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Apple providing developers with fifth iOS 6.1 beta version
On Saturday Apple released a fifth iOS 6.1 beta and fed it to the developers. The company’s latest mobile OS is still under testing, but it is expected to bring users a number of features, including enhanced mapping options and Siri-integration, when it launches later this year. Rumors claim that Apple would soon be rolling out an iOS 6.1 Golden...
Google+ now number 2 social network after Facebook!
Global Web Index released a report showing a change in the usage from “localized” social platforms to global social networks like Facebook, Google+ and Twitter. In terms of shares and internet use growth, the analysis shows about 343 million active users of Google+, and a little under 300 million active users for Twitter and YouTube. Based on the markets surveyed...
Samsung reports of over 300 million AMOLED panels produced
Samsung began manufacturing AMOLED panels from January 2007. Now, January 2013, the South Korean handset vendor and component maker is announcing that they’ve shipped over 300 million of said panels since then. And if the first 100 million took nearly half a decade to make, the second 100 million, roughly 11 months, the last batch of 100 million took them...
Nokia launches Music+ subscription service – for Windows Phones only
We have to admit that technology has changed the way music is consumed. People used to buy albums, then they bought digital singles, and now it’s all about the streaming services. Google doesn’t offer such a service, Apple doesn’t have it either…. Yet, there are companies out there like Spotify, with which you pay a monthly fee and you get...
Apple plans to jump to 128GB iOS devices
A thorough inspection of Apple’s latest iOS 6.1 beta has revealed that Apple may be planning to introduce an iOS device with double the built-in storage of today’s highest capacity iPhones and iPads. The news comes from iDownloadBlog, and notes the usual 8GB, 16GB, 32GB and 64GB partition keys are joined by a new 128GB designation in the iOS 6.1...
Leaks show AT&T Galaxy S IV in UAProf
The Samsung Galaxy S IV smartphone is one of those upcoming handsets that have been widely discussed lately, but so far it’s all been just rumors. A new full HD 1920 x 1080p resolution smartphone has just appeared in a UAProf, complete with AT&T on board, and many believe that the leak actually shows precisely Samsung’s upcoming flagship for AT&T....
