Author: Eric Slivka

Over the past few months, a number of parts alleged to be for the iPhone 5S have leaked out of Asian parts and repair firms, but leaked home button parts had failed to provide evidence for the inclusion of a fingerprint sensor as has been widely rumore…

As noted by FOSS Patents, a German appeals court as lifted an injunction that has barred Apple from offering iCloud email push notifications to its customers in that country. The injunction, sparked by a lawsuit from Google’s Motorola unit, has been in…

G4Games points to a photo posted to Chinese microblogging site Sina Weibo that allegedly shows display assemblies from the iPhone 5S. While better photos of the part surfaced last week and we’ve received a number of other photos of the assemblies, the …

Reuters reports that Samsung is in preliminary talks with European Union regulators in order to settle antitrust charges stemming from the company’s use of standards-essential patents in litigation against Apple. Samsung could have faced fines of up to…

Aside from the “all-day” battery life that comes alongside the upgrade to Intel’s Haswell processors in the new MacBook Air, one of the other major improvements is the adoption of PCIe-based flash storage for much faster performance. The new PCIe flash…

One of the new iOS 7 features introduced by Craig Federighi at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference keynote yesterday was Activation Lock, which aims to reduce the appeal of Apple devices to thieves by preventing stolen phones from being activated b…

At the end of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference keynote yesterday, CEO Tim Cook introduced a new TV ad focusing on how Apple’s products and services enrich lives. The ad’s tagline is “Designed by Apple in California”, leveraging the statement dis…

With the introduction of its new Haswell-based MacBook Air models yesterday, Apple revealed a strong emphasis on battery life, pushing the rated operating time from five hours to nine hours on the 11-inch model and from seven hours to 12 hours on the 1…

Tonymacx86 points (via 9to5Mac) to recently discovered photos of a Broadcom BCM94360CD Wi-Fi/Bluetooth card that supports the 802.11ac “Gigabit Wi-Fi” standard rumored to be coming to Apple’s Mac lineup later this year. While the photos were posted to …

Following up on yesterday’s initial filing from Apple addressing the company’s efforts to issue a bond offering to raise cash in support of its stock buyback program, the company today filed a prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission outl…

Building on yesterday’s report describing a “very, very flat” design for iOS 7, 9to5Mac reports that Apple is also looking to make significant improvements to vehicle integration with the next-generation mobile operating system. In particular, Apple is…

Alongside today’s earnings release, Apple also announced a major increase in its capital return program, boosting the previous $55 billion program to $100 program. The company announced a 15{813a954d5e225a1509f22204ece89c855080ce25555f20805f61bed63cbfde3b} increase in dividend payments, but Apple is making…

Apple today released a series of updates for both Safari and Java, addressing continued issues with Java security. The Safari updates arrive as version 6.0.4 for OS X Mountain Lion and Lion and version 5.1.9 for OS X Snow Leopard. The updates, which …

Just a day after rolling out an updated app with several new features and enhancements, the team behind popular Gmail management app Mailbox has announced that it has removed the reservation system that had previously left some interested users waiting…

Quartz reports that Apple is moving closer to announcing a plan to return additional value to shareholders, likely acting “this spring” to either increase its dividend or repurchase additional stock from investors. The move comes amid increased public …

One week after the previous seed, Apple today released a new build of OS X 10.8.3 to developers. The latest version, which arrives as build 12D78, represents the 13th developer seed since Apple began developer testing last November. As with previou…