Twitter changes Vine's age rating to 17+, adds option to report users

06 Feb, 2013, 5:51 pm IST Nishtha Kanal iOS

After days of an almost cold standoff between Apple and Twitter, the micro-blogging website has changed video tweeting app Vine’s age rating to 17+ in the App Store. More

Apple wins slide-to-unlock, original iPhone design patents

06 Feb, 2013, 4:03 pm IST tech2 News Staff Smartphones

Apple has won the patents for the slide-to-unlock user interface and the design for the initial iPhone, according to a report by CNET. The US Patent and Trade Office... More

Apple has to let go of ‘iPhone’ name in Brazil: reports

06 Feb, 2013, 11:56 am IST Nikhil Subramaniam Smartphones

Brazil's copyright regulator is all set to strip Apple of the right to use its iPhone trademark in Latin America's biggest market. The regulators More

HTC plans cheaper phones for China as revenue sags

05 Feb, 2013, 9:41 am IST Smartphones

Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC will shift its focus more towards emerging markets and offer lower priced phones... More

Path allegedly geo-tagging photos despite location services being disabled

02 Feb, 2013, 11:37 am IST Nishtha Kanal Social Networking

Path has found itself embroiled in yet another privacy related mess after it has been revealed that the app has been geo-tagging images even after users have disabled location services. More

Apple once again blocks Java web plugin on OS X

01 Feb, 2013, 10:56 am IST Nikhil Subramaniam Software

For the second time this year, Apple has blacklisted the Java Web plugin on OS X. The block applies to the current version of the plugin after an earlier... More

Twitter update brings better image and video support

31 Jan, 2013, 6:08 pm IST Nishtha Kanal Software

Twitter has rolled out a host of new tweaks and enhancements this week and the focus is apparently on making the micro-blogging website look better. More

Lenovo sets sights overseas in smartphone push

31 Jan, 2013, 9:54 am IST Software

Lenovo Group Ltd is stepping up its overseas expansion in the smartphone business after enjoying solid growth at home in China... More

Apple trademarks design of its retail stores

30 Jan, 2013, 9:27 am IST General

Apple Inc , known for aggressively protecting its iPads and iPhones from copycats, is doing the same for the interior design of its stores... More

Android, iOS held 92 percent of smartphone market in Q4 2012

29 Jan, 2013, 7:03 pm IST Nishtha Kanal General

Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS together accounted for a whopping 92 percent of global smartphone shipments in Q4 of 2012. More

Exxon passes Apple as most valuable company

29 Jan, 2013, 9:55 am IST General

Exxon has once again surpassed Apple as the world's most valuable company after the iPhone and iPad maker saw its stock price falter More

HD screens and iPads: Goa assembly to go paperless

28 Jan, 2013, 10:36 am IST Tablets 1 Comments

Soon reams of photocopies with questions and answers and other text, a common sight in every state legislature, will hardly be seen at the Goa assembly. More

Video of Steve Jobs biopic released, Wozniak objects to events

25 Jan, 2013, 3:02 pm IST Shunal Doke Tablets

The first glimpse of the upcoming biopic based on Steve Jobs—named jOBS—can be seen in a video released by Inside Movies. The movie, starring Ashton... More

47.8 million iPhones, 22.9 million iPads sold in the last quarter

24 Jan, 2013, 10:52 am IST Shunal Doke Tablets

Apple has released a press release stating that it has seen record results in its 13-week fiscal 2013 quarter that ended on December 29, 2012. The company has More

Steve Jobs was no saint

24 Jan, 2013, 10:51 am IST Nikhil Subramaniam Tablets 5 Comments

Steve Jobs was never the most popular guy around. And this latest revelation is not going to help mend that image. According to a court filing made public on... More

US ITC to review Apple patent complaint against Samsung

24 Jan, 2013, 9:30 am IST Tablets

A U.S. trade panel that specializes in patent disputes will review a potentially key decision in the patent fight... More

Three new iPhone variants to be launched in 2013?

21 Jan, 2013, 3:48 pm IST Nikhil Subramaniam Mobile phones 1 Comments

  Rumours out of Asia today hint at Apple launching three new smartphones in 2013. Besides the next generation iPhone, Apple is believed to be working on More

iPhone outsells Samsung's Galaxy S and Note smartphones

21 Jan, 2013, 9:48 am IST Shunal Doke Mobile phones 1 Comments

With all the reports about the iPhone 5's less-than-stellar performance and Samsung's stellar performance in smartphone sales, a report by Tavis More

Google Nexus 7 is big in Japan – bigger than iPad

19 Jan, 2013, 12:17 pm IST Shunal Doke Mobile phones 4 Comments

Japan is said to be one of the most technology savvy countries in the world, so when the Nexus 7 does better in a survey about tablets than Apple’s iPad, More

Japan's Sharp curbs iPad screen output as Apple manages demand shift: Sources

18 Jan, 2013, 4:17 pm IST Mobile phones

Sharp Corp has nearly halted production of 9.7-inch screens for Apple Inc's iPad, two sources said... More