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Update 2: TechCrunch reports the event will focus on publishing and iBooks: According to the source the event will not involve any hardware at all and instead will focus on publishing and eBooks (sold through Apple’s iBooks platform) rather than iAds. Attendance will also be more publishing industry-oriented than consumer-focused. The event will unveil improvements...

Fraser Spiers debunks the common 'tip' he frequently hears about how people should kill iOS multitasking apps as they 'slow down' your iPhone. To counter this incorrect advice he details specifics about how multitasking works on iOS, and how the system is smart enough to manage itself on its own. It's a comprehensive read for...

Welcome to Day 8 of the iTunes 12 Days of Christmas. Today's free offering is Icebreaker Hockey, from Natural Motion Games. The hockey game entered the App Store this past June. The developer's other claim to fame was Backbreaker Football that had over 1 million downloads. With the WHJC (go Canada!) and the NHL season...

iOS hacker @stroughtonsmith previously demonstrated a hacked second generation Apple TV running iOS apps without AirPlay. Further progress has resulted in day 2 of his tinkering, and last night he released another video this time showing fullscreen iPad apps running in 720p: More MobileX goodness! Much of today was spent making apps run as the...

Happy New Year! To start off 2012, the iTunes 12 Days of Christmas has reached Day 7 and today's free download is the Lonely Planet's, Best in Travel 2012. This book is normally $11.99 and is free for your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. This 208 page book comes in at a 129MB download. Here...

Jobs delivers a tribute to the recently deceased Morita Akio at a new product launch event. (October 5, 1999) The Japanese publication, Nippon, writes a translated article about Steve Jobs and his close connection to Japan: Apple founder and CEO extraordinaire Steve Jobs had a close relationship to Japan. Hayashi Nobuyuki, an IT journalist who...

We've made it to the halfway point of the iTunes 12 Days of Christmas, and it has landed on New Year's Eve (how is it NYE already?!). For Day 6, Apple has offered up the LMFAO single, Party Rock Anthem (featuring GoonRock & Lauren Bennett), the Audiobot Remix, that runs six minutes long. Also available to...

A new episode of The iPhone Podcast has hit iTunes, episode 46. This is our 2011 Year in Review, going over the major stories of this year. Justin Luey and I look back at what has been an amazing year for Apple. Subscribe with iTunes | Subscribe with other RSS Readers The iPhone Podcast will be back in the New...

The BBC reports Apple's famed Senior Vice President of Industrial Design, Jony Ive has received a knighthood as part of the New Year Honours list. We can now call him Sir Jonathan Ive as he is now a Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE). His award was even appreciated by Phil Schiller on twitter....

The second generation Apple TV recently received an untethered jailbreak for 4.4.4 using Seas0nPass, as released by Firecore. Now, iOS developer @stroughtonsmith has posted a video of an Apple TV 2 hacked to run multiple iOS apps natively: Using @TheMudkip's MobileX window manager for iOS, and @chpwn's MobileLaunchpad launcher to go with it, we now...

Some pretty cool images have surfaced of the 'original' iPhone designed by German-born Hartmut Esslinger, the designer of 'The Snow White Look' for the Apple IIc. This tablet/phone concept has a corded handset along with a stylus-controlled touchscreen. Check them out below: The Origin of 'Designed in California' on Apple Products As noted in his...

Apple has accused Samsung of copying their products and their back and forth legal wars appear to be never-ending. We've previously seen Samsung use App Store icons in their stores and also produced similar chargers. Now it appears Samsung wants to emulate Apple's commercials by using the same child actor that was first featured in...