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Apple to increase iOS app prices

Apple is increasing billings on its app store. The Cupertino-based giant revealed that “prices on the App Store will increase for all territories in…

Smartphone sales grew by 20 percent in third quarter of 2014

Smartphones have been around for a good few years now, but there’s no sign that their growing popularity is on the wane. In fact,…

Apple halts online sales in Russia over ruble fluctuations

Apple has halted online sales on all off its products in Russia due to fluctuations in that country’s currency. This is one of the…

Apple deleted music from users’ iPods without their knowledge

A US antitrust suit against Apple has unearthed something pretty disturbing: The Cupertino-based giant deleted music from iPods if it was purchased from an…

Apple patents an iPhone drop mechanism that alters device angle in freefall

We’ve all experience it: that horrifying moment when you drop your smartphone, wondering whether your screen is about to be smashed to pieces. That…

Apple market value hits $700bn

Apple is on an infinite rise, it seems. A rise in Apple shares on Tuesday pushed the market value of the company above US$700-billion,…

Universal Pictures rescues Steve Jobs biopic

The uncertainty around the Aaron Sorkin-headed Steve Jobs movie is surprising. How is it that a biopic on one of the most successful business…

Google makes more from Apple than Android? What a crock

UK newspaper The Guardian claims that Google’s Android operating system is far less valuable than Google’s revenues from Apple devices. The story was, of…

The problem with iMessage

iMessage doesn’t work. Well, that’s not entirely true. It works perfectly well as a traditional text messaging replacement. To a point. The first problem…

Apple to add Baidu support to iOS

Apple products are already wildly popular in China. Reports of local search support being added to iOS may just take that popularity to a…

Apple announces 3M iPads sold since launch

When Apple confirmed that it had a record-breaking weekend with the new iPad, we said it probably wouldn’t be long before it announced some…

Apple launches $10bn share buyback programme

Apple has released a few more details on what it plans to do with its giant pile of cash. As was expected, even prior…

Apple conference call to detail plans for massive cash reserve

Apple is set to hold a conference call detailing precisely what it plans to with near US$100-billion in spare cash it has lying around….

InstaGamer brings gaming to Instagram

We all know Instagram is great. There’s a reason Apple named it App of the Year for iPhone in 2011. But even with all…

3 Reasons the new iPad is actually a huge deal

Apple’s iPad launch hype has come and gone. A number of the speculations were proven wrong: there is no smaller iPad, there are no…

Siri gets her Led out, sings ‘Stairway to Heaven’ [Video]

We know Apple’s celebrated voice assistant Siri can do a whole lot, but did you know she could soon be the voice of the…

Highlight: the app that lets you know who’s nearby

A brand new iPhone app has been released that alerts people when they’re near someone they share a connection with. Actually the app, called…

The iPad tells all, Tim Cook’s wardrobe disappointment [Comic]

I think the guys at Joy of Tech were sitting just waiting for Apple to have an event. Following the launch of the device…

iPad > PCs

Apple sold more iPads last quarter than any computer manufacturer in the world sold PCs. Read that again. Apple sold 15.4-million iPads between October…

10 Twitter pics from the iPad launch

So it was the iPad 3 / iPad HD / “the new iPad” launch yesterday… what, you weren’t in San Francisco? Well, the 755 seats…

Apple unveils new iPad with retina display, new Apple TV

Apple’s CEO Tim Cook took the stage in San Francisco today to announce the next version of the iPad, as well as iOS 5.1…

10 Mac only apps I can’t live without

Mac owns a mere seven percent of the world’s desktop operating system market share (Windows has over 92%) and yet, it has some of…

Apple hits $500bn market valuation as stock continues soaring

Apple’s stock market valuation rocketed past the US$500-billion mark in the wake of news that the Cupertino-based tech giant would be unveiling the iPad…

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