimmed-down iMac desktop computers will go on sale Friday. It will also start taking orders for the larger model, but the…

iOS Is The Windows Of A New Era

This week, according to barrons.com, Steve Milunovich of UBS Securities made the statement that “iOS is the new Windows”, referring to the dominant PC based operating system. We all know the…

Nomad Cable: On The Go Lightning Connector

When the iPhone 5 launched, it brought along with it a new type of connector for Apple devices. The months (and in most cases years) of collecting chargers for our…

DriveSavers Equipped to Recover New Apple Fusion Drive

DriveSavers Data Recovery, the worldwide leader in data recovery services, announced today the company now offers data recovery services for Apple’s new Fusion Drive. In October, Apple unveiled the Fusion…

Apple Opens Store in Preit’s Willow Grove Park Shopping Mall

Willow Grove Park now boasts an Apple store, with the gold standard retailer having opened at the suburban Philadelphia mall just days before Black Friday, officials said Monday. Preit recently…

President Obama Calls Apple CEO Tim Cook To Discuss “Fiscal Cliff”

Last week President Obama made phone calls to a short list of CEOs of major American companies. His purpose was to discuss the upcoming fiscal cliff and ask for their…

iTunes Match is Down; You are Not Going Crazy

I was happy to wake up this morning and read the news that iTunes Match is down. That's not great news at the outset, of course. However, I spent the…