Apple
Apple has served more than 30 billion downloads globally from its App Store, and while payments to developers leveled in recent months, more than two dozen launches open a range of new opportunities for Apple’s software partners. As noted by chief executive Tim Cook during the company’s Worldwide Developer...

Apple
Fulfilling a promise it made in January, Apple has reworked its employee discount program to include $500 off Mac computers and $250 off of iPads. According to 9to5Mac, this discount stacks with an existing 25 percent off which Apple employees already enjoy. Apple employees, rejoice!

While certainly...

Apple
iPad fans disappointed with their browsing experience could soon have a Safari alternative from Mozilla. Mozilla has taken the wraps off a new version of its Firefox browser that it has been designing specifically for the Apple iPad, dubbed “Junior,” that the foundation says “makes browsing more fun,...

Operating Systems, Apple, Mac OS X 10.7
Apple just announced that OS X 10.7 Lion and 10.8 Mountain Lion will be updated to support the new 2880 x 1800 Retina Display in the next-generation MacBook Pro, which ships today. The entire OS has been tweaked to support the higher resolution, as have most of Apple's apps, including Mail, Safari, Aperture,...

Apple, Motorola
The patent spat between Apple and Motorola Mobility is headed back to the US courthouse, with each company expected to fight its infringement corner on June 20. Justice Richard A. Posner confirmed the hearing date, despite earlier suggestions that the case would be dismissed altogether as neither Apple...

Apple
As Apple’s stock price continues its roller coaster ride after topping $600 earlier this year, one industry watcher believes the stock is currently in the bargain bin. Apple can already lay claim to the most profitable quarter in history among technology companies, and Topeka Capital Markets analyst...

Apple, HTC
HTC was understandably upset when its first ITC complaint against Apple was tossed out. The company must have since decided that it has bigger fish to fry, as it was just granted a motion to dismiss its federal-level appeal. The choice isn't a defeat so much as an acknowledgment that other disputes are...

Operating Systems, Apple, iOS 6
Steve Wozniak, who seems to relish needling the company that he co-founded, told Albany’s Times Union that he liked Siri a lot better before Apple purchased it in 2010. “I start telling everyone I knew and speaking around the world about how this was the future of computing, speaking things in normal...

Apple
According to AllThingsD, Apple is set to shutter its Ping social network with the next release of iTunes. Ping was first introduced back in September of 2010 but the music-focused social network never gained much traction. Even Apple CEO Tim Cook recently admitted that the platform wasn’t something that...

Cell Phones, Apple, Motorola, iPhone 4s, RAZR MAXX
Given the iPhone’s popularity, it must be the top-selling smartphone on the top three major U.S. wireless carriers, right? Not so fast, says William Blair analyst Anil Doradla, who penned a note to investors this week stating that the Droid RAZR MAXX is now the best-selling smartphone on Verizon even...

Operating Systems, Apple, iOS 6
When you're ironing out a whole new mapping platform, like Apple is, some small details are sure to slip through the cracks. Names of streets, wrong turns, confusing oceans and deserts thousands of miles apart, the spellings of some small to... Hold it.

Yep. Apple's new Maps app confuses Greenland...

Apple, Google
Google and a handful of other defendants in a mobile location data tracking lawsuit in California have been dismissed from the case. However, the court has ruled that Apple must defend itself from certain alleged consumer rights violations in the lawsuit.

The lawsuit is the product of last year's...

Operating Systems, Apple, iOS 6
At least one hacker says iPhone fans will have to wait a while before getting an iOS 6 jailbreak. Cult of Mac reports that a member of the iPhone Dev Team says that iOS 6 is a trickier nut to crack than previous editions and that users shouldn’t “expect a jailbreak beta for a while.” Among other things,...

Operating Systems, Apple, iOS 6
Apple’s iOS 6 has 200 new features. Big improvement and small tweaks, but that number, 200, alone is telling. Now, iMore has compiled all the tiny details it could pick up from Apple’s presentation and brings a huge list of over 150 features, nicely broken down in categories below.

Of course, the...

Notebooks, Apple, MacBook Pro unibody 15-inch Retina (mid 2012)
Apple just announced its next-generation MacBook Pro, and it comes equipped with a gorgeous 220 pixel-per-inch 2880 x 1800 display. That's quite a bit shy of the 326 ppi LCD on the iPhone 4S and the 264 ppi density of the new iPad's display, but it's still a massive improvement over the 1680 x 1050 pixels...