Customs in the United States are currently blocking the import of the HTC One X smartphones. The Customs will examine whether HTC is still violating Apple patents in their latest devices. HTC confirms the import blockade. The Customs have the right to extensively examine the device to check whether it is still violating Apple patents. [...]

Although viruses, malware etc. are still not a big problem on most of the Mac, this soon could change. The market share of Macs continues to increase and this means that cyber criminals become more interested in the operating system, as they can target more users and infect more systems. In the last couple of [...]

For the last two years Samsung have demonstrated their impressive flexible AMOLED-displays. But after years of development the new technology has finally a name: Youm. Various sources claim that Samsung is already handling a huge order of the new displays. This immediately sparked the rumor that Apple may be interested in the technology. The Vice [...]

The future of Apple has not always looked as good as it does today. After the departure of Steve Jobs in 1985 it quickly went downhill with the company. Apple continued to lose their market share and they no longer innovated. During the return of Steve Jobs as CEO at Apple in 1997 it was [...]

Apple has agreed with Foxconn that they will share the costs for improving working condition in the Foxconn factories. This news followed after a Reuters interview with Foxconn CEO, Terry Gou. It was previously already suggested that Apple was willing to invest to improve the conditions of the employees. These investments followed shortly after the [...]

It seems that internal memos at Apple are no longer secretly kept from the rest of the world. Yesterday we already posted a welcoming memo for new employees; today it is an internal memo of the new Vice President of Retail, John Browett. Who joined Apple since early April and visited quite a few Apple [...]

The New York Times has recently published a background article in which they claim that Apple’s tax practices are illegal. In a letter to the newspaper, Georges Schmit, Director of a Luxembourg investment company, writes that it is quite logical that the iTunes administration is handled in Luxembourg. According to The New York Times both [...]

BlackBerry-maker RIM recently organized a protesting flashmob at the Apple Store in Sydney with the message ‘Wake Up’. While many thought that it was Samsung that has organized the protest, it now turns out that it was RIM. The maker of the BlackBerry has now extended their campaign with a series of advertisements in Australian [...]