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Apple Store app here Thursday: pick

This could be quite damaging to your bank balance. A new Apple Store app is due Thursday, according to BGR, and it’ll let you order a product and then pick it up from an Apple Store just 12 minutes later. Better keep tabs on those impulse purchases. A “trusted source” has given an incredibly detailed …

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Amazon Kindle Fire gains Web usage market share on iPad loss

Web usage of Apple’s iPad fell more than 7 percent in North America after Christmas, while competing tablets from Amazon, Google, and Samsung all registered gains, according to a new study released today. While the iPad dominates the market with 78.8 percent Web usage, its usage after Christmas dropped 7.14 percent, according to Chitika Insights, which sampled hundreds of millions …

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RIM expands licensing deal with InterDigital to cover 4G LTE tech

Research In Motion and InterDigital have extended an existing patent licensing agreement to cover 4G LTE technology. Under the deal announced today, RIM will be able to use InterDigital’s patents in its upcoming line of BlackBerry 10 products, which are set to debut later this month. Related stories Best Password Manager to Use for 2022 Your Phone Screen Is Gross. …

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iPhone 6 and iOS 7 being tested, developer log claims

The next iPhone and its accompanying iOS 7 software has apparently turned up in developer logs, indicating the next-generation phone is already in the testing stages. The log, shown off to The Next Web, highlights the code ‘iPhone 6,1’. The iPhone 5 — Apple’s current flagship — bears the moniker iPhone5,1 or 5,2 in the logs, suggesting that this is …

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iPhones and iPads looted in armed Apple store raid

An Apple store in Paris was the target of a New Year’s Eve armed robbery. An estimated £1m of fruit-themed products were taken, in particular, iPhones and iPads. In an undoubtedly calculated move, the robbery took place a few hours after closing time on New Years Eve when local police were busy controlling crowds of celebrators. Although the thieves were …

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Judge decides to keep Samsung sales data unsealed

U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh has denied Samsung’s request to keep its phone and device sales data out of the public’s eye. According to Bloomberg, which obtained a copy of an order filed earlier this week, Koh decided that Samsung must file and cannot seal an exhibit detailing total units sold on certain Samsung products. The products included in …

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iPhone’s Do Not Disturb feature broken until 7 January

Apple’s Do Not Disturb feature is living up to its name more than iPhone users would like, with a bug stopping the feature from automatically switching off at the scheduled time. (Credit: Jason Cipriani/CNET) In a post on it’s support blog, Apple acknowledged that the problem started on New Year’s Day and that it will apparently correct itself on 7 …

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Ubuntu OS smartphones tapped for late 2013

Ubuntu OS, long a favorite open-source platform for computing, is getting ready to move to the smaller smartphone screen. Related stories: We don’t need another phone OS Samsung’s Tizen phone to sell next year Huawei taps Linux-based Tizen OS Firefox OS opens arms to developers Ubuntu-run smartphones will using the same drivers as Android smartphones, a boon to developers, but …

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