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Steve Jobs, the late co-founder of Apple as well as Pixar Animation Studios, has been dedicated a tree by Disney's Pixar in front of the Steve Jobs Building at Pixar Studio's campus (via Pixar Times). Take a look at the beautiful tree and its plaque that reads "Dedicated With Love And Gratitude To Steve Jobs. Our Partner, Mentor, And Friend." "Earlier this...

A former Adobe employee, Kevin Lynch, who recently joined Apple – causing an uproar among Apple fans – is said to be in charge of a team with many engineers who formerly worked on the iPod, sources speaking with French site MacGeneration revealed. (more…)

KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has released a report today, claiming that Apple may delay the launch of iPhone 5S, the second generation iPad Mini and a cheaper iPhone due to a number of production issues currently being faced by the Cupertino company, MacRumors is reporting. Contrary to the analyst's previous predictions and general market consensus, Apple's...

According to Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty, Apple's next major iOS update expected to be unveiled this summer, could introduce a true mobile wallet solution, CNET reports. While calling it a "killer app", the analyst claims that this mobile wallet feature would come as part of iOS 7 which will be shown at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference...

What's the speed record in creating a biopic from idea to 80 minute final cut? Well, 8 weeks – according to what Ryan Perez, the writer and director of iSteve, told Fast Company. This obviously leads to inaccuracies, but Perez encourages the audience to catch and note them. (more…)

U.S. District Judge Robert Scola says Apple and Google's Motorola Mobility unit aren't interested in resolving patent litigation, but use it as business strategy, Bloomberg reports. (more…)

We have reported about a couple flexible display patents Apple was granted, which of course suggested that the company has been investigating methods of implementing flexible displays in its upcoming products. But today Apple has posted a job listing that reaffirms the company is indeed considering incorporating flexible displays (via 9to5Mac): (more…)

British architect Norman Foster's architecture firm Foster + Partners is reported to redesign Apple's retail stores worldwide (via Pocket-Lint). For those who aren't aware, the company is known for designing architectural marvels like the World Trade Center and jaw-dropping McLaren Technology Centre, among others. Apple, who managed to trademark its retail outlet design in January this year, traditionally works with architecture firm 8...

AppleInsider is reporting that Apple has reached a licensing agreement worth 1 billion yen i.e $10 million U.S. with a Japanese firm that owns patents originally created by Palm and PalmSource, the developers of Palm OS PDA operating system. Other patents included in the deal were created by Bell Communications Research and Geoworks. PalmSource, the company who created...

Steve Jobs' life has already inspired three movies -- two already done, and one just getting started. What about other performing arts? Turns out, Jobs' genius has inspired a composer and theatre director to stage an opera entitled Steve V (King Different). According to information obtained by the Lyon-based French site Mac Generation, Roland Auzet,...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has awarded a new patent to Apple for "On-device offline purchases using credits", which according to AppleInsider, is an offline purchasing system that would allow iTunes users to buy music, movies and other media when not connected to the internet. The system details purchase of offline credits which would be stored on...

The name Lodsys became known to developers -- especially to those using in-app purchases -- in 2011, when the patent troll went after them demanding more than one-half percent of their revenue. (more…)