Mac OS X Lion Hits Mac App Store

During Apple’s earnings call yesterday, the company announced that Mac OS X Lion would become available today, and sure enough it has. The OS was demoed at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in early June, when the company said that Mac …

Apple Earnings Released

Apple has just released its earnings report for its fiscal year third quarter, beating most estimates. Apple posted revenue of $28.57 billion for the quarter with a net profit of $7.31 billion. For perspective, for the same quarter last year, …

AAPL Doing Well Ahead of Earnings Report

Apple will release its Fiscal Year Third Quarter earnings report and call this afternoon at 2:00 p.m. PDT/5:00 p.m. EDT. The company will be offering live audio streaming of its conference call, which will be available as a continuous rebroadcast …

iPhone Survives Skydive Drop

Taking your iPhone with you on a parachute attempt is nothing new. In fact, YouTube has an assorted collection of people filming skydive attempts that were shot with the iPhone’s video camera. However, having a phone fall out during the …

New Smartphone Buyers Want Apple First, Android Second

When new smartphone buyers go to purchase their new device, odds are, they’ll be selecting an iPhone over Android and other competitors to Apple’s apparent mobile thrown. That’s what a new survey from ChangeWave Research tells us, and while Apple’s …

Post Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Sadness? There’s an App for That

#ItAllEnds. That Twitter hashtag has been trending all day, along with about a dozen other Harry Potter related terms. Since this morning, I’ve seen Neville Longbottom, Mischief Managed, Severus Snape, Albus Severus Potter, and most all of the Weasley clan …

Amazon Tablet On The Way, According to Sources

Today, there are more rumors about Amazon’s leap into the tablet market. The Wall Street Journal has cited “people familiar with the matter” in predicting that the online retailer will release its iPad rival sometime before October. This new information …

Apple Users Will Download More Apps This Year, Pay More For Them

Last week, in a release, Apple boasted that their App Store had just topped 15 billion downloads, a truly staggering figure. As part of that release they also stated that over $2.5 billion has been paid out to developers. Clearly, …

iPad HD On The Way?

The Apple rumor mill is always busy, but it has been especially busy in the last couple of days. Today, we move away from the buzzed about iPhone 5 and turn our focus on the tablet world – the world …

Apple’s App Store Goes Over 15 Billion Downloads, Despite the Confusion

Apparently, the confusing and misleading name of the Amazon AppStore for Android hasn’t had much of an impact yet, because, according to Apple’s press room, the Apple App Store has exceeded 15 billion application downloads. Considering the gist of Apple’s …

Apple’s Injunction Against Amazon Is Denied

Amazon can keep using the phrase “App Store” in its Appstore for Android, which, according to Apple’s recently-filed injunction, it would cause confusion for consumers. This means that, according to Apple, people wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between …

Georgian Teen’s iPad Typing Skills Earn Him Guinness Record

The joke is that there is now a Guinness World Record for everything. If you can do it, they can give you a certificate. And after hearing about this new record, I think that the joke might have some validity. …

iPhone 5 Rumored Thinner, Lighter

Keeping up with Apple products rumors is a full-time job, but we do our best around here to keep loyal iOS fanatics apprised of the latest. The newest information from “people familiar with the situation” provides a little more detail …

iPads Replacing Pilot Flight Bags?

Is there a more natural partnership than mobile technology and traveling? Look around the next time you’re in an airport, or other public transportation hub and you’ll see more people with mobile devices than you can shake a stick at. …linkscolor = "000000"; highlightscolor = "888888"; backgroundcolor = "FFFFFF"; channel = "none";

Instagram Quickly Becoming Its Own Social Media Circle

Leveraging social media on mobile devices is a task best saved for the established companies and the proliferation of the mobile applications, or at least that is the conventional wisdom. And while folks are waiting for Facebook’s photo-sharing application for …