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Apple announced its quarterly earnings for Q3 2013 on Wednesday, it recorded revenue of US$35.3 billion and quarterly net profit of $6.9 billion  and an earnings per share of $7.47. Analysts expected the sales to be around $35.02 with a earnings per share $7.32. iPhone sales quashed concerns that a robust competition is hitting demand. Apple  sold 31.2 million iPhones in the quarter, far more [...]

Apple is testing larger display sizes potential future models for both the iPad and the iPhone according to a report from Wall Street Journal which quotes unnamed sources. “In recent months, Apple has asked for prototype smartphone screens larger than 4 inches and has also asked for screen designs for a new tablet device measuring slightly less than 13 inches diagonally.” quotes the article. The [...]

Apple’s developer website has been inaccessible since Thursday last week and was rumoured to be compromised by hackers, Apple was tight lipped about it until this morning,  yesterday Apple sent an email to developers explaining that it had detected a breach on its servers on Thursday. The hacking may have leaked the users’ names, email addresses, and mailing addresses. On Internet, some [...]

English: David Cameron’s picture on the 10 Downing Street website (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Britian’s Prime Minister David Cameron will crack the whip on Pornography through extensive restrictions on internet porn, Pornography will be automatically blocked by Internet service providers  in the country unless the users choose to opt in according to the Daily Mail, which is taking full [...]

After buying out Toronto-based crowd-sourced location data company  Locationary, Apple purchased  transit navigation app HopStop, HopStop’s deal was first reported by Bloomberg . HopStop organises data on local businesses and will be a part of the mapping suite too. The deal to pick up HopStop which had recently launched a Waze like service for reporting delays, accidents and other traffic [...]

Apple has been pulling all stops to improve its Maps app after the debacle of its Maps app, Apple has reportedly bought crowd-sourced location data company Locationary. Google is continuously improving it’s popular Google Maps app, Google’s acquisition of Waze, the GPS navigation app was a step in this direction. Locationary is located out of Canada and focuses on improving searching for [...]

Evernote has released a new version for its app for iPad and iPhone which adds shortcuts to notes, tags, files and more, related notes for premium users, and support for Skitch app to add images to the notes. “For the latest Evernote for iPhone and iPad update (5.4), we’re adding features that will help you rediscover your notes, jump to the content that’s important to you, easily annotate [...]

 Samsung on Wednesday announced the latest in the Evo SSD lineup, by launching its new entry level solid-state drive, the 840 Evo at 2013 Samsung SSD Global Summit  in Korea. 840 Evo will be available in 120 GB/250 GB/500 GB/750 GB/1 TB capacities, using 19nm Toggle 2.0 TLC, compared to the Samsung SSD 840 which uses 21nm Toggle 2.0 TLC and the 840 Pro which uses 21nm Toggle MLC. Samsung SSD [...]

Facebook users logging on to Facebook through their mobile phones in June rose around 20 percent in the UK and US according to Facebook. Facebook said its mobile monthly active users increased by 18 percent in the United States and by 22 percent in Britain in June compared with the previous year. There was a direct impact on Facebook’s mobile advertising revenues, Facebook’s mobile advertising [...]

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 [...]