With a new iPhone coming this year, many Apple fans are also anticipating a brand new iOS operating system. Reports out this week, which backup and echo earlier reports, say the iOS 7 — now under the leadership of Jony Ive — will be significantly “flatter” and will lose “all signs of gloss, shine and [...]

The mobile video revolution is in full-fledge and it’s important to understand. But it’s important to follow sites that aren’t just your typical tech sites, such as a Blorge (but we love the traffic, so keep coming!). You need to follow media blogs of the world’s major newspapers, in addition to trade publications. Mobile TV [...]

You might be surprised at how many people returned their iPhone in the past year or so. According to multiple reports, 5-8 million iPhone units were returned to Foxconn — the main manufacturer of the iPhone — because they were defective, aka, they didn’t work. How much will that cost? About $32 device, or about [...]

Just like the way a person dresses or does his hair, an iPhone home screen can tell a lot about a person. It’s the first thing they open their iPhone up to after sliding the lock, and it’s probably the screen where 98 percent of all smartphone tasks take place. So, make sure you’re not [...]

As many Apple fans already know, the iPhone and iPad are great gaming devices, but could they be better with a dedicated iOS gaming controller? Conflicting reports came out this week. The first from Pocketgamer saying Apple is in talks with several game developers at this past week’s Game Developer’s conference about releasing an official [...]

If you’re in the market for a new iPhone, Apple is doing everything it can to make sure you have it as soon as possible. Promotions started running Monday offering free next-day shipping on all iPhone models. Apple typically covers free shipping on orders over $50, it’s never handed out free next-day shipping. In theory, [...]

Let the iPhone 5S rumors begin! Wait, and iPhone 6?! That’s right. A crazy rumor has been started that Apple plans on releasing both phones this summer. Home button, vibrator and volume/mute flex cable parts have begun to surface, according to MacRumors and the French blog NowhereElse. As expected, they look nearly identical to the [...]

CBS has finally crossed the finish line. The network that puts out The Big Bang Theory and The Price is Right has released an iOS app that allows viewers to watch primetime, morning and late night programming on-demand. As a TV technology reporter, it’s always exciting when I have TV news cross over with Apple [...]

PayPal helped Apple take a step forward this week when it comes to mobile payments. The popular online payment system introduced a new mobile SDK which allows iOS app developers to integrate a PayPal checkout and mobile credit card payment mechanism directly into their apps, as MacRumors points out. Up until this point, users could [...]

Here we go again. Maybe. When we enjoyed an extra hour of sleep back in October for Daylight Savings Time, alarms on our iPhone went bonkers. Some of us were awakened in the middle of the night. Others missed early morning Church. It’s no secret that Apple’s ‘Do Not Disturb’ feature is clearly disturbed by [...]

An iWatch might be on wrist near you after all. The Verge followed up a report from Bloomberg today, confirming what many expected: An iWatch would run a full-version of iOS and sync with your iPhone and iCloud. From the Verge: Interestingly, we’re also told that Apple’s chosen to rework the full iOS to run [...]

Due to reduced demand for the iPhone 5, Foxconn has put a hiring freeze in place at most of its Chinese factories. As a result, Apple’s stock suffered a bit Wednesday. “Currently, none of the plants in mainland China have hiring plans,” Liu Kun, a company spokesman at Foxconn’s largest manufacturing facility, in the southern [...]

This may not come as a total surprise, but the revenue Apple brings in from its iTunes store and the handful of accessories it sells is actually more than what most companies bring in from phone sales alone. Asymco, a research firm, broke down the claims, saying that Apple is doing just that — bringing [...]

Here we go again: The iPhone 5S is inevitable, and now we can start to see photos of the next-generation iPhone. Most of these photos and reports are coming from Chinese blogs, including sjbbbs.zol.com.cn (how’s that for a domain name!). That blog published photos of the iPhone 5S in production, despite the fact that the [...]

There’s more to love about February than a short month and a groundhog. The holiday of love is upon us, and it’s important that you come to the game prepared. Now, this is probably stereotyping, but a majority of this blog’s readership is of the male gender. Attention gentlemen: Don’t screw it up this year. [...]