Alexander Vaughn

Angry Birds has become a true cultural phenomenon. It has also achieved an incredible feat in keeping the top spot in the App Store rankings for so long. From the Super Bowl to peace summits, the concept of throwing birds at pigs has taken over the planet and its latest manifestation will amaze you.

We're still very much in the dark as to how well the recently released CDMA iPhone is selling on Verizon. We know it sold out on the first day, and that it beat Verizon's sales record in just two hours on pre-order launch day (between 3 and 5am EST). We also heard that it might be slightly underperforming. Apple has yet to release a statement on actual sales, and most importantly, we don't know who is buying the device.

While the tech world patiently awaits Apple's invitation to the unveiling of the next iPad, one lucky teenager claims he put his hands on the actual device. Despite the rumors, the iPad 2 actually comes with a much bigger screen and a pleasant surprise; total voice control. See for yourself ...

AppFresh Daily features the best apps that have been released in the last 24 hours. Thousands of apps get approved by Apple daily. Instead of having to dig through all the junk, come to AppFresh Daily, where we hand select the gems that are released each day.

You may think that the arrival of the iPad finally marked the doom of Microsoft. One of the first companies to support the concept, Microsoft never delivered on "the tablet," and in a computing world soon ruled by the iPad, they have been left behind.

Gmail has always had one of the best WebApps in the market, with support for iPad and iPhone, as well as local storage and much more. Its main issue was however one of many WebApps, performance. Thanks to some incredible improvements unrolled moments ago, it's now a problem of the past.

We already know that iOS users buy more apps, but what about free, ad-driven apps? Mobclix tries to answer this question today with a new infographic.

In a press release this morning, Apple officially introduced the new in-app subscription feature for the App Store. Already present in The Daily for almost two weeks, the new feature will allow all content publishers to let readers subscribe to a publication from within an app, and be billed on a recurring basis.

The rumor of an upcoming iPhone Nano is going stronger than ever, with bits of information on the reportedly upcoming device coming from every direction.

Good news for those of you who've been looking forward to properly jailbreaking your Apple TV. This weekend, the Chronic Dev Team updated its Greenp0ison tool with the ability to jailbreak second generation Apple TVs.

AppAdvice is available in several different forms. Of course, there is our website, and also a very successful native app for the iPhone and iPad, not to mention our presence on many social networks. We're all very proud of these, and we know how much you like them as well. Yet, there is probably so much we could improve upon.

T-Mobile has been taking some jabs at the iPhone for a couple of months now with a series of ads somewhat inspired by Apple's now defunct "Get A Mac" campaign. It pits a young girl, against another young man who has to support a creepy old one, namely T-Mobile against the iPhone and its AT&T pal.

Following a report from Bloomberg earlier this week, it's now The Wall Street Journal's turn to confirm the rumor of an upcoming second smaller iPhone.

The Verizon iPhone might have only gone on general sale yesterday, but one analytics company didn't wait to try to answer the question in everyone's mind; how well is it doing?

For those of you who haven't switched to the Verizon iPhone yet, or are perfectly happy with AT&T, there's a new promotion to make sure you stay that way.

It's definitely not as big and as old an Apple rumor as the Verizon iPhone was, but we've heard speculation about Apple releasing a second, smaller iPhone "nano," just like they did for the iPod.

As some eagle eyed users may have already noticed, Apple gave the iPhone App Store some aesthetic refinements today.

Moments ago, HP finally entered the tablet war with both feet by introducing the TouchPad, the first real offspring of HP's Palm acquisition. By curiosity, we've been following some of the liveblogs covering the event, and we had the pleasant surprise to hear about some interesting new ideas HP is bringing to the tablet table (the Palm brand has apparently been retired, RIP). I wouldn't be surprised for some of these to become standards, and who knows, make it to iOS. So come find out about them.

As you might have noticed, the very popular iOS Skype client got an update today, including some more or less interesting fixes.

Apple was very clear when the story about the iPhone 4's abnormally sensitive antenna came out this summer; it's an industry-wide problem, which can't be fixed.

Following a first round of pre-orders limited to Verizon customers last week, Apple has now released the Verizon iPhone for general pre-order.

Moments ago, the Wall Street Journal revealed that Apple has just begun the production of the next generation of iPads.

The App Store is filled with apps that allow you to you translate text from one language to another. They have various levels of complexity and sophistication, some are very basic text-only translators, some are more advanced like the incredible worldlense. Nevertheless, despite powering most of these apps, Google didn't have one of it own.

In honor of the 183rd birthday of science fiction author Jules Verne today, Google updated its front page with an interesting new doodle that will certainly please any iDevice owner.