That’s a huge stash: Samsung sells 100 million Galaxy phones

Samsung Electronics says global sales of its Galaxy S smartphones have surpassed 100 million units since the first model in the series was released less than three years ago. Samsung on Monday said it had sold more than 25 million Galaxy S smartphones, 40 million Galaxy S II smartphones and 41 million Galaxy S III... Read More

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January 12, 2013

Bikini mom: Hollywood’s Gwyneth Paltrow shares RARE photos of she with her children on beach holiday (PHOTOS)

Gwyneth Paltrow has opened up her family holiday album to her fans. The 40-year-old star – who is usually fiercely protective of her children Apple, eight, and six-year-old Moses – shared a rare snap of her children from a recent trip to St Lucia. Family time: Gwyneth Paltrow posed with her children Moses and Apple... Read More

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December 13, 2012

Opinion: “Retweets are not endorsements”?! 22 terrible things that must end in 2013

by Cord Jefferson *We loved this piece from Gawker so much, we emailed them and took it! For all of humanity’s greatness—the pyramids, the Hoover Dam, our capacity to love—human beings have proven ourselves quite capable of doing truly disgusting things, also, including waging wars, acting upon greed, and wearing those godforsaken toe shoes.... Read More

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November 28, 2012

Eat your Apple out: Samsung is the Breakthrough Brand of 2012

by Todd Wasserman South Korea has about 0.7% of the world’s population and is smaller than California, yet it was responsible for two instances of world domination in 2012. The first was Gangnam Style‘s Psy’s frenetic juggernaut of a viral video that, by November, had become the most-viewed ever on YouTube. The second was... Read More

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November 15, 2012

TICKER: #TheTechWarsGoOn: Samsung ‘has no intention’ to settle patent suits with Apple

South Korean electronics maker Samsung has said that it will not follow HTC’s lead and settle its patent lawsuits with Apple. HTC and Apple recently reached a settlement in their patent disputes, which had been running for two-and-a-half years. HTC is thought to have paid Apple between five dollars and 20 dollars per handset that... Read More

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October 8, 2012

Opinion: The smartphone of the future will be in your brain

by Stewart Scott-Curran 50 years later, wearable phones make a comeback in the form of wristbands. The wristphone, as it is commonly known, is customized to fit each user’s arm perfectly. In the past 10 years we’ve seen cell phones transform into electronic Swiss army knives with a wild variety of functions and features. They... Read More

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October 5, 2012

One Year Anniversary: Tim Cook steps out of Steve Jobs’ shadows

by Lance Ulanoff Steve Jobs wasn’t perfect or infallible. He was tough, intractable, perhaps unfair, and occasionally even mean-spirited. These are not characteristics many of us spent time pointing out a year ago when the Apple CEO and founder succumbed to cancer. The loss, though expected, hit us all hard. Jobs was one of us... Read More

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October 4, 2012

TICKER: Sorry, fanboys: More bad news for Apple maps

Apple’s infamous Maps app has been available to the public for only two weeks, and users are reportedly abandoning it for more reliable navigation products. Apple promised that it will improve its botched app, but can it get there fast enough? The Maps app, which Apple baked into its iOS 6 update to replace Google... Read More

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October 1, 2012

To whom it may concern: Arik presents iPad to Japheth Omojuwa, “Full details soon,” he says

by Isi Esene The long drawn twitter war between Arik Airline and social media activist, Japheth Omojuwa over his missing Apple iPad tablet appears to have been settled. Both parties were at daggers-drawn refusing to back down when Omojuwa insisted that the aviation company must accept responsibility for the loss of the electronic gadget, an... Read More

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September 13, 2012

Review: Apple’s iPhone 5 bigger, faster but lacks “wow”

by Poornima Gupta Apple Inc’s new iPhone goes on sale on Friday with a bigger screen and 4G wireless technology, as the company seeks to safeguard its edge over rivals like Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and Google Inc. The iPhone 5 fulfilled many of the expectations laid out by gadget geeks and technology analysts ahead... Read More

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August 31, 2012

How to be a genius: This is Apple’s secret employee training manual

by Sam Biddle We recently showed you just how badly some of Apple’s retail elite behave when no one’s watching, but surely they were taught better, right? You bet they were: Apple tells its new recruits exactly what what to think and say. How do we know? We read Apple’s secret Genius Training Manual from... Read More

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August 25, 2012

Apple wins in US court, awarded $1.05 billion in damages against Samsung

By Chi Ibe A jury of nine sitting in a California court, yesterday, awarded damages to the world’s most valuable company Apple Inc in a high-stakes court battle against Samsung Electronics, a South Korean firm to the tune of $1.05 billion. This judgement comes just as a South Korean court, yesterday, found the two companies... Read More

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August 25, 2012

Apple and Samsung are both guilty – South Korean Court, orders both to withdraw products from shops

by Chi Ibe A South Korean court, yesterday, ruled that both Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics have infringed each other’s patents on mobile devices. Judges in Seoul said U.S.’s Apple had infringed two patents held by Samsung, while the Korean technology giant had violated one of Apple’s patents. The ruling comes as the two technology... Read More

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July 31, 2012

Apple smartphones officially enter the Nigerian market

by Isi Esene International brand products have continued to find their way into the country, the latest entrant being the Apple range of iPad devices, a product which has succeeded in changing the way people work and play. While announcing Apple’s official entry into Nigerian market, Rutger-Jan van Spaandonk, executive director of Core Group Africa... Read More

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May 10, 2012

Apple vs HP? Spot the Difference in these photos

Yeah. You get the point. (See the story on the HP launch of 8- new products today HERE as reported by our correspondent in Shanghai, China.)

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March 10, 2012

#InCaseYouMissedIt: “14 from Washington” – Check out the details from the latest Forbes billionaire rankings

by Lekan Olanrewaju Forbes has released its annual list of planet earth’s wealthiest people, and 14 of the world’s 1,226 billionaires reside in the Washington area. The Washington Business Journal classified all the billionaires on the original Forbes list according to location and it was revealed that 14 of them came from the Washington area... Read More

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February 6, 2012

Is your iPhone killing factory workers in China? See the Change.org petition

by Hauwa Gambo 300 workers recently threatened to jump off the roof over a safety and pay dispute. Mark Shields, a self-described member of the “Cult of Mac,” started a petition on Change.org demanding Apple exert its influence on its suppliers to improve working conditions for the factory workers that make iPhones, iPads and other... Read More

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January 25, 2012

Record breaking! Apple earns $46.33 billion in 3 months

by Seyi Lawal Apple has revealed how much it’s earned in the past three months. The revelations raised the company to a new high and it set a new record for quarterly revenue and profit in Q1 of 2012, netting $46.33 billion in total with $13.06 billion earnings — the latter number representing... Read More

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November 7, 2011

New book describes Steve Jobs as a bully, "a complicated and exhausting man"

by Rachel Ogbu “Steve Jobs”, the title of a new biography on the Apple founder gives an insightful peek into the many questions that surrounded the genius’s life. Questions like ‘What is the purpose of a sofa?’, ‘…Did we care most about getting our wash done in an hour versus an hour and a half?’, ‘…did... Read More

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