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ITC rules against Kodak, in favor of RIM and Apple

by Mel Martin (May 21st, 2012)

This is strike two against Kodak at the US International Trade Commission. CNET is reporting today that administrative Judge Thomas Pender reaffirmed a decision from last year which stated that neither Apple or RIM were infringing Kodak patents. "I hereby reaffirm on remand that no violation of ...

Daily Update for May 21, 2012

by Steven Sande (May 21st, 2012)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

Foxconn building new production line for Apple products

by Steven Sande (May 21st, 2012)

Apple must be expecting record sales of new and existing products, as manufacturing partner Foxconn has announced a US$210 million investment in a new production line in the Chinese city of Huai'an in Jiangsu province. The new line is expected to be cranking out unspecified Apple products by ...

Retailers relocate to accomodate Apple Store in Hong Kong

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 21st, 2012)

Apple is adding a second Apple store in Hong Kong and retailers are vacating their spaces to make room for the Cupertino company. According to an ifoAppleStore report, three retailers, HSBC, Agnes B. and Izzue, are leaving their spaces in the Festival Walk shopping center to make room for a ...

Apple sends letter to neighbors about new "spaceship" campus

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 21st, 2012)

Apple wants its new spaceship-style campus to be as free from controversy as possible. To quell any discontent from its neighbors, the company is reaching out to Cupertino residents and asking them for feedback about the project. In a document obtained by 9to5Mac, Apple tells residents how and ...

Carriers accept high iPhone subsidies for now

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 21st, 2012)

It's widely believed that US carriers pay a lot for the iPhone. A perfect example is Sprint which signed an estimated US$15 billion deal for the iPhone and won't make money off the handset until 2015. AllThingsD presents several compelling reasons why Sprint and other US wireless carriers are ...

The story of Apple's upside down logo

by Michael Grothaus (May 21st, 2012)

It was perhaps one of the most baffling and frustrating design choices Apple ever made: the upside down Apple logo. For those of you who haven't been using Macs long enough to remember this, the "upside down Apple logo" refers to how PowerBooks and iBooks used to display the Apple logo "pointing" ...

Apple and Samsung sit down for mediation today

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 21st, 2012)

Apple CEO Tim Cook and Samsung CEO Gee-Sung Choi are meeting on Monday in a San Francisco Federal court, according to a Reuters report. The meeting is mandated by the court after earlier talks, noted in the court documents, failed to produce an agreement. By bringing in the CEOs, the court ...

Rumor Roundup, Episode 5: New MacBook Pros steal the spotlight

by Chris Rawson (May 21st, 2012)

A truly titanic hash of dumb Apple rumors permeated the blogosphere this week, including the usual suspects of the "iPad mini" and the Apple HDTV. But mixed with the mire were multiple reports from actual, reputable news organizations like the Wall Street Journal and Reuters regarding the next ...

MacStories looks at four years of the App Store

by Mike Schramm (May 18th, 2012)

It's been almost four years since Apple debuted its App Store platform for iOS (and then the Mac), and MacStories has an in-depth look back at that time. In just four short years, Apple has gone from saying that all we'd need on iOS are web apps, to a millions of dollars a year industry that ...

Motorola, RIM offer Apple a nano-SIM compromise

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 18th, 2012)

The battle over the nano-SIM standard is heating up with Apple on one side and a group that includes Nokia, Motorola and RIM on the other. In the latest series of developments reported by The Verge, Motorola and RIM are countering Apple's nano-SIM proposal with a revised design of their own. ...

Apple assuming retail lease, plans to open new UK Apple Store

by Steven Sande (May 18th, 2012)

Apple's march to world domination continues, this time with a new Apple Store planned for the UK seaside city of Plymouth. What's surprising about this store announcement is that Apple apparently made managers of a successful Zara fashion store at the Drake Circus Shopping Centre (above) in ...

Woz hired as technical advisor on Jobs biopic

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 18th, 2012)

Aaron Sorkin, screenwriter for the Facebook-inspired The Social Network, is working on an adaptation of the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson. To help him in this quest, Sorkin has hired Steve Wozniak as a technical advisor, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune. Woz will help ...

Apple receives regulatory approval for solar farm in North Carolina

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 18th, 2012)

As noticed by AppleInsider, the North Carolina Utilities Commission approved Apple's application to build a 20-megawatt solar farm on land adjacent to its Maiden, North Carolina data center. The proposal was filed on February 15 and publicly announced at the end of March. It received no ...

Apple wins iPhone5.com domain name

by Steven Sande (May 17th, 2012)

Apple's attempt to wrest control the iPhone5.com domain name from the hands of a cybersquatter has been a success. TheNextWeb reports that the company's complaint to the World Intellectual Properties Organization (WIPO) resulted in the iPhone5.com domain being handed over to Apple. The fact ...