For those who prefer white and have been waiting for the paler version of the popular iPhone 4, Apple has revealed that the white iPhone 4 will be available on Thursday.

In a notice posted on the Apple site on Wednesday, the company said that “the white iPhone 4 will be available beginning tomorrow.”
Apple SVP of Worldwide Product Marketing Philip Schiller said in a statement that “The white iPhone 4 has finally arrived and it’s beautiful…We appreciate everyone who has waited …

In its ongoing battle in the smartphone space, Samsung has released the second version of its Galaxy S smartphone called the Galaxy S II in South Korea on Thursday.
In a press event in South Korea, Shin Jong-Kyun, Samsung president for mobile said that the company aims to sell more than 10 million units of the Galaxy S II smartphone through the end of 2011.
This is part of a larger campaign which targets the sale of 60 million smartphones worldwide, Shin said, according to reports from various …

After stonewalling following a controversial revelation by British security researchers that the iPhone and iPad 3G are storing data of the devices’ whereabouts for up to a year, Apple has finally denied that it is tracking the locations of iPhones.

In a question and answer posted by Apple on April 27 on its website, it said that “Apple is not tracking the location of your iPhone. Apple has never done so and has no plans to ever do so.”
“The iPhone is not logging your location,” the …

in its affair with names starting with ‘i’, Apple has reportedly bought the domain www.iCloud.com from Swedish tech company Xcerion.

According to a report from GigaOm which cites a source “familiar” with Xcerion, Apple may have paid an expensive $4.5 million for ownership of the iCloud.com domain.
Xcerion’s iCloud service has also been rebranded to CloudMe. In an email sent by the company to 9to5 Mac, Xcerion said that “In order to better reflect the expanded offerings of our …

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Apple will testify before the U.S. Congress in connection with allegations of spying the location of iPhone and iPad owners, reports All Things Digital referring to Apple CEO Steve Jobs.
“I think Apple will be testifying,’ Jobs said. ‘They have asked us to come (to congressional hearing) and we will honor their request, of course,” said Jobs.
Public interest about location-data of …

Two US citizens have sued Apple Inc. in connection with secretly recording the whereabouts and movements of iPhone and iPad 3G owners, writes Wired.
In the class action lawsuit, filed in a Tampa Florida federal court, Vikram Ajjampur and William Devito have accused Apple of violating U.S. law and sued it for an undisclosed compensation. At the same time they are seeking that their claim be acknowledged as a collective one, and filed on behalf of all the iPhone and iPad 3G owners.
In particular, …

Google Inc. and Apple Inc., along with six other companies, elicited queries from U.S. lawmakers attempting to find if their products infringe privacy rights when tracking, storing and sharing locations of users unknowingly.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee said on its website, questions came from five Republican lawmakers on how Google and Apple store data containing user locations on mobile devices, who are given access, and if it goes through third parties.
Inquiries came after a …

Amazon recently filed a countersuit seeking to dismiss a case filed against it by tech industry giant Apple regarding the purported illegal use of the term ‘app store’.

Apple has sued several large tech companies for using the term in the iPhone-maker’s fight in the courts to trademark ‘app store’.
However, Amazon contends that it has not licensed the use of ‘app store’ from Apple, and that it does not need to because the two terms and their combination is generic, an argument …

Reports detail that iMac orders have been pushed back to next week amidst an expected iMac refresh to come likely on Tuesday next week.
The news, first broken by 9to5 Mac, says that Apple has been telling customers that their iMac orders have been delayed to next week. According to the publication, Apple has also stopped shipping iMacs to resellers this week.
According to the same report, Mr. X, an often reliable source of leaks, says that the refreshed iMacs should be delivered to resellers …

Apple is rumored to be testing an iPhone for the T-Mobile network in the US, a report from Boy Genius Report says.

“That’s right, you’re looking at photos of an iPhone prototype with T-Mobile USA 3G bands. The actual internal model is N94, and if you remember, the Verizon model is N92 while the standard GSM variant is N90,” BGR says.
According to the site, the T-Mobile iPhone being tested is powered by a test version of the latest iOS mobile operating system.
BGR says that Apple might …