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Google and Apple Looking To License TV Content In Bids For UK Sporting Rights

Google and Apple Looking To License TV Content In Bids For UK Sporting Rights

Apple is preparing to jump into the ring for TV rights bidding that could place some of next seasons Premier League UK football games directly on Apple TV set-top boxes. The Daily Mail is reporting that the company would like […]

Google Android and Apple iOS Users Download 1.2 Billion Apps In One Week

Google Android and Apple iOS Users Download 1.2 Billion Apps In One Week

Google Android and Apple iOS mobile devices not only had a great holiday buying season on the hardware front with device activations spiking by 353% to 6.8 million units on Christmas day alone (along with 242 million application downloads – […]

Kindle Fire Singed iPad Sales For 2011 Holiday Season

Kindle Fire Singed iPad Sales For 2011 Holiday Season

The jury is still out as to whether Amazon’s Kindle Fire- at less than half the price and lacking some major Apple restrictions- is exactly an iPad killer just yet. The second big-deal entry to the growing by leaps and […]

Apple Fined $1.2M in Italy Over Applecare Requirement

Apple Fined $1.2M in Italy Over Applecare Requirement

It may be chump change to Apple, but the company was sanctioned in Italy to the tune of $1.2 million dollars after it was determined that Apple’s policies violated consumer protection laws in the country. As a happy Apple owner […]

Apple Website Traffic Tops Walmart and Ebay In November

Apple Website Traffic Tops Walmart and Ebay In November

Holiday shoppers have flocked to the Apple website in record numbers, allowing the company to score more visitors than Walmart, Best Buy, Sears, eBay and other popular holiday shopping locations. According to a recent comScore report Apple’s website scored 79.2 million unique […]

Android Market racking up the downloads at 1 billion a month

Android Market racking up the downloads at 1 billion a month

Android is popular, of that there is no doubt; but then being “free” and thereby making the enprice to the consumer a little more palatable doesn’t hurt it either. Nowhere more apparent is this popularity that the Android Market and the […]

Apple Preparing To Launch Voice-Controlled Connected TVs In 2012

Apple Preparing To Launch Voice-Controlled Connected TVs In 2012

Rumors have been circulating for a while now that Apple is preparing to launch their own connected TV units and now that rumor has added voice and motion control functions to those devices. Currently known as iTV the new option […]

AT&T Concept Story Replaces Registers With iPads and iPhones In Chicago

AT&T Concept Story Replaces Registers With iPads and iPhones In Chicago

A new AT&T concept store recently opened in Chicago giving customers a unique experience by removing registers and replacing them with iPads and iPhones for quick on the go transactions. The store also features two gigantic interactive touchscreen walls for […]

HP unveils its MacBook Air competitor

HP unveils its MacBook Air competitor

The “ultrabook” marketplace is the next big laptop market to show some serious competition but all of them, regardless of the company manufacturing them, are all trying to compete against the king of the unltrbooks- Apple’s MacBook Air. Today HP […]

Apple Launches iTunes Match Option, Tells Customers What They Should Listen To

Apple Launches iTunes Match Option, Tells Customers What They Should Listen To

  Apple on Monday expanded the capabilities of their iTunes application with iTunes Match, a highly-anticipated scan-and-match service that examines a users library and then offers future suggestions The new feature is available in iTunes 10.5.1 and is free to […]

Apple Revamping Its Comical iPhone AutoCorrect Function

Apple Revamping Its Comical iPhone AutoCorrect Function

Ah, autocorrect. The feature available on iPhone that apparently was developed part-time by the guys who post up ad hoc signs on supermarket doors and public restrooms- so poor is its spelling and grammar- has spawned a cottage industry of […]

Apple Ends 99 Cent TV Rentals

Apple Ends 99 Cent TV Rentals

Streaming shows for a single viewing is rising in popularity- witness the rapid rise of Netflix streaming and the high sale numbers batted around for the impending sale of Hulu– but Apple has quietly backed out of the rental market. […]