APPLE NEWS

Apple has announced that its 2013 'Lucky Bag' promotional event for Japan will take place January 2nd.

FlashArmyKnife, an app by developer Eric Blase, features a hidden feature that will enable tethering.

Google today announced that calling from Gmail within the U.S. and Canada will be free through 2013.

A comparison of 'first tweets from' suggests that Apple iPad dominated its competition on Christmas.

Shipments of the iPad mini are expected to reach 8 million in 4Q12.

Best Buy Canada is offering the 16GB iPhone 5 for $0 as part of its Boxing Day sale tomorrow.

Apple today was granted a patent for a Mini-SIM connector that allows for easy removal and replacement of SIM cards.

Check out these old Apple Christmas ads from 2002 featuring Will Ferrell.

A look at how busy the Apple, Microsoft, and Sony stores were on Christmas Eve.

The Plex Desktop App has been rebranded as Plex Home Theatre in a new preview release that brings AirPlay support.

FORTUNE notes that despite a three month drop that took $248 billion (26%) off Apple's market cap, the company's shares are still up 28.44% for the year.

The Auxo app switcher tweak is now available on the Cydia Store

The Pew Research Center says one in every four U.S. adults now owns a tablet. Check out this chart that shows the growth of the U.S. tablet and smartphone market.

Check out this concept for an iPhone 5S that feature dual built-in projectors, one for a keyboard and another for a external display.

Apple has taken steps to make jailbreaking more difficult in iOS 6.1 despite a public jailbreak not being available for iOS 6.0 yet.

Simon Pierro, known as iSimon, has posted numerous iPad magic videos in an 'Appvent' calendar lead up to Christmas.

Trial production of a thinner iPad mini with Retina Display and a A6X processor is reportedly underway with a rumored release date of March 2013.

PDF Printer for Safari is a new tweak from lordscotland that lets you print webpages as PDFs from Mobile Safari.

Yahoo is offering three free months of Flickr Pro to new and current users of the service.

Samsung has reportedly sued Apple over its Notification Center in South Korea.

Apple has reportedly captured 53% of the U.S. smartphone market, its largest share ever.

Apple has aired a new iPad and iPad mini commercial entitled, 'I'll Be Home'.

The Airbnb app has received an update that lets hosts see and manage their reservations calendar.

Google's engineers at Motorola are working on a 'X Phone' to rival the high end offerings of Apple and Samsung but the team has run into difficulties.

Apple has updated its MFi (Made for i) Guidelines following a successful Kickstarter project that was scrapped due their stringent regulations.

Microsoft has released a new Wordament game for the iPhone.

An iOS app switcher concept originally posted and designed by a Verge forum member, has been developed into a real iOS tweak

Facebook today released a new 'Facebook Poke' app for the iPhone.

Primate Labs has posted its Mac Benchmarks for December 2012.

The Wall Street Journal's app for iOS is now available on Newsstand.

Instagram has been updated with a new Mayfair filter, support for more languages, and improved sharing.

A superyacht designed for Steve Jobs by Philippe Starck has been impounded in Amsterdam over a unpaid bill of 3 million euro.

Google Offers has been updated with Google Maps integration and speed improvements.

Snapjoy, a photo organization and sharing app for iOS, has announced that they've been acquired by Dropbox.

Evernote Food has been completely redesigned and is now available for the iPad.

Readdle has updated its Calendar app for the iPad with numerous improvements including the ability to change event color, copy & paste events, create local calendars, and more.

Facebook has updated its Pages Manager app for iOS with the ability to swipe to delete comments.

Apple is in talks to purchase home automation company R2 Studios along with others including Microsoft and Google.

Microsoft has updated its Tentacles: Enter the Dolphin game for iOS with support for the iPhone 5.

T-Mobile has announced iPhone compatible 4G rollouts in 14 new metro areas to close out 2012.

Imo Messenger for the iPad has received a big update that brings a new design, VoIP calling, group photo sharing, and more.

Google has released an update to its Chrome Browser for iOS that fixes an issue with audio routing on the iPhone 5.

A developer recalls how Apple's Safari browser was almost called 'Freedom'

The European Commission will charge Samsung with violating competition rules by filing patent lawsuits against Apple based on standard essential patents.

IMDb has updated the design of its iPad app with a new look and feel.

Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster retested Siri and found that the voice assistant has improved since his last test in June.

According to a new study from CrowdFlower, Apple Maps are 3x more likely to get you lost than Google Maps.

Tumblr has just released an official app for the iPad.