Tim Cook could use his speaking slot at the Goldman Sachs tech conference Tuesday to signal how he’s thinking about Apple’s excess cash. Read more »
Macmillan is paying $20 million to settle the class action and states’ lawsuits remaining against it. Read more at paidContent »
Vodafone UK and 3 Austria have told subscribers that they should avoid updating their iPhone 4S to the latest version of iOS, while Apple works on a fix for reported 3G connectivity problems. Read more »
The watch would run the same iOS platform as the iPhone, according to the NYT. The WSJ adds that Apple has talked with its chief manufacturing partner about such a device. Read more »
The OLED Association noted this week that Apple had hired away James (Jueng-jil) Lee, an LG researcher and expert in television displays. Read more »
Bruce Tognazzini lays out why he thinks Apple already has all the pieces in place to build an iOS-based smart watch. Read more »
Apple responded to investor David Einhorn’s public comments Thursday about his dissatisfaction with how the company is handling its cash with its own statement. Read more »
After pornography was found on Vine, Twitter has quietly updated the app with an age-rating warning and a user/content reporting tool. Read more »
Android is catching up to iOS in terms of apps for sale and developer attention. But the most influential mobile companies have yet to bypass iOS for Android. Read more »
Apple has launched a new section of the iBookstore, “Breakout Books,” that highlights popular ebooks from self-published authors. Read more at paidContent »
9to5Mac say they found unused “buy” icons in the iPad’s Music app that appear to be linked to streaming radio, a service Apple has been said to be working on. Read more »
Apple’s iPhone and other smartphones are full of rare earth minerals China is one of the biggest producers (and consumers) of these rare earth minerals, which are becoming such hot commodities that entrepreneurs and investors are thinking about mining the moon for them. Read more »
The long-delayed Bookish, a website backed by Hachette, Penguin and Simon & Schuster and designed to promote book discovery and sell books, launched Monday night and is designed to be a one-stop shop for readers looking for their next book. Read more at paidContent »
Not ready to shell out for Logic Pro? GarageBand can be a useful and relatively cheaper way to draft and write songs for budding songwriters and musicians. Read more »
Following the opening of data centers, communities in Oregon, Washington and Virginia have made new policies, built many new homes and prompted environmental activism. Read more »
Heading to a coffee shop without your Mac? Consider this sneaky method to use a two-screened Windows laptop — and save your Apple stickers! Read more »
While whole year sales are another story, during the fourth quarter of 2012 Apple sold more smartphones than any other seller in the U.S. market, according to a new report from Strategy Analytics. Read more »
Apple won’t immediately have a new model ready that meets new safety regulations. But CEO Tim Cook promised last year something “really great” is coming in 2013. Read more »
Apple is the world’s biggest tablet maker. But despite increasing shipments by 48 percent, it’s continuing to lose ground to Samsung, Asus and others. Read more »
As the ebook transition moves forward, Amazon should worry that Kindle is not going to be the device leading the revolution. Read more at paidContent »
Research In Motion — which has renamed itself BlackBerry — launched its new smartphones at a star-studded event in New York, but responses to the new devices ranged from sharply critical to “ho hum,” and that could be lethal. Read more »
A set of rulings issued late Tuesday mean there won’t be a retrial of Apple v. Samsung, but neither will Apple be getting more money: Judge Lucy Koh found Samsung patent infringement was “not willful.” Read more »
Still waiting for Apple to announce a big-screen TV? Then you might have to wait a bit longer: The next Apple TV device will be even smaller than the currently-selling version. Read more »
With better search filters, a user reporting tool, and a new 17+ rating, the popular photography app 500px is back on the iOS App Store a week after being booted by Apple. Read more »
Apple framed the move to release its biggest-ever capacity mobile device as a way to help professionals in a variety of industries replace their traditional computers with the iPad. Read more »
In his annual letter to shareholders of the seed-stage incubator Betaworks, founder and CEO John Borthwick argues that while closed platforms can be valuable in the short term, open systems and services will ultimately prevail. Read more »
Apple has restored a page within Passbook that explains what it does as well as the vital link that takes users to “Apps for Passbook” in the App Store. Read more »
The iOS 6.1 update is available via iTunes or over the air update for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users. Read more »
Apple already has a problem consistently enforcing App Store rules across an ecosystem of 800,000 apps. But it seems even more complicated when partners are involved. Read more »
Need an iPad with more storage? Code bits tucked in the latest iOS 6.1 beta software indicate Apple will bring support to 128 GB devices in the future. Read more »
After five crazy years, it seems that Apple’s breakneck-growth might be settling into a more reasonable pattern. With years of strong growth still left in the mobile industry, it’s not exactly time to panic. Read more »
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer told attendees at the World Economic Forum that the key to the company’s future success is partnering with other players like Apple, Google and Facebook. But is that a future worth betting on? Read more »
Exxon retakes the lead in market capitalization as Apple’s stock continues its precipitous drop since posting its best ever revenues ($54 billion) and profits ($13 billion) and all-time best iPhone and iPad sales. Read more »
In its 2013 Supplier Responsibility Report, Apple names one company with more than 70 incidents of hiring workers younger than 16 to work on assembling circuit boards used in Apple products. Read more »
IDC reported its smartphone sales data for the final quarter of 2012 and if I gave you three guesses as to who increased sales the most from the year ago quarter, you still might not guess right. Read more »
The Korean manufacturer’s supremacy in the smartphone business is now entrenched, while the demand it’s seeing in other lines provides a timely reminder of a wider shift from the desktop to mobile. Read more »
One of the questions coming out of Apple’s earnings is whether the Mac is soon going to be following in its PC brethren’s footsteps. But it’s a bit too early to say. Read more »
For its second quarter, Microsoft’s profits sagged to $6.4 billion or 76 cents per share from $6.6 billion (79 cents per share) compared to last year’s comparable period. Read more »
Apple added more new iCloud users in the last quarter than it sold new iPhones. The company says it will continue to invest in its data centers that power its growing online services. Read more »
Record revenues and best-yet iPhone and iPad sales weren’t enough to keep already-skittish investors from continuing their freakout of Apple’s future fortunes. Apple CEO Tim Cook did his very best to assure them that he has a plan. Read more »
