Apple may not be the world’s leading mobile phone maker but its cut of both profits and sales puts it firmly at the top.

Though it holds only around 9 percent of the global mobile phone market, Apple raked in 75 percent of all profits across the industry last quarter, according to Asymco analyst Horace Dediu.

That left rival Samsung with 16 percent of the profit pie, RIM with 3.7 percent, HTC with 3 percent, (more…)

The iPhone turns into a stalking, four-legged spider in “Psycho Siri.”

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There have been plenty of Siri parodies but a new one entitled “Psycho Siri” is being lauded as one of the best yet.

Made by andrewm films, the short four-minute video, which carries the one-line synopsis, “An abandoned iPhone turns out to be a killer of a deal,” is quickly racking up the hits (more…)

One of the most powerful data sets on your iOS device is your list of contacts. Many of the amazing features the iPhone and iPad have are predicated on the information available from your address book. To help get the most out of your iDevice experience, you can use Twitter to beef up your contacts.

iOS 5 added quite a bit of Twitter integration, including the ability to automatically retrieve usernames and profile (more…)

A diagram of Audience's sales pitch: identify the speaker's voice and isolate it from background noise.

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Apple ‘s A5 processor includes noise-reduction circuitry licensed from a start-up called Audience, and a chip analyst believes that fact resolves an iPhone 4S mystery and explains why the iPhone 4 lacks the Siri voice-control system.

Audience revealed details of its Apple partnership (more…)

iPhone users downloaded more than 6 million of the top free apps each day in December.

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iPhone users were busy in December downloading more than 6 million of Apple ‘s top free apps each day.

For the last month of 2011, the iPhone app store witnessed a record 6.04 million downloads per day, a 7 percent jump over the previous high of 5.45 million daily downloads in November.

Compiled (more…)

The JVC N-BX3.

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Like to recharge your iPhone overnight? Listen to tunes while getting dressed? Set the mood during a romantic evening? Are you, perhaps, a fan of monochromatic art-deco furniture?

Also, do you have more money than you know what to do with?

JVC has the product for you: the N-BX3 iPhone /iPod nightstand speaker. No, it’s not a speaker that sits on your nightstand; (more…)

The Cheers app for iPhone is definitely a morning person. It’s the kind of app that hops out of bed, says hello to the singing bluebirds at the window, and then goes for a jog to pick up a mocha at a favorite local coffee shop.

Cheers is relentlessly cheerful. (Click to enlarge.)

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There are heaps of social-media apps that let you check in at restaurants or recommend (more…)

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There may come a time when Siri can help you buy a new flatscreen TV from the comfort of your bed, but for now the gal’s capabilities are limited.

For the misfits and troublemakers who have jailbroken their iPhone 4S, there’s a new app that promises to change that. It’s called MyAssistant, and for 99 cents on third-party app market Cydia, it gives Siri much deeper access to your system settings and (more…)

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The iPhone 4S launch in China did not go quite as Apple had planned.

Throngs of people are a norm for new product launches at Apple , but the gaggle of scalpers trying to hustle the system caused Apple to delay sales, earning its stores an egg wash and plenty of animosity. Now, after implementing a lottery system for ordering the iPhone 4S, Apple has resumed selling the device online and will ship by (more…)

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Apple won the smartphone wars last quarter, but Samsung was close behind in second place, according to Juniper Research.

Buoyed by the iPhone 4S, Apple sold 37 million iPhones during the December quarter, giving the company a 25 percent share of the market.

Though Samsung lost its top perch, the Korean handset maker still managed to carve out a 21.7 percent share thanks to healthy demand (more…)