In an interview with Bloomberg's Charlie Rose, Softbank's founder and CEO Masayoshi Son said he got the exclusive rights to sell iPhones in Japan after he showed Jobs' a rough sketch of "an iPod with mobile capabilities". Son had approached…

Customers that purchased iPhones via the Apple Online Store or in an Apple Retail Store have traditionally enjoyed a 30-day return policy. As of tomorrow, however, the return policy will be slashed to just 14 calendar days according to an…

As expected, Apple has released an updated version of its mobile operating system just one day before the annual iTunes Festival kicks off for the first time ever at SXSW. iOS 7.1 includes a number of new features, interface tweaks…

Today at the Geneva Motor Show Apple unveiled a new service that aims to provide better connectivity between the car and the driver's iPhone. Dubbed CarPlay, the service allows drivers to make calls, access contacts, use maps, listen to music,…

A reputable newspaper in central Florida is eliminating its entire photography department. In what it calls a restructuring effort designed to increase the quality of video on its site, the Orlando Sentinel will instead send reporters out in the field…

Android and iOS smartphone shipments grew 6.1% year-over-year in 2013, making up for 93.8% of all smartphone shipments in the year, according to IDC's latest figures. Q4 2013 numbers saw the two dominate platforms increase even further to account for…

We've heard a few rumors surrounding the iPhone 6 and what the flagship handset may include, but until now we haven't seen any images of the device in the flesh. Today, well-known Apple leaker Sonny Dickson, who has previously leaked…

Just a month after Snapchat's database leak, the popular photo-sharing app is in the news again for all the wrong reasons. Jaime Sanchez, a cyber security researcher, who works as a security consultant for Spanish telecommunication giant Telefonica, has discovered…

True to his word, Flappy Bird developer Dong Nguyen pulled the hit mobile game from app stores yesterday. That means if you hadn’t already downloaded and installed the title for your phone or tablet, you’re out of luck… or are…

According to Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Apple should create a smartphone that runs Android. In an interview with Wired, Wozniak stated that "there’s nothing that would keep Apple out of the Android market as a secondary phone market," believing the…

Apple celebrated its 30th anniversary of the Mac recently, and the company continues the festivities with a new short film shot entirely with iPhone 5s (above).

Although the autonomy of mobile computing devices has improved in the last decade, the gains are mostly through advancements in microprocessor and display technologies. Batteries themselves have remained largely unchanged in recent years, and while we hear about breakthrough technologies…

Unlike Android, iOS has never allowed third-party keyboards to take over as the default text entry method, forcing Apple’s rather spartan solution upon millions of iPhone users. The company isn’t likely to loosen its grip anytime soon, but SwiftKey has…

Apple sold more iPhones and iPads in the fourth quarter of 2013 than during any other three-month period, the company revealed late Monday afternoon. Specifically, the Cupertino-based electronics maker shipped 51 million iPhones, 26 million iPads and 4.8 million Macs…

The iPhone may have been a pioneering smartphone in a number of categories but one area where it has lagged behind is screen size. Initially resistant to what it deemed as the phablet fad, Cupertino is apparently gearing up to…

Ever since iOS7 was officially released to the public back in September, there have been reports of a bug which causes the iPhone to reboot randomly. Apple has now confirmed that it is aware of the bug and will fix…

As we become increasingly attached to our phones for work and play it’s very important that our data is safely backed up and it can be easily moved between devices when it’s time for an upgrade. Without a proper management suite this can be quite a chore. Enter Moborobo.

Apple has garnered a lot of media attention over the past week or so with regard to their deal to finally sell the iPhone through China Mobile. But as Cupertino gears up to release quarterly financials next week, the attention…

The Chinese government has announced a mobile operating system designed to break what they consider to be the foreign software monopoly. The state-approved OS is known as COS (China Operating System) and was developed jointly with China's Institute of Software…

It’s no secret that Apple devices are a hot commodity these days while sales of Windows PCs are simultaneously on the decline. In charting the phenomenon, Asymco analyst Horace Dediu shares just how well each category is doing and ultimately…

The National Security Agency developed a program in 2008 that allows them to access nearly everything stored on an iPhone according to security researcher Jacob Applebaum and German news magazine Der Spiegel. Known as DROPOUTJEEP in a leaked document from…

Apple has been fined 20 million New Taiwan dollars ($670,000) by Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission for influencing iPhone retail pricing and rate plans with three of the country’s biggest wireless carriers: Chunghwa Telecom, FarEasTone Telecommunications and Taiwan Mobile.

Apple on Sunday announced that it has signed a multi-year agreement with China Mobile to sell iPhones in the world's biggest smartphone market. “China is an extremely important market for Apple", Tim Cook, Apple's chief executive, said in a statement.…

In time for the holiday season, an iOS 7 jailbreak has been released from the Evasi0n team, supporting all iPhones, iPod touches, iPads and iPad minis running iOS 7.0 to 7.0.4. The jailbreak is untethered, meaning the device its installed…

The original iPhone was perhaps more revolutionary than many of us realize. The announcement of the very first smartphone from Apple prompted the development team for Google's competitor, Android, to come to the conclusion that they would "have to start…