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iPhone 5 event rumors pump eBay smartphone trade-ins
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The online sales site says that more people than usual are trading in their smartphones on rumors that Apple has a new iPhone just around the corner. [Read more]...
Apple's iPhone 5,2 Prototype Showing Up In Server Logs
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A few short days after rumors began swirling that Apple would hold this year’s fall event on Sept. 12, a reliable source just sent a screen grab of a next-gen iPhone popping up in his/her/its server logs. We weren’t able to glean any other info from the one session the...
YC-Backed VoiceGem Brings Communication Back To The Future With Asynchronous Voice Messages
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Arda Kara and Alexander Blessing are from two pretty different places — Turkey and Germany, respectively — but as students pursuing master’s degrees in computer science at Stanford, the both faced very similar problems when it came to communicating with their family and old friends. Because of the massive time...
Sharp: We're shipping iPhone 5 displays this month
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The company doesn't say when the next iPhone will launch nor how large its screen will be. [Read more]...
Samsung ships 52.1 million smartphones in Q2, doubles iPhone
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According to new research from Juniper Research, Apple shipped 26 million iPhones during the same period. [Read more]...
Ting becomes first US MVNO to hop the Galaxy S III bandwagon, outlines its device roadmap
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Ting has drawn a lot of attention among MVNOs for its unique mix-and-match approach to contract-free plans, but it's had to contend with some rather middling phones inherited from its network partner Sprint. That gap in high-end phones will narrow before the summer's up: Ting plans to carry the...
Apple Just Told Everyone Not To Buy An iPhone For Two Months (AAPL)
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After Rene Ritchie at iMore broke the news that Apple was planning an event to announce the next iPhone for September 12, other news outlets confirmed his report citing a source familiar with the matter. It sure seems like that "source" is either Apple PR, or someone at Apple authorized...
WordPress Launches Retina Support For Gravatar And All Hosted And Self-Hosted WP Sites
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WordPress’ Matt Mullenweg just announced that the WordPress.com interface and all the blogs hosted on the site are now optimized for high-density displays like the ones found on Apple’s new iPad and Retina MacBook Pro. Through JetPack 1.6, which also launched today, users with self-hosted WordPress sites can also enable...
Corporate Google Apps users can now remotely wipe their own Android devices
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Google has provided the Google Apps Device Policy app late last year, which let account administrators manage a bunch of Android devices on company apps accounts at once. It has been steadily expanding the capabilities of the management app, adding new features on a regular schedule. Today, it announced that...
Apple wants court to rule Samsung infringes on iPhone patents in evidence leak sanctions
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In an Apple v. Samsung court filing on Thursday, Apple requested sanctions against Samsung over a recent leak of excluded evidence amount to a favorable ruling of the Cupertino company's claim that the Galaxy maker infringes Apple's phone design patents....
Tweetbot for Mac alpha updated with Tweetdeck-like columns, menu bar icon, improved notifications
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Tweetbot for Mac alpha has received a substantial update this evening, bringing new features that will allow users to have a Tweetdeck like setup if they so choose. First spotted by The Next Web, Tweetbot for Mac now features the ability to pop out separate timeline windows and easily dock them together to create a Tweetdeck like...
Sharp President Confirms Shipments of Displays for New iPhone this Month
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Reuters reports that Sharp president Takashi Okuda today made a rare public reference to an unreleased Apple device, acknowledging that his company will begin shipping displays for the next-generation iPhone this month.Japan's Sharp Corp. said it will start shipping screens destined for a new Apple iPhone that is widely expected...
Engadget HD Podcast 310 - 08.02.2012
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Since everyone loves (to hate) NBC's tape-delayed Olympics coverage we decided to push this latest episode of the podcast back a couple of days. Naturally the action from London and all of the discussion around the way it's being broadcast leads things off, but there is other news this...
Sprint's iPhone gamble isn't paying off as 2012 Q2 figures reveal $1.4 billion loss
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Sprint's 2012 Q2 figures have arrived, revealing that the despite the company's billion-dollar gamble on the iPhone, it's suffered a colossal $1.4 billion dollar loss. Developing...Sprint's iPhone gamble isn't paying off as 2012 Q2 figures reveal $1.4 billion loss originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 26 Jul 2012 07:17:00...
iPhone & Android App Stores Lifting the Developer Middle Class
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Apple and Google's mobile platforms are making billions of dollars for developers. For instance, Apple paid developers nearly $1.5 billion through its App Store in the first two quarters of 2012, according to mobile analyst Flurry. About 32% of the combined money flowing into Android's Google Play store and the...
iPhone 5 could sport tiny 8-pin dock connector, says report
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Following prior reports of a 19-pin port, the latest scuttlebut now claims the next iPhone will offer an even smaller 8-pin connector. [Read more]...
