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iRadio song skip feature causing problems with Sony Music – rumor

According to a new report from CNET which cites sources “familiar with the ongoing negotiations,” Apple and Sony Music are working hard to finalize an agreement for Apple’s iRadio streaming service. Apparently, what’s giving Sony pause (pun intended) is the built-in song skip feature. Sony and Apple can’t seem to reach an agreement regarding how much…

Samsung too cheap to shoot its own print ads, replaces iPhone in model’s hand with photoshopped Galaxy S4

One thing I learned today: there’s a blog dedicated to pointing out every time Samsung copies Apple. Cool idea right? Its latest discovery was some shameless photoshopping by the Korean tech giant in one of its recent print ads. Posing for a shoot called “Pretty Woman Lying On The Sofa Holding Her Smartphone”, the model was shot holding an iPhone 3GS…

TiP Daily 5/15/13: New Google Maps for iOS, App Store hits 50 billion downloads, & more! [VID]

1. App Store hits 50 billion downloads Apple’s been counting down to the 50 billion download mark for a few weeks now, and it finally reached it. We don’t yet know who the lucky downloader is, but we probably will soon – he or she has won a $10,000 App Store gift card! Could you imagine winning 10 grand for downloading an app!? So awesome. 2. New Google…

Hang w/: Real-time broadcasting from one phone to many [Review]

If you’re a fan of broadcasting tools like Google+ Hangouts and Ustream, you might want to give Hang w/ a try. Developed by MEDL Mobile, Hang w/ is a social networking app that lets you virtually “hang with” people using real-time video. Instead of recording a video and waiting for it to upload, this app sends real-time video from your mobile device to…

Facebook, 1Password receive major updates

Two incredibly popular iOS applications, Facebook and 1Password, both received pretty major updates today. 1Password, the popular password storage application, was updated to 4.2. Among the new features, 1Password now offers the ability to share items via Messages, search for passwords using a URL, and the usual amount of bug fixes. The app is available…

What’s the best email client for iPhone and iPad? Mailbox, Evomail, Mail Pilot, Incredimail and Triage compared

Since Apple started allowing third party clients for email management on the App Store we’ve seen a flood of arrivals. Early on Sparrow took the world by storm, but since then there’s been a few more notable clients which in some ways out perform everyone’s favorite client. And that’s forgetting Google and Yahoo! both released iOS apps for their email…

TiP Daily 5/9/13: iPhone 5S leak, iRadio delay, & more! [VID]

1. Universal Music agreement This is one of the first concretely positive things we’ve heard about Apple’s iRadio service in a while. It’s definitely great news to hear that such a major record label is getting on board with Apple. It took some serious convincing back when iTunes was first launching, and obviously that turned out pretty well, so…

Apple victorious in “iBooks” trademark lawsuit

So, Apple was sued again. Big surprise, right? This time it was by a small New York publishing company called Black Tower Press. Apparently the sci-fi and fantasy book publisher obtained the “ibooks” mark in 2006 after purchasing another publishing company that had been using the name. It’s worth noting that Black Tower never actually obtained…