Author: Yoni Heisler

Shares of Apple shot up by more than 22 points on Tuesday following word that billionaire investor Carl Icahn had taken a large position in Apple. At one point during the trading day, shares of Apple reached $494 after starting the day trading at $47…

Steve Jobs was a stickler for details. From Jobs’ point of view, every detail, no matter how small or seemingly insignificant, mattered.

While this shouldn’t strike anyone as being a monumental revelation, Jobs’ focus on the little details that othe…

Apple executives seem to have a thing for referring to the Apple TV as nothing more than an interesting hobby. That little hobby, however, seems to be attracting more and more users with each passing quarter.

During Apple’s 2012 holiday quarter, for…

Malwarebytes Unpacked is reporting that cyber-criminals looking to make a quick buck have begun targeting unsuspecting OS X users by hijacking their web browser and posting a warning message purporting to be from the FBI.

The fake message casts a wi…

To help celebrate five years of the App Store, Apple recently launched an iTunes promotion wherein a number of popular iOS apps were made available as free downloads. One such app was Infinity Blade II, an extremely popular and critically acclaimed g…

MacRumors is reporting that Apple this week began repairing iPhone 5 screens in its retail stores for US$149. The move is significant not only because Apple retail stores are prevalent and easy to find, but also because the price point isn’t outrageo…

Square today unveiled the Square Stand, the company’s latest effort to become an even more entrenched player in the mobile-payments market.

The Square Stand is essentially an elegant stand with an embedded card reader for the iPad that, when running…

When Steve Jobs first introduced the iPhone at Macworld 2007, he elicited quite a few laughs when he exclaimed, “… and boy have we patented it!”

Two years later, starting with its 2009 suit against Nokia, Apple’s patent infringement lawsuits be…

When Apple was awarded a US$1.05 billion judgement against Samsung last Summer, you might have assumed that Samsung would promptly cut Apple a check and focus on any number of their other ongoing legal entanglements with Apple.

Oh, if only things we…

Time Warner Cable has announced an upcoming update to their iOS app that will enable subscribers to watch live television and on-demand programming from their mobile device as long as they have a Wi-Fi connection. Verizon Wireless customers can st…

Speaking at the All Things D: Dive into Mobile conference in New York City today, Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel revealed that the popular photo-sharing app is much more popular than anyone may have imagined.

Specifically, Spiegel noted that Snapchat us…

A new research report from Canalys took a look at the four leading mobile app stores — Apple’s App Store, Google Play, BlackBerrry World and the Windows Phone Store — and came away with some interesting data.

During the first quarter of 2013, …