Tag Archives : Apple

After weeks of rumor and speculation Apple has unveiled the low-cost iPhone 5C at a event in Cupertino, California on Tuesday, the iPhone 5C is made of soft silicon rubber rather than anodized aluminum and comes in the five different colors –  blue, green, yellow, pink and white. “The iPhone 5C has an incredible new design, one that’s more fun and colorful than any design we’ve [...]

Apple introduced iPhone 5S, the successor to iPhone 5 alongside a low-cost iPhone model, the iPhone 5C at its headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. on Tuesday,in the grand tradition of the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4S, iPhone 5S t offers subtle, almost imperceptible changes on the surface, and a complete transplant underneath. iPhone 5s  runs an all new A7 chip,the new chip reportedly makes the iPhone [...]

Apple will launch a Retina iPad mini and a slimmer iPad by the end of 2013 according to Bloomberg who quotes sources familiar with the Cupertino company’s plans. Apple is expected to debut a redesigned 9.7-inch iPad next quarter along with the anticipated iPad mini with Retina display. Other reports have also supported the theory that the next generation iPad mini will get the retina display [...]

IDC has released its quarterly report on the smartphone market and it’s bad news for Apple, world over shipments of tablets came down in Q2 of 2013 to 32% of market share because Apple did not release a new model of its trend setting iPad, although Apple retains top tablet spot and shipped more tablets than Samsung, ASUS, Lenovo and Acer combined. Apple shipped 14.6 million iPads, while Samsung [...]

Taiwanese phone maker HTC has announced a revenue and profit warnings for Q3 2013 which says that HTC may make its first ever loss in 16 years – first time since it’s inception. The  company’s profits have been heading south for few quarters now mainly due to fierce competition from dominant smartphone makers Apple and Samsung coupled by saturation of Smartphone demand. Delay in launch [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]