BestBuy and Samsung have announced plans to open 1400 Samsung “Experience Shops” in stores throughout the USA… you know, the ones that look at exactly like Apple Stores. The Samsung Experience store is designed to let customers “experience how the devices connect together to enrich their lives”. 900 of these stores will be open in various BestBuy…
Apple held its annual shareholders meeting today, and while much of the meeting was pretty standard, there were a few points touched upon that are worth mentioning. First and foremost is a statement from Tim Cook that Apple is looking to enter new product categories. According to CNBC, which live blogged the meeting, “Obviously we’re looking at new…
Many government agencies in the United States have been long time BlackBerry advocates. The reason being that,f or quite some time, BlackBerry reigned supreme in terms of security. Nowadays, however, Apple and Google have done a good job at catching up. Something to prove that is the Pentagon’s decision to begin allowing iOS and Android devices run on its…
Israeli business news site Globes is currently reporting that Apple is planning its third Israeli facility, which will be used as a development center. The facility is said to open in Israel’s Ra’anana Industrial zone, near the facility belonging to Apple’s recently acquired flash memory developer Anobit. Apparently, former employees of Texas…
We’ve heard a fair amount of rumors recently suggesting that Apple has plans to open a research and development center in Shanghai, and yesterday, the news emerged that Apple is doing exactly that, opening an R&D center in Pudong, Shanghai. It seems that the Cupertino tech giant has registered three buildings, using their facilities for ‘procurement…
Cupertino’s city website has just posted Apple’s detailed plans for the new ‘spaceship’ campus that it has been working on. Reportedly, Apple’s new campus project has been delayed, with David Brandt (Cupertino city manager) saying that “the project is running a bit slowly,” and that it could “conceivably break ground in 2013″. Current estimates have…
Voice and Speech recognition is becoming a huge competition. Apple has Siri which will be updated in iOS 6, and Google has Google Now coming in Jelly Bean. AT&T, seeing that this area is rapidly evolving, decided it’s time to open up their own voice software to developers. Now, developers can access AT&T’s “Watson” engine through an SDK made for…
Just a little bit ago, we wrote about how you can set Google’s Chrome browser for iOS to the default using a jailbreak tweak. Well now we have something for those users that would like to somewhat accomplish the same thing without the hassles that can come with jailbreaking. All you have to do is make a bookmark in Safari, and whenever you want to open…
Something that jailbreaking has been able to do to iOS that Apple should just implement themselves, is quick settings on the SpringBoard. There are a plethora of tweaks that you can add to the home screen of your iPhone, from quick dialing contacts to changing the brightness. App Cubby’s newest app, Launch Center Pro, tries to bring the best of that to the…
I think it’s safe to say that when most people get a new gadget, their main goal is making sure it doesn’t fall apart for as long as possible. The guys over at iFixit, on the other hand, don’t quite share that goal. The iPad has just started hitting store shelves in Australia, and already the iFixit crew has entirely disassembled the thing, and now we…
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