Google launched on Saturday, November 10, an update to its Google Shopper app for Android and iOS to search products, browse gift ideas, and find great deals on the go.
“As you hit the mall this holiday season, chances are you’ll be accompanied by a reliable personal shopping companion: your mobile phone. Four out of five mobile phone and tablet owners plan to use their device for holiday shopping – for comparing prices, locating nearby stores, and searching for coupons,” said John …

Game developer CMA Megacorp came across an unexpected iphone 5 and ipod touch 5 fault today, where by rapidly scrolling the screen on a 45 degree angle can cause freezing of the display.  It seems both devices are fine with multiple and rapid vertical swipes, however the issue surfaces when performing rapid and fast diagonal swiping.
iPhone 5 touch screen bug? Slide finger back and forth diagonally on screen, input events drop out or stop altogether.
— CMA Megacorp (@CMA_Megacorp) …

AT&T announced today that it will enable FaceTime over Cellular free of charge for iOS 6 customers who own an LTE device on any of its connected data plan.
The U.S. telecoms carrier says FaceTime, the video-calling feature of Apple’s iOS platform, will be made available to LTE customers with tiered data plans.
AT&T will also continue to offer FaceTime over Cellular to customers subscribed to its Mobile Share plan, as well as FaceTime over Wi-Fi, which has always been available for all …

Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram has finally paid off after the social network added photo filters to its iOS app.
On Monday, Facebook released version 5.1 of its iOS app on the Apple App Store. The software saw the company merging its built-in Camera feature with its popular photo filtering and sharing app.
Facebook listed the new features of the update below its description but did not mention any clue about the Instagram-like uploading of photos. Owners of supported iPhones and iPads …

Apple earns heaps on every 16GB iPhone 5 it will sell, with the company’s latest smartphone only costing less than $200 to build.
According to research firm TechInsights, the iPhone 5 costs Apple only $167.50 to make, which is $35 more than the $132.50 tag of the iPhone 4S.
The most valuable iPhone 5 components are its A6 dual-core processor, Qualcomm baseband chip, and 4in Retina display, which cost Apple $28, $25, and $18, respectively.

The handset’s 8MP rear-facing camera with LED …

AT%T revealed that the fastest selling Apple smartphone is now the iPhone 5. However, the company will not share any numbers right now as to how well the iPhone 5 is selling this weekend.
The numbers are typically available only for Apple. It is expected that the company will announce values in a couple of days. AT&T mentioned that the iPhone 5 set sales record during the first day of the pre-orders.
The new Apple iPhone has a 4 inch retina display, 1GB memory, global 4G LTE, a Lightning …

Apple is rumored to introduce the newest member of the iPad series, the iPad mini, at a different occasion from that of the iPhone 5’s introduction.
The unveiling date of the iPhone 5 is rumored to be in September 12, and its selling date is to be in September 21.

iPad mini and iPhone 5 will not be released simultaneously. (Image: notebookaktuell (CC) via

For months now there are images circulating on the Internet of the future iPhone 5 components. A company in China, the country where the Apple terminal is built, didn’t wait for the phone to be launched, so they launched on the market a clone. As we can see, this device obviously runs on the Android operating system.

Those familiar with the IT industry in China know that Intellectual Property is a difficult concept to understand in this country. Given that Samsung is charged with more …

Apple iPhone 5 is going to be one of the slimmest smart phones ever made, with just 7.6 mm thickness, slimmer that the HTC One S and the Samsung Galaxy S3.
This information was published on the Taiwanese newspaper Apple Daily one month before the scheduled introduction of the device in September.
According to the Apple Daily news article, the exact dimensions of the iPhone 5 are 58.47 mm x 123.83 mm x 7.6 mm, which is nearly as slim as the newest iPod Touch units and is 1 mm thinner that the …

A Japanese phone repair site, ILab published pictures of individual parts and an assembled version of what could potentially be the successor of the IPhone 4s, the iPhone 5, after the repair site claimed that its individual parts have recently been made available.
The phone allegedly has a similar size compared to the Iphone 4s, but with minor changes, such as a more miniature dock connector, a lengthened screen, a repositioned FaceTime camera, and a back casing with a metal panel, as opposed …