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In terms of brand value, Apple is apparently worth more than Microsoft and Coca-Cola combined, or so says a new survey. BrandZ, which is a brand equity database with data from over 650,000 consumers and professionals across 31 countries comparing over 23,000 brands, has Apple taking the No. 1 spot in its “Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands” list with an estimated value of $153 billion. That’s...

Martin Cooper is a name that has stuck around for years, and definitely gets credit for creating the world’s first cellular phone while working for Motorola in 1973. Now, he’s the CEO of ArrayComm, a wireless software company. According to a new report, he buys a new smartphone every two months in order to keep himself “up-to-date,” and no matter how you slice it, that’s...

Sohaib Athar, the man who accidentally livetweeted the raid on Osama bin Laden has been hacked, he confirmed via Twitter.Athar, who goes by the Twitter handle @ReallyVirtual, said early this morning that his blog, which was linked via his Twitter page, had been infected with malware. Websense, for its part, said in a blog post that the poorly detected malware used a “blackhole exploit kit”...

A photo released by the White House documenting the mission against Osama bin Laden indicates that both Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton use notebook PCs made by Hewlett-Packard.The photo shows Cabinet members, including President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton seated at a wooden conference table in the White House Situation...

Makers of e-readers like the Amazon Kindle DX have some work to do before the devices replace textbooks at universities, according to findings from a long-term study conducted at seven U.S. colleges. “There is no e-reader that supports what we found these students doing,” study co-author Alex Thayer, a UW doctoral student in Human Centered Design and Engineering said, according to a report...

So the guys at BGR got their early hands on the upcoming iOS 4.3.3 for iDevices, this update includes the fowling changes. Fix for the location database backup and reduced the size of the location database. If the Location Services are turned off it will entirely delete location database. Battery life improvements and other iPod bug fixes. You can follow us on Twitter or join our Facebook Fanpage...

Another good news for the people waiting for the low-level SHAtter exploit based tool Greenpois0n (GP), p0sixninja one of the developer for the GP confirmed that it the tool will hactivate your iPhone 4 so u don’t need to worry about the emergency lock screen and stuck on iTunes activation screen in his recent tweet p0sixninja confirmed this ability. @p0sixninja will gp hactivate ip4.. Please...

Google just added Google Goggles for its iPhone mobile app. This application lets you use pictures taken with your mobile phone to search the web. It’s ideal for things that aren’t easy to describe in words or the places products which you dont know and want information. There’s no need to type or speak your query – all you have to do is open the app, snap a picture, and wait...

Apple recently relaxed its app store approval policy and now we are seeing many apps which were not allowed in the past or removed from the app store. One of the first app that appear after this new policy change was google voice but here is a shocking news for idevices owners, Apple just approved BitTorrent-based torrent managing app called IS Drive. From the App’s official page: This app allows...

Sn0wbreeze 2.0 was released earlier today. It brings support for a bunch of devices running on iOS 4.1. These include: iPod touch 1G (Must be jailbroken on any firmware version) iPod touch 2G (Non-MC Model, Must be jailbroken on any firmware, if not, then use iREB from here) iPod touch 2G (MC Model, must be on iOS 3.1.2. Does not need to be jailbroken on 3.1.2) iPod touch 3G (Must be previously jailbroken...