9to5Mac has reported that Apple is working on a gesture-based unlock screen similar to Android’s. It is being reported that Apple has released the lock screen for use in the employee ‘Apple Connect’ application for iOS devices. Apple is even planning on bringing this down to their new mobile payment system business, on the EasyPay machines. The lock screen […]

There is an Apple media event scheduled for March 2nd, what will they announce? Endgadget revises their predictions for the iPad 2, which we should hear more about next week. China may be getting the CDMA iPhone in June, complete with OTA activation. Apples has decreased the minimum iAd buy from $1,000,000 to $500,000. So […]

It had to happen sooner or later, and rightfully so. The FTC is launching an investigation into in-app purchases after several complaints from consumers, mostly parents. FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz had this to say: “We fully share your concern that consumers, particularly children, are unlikely to understand the ramifications of these types of purchases. Let […]

Business Insider is reporting that Capital FBR Capital Markets analyst Craig Berger says the next version of the iPhone may not be announced until September. This bucks Apple’s trend of releasing a new version of the iPhone in June or July of the last four years. Berger said: “For the iPhone 5, we continue to hear […]

Recently there has been a lot of chatter about Apple possibly releasing a couple of different versions of the iPhone, including one that is smaller. According to the New York Times, Apple is trying to find ways to make the iPhone more appealing to a wider range of consumers rather than segmenting their market by […]

Employees of China Telecom have hacked the CDMA iPhone to work on the their network. Lifehacker brings us a great article on how to enable carrier specific features on the Verizon iPhone. Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt, and Mark Zuckerberg met with President Obama on Thursday to discuss the tech industry and economy. The iPhone wins […]

BGR released some information from one of their sources that Verizon iPhone sales are lower than anticipated and not that far ahead of AT&T sales. Here are the numbers provided by the insider to BGR: Thursday: Verizon = 909, AT&T = 539 Friday: Verizon = 916, AT&T = 680 Saturday: Verizon = 660, AT&T = […]

Today Apple announced they will start a subscription service on the App Store. This will allow developers to offer subscription services on a wide range of content from music to video to magazines. Subscriptions purchased from within the App Store will be sold using the same App Store billing system that has been used to […]

Analyst Toni Sacconaghi of Sanford Bernstein has surveyed several top developers about iOS and Android. The survey indicates that developers find Android to be the easiest to develop for, followed by iOS. One of the key issues with Android is the plethora of screen sizes and different memory specifications. Among Android developers, Sacconaghi sees the fragmentation […]

Now that people have their hands on the long awaited Verizon iPhone we are starting to see teardowns from several sites around the web. While the CDMA and GSM versions are pretty much the same PC Magazine analyzes 5 distinct differenences: 1. World-Mode CDMA/GSM Chip 2. Dual-Antenna Design 3. New Vibration Mechanism 4. Integrated GPS […]