Tagged: breaking news

iOS App Store Hits 50 Billion Downloads!

Apple’s iOS, just a year after hitting the  25 billion download mark, has hit the 50 billion app download mark. Absurd. Android, their main competitor, lags behind by about 2 billion downloads, according to numbers released today. The winners (all 51) haven’t been announced yet, but they’re in for some sweet prizes. It’s always interesting seeing what the winner downloaded.  

Exclusive: Apple Reveals New Products Coming By June

In this week’s earnings call on Q2 of 2013, Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer explained his prediction of decreased margins by “a different product mix” in June, confirming multiple changes to Apple’s existing line of hardware. Other hints were dropped by Apple’s CEO Tim Cook on the call, who mentioned “new hardware and software services”, “exciting new product categories”- maybe Television, and a lot more...

Cheaper iPhone On the Way…or not?

I’m a realist. Sometimes I can be a bit cruel with the truth, but it’s useful in debunking the crap that newspapers spew when times are tough and there isn’t enough tech news to go around. Rumors continually driven by a certain publication (the Wall Street Journal) seem to point towards a cheaper iPhone on the way. Here are a few reasons why that’s...

Breaking: Google Discontinues Reader RSS Service

Google will be ending its’ reader service (reader.google.com) on July 1st, according to the company, bringing to an end seven years of service. Google Reader is the service behind many of the top RSS apps in the world, pushing new content from saved feeds to RSS readers, and offering its’ own organized reader online. Word comes as research shows the decline of the RSS...

Look Out McDonalds: Samsung Sells over 100 Million Galaxy S Devices

McDonalds sold over 10 billion $1-5 hamburgers. Samsung sold over 100 million $300 Galaxy S devices. Which is more impressive? It’s a matter of opinion. They’re still far from Apple’s 400 Million + active iOS devices, but those are some big numbers. Samsung has been really successful with their S line lately, with both the SII and SIII coming to rave reviews. Can they...