Fortune reports on a new research note from Oppenhiemer & Co.’s Yair Reiner claiming that Apple in January began high-level talks with major phone manufacturers expressing its displeasure with what it con…  Read More →

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) yesterday announced that it had obtained a copy of Apple’s iPhone Developer Program License Agreement and published it for public consumption. While the contents of the license agreement, which govern…  Read More →

A few times a year, MacRumors partners with MacHeist to promote their Mac application bundle deal. Their latest bundle delivers at least eight Mac applications for $19.95 (over $280 value if all purchased separately) including: …  Read More →

Valve Software today officially announced that it is bringing its Steam game distribution platform, as well as its own library of games, to Mac OS X next month. Steam and Valve’s library of games including Left 4 Dead 2, Team …  Read More →

TechCrunch discusses a picture that is being pieced together from reports from App Store developers suggesting that Apple is looking to crack down on “cookie cutter” iPhone applications that offer little…  Read More →

After Valve’s series of teaser images, it’s now been revealed that their upcoming sequel Portal 2 will also be coming to the Mac. The above image comes from a series of scans from the latest issue of Gameinformer magazine which carries a cov…  Read More →

Swedish site Slashat.se reportedly emailed Steve Jobs asking the simple question “Will the wifi-only version somehow support tethering thru my iPhone?” Steve Jobs’ reply was a simple “no” and was sent from his iPhone. Tethering is t…  Read More →

Last week, RBC Capital Markets analyst Mike Abramsky released the results of a survey showing pent-up demand for the iPad exceeding that of the original iPhone, highest customer demand for low-capacity Wi-Fi-only and high-capacity 3G-enabled …  Read More →

Daring Fireball’s John Gruber claims to have heard from his sources that the slight shipping delay (about a week in the U.S. and on the order of a month in the first batch of international markets) for the Wi-Fi iPad is due not to hardware pr…  Read More →

Apple today seeded yet another version of Mac OS X 10.6.3, termed Build 10D567, to developers. iPhone in Canada offers some details on the new version, which has seen only minor refinements as development appears to be wrapping up. Develope…  Read More →

Patently Apple points to an interesting Apple patent application published yesterday describing methods of incorporating commercials into video content such that viewing of the commercials interspersed throughout the video presentation would …  Read More →

Apple today announced that Wi-Fi models of the iPad will go on sale in the United States on Saturday, April 3rd. 3G-capable models in the U.S., as well as both Wi-Fi and 3G models for a number of other countries, will be available in late Ap…  Read More →

After a brief outage on Thursday, Apple’s developer site returned with a dramatically restructured developer program for the Mac that is modeled after the $99/year iPhone developer program: “Modeled after the highly successful…  Read More →

The Wall Street Journal reports (subscription required) on Sony’s plans to develop a new lineup of handheld devices to compete against Apple’s iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Threatened by A…  Read More →

In the 2010 edition of its annual ranking of “World’s Most Admired Companies”, Fortune placed Apple at the top of the list for the third year in a row and by the highest margin ever in the survey’s ten-year history. Apple was followed in the…  Read More →