Apple Requests Sanctions Against Samsung Delivering Default Victory in Design Patent Case
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The ongoing court case between Apple and Samsung over alleged patent and design infringement has continued to take strange and interesting turns, with Samsung having been chided earlier this week for publicly releasing evidence that it had already been barred from presenting in court. But in taking its case to...
Apple's iPhone Has Sony Style, Says Samsung
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Apple’s “revolutionary” iPhone design wasn’t an original creation, but a derivative one, and the company is just as much a “copyist” as it alleges Samsung to be. That’s one of the central arguments the Korean company will make against Apple when the pair’s patent trial kicks off next week. The...
Apple Designer on Why Curved Glass and Extruded Aluminum iPhone Designs Were Rejected
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With court documents in the ongoing legal dispute between Apple and Samsung having yielded a remarkable number of design concepts and prototypes from the development of the iPhone and iPad, Network World has taken a look at testimony that explains why Apple rejected some of the ideas. The testimony comes...
Dragon PC software now lets your voice control Gmail and Hotmail
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Ahoy, ye landlubbers and typists. Nuance Typing out an e-mail will never require actual typing—or even mouse-clicking—again, if the maker of the popular Dragon speech recognition software has its way. The software has long allowed users to dictate e-mails or any other document by voice, but a new version...
Mophie announces Outride, a waterproof action sports camera kit & app for iPhone
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There are more than a few hardware camera kits and peripherals on the market that extend the capabilities of the iPhone’s built-in cam. We recently reviewed the Olloclip camera lens kit that provides three external lenses for iPhone 4S. Today we introduce you to yet another that has just...
LevelUp Now Has $21M To Take On The Squares Of The Mobile Payment World
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Mobile payment service LevelUp, an off-shoot of Boston-based SCVNGR, announced this morning that it has raised $9 million from T-Venture, the venture capital arm of Deutsche Telekom. The investment is the second tranche of a larger funding round and brings the total raised to just over $21 million. SCVNGR itself...
You Never Have to Email Photos Again Because This App Magically Shares iPhone Pictures with Your Friends
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Flock, a new iPhone app from the people behind Bump, solves the first world problem of having to send photos to your friends through e-mail by creating shared photo albums with your friends with pictures that have similar metadata. It works like magic. More »...
You Never Have to Email Photos Again Because This App Magically Shares iPhone Pictures with Your Friends
Don't count Microsoft out yet: Phone shipments grow 227%
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Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 operating system is due out before year end and it may build upon momentum of the prior version. According to research firm Canalys, Microsoft-powered phone shipments for the second quarter were up 277 percent from the prior year. With Windows 8 using the same interface as...
In Case You Had Any Doubts About Where Apple's Profit Comes From...
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Last month, I noted that the 5-year-old iPhone is already the most profitable product in the world. The iPhone, I estimated, is so profitable that it generates more profit than just about any other company on earth, not just product. The iPhone generates more profit than GE, for example (all...
Denon intros Cocoon Home and Portable AirPlay docks, will transform songs into musical butterflies
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Denon's got a snazzy new pair of iPhone speaker docks to show the world -- the Cocoon Home and Cocoon Portable. The Home features AirPlay streaming from iPhones, iPods, Mac and PCs through 100 watts of total power. Its 25-percent smaller sibling has 50 watts of power and battery...
ImageShack Launches Yfrog Social, An Ambitious New Full-Service Social Network
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ImageShack founder Jack Levin has certainly experienced the short end of the stick when it comes to building a company that works with the API of a larger social network. In February 2009, ImageShack launched the Yfrog photo-sharing service, which quickly became one of the most popular ways to...
Apple Lawyer Asks Judge For Legal Win In Wake Of Samsung's Questionable Info Leak
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Samsung and Apple’s big patent trial took an intriguing turn earlier this week when members of Samsung’s legal team decided to send information that was unusable in court to a handful of eager reporters. Of course, Apple wasn’t about to take that lying down. Apple attorney William F. Lee recently...
Non-functioning next-gen iPhone prototypes/fakes surface in Bangkok?
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Back in May we brought you high-res shots of the black and white next-generation iPhone backs and in June a video hands-on with similar looking casings surfaced online. Today, Neowin posted images they claim to be a “prototype finalized design casing” of the next-gen iPhone (not a functioning device)...
Sharp President: iPhone displays shipping this month
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Breaking the #1 rule of Apple partnership (not talking shipping Apple products), Sharp President Takashi Okuda today said that the company would be shipping iPhone displays this month. Japan’s Sharp Corp. said it will start shipping screens destined for a new Apple iPhone that is widely expected to be released in October...
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