Tag Archives : Apple

Apple and Samsung are engaged in numerous acrimonious and bitter Court battles across the World which has made Apple to buy less components for its devices from the Korean giant with a bulk of it’s parts supply for this year and the next coming from TSMC, that seem to change, the Korea Economic Daily is reporting that Apple will be back to using Samsung as the supplier for the A9 chip in [...]

Faced with immense competition from iOS and Android devices, Microsoft is cutting the price of its Surface RT tablet by around 30 percent, as the mobile tablet struggles to lure customers from competition. The Surface RT is now pricedd at £279 instead of £399 in UK which brings it very close to Apple iPad mini’s £279  cost, Surface RT now costs only £10 more than Apple’s iPad mini. The [...]

Apple’s App Store which was launched on July 10, 2008 completes five years this week  Apple is celebrating  in a big way. On the eve of the anniversary according to reports by The Verge. You can access the new section featuring 5 apps and 5 games free for a limited time from iTunes on your Mac or the App Store on your iOS device.   The list of freebie apps and games include: Infinity [...]

Apple has landed the top spot for customer satisfaction in South Korea, its main rival Samsung ‘s country according to  information  from Quality Insights. Quality Insights  surveyed  44,168 South Korean smartphone owners, who rated their satisfaction on the phones performance and customer service over a one year period. Apple’s overall ranking for customer satisfaction was 52 percent, [...]

U.S. judge  Paul S. Grewal ruled that Apple cannot add  Samsung’s  Galaxy S4 smartphone to a list of products it claims infringe on its patents on Thursday according to Bloomberg. Adding another product to the case is a “tax on the court’s resources,” Grewal said in the ruling. “Each time these parties appear in the courtroom, they consume considerable amounts of the court’s time [...]

Apple on Monday releases second build of its iOS 7 beta 2 to developers, iOS 7 was unveiled during WWDC 2013 earlier this month, the first version left out iPad support, which is included in this beta  along with a functional Voice Memos along with performance improvements and bug fixes. The new beta version includes features such as Siri voices, car integration, peer-to-peer file transfer functionality [...]

Source : MacRumor Apple is upgrading it’s iphone processor from an A6 chip to an A7 chip in the iPhone 5S according to images published by MacRumors,  iPhone 5S will carry a dual LED which will flash different colored hues depending on the surrounding lighting. “Additional markings on this new iPhone 5S chip indicate that it carries Elpida DRAM, apparently in the same 1 GB amount [...]

Apple announced during the WWDC 2013 that it’s new streaming service  iTunes Radio would be coming to Apple TV, as part of the 5.4 beta to developers, Apple TV users can now stream music from the built in app with the same features which will be seen on iPhones running the iOS 7 beta. Apple TV users can create custom stations based on artists, genres, or song titles, the menus are just like [...]

Apple as was widely expected took the curtains off it’s rumoured iRadio service named  iTunes Radio (not iRadio), an Internet radio service carrying over 200 stations and a catalog of music from the iTunes Store, combined with  iTunes functionality, and Siri integration. iTunes Radio is available on iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, Windows PC and Apple TV. iTunes Radio listeners get access to [...]

At the opening keynote of Apple’s annual developers conference Apple announced it’s latest mobile OS,  the iOS 7 which Apple says is the most radical design change to the iOS operating system since the launch of the iPhone back in 2007. ” iOS 7 is completely redesigned with subtle motion, an elegant color palette and distinct, functional layers that make it feel more alive.’ [...]