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Apple overtaken by Exxon as world’s most valuable company (again)

Chris Burns, Mar 4th 2013 Discuss [3]

It would appear that Apple has been overtaken by Exxon Mobil once again, with their respective market capitalizations turning face again for the second time this year. It was all the way back in August of 2011 that Apple first overtook Exxon to become the world's most valuable company, with Apple and Exxon's values fighting neck-and-neck right around $350 billion USD. Those numbers have since skyrocketed (so to speak). Read The Full Story

Evasi0n jailbreak now running on over 14m devices

Craig Lloyd, Mar 4th 2013 Discuss [0]

Four days after the highly-anticipated iOS 6 jailbreak, 7 million iOS devices were running the hacked firmware. Now, exactly one month after the jailbreak's release, over 14 million iOS devices are running Evasi0n, with 23 million iDevices running all versions of a jailbreak, both past and present. Read The Full Story

5 year old accidentally spends $2570 on iPad in-app purchases

Brian Sin, Mar 2nd 2013 Discuss [33]

It was only a few days ago when Apple settled a lawsuit involving in-app purchases made by children. The lawsuit offered affected users a $5+ iTunes gift card, and those who's children purchased more than $30 worth of in-app purchases will receive a full cash refund. The lawsuit is said to cost Apple around $100 million. A family in England is an example of the types of things that go on when you leave your child unattended with your iOS device. Read The Full Story

Apple’s stock drops to a new low

Brian Sin, Mar 2nd 2013 Discuss [36]

Shareholders were a bit upset when Apple's stocks dropped all the way down to $443.77 a few days ago. They voiced their opinions at Apple's annual shareholders meeting and suggested that Tim Cook increase the amount of dividends shareholders received. Tim Cook reassured shareholders that Apple has a few tricks up their sleeves that would excite its consumers and also improve stock prices. Shareholders were worried because $443.77 is a 35% drop from the $702.10 stock price peak that Apple had back in September. Read The Full Story

Spike TV launches Bellator MMA app for iPhone and iPad

Shane McGlaun, Mar 1st 2013 Discuss [0]

If you're a fan of mixed martial arts and enjoy watching Bellator MMA on Spike TV, a new app has launched offering a co-viewing experience for fans. The app is simply called the Bellator MMA app and is available for the iPad and iPhone. The app is available at no cost on the App Store right now. Read The Full Story

Quan all-in-one iPad accessory will add connectivity

Shane McGlaun, Mar 1st 2013 Discuss [1]

Quan is a company that performs a lot of research, development, and experimentation in the robotics industry. Robots aren't all the company works on though and Quan has announced that its all-in-one iPad accessory has entered the engineering phase. Previously, the project was in the conceptual phase and the changing phase marks a transition from the drawing board to the workshop. Read The Full Story

Autodesk launches Socialcam 5.0 for iOS, offers HDR video

Brittany Hillen, Mar 1st 2013 Discuss [0]

Autodesk has released its latest version of Socialcam for iOS, version 5.0. For those who don't know, Socialcam - which is available for Android as well - is an app designed to make sharing videos with friends and various online social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter, relatively effortless. With this latest release, Apple device users get some pretty major new features, as well as a couple improvements. Read The Full Story

Dell XPS 10 and Kindle Fire are the most repairable tablets, Surface Pro and iPads come in last

Brittany Hillen, Feb 28th 2013 Discuss [4]

Warranties have their place, but there's no shortage of techies who prefer to do their own device repair when something goes awry. Unfortunately, no matter how technically inclined you are, some devices seem built specifically to make the task as difficult as possible. The folks over at iFixit have released their Repairability Guide, which shows Dell's XPS 10 as the easiest to repair, and Microsoft's Surface Pro as the worst of the bunch. Read The Full Story

Evernote updates iOS app, adds formatting options and improved PDF experience

Brittany Hillen, Feb 28th 2013 Discuss [1]

Evernote has released a new update for its iOS app, taking it to version 5.2 and adding in a host of new and improved features. The improvements are particularly relevant to iPad users, offering improved functionality when viewing PDFs that Evernote boasts as providing a "much better" experience than the previous version. Likewise, the iPad version of the app has also gained a new Snippets feature. Read The Full Story

Tim Cook talks financials at Apple’s shareholders meeting

Brian Sin, Feb 27th 2013 Discuss [5]

Apple's annual shareholders meeting was held today, and present were many shareholders who were concerned about Apple's decline in stock prices since September. Apple's stock price is down 35% since its $702.10 peak in September. Its stock price is currently sitting at $443.77. This drop in stock price took out a total of $240 billion in shareholder wealth, and shareholders want to know what Apple plans on doing to change things around. Read The Full Story

Microsoft could make $2.5B by releasing Office on iPad

Brian Sin, Feb 27th 2013 Discuss [6]

According to Adam Holt, an analyst at Morgan Stanley, Microsoft could make an estimated $2.5 billion if it releases its Microsoft Office software on iPad. This, however, doesn't include the commission Apple would take from the sales of the Office apps in its App Store. When asked if Microsoft Office would be coming to the iPad, Kurt DelBene, head of the Microsoft Office unit, was a bit evasive. Read The Full Story

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