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Google To Pay Apple $1 Billion Next Year To Be Default Search Engine On iOS

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ROMAIN DILLET Apple and Google are enemies and partners at the same time due to asymmetric competition. According to a report from Morgan Stanley, Google could pay more than $1 billion in 2014 to remain the default search engine on iOS. In 2009, Google paid only $82 million for the privilege. Analyst Scott Devitt believes that it is a per-device deal growing every year. For every dollar of revenue Google makes…

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Apple Shows Signs a Major Interface Overhaul Is Coming

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As reported on Wired. BY CHRISTINA BONNINGTON Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired   The Jony Ive era is upon us. It has become increasingly clear since the ouster of Scott Forstall as Apple’s iOS chief, and the elevation of design wunderkind Ive to oversee both product industrial and user experience, that Apple is planning an iOS and OS X interface overhaul. “I don’t think Apple will ever stop refining their OS’s and interfaces, and with Jony Ive at the helm…

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iPhone 5, iPad mini jailbreak now available

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As reported on The Verge. By Sam Sheffer All iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and iPad mini models running iOS 6 can now be jailbroken thanks to the evasi0n tool It’s taken around five months since the release of the iPhone 5, but the moment many of you have been waiting for has finally arrived: an untethered jailbreak for iOS 6.1 has been released. The tool, dubbed evasi0n, is available for Mac, Windows, and Linux, and was developed…

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Apple Debuts New AppStore.com Vanity URLs For Developers During Super Bowl

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As reported on TechCrunch. by SARAH PEREZ Look! Apple just released a new product during the Super Bowl. Actually, it’s a new product for App Store developers – short “AppStore.com” vanity URLs. The domain made a grand public appearance at the end of the ad for the new Star Trek movie, which pointed viewers to Appstore.com/StarTrekApp instead of, perhaps, Facebook.com/StarTrekMovie or the movie’s homepage, which is the kind of link that usually gets this prime spot…

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Strategy Analytics: Apple tops US phone market for Q4 2012, but Samsung takes the year Mobile

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As reported on Engadget. By Mat Smith Strategy Analytics have shared the state of the global smartphone OS market, but today it’s focused specifically on the US, where the iPhone 5 helped Apple to reclaimthe last quarter from Samsung. iPhone claimed 34 percent of vendor shipments in the last quarter, while Samsung’s smartphone range wasn’t far behind with 32.3 percent. Apple’s resurgence with its new smartphone couldn’t catch up with Samsung’s lead earlier in the year, however, with the Korean…

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Kanex’s DualRole is a USB 3.0 hub and Ethernet adapter for modern MacBooks

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As reported on Engadget. By Daniel Cooper The glitzy sheen of that Retina Display MacBook Pro or MacBook Air probably tarnished a little when you realized you’d need to sacrifice a USB or Thunderbolt if you wanted Ethernet connectivity. Just in time for Macworld, Kanex is shuttling out DualRole, a three-port USB 3.0 hub and Ethernet adapter that’ll swell your connectivity options while on the road. Bus-powered, you can also add a 5v power adapter to juice your gadgets at the same time. It’ll set…

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Apple trademarks its retail store design

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As reported on The Verge. By T.C. Sottek The US Patent and Trademark Office has approved Apple’s request to trademark the design and layout of its iconic retail stores — stores that other US companies have tried in recent years to imitate. Apple had to fight to get its store trademark, with the patent office rejecting Apple’s request twice. In the second rejection, the USPTO said that Apple’s design wasn’t “inherently distinctive,” prompting Apple to file…

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Ashton Kutcher Was Hospitalized After Trying Steve Jobs’ Fruitarian Diet

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As reported on TechCrunch. by JORDAN CROOK Method actors are known to go to extreme lengths to understand the character they’re portraying. Natalie Portman dropped a whopping 20 lbs to play a ballerina in Black Swan. Ashton Kutcher’s preparation for playing Steve Jobs in the biopic jOBS was so extreme it left him in the hospital. According to USA Today, he spent two days in the hospital after trying to stick to Steve Jobs’ fruitarian diet, which…

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Five Best iPad Keyboards

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As reported on LifeHacker. by Alan Henry The iPad is a great tablet for many things, but not all of us consider it a solid productivity tool. Nothing is further from the truth: you can get some real work done with the right tools, and a decent wireless keyboard or keyboard case can help. This week, we’re going to take a look at five of the best iPad keyboards, based on your nominations. Earlier in the week, we…

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Apple has a porn problem, and it’s about to get worse

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As reported on The Verge. By Joshua Topolsky Adult content in Vine and Twitter apps raises questions only Cupertino can answer On Sunday, a number of news outlets ran stories covering the rise of easily-accessible pornography on the new video sharing app Vine, causing a firestorm of debate online. The New York Times’ Nick Bilton tweeted that pornographic material was discoverable thanks to simple hashtags such as #porn.   VINE DOESN’T HAVE A PORN PROBLEM — APPLE HAS A POLICY PROBLEM But the truth…

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