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VirnetX announced that at a pre-trial scheduling conference, jury selection in its trial against Apple will begin on Oct. 29, with a jury trial commencing on Oct. 31, reports “MacNN” (www.macnn….

AuthenTec, the company behind fingerprint ID technology that Apple bought earlier this year, will stop supporting its other customers in 2013 which means companies such as HP and Samsung will ha…

“iFixIt” has torn down Apple’s new EarPods. You can find the teardown at http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Apple-EarPods-Teardown/10501/1 .
“We didn’t assign a repairability score for the EarPods. …

Apple shares traded above US$700 for the first time on Wall Street Tuesday. The price rose as high as $701.44 in early trade, a day after the firm said it received more than two million orders f…

The U.S. International Trade Commission has voted to investigate Apple’s lineup of products, including the iPhone, iPad and Macs, in response to a complaint lodged by Google-owned Motorola Mobil…

DataViz (www.dataviz.com) has announced the availability of Passwords Plus for Mac OS X and an updated iOS version. Passwords Plus stores and protects PINs, passwords, and other sensitive inform…

Judge Lucy Koh on Monday filed an order denying Samsung’s motion to dissolve Apple’s sales ban against the Galaxy Tab 10.1, and vacated the Sept. 20 hearing at which both parties were scheduled …

In a note to clients — as reported by “MacRumors” (www.macrumors.com) — Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster predicts that Apple will sell eight million iPhone 5s during the product’s launch wee…

Jonathan Ive, Apple’s design chief, will deign a limited edition Leica M camera, reports “PetaPixel” (http://macte.ch/Kjtwm). The announcement was made a special Leica event on Monday, during wh…

Velti, a global provider of mobile marketing and advertising technology, thas reported in their monthly “State of Mobile Advertising” report that Android notched a second consecutive month of ad…

DBest (www.dbest.co.uk), a London-based manufacturer of audio products, has announced the U.S. retail availability of the Transformative, a Bluetooth HiFi system that comes in a convertible desi…

Panasonic (www.panasonic.com) has announced the reintroduction of Technics Pro DJ headphones: the US$269.99 Technics RP-DH1250 and $229.99 RP-DJ1205. Both feature an integrated swivel mechanism …

Adam Cheyer, an engineer who helped build the Siri voice-recognition software that was acquired by Apple, has left the company, reports “Bloomberg” (http://macte.ch/iVU9Z), quoting three, unnamed “people familiar with the situation”
Cheyer, a Siri co-f…

Following the news surrounding the release of the Nokia Lumia 920, the latest phone proposed to run the Windows 8 platform, CouponCodes4U (www.CouponCodes4u.com), a coupon code website, conducte…

According to a Forrester Research report (www.forrester.com) — as reported by “Silicon Valley BizBlog” (http://macte.ch/SbunZ) — Apple will sell about US$17 billion Macs and iPads to business …

Jonathan Ive, Apple’s senior vice president of industrial design, has paid US$17 million for a house on San Francisco’s “Gold Coast,” reports “The Wall Street Journal” (http://macte.ch/h5Pwr…