Ever since its release, I’ve been a fan of the Temple Run franchise. However, one thing that bothers me about it, and something that is way more present in the more recent Temple Run 2, is its lack of replay value. Once you unlock your powerups and characters, there really isn’t a lot going on. Fortunately, though, Imangi Studios – developer of the game -…
If you’re a few dollars off the iPad mini or 4th-gen iPad that you’ve been eyeing-up, then don’t despair, as Apple has just begun offering its nearly-new devices with discounts as big as $50. As with all of Apple’s refurbs, you’ll get a new battery and rear shell on your device, so long as you can make do with not buying a brand new iPad. The devices also…
Apple showed off its ‘Eyes Free’ extension to Siri at last year’s WWDC keynote, and now the Chevy Spark and Sonic are the first vehicles to be feature the technology. The idea behind Siri Eyes Free is that it allows drivers to operate their iPhone without removing the focus from driving. Essentially, it’s a huge advance on the ‘hands free’…
The latest Consumer Loyalty Engagement Index release shows that Apple lost out to its major competitor, Samsung, in consumer loyalty over 2012. In-fact, the data – collected by research consultancy Brand Keys – shows that Samsung did as well as to top consumer loyalty for most of the areas of electronics that it is involved in. President of Brand…
If you were one of the people waiting for the evasi0n jailbreak to launch at noon EST, then you were most definitely not alone. Just how many were downloading the program? Well, within the first 10 minutes there were over 100,000 downloads. That’s right, over 100,000 downloads, and it quickly rose after that. If you have yet to do so, and want…
A recent announcement from web analytics firm StatCounter shows that, for the first time ever, Nokia has been bested by Apple in terms of worldwide mobile internet usage. The news comes as part of the firms January update for its usage stats for the past 12 months. The results show that Apple managed to exploit a sharp decrease in Nokia’s usage, and climbed…
If two of today’s rumors are to be believed, then Apple currently has plans to open two new Apple Stores, one in San Francisco, the other some distance away in Berlin. The Berlin location is supposedly to be Apple’s first retail store in the city, and is to be located in Ku’Damm, one of the capital’s shopping districts. This report comes from…
Touch screens are pretty much the standard across smartphones, and they the most striking difference to mobile phone technology over the past decade. You’d think, then, that the touch screen is perfect, and used to its full potential already. But you’d be wrong. According to Canopy, the touchscreen’s fatal flaw is its user, as every time it is touched, a…
We’re always hearing about how RIM is slowly dying, and that more and more businesses are choosing iPhones over BlackBerrys for their employees. Now, the iPhone is the first choice for most businesses, taking over the spot that the BlackBerry once held. This doesn’t apply for the devices used in bring your own device schemes, or ‘employee liable’…
After iMessage’s first year ended with the release of iOS 6, a new report has hit the web claiming that iMessage (and possibly other IM apps) is causing the first decline in US text messaging in years. On Monday, mobile analyst Chetan Sharma published a report claiming that text messaging (SMS) was down for the first time in years in the third quarter of…
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