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Apple Has 15.4 Percent of Smarphone OS Market, Up from 10.5 Percent in 2009

In a world where smartphones are increasingly more popular than standard cell phones, Apple and Android appear to be the names most on the move, new research indicates. Apple's OS now powers 15.4 percent of global smartphones, while Google's Android has 9.6 percent of the market, overtaking Microsoft Windows Mobile while increasing from last [...:]

New iPod Touch With 2MP Camera Leaked In Vietnam (Where Else?)

Apple's factory leak is just getting bigger, and Vietnam continues to be the undiscovered country of Apple leaks, this time with exclusive photos of the new iPod Touch… this time sporting the long rumored 2MP camera we've been waiting for for the past years.
Vietnamese site Tinhte's photos show a 64GB iPod Touch that looks remarkably [...:]

Amazing Joker iPad Vinyl Sticker On Etsy

I'm not sure this vinyl Joker sticker could possibly work better, especially for just $16. After all, who needs a glasgow smile when they have an iPad? Why so serious?

Original "Prince of Persia" Coming To The iPhone and iPad

The original Prince of Persia, first released for the Apple II back in 1989, is now coming to the iPhone according to Ubisoft's website.
Called Prince of Persia Retro, there's not many details available about the port, except that it will be a universary binary for the iPad and (obviously) support touch controls.

The plot is [...:]

Rumor: Nike+ Heart Rate Monitor Coming June 1st

Thanks to references in both Apple's fifth generation iPod Nano and the Nike+ iPod user guides, we've known for a while now that it was likely that Nike had a Nike+ heart rate monitor in the works.
Now, it looks like we've got a release date. According to a post on the Nike+ support forums, [...:]

Sennheiser EZX-60 Bluetooth Headsets Offers Great iPhone Echo Cancellation

Sennheiser's long been a name I trust when it comes to piping my iPod's audio down into my cochleas, but I've never tried any of their Bluetooth headsets. That might change, though, with their new EZX 60, a sleek, light-weight Bluetooth headset featuring digital noise and echo cancellation.
I've long been frustrated by Bluetooth headsets' tendency [...:]

Survey: iPhone Users More Likely To Regret Facebook Status Updates

Soused and slurring, I know I've certainly made the regrettable Facebook status update or Tweet on my iPhone in my time, and if the latest Retrevo survey is anything to go by, it looks like I'm not alone: they claim iPhone users are twice as likely to regret making a Facebook status update as people [...:]

Steve Jobs' Canceled Stock Options From 2003 Would Be Worth $10.5B Today

Back in 2003, Steve Jobs decided to cancel his "nearly worthless" stock options at Apple in exchange for $75 million.
If he had kept them? They'd be worth $10.3 billion dollars in profits today.

Of course, not that Jobs is hurting. He's ranked the 136th wealthiest man in the world, even without that extra $10.3 billion.
The big [...:]

100 Tips #17: Where's The Control Panel On A Mac?

Windows has its Control Panel, and your Mac has one too. It just has a different name.
Where you would once have looked for the Control Panel, you now need to look for an application called System Preferences.

It lives inside your Applications folder and is present by default on the Dock (although of course, you don't [...:]

AT&T Relents, Allows iPhone Tethering In OS 4.0?

In the biggest iPhone OS news since Apple unveiled the fourth iteration of the phone's OS — and as a possible result of the rumored, forthcoming pitched battle between AT&T and Verizon for the souls of iPhone users — it looks as though the iPhone will now gain the ability to tether.
The screencaps above, [...:]