Following yesterday's report by Bloomberg that Apple is planning to debut a smaller, inexpensive iPad by year-end, The Wall Street Journal (an unofficial Apple mouthpiece) on Wednesday cited the obligatory "people familiar with the matter", reporting that Apple's component suppliers in Asia are preparing for mass production of the iPad mini in September. Get your sandpapers ready!
A judge in London has ruled that HTC phones don't infringe upon Apple's prized smartphone patents, Bloomberg reported this morning. The ruling includes Apple's patented slide-to-unlock feature which famously drew the most 'oohs' and 'ahs' at the original iPhone introduction five years ago, but also other features such as flipping through a bunch of photos...
In China, each of Apple's retail stores serves on average 216 million customers. Therein lies the catch to its expansion in the 1.33 billion people market - Apple needs way more stores in this huge country than it can possibly build, and it needs them yesterday.
China is important not just because it has recently displaced the United States as the world's leading smartphone market, but also because it now contributes to one-fifth of Apple's total revenue. Also, Apple says China stores have become its highest trafficked and among the highest revenue stores.
Apple CEO Tim Cook recently toured China, talking greater investments with local officials and paying a visit to Foxconn's new manufacturing plant in Zhengzhou. It was a telling acknowledgment of the importance of China at the highest level, but barely enough to change the fact that the iPhone maker is in serious danger of becoming a victim of its own success in China...
Apple's app review team takes a lot of heat from the iOS community. Their decisions on which apps are let into the App Store, and which ones get rejected, are often criticized for being either too strict or too lenient.
One reason why there's so much grievance is that fact that people don't quite understand the process or what it's like to be an app reviewer. So a former Apple employee decided to clear things up...
Wow, that was fast! Just a week following a complaint Apple lodged with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the original owner of the domain has transferred ownership to Apple's legal team, reports The Next Web.
It's interesting that the WIPO case was still filed as active at post time, meaning the organization hasn't even reached an official ruling, which could indicate that Apple's legal sharks scared the hell out of the domain owner. Who's this guy, anyway?
That didn't take long. Less than 12 hours after Judge Lucy Koh denied Samsung's request to stay the Galaxy Nexus injunction, the handset disappears from Google Play Stores.
Last week, Apple was able to convince Koh that the Nexus was infringing on its patents — enough to warrant a preliminary ban. And it looks like that ban is already in effect...
Just 24 hours after denying Samsung's motion to stay the Galaxy Tab injunction, Judge Lucy Koh has rejected the company's request to lift the ban on the Galaxy Nexus.
As it stands, Samsung will be forced to stop selling both the tablet and handset in the United States, unless the Court of Appeals steps in. But Google has a plan...
Wearable computing is coming your way in a big way and will be here to stay, or so would Google have us believe. You must have seen a spectacular demo of the search giant's Minority Report-like wearable computer glasses (if not, I urge you to see the clip right after the break).
Google's strong Project Glass push has given wearable computing lots more credibility, but it might take Apple to mainstream the technology. iShades, anyone?
Hot on the heels of analyst-based reports regarding a smaller iPad, Bloomberg is out with its own story this afternoon.
The credible news outlet says that it has received word from people with "knowledge of the plans" that Apple is looking to unveil a 7-8-inch tablet this October...
Apple shouldn't have any more problems meeting its 2015 deadline for the opening of its new Cupertino-based 'spaceship' campus. According to a new report, the project has just been fast-tracked by California state Governor Jerry Brown...
Information regarding the next iPhone has been fairly scarce over the past few weeks. Which is kind of odd, considering that the handset is believed to already be in full production.
But there is a new report out this morning on the upcoming smartphone. And it adds weight to previous rumors that the next iPhone will feature all new in-cell touch panels...
Bill Gates was on PBS's Charlie Rose show tonight and he got peppered with questions concerning the iPad's gigantic success and why Microsoft's original tablet vision fell short. Now chairman of Microsoft and a philanthropist, Gates gave honest answers and didn't seem jealous of Apple's success with the iPad as his sidekick Steve Ballmer evidently had been when he laughed off the iPhone back in 2007. Here are your key takeaways...