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iTunes' Official Music Charts for the week ending Feb. 11, 2013Top Songs:1. "Thrift Shop (feat. Wanz)," Ryan Lewis, Macklemore2. "My Songs Know What You Did In the Dark (Light Em Up)," ...

Steve Jobs had it wrong: people do want smaller tablets after all. CNET points us to a note written by Citi analyst Glen Yeung making the case that the market for larger tablets such as Apple’s (AAPL) 9.7-inch iPad has peaked and that more compact tablets such as the 7.9-inch iPad mini and the 7-inch Google (GOOG) Nexus …

The first Surface RT tablets were extremely limited. They could only run apps specifically written for Windows 8, and only used the classic "desktop" mode to run Microsoft Office. The new Surface Pro tablets, on the other hand, can run "normal" Windows games and apps, and the premium 128 GB model is widely reported to have …

No, Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook isn’t overly worried that smaller tablets, including his own company’s iPad mini, are cannibalizing sales of the traditional 9.7 -inch iPad. In fact, Cook says that he’s glad Apple has remained at the forefront of the tablet market and that lower overall tablet market share for the larger iPad …

Apple (AAPL) may be releasing a cheaper version of the iPhone, but don’t dare call it “cheap.” Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference on Tuesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook didn’t directly address whether Apple would release a cheaper iPhone in the future, but he did say that the company would not release …

Photos of what may be Apple's next iPhone surfaced online Monday.

Apple (AAPL) is traditionally ranked near the top in satisfaction surveys due to the simplistic nature of its products. A recent polls suggests that the company’s latest smartphone isn’t doing as well as its competitors, however. According to OnDevice Research, four Android smartphones were found to have higher customer …

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Some 28.1 million Americans watched the Grammy Awards show on television, a predictable 30 percent drop from last year's emotion-filled ceremony following the death of singer Whitney Houston, according to ratings data on Monday. Despite the lower numbers, Sunday's 3-1/2-hour show broadcast live on …

Count Pacific Crest analyst Andy Hargreaves as being bearish on the potential of a cheaper iPhone. Per Barron’s, Hargreaves has written a note to investors warning of the potential long-term damage that Apple (AAPL) could do to itself if it decides to release a low-cost iPhone capable of selling well in emerging markets. …

Ready or not, here comes the cheaper iPhone. In a note to investors on Monday, Topeka Capital Markets analyst Brian White said that his research has made him “confident that a lower-priced iPhone will be launched by Apple in 2013, possibly as early as June.” White says that the device, which is currently being called both …

Just two weeks after releasing iOS 6.1, Apple (AAPL) on Monday issued a new software update to address some serious bugs. The iOS 6.1.1 update was clearly rushed out — it is only available for the iPhone 4S at the moment — and it is mainly a response to Vodafone’s public warnings dissuading iPhone 4S users on its network …

TORONTO (Reuters) - Shares of BlackBerry fell 3 percent on Monday after U.S. home improvement retailer Home Depot Inc said it is replacing the BlackBerry smartphones it provides its executives and managers with Apple Inc's iPhone. The news is a setback for BlackBerry as it fights to retain its base of big corporate clients …

Apple (AAPL) released iOS 6.1 to iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch devices on January 28th and since then, users have reportedly experienced several problems. The company’s official Support Communities forum has been filled with complaints of reduced battery life and overheating issues that have occurred after users updated …

Images of Apple’s (AAPL) next-generation “iPhone 5S” have seemingly leaked, revealing a handset very similar in design to the current iPhone 5. Photos purportedly showing the upcoming new iPhone model were published recently on Chinese-language sjbbs.zol.com and later picked up by a number of sites. The images are said …

Images of Apple’s (AAPL) next-generation “iPhone 5S” have seemingly leaked, revealing a handset very similar in design to the current iPhone 5. Photos purportedly showing the upcoming new iPhone model were published recently on Chinese-language sjbbs.zol.com and later picked up by a number of sites. The images are said …

Investors and BlackBerry (BBRY) diehards were impressed with the company’s new platform and first two next-generation smartphones when they were unveiled late last month, but not everyone is sticking around to see how the BlackBerry Z10 and BlackBerry Q10 pan out. According to a recent report from AllThingsD, Home Depot …

Virginia Heffernan's son learns a spending lesson from iTunes.

When Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook says that he hates patent litigation, he’s apparently not bluffing. In a long Reuters piece about the complicated relationship between Apple and rival Samsung (005930), unnamed sources claim that Cook was always opposed to suing Samsung but was overruled by then-CEO Steve Jobs. According to …

The latest Nielsen survey confirms one of the major smartphone trends of 2012: That the Windows Phone operating system showed remarkable strength in India even before the new wave of Nokia (NOK) and HTC (2498) models launched in January. According to Nielsen, Windows Phone grabbed 8% of India’s smartphone market last autumn, …

One of the reported downsides to the 128GB Microsoft (MSFT) Surface Pro is that only around 70% of its advertised storage can actually be used for user data — in BGR’s review of the Surface Pro, for instance, we found that the 128GB version of the device had only around 85.3GB of actual free space. But new analysis from …

Apple (AAPL) fans who have been looking at the oversized Samsung (005930) Galaxy Notes with envy may soon be getting a “phablet” of their own. BrightWire has caught hold of a report from the Chinese Sina Tech website claiming that Apple plans to release two new iPhones this year: An iPhone 5S that is an updated version …

There's a new iPhone mail-app that has people excited because, like many email clients before it, it has potential to make longform Internet communication less painful. This one is called Mailbox and The Verge's Ellis Hamburger boldly declares it "just fixed email on the iPhone." The Atlantic Wire doesn't have access to …

The comparison between Christmas 2012 and Christmas 2011 is cruel for Sprint (S). Sprint just reported that it sold 2.2 million iPhones during the Christmas quarter of 2012, 38% of which to new Sprint customers. This sounds fairly impressive. But the problem here is that in the Christmas of 2011, Sprint sold 1.8 million …