Take this with a serious grain of salt, but Business Insider is making some bold claims about the future of the iPhone. More specifically, Peter Misek, an analyst from the research firm Jefferies, made these bold claims in a research note early this morning. The gist of these claims is that Apple will release the [...]

Back in July, when Apple purchased the fingerprint sensor maker AuthenTec for a cool $356 million, most people assumed that they’d stop selling to Apple’s competitors sooner or later. As it stands, the biometrics firm sells fingerprint scanners to all manner of electronics manufacturers, including Samsung and HP. If AppleInsider has it right, that’s all [...]

Considering the device’s aluminum backing, we were reasonably certain that the iPhone 5 wouldn’t include wireless charging or NFC. Both those technologies rely on coil-shaped electromagnetic induction antennas which take up a great deal of surface area and can be disrupted by conductive sheets of decorative metal. Of course, Apple’s design team could have put [...]

Not to be outdone by the hybrid devices their rivals have been unveiling at IFA, HP has their own tablet/notebook combination device. Opting for a more traditional removable keyboard instead of a crazy hinged contraption like the new Sony hybrid, the HP gadget is called the Envy x2. Specs include an 11.6-inch, 1,366 x 768 display, [...]

Don’t you hate when a pesky thing like science gets in the way of a good rumor? The skeptical folks at AnandTech have analyzed the rumor of NFC being included in the next iPhone, and have found that it would be impractical for Apple to include NFC in the next iPhone, if the leaked metal [...]

Another new set of pictures has surfaced that reveal a possible iPhone 5 front panel assembled with the front camera, home button and what looks like an NFC chip. We’ve seen pictures of the iPhone 5 front panel and other parts before, even videos of them compared with the iPhone 4S. Despite that, these new [...]

When the news broke back in July that Apple had purchased a biometrics company called AuthenTec, most people assumed we wouldn’t see any significant integration of their technology into Apple devices for at least a year or two. A new report from The Next Web argues that we might see it much sooner than expected, though. [...]

Over the weekend, enterprise app makers iOptimal put together a video showing how Apple’s new Passbook service might work. It demonstrates what might be possible with the app during a day out shopping. It outline the way coupons, loyalty cards, and other features of Passbook might work in a real-world situation. Of course, the app [...]

Up until today, Google Wallet was largely useless as an actual wallet replacement, because only one type of credit card actually worked on the service: the Citi Mastercard. Thankfully, those days are over, as an update to Google Wallet has been released that supports all credit and debit cards from Visa, Mastercard, American Express and [...]

It looks like Apple might be getting ready to bring fingerprint scanning to their devices, in light of their purchase of AuthenTec today for a cool $356 million. The Florida-based company specializes in biometrics, particularly the sort of fingerprint scanners found on some laptops already. Apple paid a hefty price for them, paying over half [...]