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Apple has been threatened with temporary closure of all Apple stores in Italy if does not offer customers a free two-year warranty as required by Italian law. Instead, Apple offers a one-year guarantee with the opportunity for customers to purchase an additional year of coverage for a fee. In addition to a potential temporary closure,…
Google’s new tablet, the Nexus 7, goes for $199. That means you can buy two of them for the same price as a second generation iPad. Does Apple see the smaller 7 inch tablet form factor as a threat? They’ll never admit to it, but there are reports flying around the internets that the answer…
Did you think Apple was going to stop chasing after Samsung once it won a preliminary injunction against the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the United States? Did you think once more that Apple would stop after it later won a preliminary injunction against the Galaxy Nexus smartphone in the United States? If you answered “yes”…
Though Apple opted to simply call the latest iPad “the new iPad,” that hasn’t stopped most people from dubbing it the iPad 3. While Apple will never call it the iPad 3, the company recognizes that many people out there use the name and has moved to seize the iPad3.com domain from a company named…
Every iPhone except the current model launched during either June or July. The iPhone 4S hit the street in mid October. Will the next iPhone, the sixth generation model, also land in October? According to Brian White from Topeka Capital Markets, no. The next iPhone will launch one month earlier, in September. Why? Brian doesn’t…
Proview is a Chinese company who once upon a time held global rights to the “iPad” trademark. They sold said rights to Apple in 2009. When Apple released the iPad in 2010 and then proceeded to make money hand over fist, the Proview guys felt cheated, so they took Apple to court. The reason? Proview…
While Apple’s iPhone launch event may not bring the wild skydiving and repelling stunts from the Google Glass demo, it will bring significant dollars into Apple’s pockets. Wells Fargo analysts have made the bold prediction that the next iPhone launch will be the biggest product launch in consumer electronics history. Bigger than any TV, Walkman,…
Ah, yes. It’s been five years since the first iPhone set the world on fire, and to put things in better perspective we have an awesome infographic to show you (below). Apple changed the game with the iPhone by making it cool to have an all touchscreen handset — doing away with the traditional physical…
Apple is secretly working on a major overhaul of the iTunes store. The world’s wealthiest company is said to be implementing the biggest changes since the store’s debut in 2003, according to some unnamed sources. This revamp will improve the user experience by closely integrating its iCloud file-storage service with iTunes so users can more…
Earlier this week Apple was granted an injunction against Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the United States. In order for the ban to take place the iPad maker would have to post a $2.6 million bond. Well, Apple wasted no time to post that bond, which allows the preliminary injunction to take effect according to…