Apple fanboy/girl site Cupidtino releases iPhone app. Barf bags primed

A little part of us died inside when we first read about the Cupidtino dating service set up for Apple fanboys and fangirls, and now the developer has released an iPhone app.

A little part of us died inside when we first read about the Cupidtino dating service set up for Apple fanboys and fangirls, and now the developer has released an iPhone app.

A prankster tampered with a demo model of an iPhone in a Coventry supermarket so that anyone trying out the Siri voice technlogy could expect an earful of abuse in return.

New figures from mobile ad analysts Millennial Media show Android remaining king of the smartphone OSs, hogging a hefty 56 per cent global share – double the share of its nearest rival, Apple’s iOS, who only have 28 per cent.

Google has declared itself pleased to be launching a ‘significant redesign’ for their Google Search for iPad application, and have released a plinky-plonky video showing off its new features.

After a comically catastrophic launch last month, which saw Google’s offering being so bug-ridden that it had to be retired from view, an updated GMail app has made its way back into the Apple App Store.

Not long after Apple released the latest version of its mobile operating system, iOS 5, online forums swiftly filled with complaints from iPhone users suffering poor battery life.

New research has revealed that the UK is feeling the Google Android love, with the OS running on over half of all smartphones sold – a hefty 100% increase in market share from a year ago.

For the first time, Samsung’s burgeoning sales figures have seen the South Korean company speed swiftly past its rival Apple to become the number one shipper of smartphones on the planet in the third quarter of 2011.
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Keen to find publicise their mobile phone warranty service, SquareTrade decided to conduct a ‘drop test’ on the new Apple iPhone 4S and see how its main rival, the 30 million-unit-shifting Samsung Galaxy S2 would fare.

In a flurry of synergistic back-slapping, Apple and Starbucks have pressed the flash to secure a deal where customers to the ghastly coffee shops in the UK can secure a ghastly music track from iTunes for free.

Hewlett-Packard has hung on to its #1 on the planet ranking, increasing its share of the PC global market to 17.7 per cent in the third quarter of 2011, according to the number-crunching bods at Gartner.

With the eagerly awaited iOS 5 software nearly ready to rumble, Apple have just released an update to iTunes, taking it up to version 10.5.

Tech magazine T3 has announced the winners of the 2011 Gadget awards and there’s a few surprises in store.

Vodafone has posted up their contract rates for the new iPhone 4S, with the deals coming in 24 month, 18 months and – happily – 12 month flavours.
Being a shiny new iPhone thingy, bargain hunters and cheapskates can swiftly jog on, because we’re looking at high- end, bling-tastic prices here.

Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder and long-time rival of Apple, has issued a touching statement about Steve Jobs’ death.
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