Earlier this week,
Match bug that matches explicit songs to clean ones. The bug effectively filters out all profanities from an explicit song, which many people might not like.
has, according to an email received by a
reader, acknowledged the issue and is working on a fix:
A 9to5 reader emailed Apple Senior Vice President of Internet Software and Services about the issue a couple of weeks ago and received a response from one of Eddy Cue’s (more…)

yesterday, which held
responsible for excessive load on mobile networks, because of its frequent communication with Apple ‘s servers. 
“Siri’s dirty little secret is that she’s a bandwidth guzzler, the digital equivalent of a 10-miles-per-gallon Hummer H1.”
We have, if you recollect, heard the same thing before, when analytics firm
, revealing that the
, apparently due to Siri. But there are
, like
,
.
This means that Siri’s data-hogging (more…)

According to app store analytics researcher Distimo, developers who put their iPhone and iPad apps on sale in Apple ‘s App Store see a significant jump in revenue, as do Android developers using the Android Market.

For the report, Distimo examined 100 of the top apps in Apple ‘s App Store (for iPhone and iPad) as well as the top 100 for the Android Market. For apps in the iPhone and iPad divisions of Apple ‘s App Store, (more…)

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has asked the U.S. Copyright Office to declare that
. 
In addition to requesting iPhone , iPad and iPod touch users in the U.S. to send comments to Copyright Office to convince them to renew and expand the exemptions for jailbreaking, EFF is also encouraging users to sign the petition at 
. The petition states:
You bought it. You own it. Tell the Copyright Office: let me install whatever software I want (more…)

If you were eagerly waiting for SiriToggles then the good news is it is now available on Cydia via the BigBoss repo.
to use Siri to enable and disable various Settings toggles like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, control brightness, reboot your iPhone 4S and lots more.
SiriToggles adds a load of new features on the iPhone 4S. SiriToggles allows you to tell Siri to enable/disable certain settings, get info on battery level, change your screen brightness and (more…)

, it will continue to offer
as the entry level iPad. A report by Taiwanese publication
provides some more evidence to that theory. 
claims that according to their sources, Apple suppliers will ship 25 million lower resolution (1024×768 pixels) iPad 2 displays in 2011 even after Apple launches of iPad 3. The report claims that Apple suppliers are expected to ship 40 million “Retina” (2048×1536 pixels) displays in 2012. To get a perspective, (more…)

(Credit:
CNET)

Old-school gamers will remember an age when there were no continues, no checkpoints, and no respawns. If you died during a level, that was it–you went back to the beginning of the level to do it all again. The craziest thing about it? You liked it even though it drove you crazy.

These days, a gaming purist might say games have gotten too easy and gamers have gotten too soft. When dying in a game doesn’t (more…)

Change Wave Research surveyed 4,000 North American consumers in December 2011, asking them about their current smartphone, and future purchases, if any.
, the survey found that, one in every two people planning to buy a smartphone in the next 90 days, have their eyes set on an
. Compare that to only 13 percent who want to buy a Samsung device, and 7 percent who say they’ll buy a Motorola smartphone.
The trend is a bit more interesting. Although (more…)

It looks like the app was available in the App Store since October 2011 and was available for $0.99. According to the
article published on 6th January 2012, it was a free app.
We’re not sure how the app sneaked into the App Store, as we’re quite sure that the app used unpublished API’s that officially break Apple ‘s iOS Developer agreement. The other issue is that when you click on the
for developer’s website, you’re taken to an under construction (more…)

The past week or so, we’ve seen close to half a dozen
reports about Apple products, specifically the iPad and the rumored
.  
Some of these were believable (even if they don’t pan out) while some were downright ridiculous.
, having increased battery life and a
are believable. 
making a reappearance at Macworld, on the other hand sounds outlandish.
2012 would see two new iPads, the
in March and the iPad 4 in October. The iPad 4 (more…)