This is our daily post were we are recommending iOS apps for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad that have gone free for a limited time [August 31] Destructopus: Total Rampage. In this side-scrolling game you play as a giant one eyed and fire-breathing octopus and you are destroying entire cities while avoiding enemy fire. Nice [...]
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Selected iOS apps for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad gone free [August 31]
Replay: Apple employee lost iPhone prototype in a bar. Sold for $200
August 31, 2011
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Once again an Apple employee, in San Francisco, went out for a night with his buddies and lost his iPhone prototype. Sounds familiar? CNET reported on Wednesday that around the end of July the Apple prototype, or maybe one of the final testing versions of the iPhone 5, went missing in the Cava22, a Mexican [...]
Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi joining forces to dominate touch panel’s market
August 31, 2011
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The Taiwan Economic News reports on Wednesday that the Japanese government, aiming at getting orders from Apple, will fund Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi for the setting up of a joint venture that will target the small and medium-sized display market. According to the site, the country of Japan is so keen to get orders for [...]
Apple’s suppliers responsible for water pollution and cancer?
August 31, 2011
A group of environmental protection organizations has jointly released on Wednesday a report that accuses 27 Apple’s suppliers of pollution. The angry group claims that Apple success is not just due to Steve Jobs’ genius, but to the readily available high-tech suppliers, the low cost of manual labor and in exchange China is getting high [...]
Apple hires Viagra-powered team to stop fake Chinese iPhones
August 31, 2011
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According to WikiLeaks, three years ago Apple has set up a team to combat the ramping Chinese traffic of counterfeit iPod and iPhone. The chosen team was not composed neither by geeks nor by Magnum P.I. kind of investigators. Apple hired instead employees from the Viagra’s maker Pfitzer, whose investigations lead to a Chinese crackdown [...]
Apple allegedly readying new web-based iOS diagnostic tool
August 31, 2011
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According to the Hardmac, Apple has put the final touches on a web based testing tool for iOS devices that will allow Apple technicians to better diagnose the issues your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad is experiencing. If the report is true, this would be a very powerful and cost effective tool to do basic [...]
Digitimes: 7-inch Amazon tablet coming October, 10-inch coming 2012
August 31, 2011
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The DigiTimes reported on Wednesday that Foxconn Electronics, the same manufacturer that Apple uses for the iPad, will start mass producing the 10.1-inch Amazon tablet in the first quarter of 2012. In addition to that, Amazon will outsource an estimated volume of 15-18 million Kindle e-book reader to the Chinese manufacturer. The other Amazon’s rumored [...]
August 31, 2011
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