According to sources cited by the Wall Street Journal, Sprint has committed itself to purchase 30.5 million Apple iPhones over the next four years. Based on the current full retail cost of the iPhone, the agreement amounts to about $20 billion. The Journal’s sources call the deal a “bet-the-company kind of thing” that will likely […]

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Apple CEO Steve Jobs has resigned and will be replaced by former Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook, the company said late Wednesday. Jobs will stay on as Apple’s chairman. Apple made no mention of Jobs’ health in its statement about the change, but Jobs alluded to it in the letter of […]

Apple is a force to be reckoned with when it comes to the supply chain for gadgets. It gives buyers what they want faster than its rivals — and in the process, it sometimes delays the competition’s products from coming to market. Japan’s earthquake, tsunami and aftershocks halted or slowed production of hundreds of components […]

Earlier this week, researchers discovered that the Apple iPhone records users’ location data, syncs it back to the host computer and stores it there in unencrypted, but invisible, files. What happens to that data in not yet fully understood. The Wall Street Journal points out that smartphones running Google’s Android platform also collect user data […]

If you were wondering just how strong the screen components are in the iPad 2, we now know thanks to some tests that the iPhone repair experts over at iFixYouri have done comparing the flexibility of the glass screen parts from both devices. As has already been reported, the iPad’s 2 screen (that includes the […]

Amazon just revealed its own specially curated version of the Android Marketplace, but has chosen to label it the “Appstore.” Apple, in turn, has now sued Android for trademark violation. The move is a not-so-subtle shot across Amazon’s bows. The suit was filed last week, but has emerged at more or less the same time […]

Unless you’ve been hiding from tech blogs and Apple fanboys/girls, you probably already know that today is the world-wide store release of the iPad 2. We even predicted what you stand to gain from the iPad 2 besides bragging rights. Standing at 8mm thin and 1.3 lbs, its sleek design makes it one of the […]

Apple CEO Steve Jobs is supposed to be on medical leave, but looks like he couldn’t miss introducing the all new iPad 2. It’s features include a dual-core A5 processor (so it’s faster), front and back cameras for video chatting and video recording, and a sleek new appearance. Check out more of it’s features here.

Apple today said that CEO Steve Jobs is taking a second medical leave of absence. In a letter to Apple’s staff, Jobs wrote, “At my request, the board of directors has granted me a medical leave of absence so I can focus on my health. I will continue as CEO and be involved in major […]

Not forgetting Sunday morning’s time change is hard enough. But Apple iPhone users in the United States must also remember to delete and then reset their phone’s alarm clock — otherwise they may be an hour late for work on Monday morning. A glitch in the iPhone’s operating system will cause recurring weekday alarms not […]

The most talked-about cellphone in America is one that doesn’t officially exist: the Verizon iPhone. Ever since the 2007 launch of Apple’s iPhone — which crippled swaths of AT&T’s network — consumers have yearned for a Verizon iPhone as if it were the Second Coming. When Verizon Wireless, the nation’s largest mobile-phone operator, recently agreed […]

Ordinarily, the release of a single ultraportable Mac should not be reason for Redmond to quake in its boots, but yesterday’s announcements by Apple should give the Windows team plenty of reason to fear. It’s not that the product itself will put that much of a further dent in Microsoft’s still-massive share of the PC […]