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The New York Times has published a lengthy article about Apple, this time taking a closer look at how it is challenging to find success as an iOS developer. The story profiles various developers, seemingly portraying a picture it is not as easy as it sounds to create that monster hit in the App Store--although...

Popular Science has come out with a list of the Top 25 Innovations of the Last 25 years. A couple Apple creations made the list, in particular the original 2007 iPhone that started the smartphone revolution as we know it today, along with the 2008 App Store debut that helped keep us addicted to our...

Apple's senior vice president of Hardware Engineering, Dan Riccio has disposed of 20,726 shares of stock, according to SEC Form 4 filings. He sold off 19,726 shares worth a total of $10,713,452.33 dollars, at stock prices ranging from $526-$532 per share. Riccio also made a donation of 1000 shares to an unspecified charitable organization. At...

Reuters reports Samsung plans to ask a U.S. judge to coerce Apple into handing over a copy of their recently settled agreement with HTC, as noted in a court filing (via the Verge) today: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, which could face such a sales ban following a crushing jury verdict against it in August, now plans to...

Apple has just sent out an email to notify customers the Messages Beta program will end on December 14th. They encourage any customers who want to continue to use Messages for OS X to upgrade to Mountain Lion via the Mac App Store. Messages allows Mac users to send and receive messages to any other...

Accusations of patent infringement have become so common among the major mobile device manufacturers that they are already bordering on cliche. Court systems the world-wide are filled to capacity with finger-pointing and filings dealing with who copied who and details that really just amount to corporate white noise. Consumers are confused and for the most...

Apple may not be able to put a dent in the Chinese smartphone market with the iPhone 5 as analysts previously expected. As you may recall, earlier rumors speculated Apple would close a deal with the world's largest wireless carrier, China Mobile. But according to Peter Misek, this isn't going to happen. At least not...

Turns out the LG-made Google Nexus 4 also has the purple haze issue -- just like the iPhone 5 and the Samsung Galaxy S3. (more…)

Developed by creators of the main Pokémon series Creatures Inc., a studio owned by Nintendo, the Japanese video game company's first paid app for iOS has today hit the iTunes App Store called Pokédex, notes the Eurogamer (via MacStories). The universal iPhone/iPad game is a version of Nintendo's existing Pokédex app for the 3DS. Nintendo has been...

The Wall Street Journal reported U.S. and Canadian cities part of the International Association of Transportation Regulators (IATR) planned to release proposed regulations to reign in on smartphone taxi services. Currently, the 2012 conference is underway in Washington, DC (Nov. 15-17). The association includes member cities such as Toronto, where smartphone taxi operator Uber has come under...

The popular video player app VLC could return to the App Store, as VideoLAN's developers have changed the majority of software modules using software licenses, which was the main reason the app was pulled from the App Store in the first place. (more…)

According to a report by Bloomberg, Apple and Samsung are now allowed to add more products to their patent lawsuits against each other, based on the ruling of a federal judge Paul Grewal.  Apple Inc. can add patent- infringement claims against the Samsung Galaxy Note, the U.S. version of the Galaxy S III and the...