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It might surprise you to hear that Apple’s long-awaited iPad Mini was launched today. It might surprise because the launch seems to have lacked the normal level of fanfare that one has become accustomed to with the launch of new Apple hardware. TechRadar reports that just a handful of tech …
Read More »Apple ordered to re-write Samsung acknowledgement
The UK court of appeal has lambasted Apple for its Samsung lawsuit acknowledgement posted last week. The iPhone creators will have to alter the working of the statement, which it ruled to be non-compliant, and post it on the homepage – not hide it behind a link, The Guardian reports. …
Read More »Google Store finally matches up to Apple App Store
One of Apple’s key smartphone marketing advantages has neutralised. Google has stated that there are around 700,000 apps now available for Android devices, meaning that it is now on parity with Apple’s all-conquering App Store according to VentureBeat. Apple announced in September that it had hit the 700,000 app milestone, …
Read More »Two senior execs leave Apple
Scott Forstall and John Browett leaving company in executive shake-up
Read More »GAME Reward smartphone app goes live
The UK’s leading game retailer GAME has pushed live its new smartphone app on the Apple App Store and on Android’s Google Play. A Windows Phone version will be released soon. The app allows customers or both GAME and Gamestation to unite their store credit under a single account. It …
Read More »Apple amasses $36bn in revenue during record quarter
World's richest company rakes in $8bn in profits as it sells 27 million iPhones
Read More »Apple’s three-monthly profits hit $8.2bn
The on-going strength of iPad and iPhone has propelled Apple to yet another quarter of astonishing profits. Total profits for the last financial quarter hit $8.2bn – up from $6.6bn the year before. Revenues climbed 27 per cent to $36bn. Year to date profit is up 45 per cent at …
Read More »UPDATED: Apple publishes Samsung acknowledgement – read it in full here
Is the use of the word sorry” a prerequisite in a statement that is designed to be an apology? Apple clearly thinks not as the word is notable in its absence from the ‘apology’ it has this morning published on its website. In fact, the 363-word statement doesn’t even begin …
Read More »Isometric iOS title Borderlands Legends out next week
Gearbox’s iOS Borderlands spin-off has at last been detailed and given a release date of October 31st. Borderlands Legends, as it is to be called, is an isometric top-down action RPG that stars the same characters who starred in the first Borderlands. Entertainment Weekly reports that unlike the console/PC game, …
Read More »Apple reveals iPad Mini AND iPad 4
The iPad Mini. Well, that’s not a surprise, is it? But the new iPad 4? We admit – we had no idea that one was coming. But first the new machine. The new mid-range device boasts a 7.9 inch screen (compared to the iPhone 5’s four inch screen and the …
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