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Switzerland’s national rail operator SBB accused Apple of stealing the iconic look of its station clocks for the iOS 6 operating system used by iPhone and iPad mobile devices. iOS6 includes a clock icon with black and red hands that uses an SBB design created in 1944. SBB will not take a leaf out of Apple’s  book and sue it for Billions the way Apple has done to its competitors, the two companies [...]

Apple has always been secretive about the core component specifications  of its  devices, Apple’s iPhone 5’s custom made A6 processor was also the target of curiosity , thanks to tech blog AnandTech we now know the components of the A6 chip. Analysis of the A6 die by AnandTech has confirmed that Apple is using a triple-core GPU with slightly higher clock speeds to double the graphics [...]

Requests from privacy regulators across the EU led Facebook to indefinitely axe its facial recognition feature for all European users. Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) on Friday published its assessment  which suggested that Facebook had “fully implemented” most of the DPC’s recommendations, DPC had been forced into the issue following complaints by a group of Austrian law [...]

After backlash its new iOS Maps app from reviewers and users since iOS 6’s launch yesterday, Apple PR person Trudy Miller told AllThingsD in a statement: Customers around the world are upgrading to iOS 6 with over 200 new features including Apple Maps, our first map service. We are excited to offer this service with innovative new features like Flyover, turn by turn navigation, and Siri integration. [...]

Facebook today launched the Shared Activity plugin for developers, which allows Facebook users a way to control the activity they share to Facebook directly from external web apps. Facebook’ Software Engineer Andrew Chen offered an example (image at right) on  Developer Blog  on how this new plugin works: “From the plugin on sites such as Airbnb, people can set the default Facebook audience for [...]

Apple had made iOS 6 available for download to the general public yesterday, among the new features, Apple ditched Google Maps and came out with their own Maps, the overhauled Maps application  is buggy and disappointing and has debuted to mostly negative review. iOS 6 Maps faced criticism for lack of transit, Street View, POI data and sub standard traffic reporting, instead of those Apple focused [...]

Microsoft has planned a security update for this Friday to shield Internet Explorer users from a security bug that can let any unauthorized remote person takeover the Operating System. Microsoft Blog posted : “Then, on this Friday, Sept. 21, we will release a cumulative update for Internet Explorer through Windows Update and our other standard distribution channels.  We recommend that you install [...]

Microsoft issued a security advisory yesterday for Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 8, and Internet Explorer 9 running on Windows 7 and earlier, warning of a security bug that can let unauthorized takeover of the Operating System of any IE browser user  tricked into visiting a website rigged to exploit the flaw. “A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the [...]

A day after launching the new iPhone, iPod and iTunes  Apple has today launched the new iteration of iCloud.com for all users, earlier the portal was available as a beta product. iCloud.com hosts Mail, Contacts and Calendar, Find my iPhone, Notes, Reminders and iWork apps. The overall look and feel mirrors the iOS experience, clicking on the icons leads to a full screen versions of the apps that [...]

Skype released version 5.11 for Windows  which allows Skype sign in with Microsoft and Facebook accounts. Skype users can send and receive IM messages from friends who are using Messenger, Xbox, Hotmail or Outlook.com. Other goodies include :     Sign in with a Microsoft or Facebook account. You can now sign into Skype directly using a Microsoft or Facebook account, without having [...]