Judge refuses request to dismiss ebook class action suit
Apple received a legal slap on Wednesday when U.S. District Judge Denise Cote rejected a request to dismiss a class action lawsuit against Apple and five publishers.
Cote scoffed at the idea that Apple and the publishers acted independently in comi...
Tim Cook meets with Speaker of US House of Representatives, John Boehner
U.S. House Speaker John Boehner's office has released a picture of Boehner meeting with Apple CEO Tim Cook on Wednesday. While Boehner's staff didn't go into details about the meeting, MacRumors theorizes that Cook was lobbying for a tax holiday, ...
Bloomberg: Apple will debut new laptop lineup at WWDC
Bloomberg reports that Apple is preparing laptop upgrades with models that are thinner than the existing Pro units; the new machines are expected to run on Intel's Ivy Bridge processors. This follows on rumors from earlier today that a new MacBook...
New Maps for iOS? It’s not exactly a surprise
The latest rumor to get everyone talking is that Apple will drop Google Maps for their own proprietary software. Sources told 9to5 Mac that a new Maps app will debut with iOS 6 with an Apple-created backend that will resemble the current Maps app, bu...
Beta iCloud site briefly appears along with developer’s site (updated)
TUAW editor Dave Caolo noticed that the iCloud beta site briefly featured icons for Notes and Reminders. The good folks over at MacStories and developer Steve Troughton-Smith spotted the same thing. It was up long enough for a quick screengrab the...
Adobe Creative Cloud and Creative Suite 6 now available
A few days after originally anticipated, Adobe has now made its Creative Cloud and Creative Suite 6 products available for purchase and download.
Adobe is making a big push for its Creative Cloud subscription service, which offers access to all ...
Portfolio Pro for iPad is a solid entry-level portfolio app
We took a look at several portfolio apps a few months ago, but I'm always on the look out for new ones to try on the iPad. Gone are the days of trying to shrink large articles and projects down to an 8x11 piece of paper for a portfolio. With the n...
Jawbone releases Big Jambox Bluetooth speaker
If you're in the market for a portable hi-fi sound system, Jawbone has announced its US$299 Big Jambox speaker, which vows to turn any Bluetooth-capable mobile device into a sophisticated sound system.
One of the neat things about the speaker is...
Memory of Steve Jobs helped inspire Facebook’s organ donation initiative
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg told ABC's Good Morning America that it was a combination of ideas from his girlfriend and his friendship with Steve Jobs that prompted him to use Facebook as a platform for addressing organ shortage for patients in n...
Magic: The Gathering creator kickstarting iOS game
I admit, I played Magic: The Gathering in high school. I strutted around with my little box of cards and spent my Friday nights at the gaming shop trying to prove I was one of the big guys. Instead, I proved I just really sucked at Magic.
Magi...
Apple confirmed as Bloom Energy’s customer
CNet confirmed today that Bloom Energy will be supplying fuel cells to Apple. This will go toward powering Apple's North Carolina data center.
GigaOM originally reported last month that Bloom Energy would be Apple's supplier for the fuel-cell fa...
Another Apple executive heads to J.C. Penney
Another Apple employee has left for J.C. Penney. Benjamin Fay, who was Apple's senior director of retail real estate, design and development, will head up that department with J.C. Penney. Fay had led the design team responsible for upholding Appl...
