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Apple Insider is reporting that an Apple patent filing for a "Multi-layered ceramic enclosure" shows the Cupertino company's growing interest in ceramic device enclosures, a material which noted analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes could be used in the rumored low-cost iPhone. The filing reveals that Apple may be developing a unibody type design, fabricated from layers of ceramic in...

According to an unscientific tally of mentions on Twitter, published in a report yesterday by Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, it seems that between Apple and Samsung, the former is a clear winner in the global smartphone market, Bloomberg is reporting. Investing Analytics, the group that compiled all the Twitter data, revealed that the iPhone 5 was mentioned 2.4...

A patent application from Apple published by the US Patent & Trademark Office reveals a stunning future iPhone concept, that features a wraparound display allowing both sides of this iPhone to display content, either individually or as one continuous display, reports Patently Apple. The same wraparound display concept may be applied to the much rumoured Apple iWatch....

According to today’s ruling by the Supreme Court of Canada, text messages have the same degree of privacy as other electronic communications and the police will have to treat them as private, The Globe and Mail reports. (more…)

According to a report by FOSS Patents, Apple is claiming to have found an $85 million error in court's damages order regarding two Samsung phones. Apple's court filing alleges that Judge Lucy Koh made an error in vacating part of the $1.02 billion in damages awarded by the Apple v. Samsung trial jury. Apple is also claiming that...

Apple Insider reports that an initial segment of Apple's latest data center near Reno, Nevada, is just days away from going online. (more…)

Following media exposure over customer care, Apple is once again in focus in China. A Chinese company filed a lawsuit claiming Apple has copied components of Siri's voice recognition software. (more…)

Apple has won the ninth J.D. Power and Associates award for customer satisfaction, but in some cases even Apple fans seem unsatisfied with how the company treats them. Here is a story of unsatisfied Canadian iPhone owners who contacted us to share their case. (more…)

A new Apple job listing posted today for Communications Application Engineer seems to indicate that the company is looking to make significant improvements to the FaceTime and iMessage applications in the next iOS update, as pointed out by AppleBitch. According to the listing, Apple is looking for someone who will ‘take the revolutionary iPhone to the next level’...

Analysts have bad news for investors: Don't get your hopes up too high as far as Apple is concerned for the next two quarters, because the reality looks somewhat different. It isn't looking rosy for the Cupertino company, but we will likely see a mystery product launch (and iPad, iPhone line refresh) that will change...

Worldwide shipments of smartphones, tablets, desktop PCs and notebook PCs (or smart connected devices) grew 29.1% on a year-over-year basis, crossing the 1 billion units shipped milestone, IDC reports. (more…)

People's Daily, the Chinese Communist Party propaganda machine's mouthpiece, accused Apple of declining journalists' request for interviews and replying with a self-praising report after China's national television broadcasted a critical report. (more…)