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Apple’s Garden State Plaza retail store will be getting a first-of-its-kind enhancement in the form of a double-row Genius Bar that should help the iPhone maker meet the growing demand for technical support from its customers, ifoAppleStore reports. The Cupertino, California company has been steadily improving its Genius Bar workflow, and the new layout is Continue Reading →

With the iPhone 5 expected to sport 4G LTE tech, one analyst wonders whether Apple will have dealt with all of the “compromises” that CEO Tim Cook mentioned as an LTE deal-breaker last year. It is “unlikely” that Apple will be able to deliver LTE sans compromises for its next iPhone, said Will Strauss, principal Continue Reading →

Google’s vice president of corporate development, David Lawee, sat down with Bloomberg to talk about the ongoing patent disputes within the mobile industry and more specifically Apple’s recent victory over Samsung. The executive revealed that the Mountain View-based company wasn’t investing into the patent ecosystem and was slow in patenting its own technology. “We didn’t Continue Reading →

Apple’s next-generation smartphone will be called the iPhone 5, according to an inactive link accidentally posted on the company’s own Web site hours before the highly anticipated device is expected to be announced in San Francisco. By searching Apple’s Web site for the term “iPhone 5,” the search results yield a listing to a press Continue Reading →

Like many of Apple’s inventions, the iPhone began not with a vision, but with a problem. By 2005, the iPod had eclipsed the Mac as Apple’s largest source of revenue, but the music player that rescued Apple from the brink now faced a looming threat: The cellphone. Everyone carried a phone, and if phone companies Continue Reading →

By now it’s almost inevitable given the company’s track record: No matter what Apple unveils tomorrow at the Yerba Buena Center (an iPad Mini? iPhone 5?), pundits will herald the company for its innovative thinking and bold hardware design. But the elephant in the room will be Apple’s software, which many inside the company believe Continue Reading →

There’s been so much rumor-hawking and speculation the past few weeks that whether you’re ready or not, we’re squarely in the middle of iPhone season. So here’s a quick rundown of everything we think we know about Apple’s next iPhone. We think we have a pretty good idea of what the new iPhone will look Continue Reading →

Apple would prefer agency pricing on ebooks — that, we know. In fact, Apple is likely to appeal the DOJ’s ebook pricing settlement with HarperCollins, Hachette and Simon & Schuster, which was approved last week. Turns out, though, that doesn’t mean Apple won’t play the price-drop game on their ebooks in the meantime. We saw Continue Reading →

With a little more than a day before the iPhone 5’s expected debut, Samsung has decided to sue Apple for patent infringement over its reported use of long-term evolution (LTE) connectivity in the next-generation smartphones. Expected to be unveiled at a press event in San Francisco on Wednesday, the iPhone 5 will reportedly feature the Continue Reading →

Apple will announce its redesigned iPhone tomorrow. Ahead of that huge launch, Amazon has knocked down the price of the 16GB Galaxy S III to just $100 with a contract in an apparent attempt to unload as many of the phones as possible before everybody forgets about it. But don’t let the sheen of a Continue Reading →