An anonymous reader writes "Apple [Friday] won a battle in an ongoing legal war with Nokia over patents that touch on pretty much all of Apple's product line. Since 2009, Apple and Nokia have sued and countersued each other into ...

The International Trade Commission (ITC) has ruled in favor of Apple in one of the company's patent disputes with Nokia. ITC Judge E. James ...

It has only been a couple of weeks since the release of iOS 4.3, but Apple has already released an ...

Apple may be preparing to license its AirPlay technology to allow third-party TVs to receive video streams from iOS devices. Bloomberg outlined a plan ...

recoiledsnake writes "Apple has removed the Gay Cure app after the pressure on Apple to remove the app started to snowball, culminating in an online petition initiated by Change.org which collected over 140,000 online signatures from people who wanted the ...

Ever since the launch of the App Store in 2008, developers have been looking for ways to bring some of the cool features they ...

This is a video by Tim Thaler, who designed and built an iPhone controlled retractable kitchen island. While admittedly an interesting concept, YOUR ISLAND COUNTERTOP IS THE FLOOR HALF THE TIME. I don't know how things work ...

Rumors have sprung up recently suggesting Apple is planning to incorporate near field communications technology into its mobile devices. While NFC certainly didn't materialize ...

An anonymous reader writes "AT&T is sending warning notifications to jailbroken iPhone users who use unofficial tethering methods like MyWi and PDANet. 'Customers are being notified that their service plans need updating to subscribe to a tethering plan, and that ...

AT&T has begun cracking down on smartphone customers—particularly iPhone users—who have been secretly tethering their smartphones to their laptops without paying for a tethering ...

The lack of support for Bluetooth stereo headsets was a staple of every forum thread after the introduction of every ...

Google is trying to beat Apple to the punch when it comes to making Near Field Communication (NFC) technology popular in the US. The ...

Apple has finally introduced a way to stream your music, TV, and movie content from your computer running iTunes to your iOS device as ...

A tweak delivered via the iOS 4.3 update is designed to prevent kids from inadvertently racking up huge in-app purchase bills to their parents' ...

During a special media event on Wednesday, Apple announced that an iOS 4.3 update would be available beginning March 11—the same day the new ...

The Federal Trade Commission will investigate Apple's marketing of iOS games with in-app purchases to children. The decision comes after a wave of complaints ...

In the age of highly compressed music files playing on iPods and even lower-quality Pandora streams playing on iPhones, some artists, music producers, and ...

The Verizon version of the iPhone 4 doesn't need a full review—partially because you've read a bunch already, and partially because there's not a ...

The top Apple news was all over the map this last week. Apple announced its new (controversial) subscription system for the iOS App Store, ...

Recent rumors suggesting that Apple was planning to release a smaller, less expensive iPhone model—dubbed the "iPhone nano"—don't appear to be true, at least

"Ask Ars" was one of the first features of the newly-born Ars Technica back in 1998. Each week, we'll dig ...

Rumors about the "iPhone nano," a smaller version of Apple's iconic iPhone, go back to before the iPhone even existed. We haven't heard much ...

angry tapir writes "Researchers in Germany say they've been able to reveal passwords stored in a locked iPhone in just six minutes and they did it without cracking the phone's passcode. The attack, which requires possession of the phone, targets ...

Do in-app purchases take advantage of children and inadvertently cost parents way more money than they intended to spend? US ...

adeelarshad82 writes "Turns out that the Verizon iPhone 4 is also plagued with the same problem as the AT&T version, the 'Death Grip.' This isn't completely surprising since Apple has made no significant changes in the antenna design to warrant ...

slshwtw writes "Pope Benedict XVI has recently encouraged priests to blog and promoted Christian Netiquette. Now apparently the Roman Catholic church has sanctioned a 'Confession App,' available through iTunes for $1.99. Apparently it doesn't replace 'traditional,' in-person confession, but walks ...

Admit it! Admit you've dabbled in witchcraft! $1.99 to have your sins forgiven, not a bad deal! That's right folks, the Catholic Church has officially approved an iPhone app that guides worshipers through the process of confession. Ah ...

An anonymous reader writes "The Chronic Dev Team have rolled out Greenpoison RC5_4 aka Greenpois0n RC5 b4 for both the Mac and Windows platform, which brings untethered jailbreak for the Verizon iPhone." Since 500k iPhones were sold on the first day ...

Results of a uSamp survey of AT&T and Verizon customers conducted last week reveals that 54 percent of current Android and BlackBerry users on ...

iOS app developers will soon be able to offer in-app subscriptions thanks to a change in Apple's App Store offerings, ...

Ultraportable speaker systems are avoided by anyone who cares about sound, and purchased by people who often see them as disposable. Have you ever ...

The Android platform has finally taken the lead in smartphone market share, leaving Nokia, Apple and RIM in the dust. That's according to analytics ...

Que Publishing, an imprint of Pearson, is launching a new series of books covering Mac and iOS technology in collaboration with veteran tech journalist ...

The top Apple news from this last week spanned a variety of topics, ranging from a debate over retina displays in the iPad to ...

An anonymous reader writes "The smartphone seems to be well on its way to becoming the next wallet; and Apple could be pushing that movement along. Reports from several outlets suggest the Cupertino, Calif.-based electronics giant has plans to put ...