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Apple facing new lawsuit over iPhone 5 call forwarding patent

Patent 511 Apple has been caught up in multiple lawsuits for years. The most well known patent dispute involving the Cupertino tech giant is the ongoing court battle against rival manufacturer, Samsung. However, today, another company has decided to take on the iPhone maker in court. Bluebonnet Telecommunications, a Texas based telecommunications…

Rdio updated with AutoPlay, Song Stations, and more

Rdio, the popular music streaming service, has just updated it’s app with some new features that bring some iTunes Radio-like features to the table. One of those features is Song Stations, which allows users to create stations based on specific songs. Also there is now AutoPlay, which will, as the name suggests, keep playing after a certain playlist or…

Lytro announces iPhone app that connects to camera via WiFi

If you are the owner of a Lytro camera, you are sure to be interested in this. Lytro has announced a new iPhone application that will connect to your camera via a WiFi chip built into the device. The application, which is free, can be used after a software update is applied to your Lytro camera to unlock the WiFi chip hidden inside. You can, afterwards,…

Handy chart shows when to expect iOS 7 beta updates

If you are wondering when the next iOS 7 beta will be released, check out this handy chart (above) made by Will Hains. Written in HTML5, you can mouseover the different parts of the chart on his website, and it will tell you the exact amount of days that each version was in which specific beta. If you take the numbers from each day and do some calculations,…

Rumor: Analyst says no Retina display for next generation iPad mini

All rumors up until now have said how the next generation iPad mini will most likely be getting a Retina display. However, according to a new rumor according to NPD DisplaySearch analyst Richard Shim, the next iPad mini will not have a Retina display, contrary to what most rumors have been pointing towards. Per the report, the next generation will have…

Los Angeles Unified School District order $30m in iPads

The Los Angeles Unified School District last night announced a$30 million contract to supply all of its students with iPads in the classroom. The deal will provide every student in the United States’ second largest school district with an iPad. The deal works out at around 35,000 iPads, with each one costing $678. That’s a little above retail, but each…

Verizon confirms Canada consideration for wireless market

Following reports that Verizon was considering entering the Canadian wireless market, Verizon CFO Fran Shammo has confirmed that it is indeed “looking at the opportunity”. In terms of stages of a possible move, he claimed that Verizon was merely “dipping its toe in the water”, in a move that could be complicated by regulations. A spokesman later…

Feedly Cloud now available to all users

Feedly has finally launched Feedly cloud to all users. Feedly cloud turns Feedly into a fully fledged platform, rather than a simple reader. Feedly cloud provides a “fast and scalable infrastructure” that finally replaces Google reader. This launch brings a standalone web version of Feedly, compatible with all major browsers. It also brings 9 apps built…

Apple rumored to be working on liquid-cooled devices

According to Digitimes, Apple, Samsung and HTC are all considering the possibility of liquid-cooled phones. Last month, the NEC Medias X 06 E was released in Japan. The phone uses liquid cooling similar to the system in ultrabooks, with pipes less than a millimeter thick. The release of the phone proved to the world that liquid cooling on a…