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Various rumors are suggesting that Apple’s 2012 iPhone and iPad will come with 4G LTE support, and considering that more and more carriers are going to be deploying LTE networks this year, we certainly wouldn’t be surprised to see Apple adopt the new technology.

One of the things iOS hackers were not able to do in the recent past was to offer iPhone 4 users a proper unlock. Apple won the unlocking battle for the iPhone 4 and it looks like the same thing will happen with the iPhone 4S. But while hackers were [...]

Microsoft has a busy year ahead, with the company scheduled to launch its brand new, and totally redesigned, Windows 8 operating system and the new Office 15 suite that has apparently been customized to sport Microsoft’s new Metro user interface.

The 7-inch iPad rumor keeps coming back despite the well-known Jobsian hatred for all tablets smaller than 9.7-inch, and a new report suggests that Apple will finally launch an iPad 3 with a smaller display at some point later this year, after the regular-sized new iPad hits stores this March.

More and more smartphones will be able to offer NFC payments support in the near future, including the next-gen iPhone, but is the technology 100 percent secure? That’s something I always wondered about, since, after all, with NFC payments you’d be trusting a machine to keep your credit cards secure [...]

A few days ago we learned that Google is working on a mysterious device, as the company asked the FCC to let it test the undisclosed gadget in the following months at its headquarters and in various other locations in the USA.

While Amazon is taking hits against Apple’s iPad in its new Kindle commercials, and while Samsung continues its anti-Apple marketing campaign, the Cupertino-based company keeps focusing on its own kind of TV ads, commercials in which it shows some of the features of its devices, without talking about pricing details [...]

The iPad 3 announcement and launch are two of the most important events of the first quarter of the year, which will likely overshadow any press events that will take place at the upcoming Mobile World Congress, a major mobile event scheduled during February 27 – March 1 in Barcelona, [...]

While there’s all this talk about Google’s proposed privacy policy changes, we won’t ignore one other matter that has come to our attention this week thanks to an iOS app, Path, which has been found to access and store on its servers the entire Address Book found on the iOS [...]

Google’s upcoming privacy policy changes are causing more controversy, with various groups taking action against the company’s intention of merging over 60 Terms of Service documents into a single one that should handle all the web services available to a Google Account owner.