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Samsung and Apple retained their spots atop the worldwide smartphone shipment charts in the third quarter, according to new figures from industry analysis firm Canalys. Canalys’ new numbers showed up on Tuesday, revealing that the two tech giants toget…

Apple has issued a minor update to iTunes, 11.1.3. The release avoids making any feature additions, instead concentrating solely on bugfixes. This includes solving problems with the equalizer, and improving performance when switching views in larger iT…

Apple has published a report on US government and law enforcement information requests that have been submitted to it. The report provides statistics on requests related to customer accounts, as well as those related to specific devices, limited by leg…

A new product, Knock, promises to let Mac owners unlock their computers by knocking twice on their iPhone. Users first have to download a $4 iPhone app and a free Mac client. Once both are installed, knocking on an iPhone sends a command to a Mac via B…

Apple has made two new improvements to its Volume Purchase Program for business and education. The first is a concept called Managed Distribution, allowing organizations to assign or revoke app licenses for individual users, instead of operating throug…

Apple has recently given its “hobby” Apple TV set-top box a rash of updates, adding new channels and planning on adding built-in iTunes direct purchasing to the small unit. Similarly, the box’s popularity has risen steadily over the last year, with App…

A new study from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech says that the iPhone is continuing to gain share in the US and lately in the UK and France as well, reversing trends seen in other countries where it is still losing ground. On the heels of a ComScore survey l…

Feral Interactive today announced that XCOM: Enemy Within, the expansion pack for the strategy game XCOM: Enemy Unknown, will be released for OS X on November 12 in North America and November 15 internationally. Developed by Firaxis Games and published…

On Tuesday, Apple released the seventh Developer Preview beta of its forthcoming OS X Mavericks (10.9) update. Registered developers can obtain the new version by signing into the Mac App Store with their developer account Apple IDs. The update has a n…

Electronics manufacturer Elmo USA has introduced the BOXi T-350, its first portable HD video projector designed for popular consumer applications, including viewing TV, movies, photos and video games. The small, lightweight 300-lumen DLP projector weig…

Digital media tool producer Telestream today announced the public availability of an open source H.265 (HEVC) encoder. The new x265 project is intended to create the worldís most efficient, highest quality H.265 codec. Conceived by Telestream, the x26…

OOTP Developments today released Franchise Hockey Manager 2014 (FHM 2014) world-wide for PC and Mac. FHM 2014 features 19 leagues from around the world, along with historical NHL play as far back as 1947 and the entire WHA history from 1971 to 1979. Us…

In a further sign that iOS 7 will be formally introduced alongside new iPhones at the now-official September 10 Apple media event in Cupertino, the company has updated all three of its iOS “iLife” applications — iPhoto, iMovie and Garageband — to add…

Western Digital has updated its line of WD Red hard drives to include two new 2.5-inch versions designed for network attached storage devices. The 1 terabyte and 750 gigabyte-capacity 2.5-inch drives join the line alongside with a new higher-capacity 4…

Apple has already started shipping new iPhones from China to the United States, a source says. If accurate, the claim would back reports that Apple intends to launch the new hardware later this month. Most indications have pointed to a date on or aroun…