Apple has just been awarded a patent for skeumorphic turning of pages on electronic readers.
You read that right, Apple now owns life-like turning of fake pages on any device.
The information comes to us by way of The New York Times in a report that revealed Apple’s D670,713 patent.
The patent titled “Display screen or portion thereof with animated graphical user interface” claims “The ornamental design for a display screen or portion thereof with animated-graphical user interface, as …

Newly-appointed Apple hardware chief Dan Riccio has just unloaded a sizeable chunk of his Apple holdings.
To be exact, at the time he sold nearly 20,000 shares of Apple, he gained $10.73 million.
Apple has revealed the stock sale in a filing which indicates Riccio sold 19,726 shares and donated 1,000 more to charity.
Riccio was named Apple Hardware Engineering Senior Vice President back in June when Bob Mansfield was announced to be retiring from the company.
However, as part of the departure …

Samsung wants Apple to lay bare the conditions of its patents cross-licensing deal with HTC in an effort to helps its case against the iPhone maker.
Samsung has filed a motion to compel Apple to produce its settlement agreement with HTC.
In the filing, Samsung counsel Robert Becher of the Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan law firm said:
“As you know, the issue of Apple’s willingness to license its patents was briefed in Samsung’s opposition to Apple’s motion for …

The end is not near.
Samsung Electronics senior management and around 200 of its executives are reportedly set to meet next month to discuss, among other things, the company’s ongoing bitter legal war against Apple.
That’s according to a report from Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo which says that one of the major points of discussion in the schedules Samsung annual global strategy meeting in December is its next moves against Apple.
The report comes after Samsung Telecoms and IT President Shin …

The thin new iMac computers unveiled by Apple on October 23 may not see store shelves this holiday season.
That is because difficulties in manufacturing may push the release of the new iMac computers to next year.
The rumor comes to us by way of a report from AppleInsider from French site MacBidouille.
According to the French blog, Apple’s manufacturing partners are having a hard time cranking up production of the new iMac computers.
Apparently, the new friction stir welding method used for …

Samsung will not ink a patent licensing agreement with Apple regardless of HTC’s decision to close a deal with the iPhone maker, remarks the South Korean firm’s president.
Despite being both mobile business partners and rivals, Samsung and Apple are still into a stubbornly unyielding legal battle of design and technology patent infringement cases worldwide since the early second quarter of last year.
“It may be true that HTC may have agreed to pay 300 billion won (US$276 million) to …

A judge has given Samsung Electronics and Apple the option to add devices to their existing lawsuit against each other in the U.S.
According to a report from Reuters, U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Grewal has allowed Samsung to pursue the iPhone 5 and Apple to pursue the Galaxy Note II and Galaxy S III smartphones, Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet and the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean mobile operating system in a case pending in the court.
The ruling comes after Apple recently requested earlier this month for the …

Never shy of voicing his opinion, Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak has expressed concern that Microsoft is out-innovating the company he helped bring to life.
Speaking with Andrew Keen of TechCrunch on the sidelines of TEDx Brussels, The Woz said that the Redmond, Washington-based software giant has shown “more of the type of innovation where you see something and you say, ‘Whoa, they really changed things drastically, whoa, they aren’t really even going in the same direction as everyone …

Just two months after Apple launched the iPhone 5, a rumor has surfaced that the company is already advanced in preparing a successor: an iPhone 5S.
That’s according to Taiwanese site Commercial Times as cited by phoneArena and Tom’s Hardware.
The publication says that the iPhone 5S may be launched by Apple early next year.
According to Commercial Times, Apple will start a trial production run of the iPhone 5S soon and that this trial production run will have a substantial order consisting …

Apple has been slapped with a 20 percent price hike for applications processors manufactured by Samsung, a report says.
Citing an unnamed person familiar with negotiations between Samsung Electronics and Apple, South Korean publication Chosun Ilbo reported on Monday of the newest development.
“Samsung Electronics recently asked Apple for a significant price raise in application processor,” the publication’s source said, MarketWatch reports.
Furthermore, it seems Apple did not have a …