After the launch of its new iPhone 5 smartphone, Apple quickly announced that it will gradually roll out iOS 6, the latest version of its mobile operating system, to older iPhone models starting 19 September.
This the tech giant’s indirect way of saying that iOS 6 is backward compatible to the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S, along with the second- and third-generation Apple iPads.
Announced at its WWDC back in June, iOS 6 brings more than 200 new features to Apple devices.
One of the most …

HTC may succeed in banning the Apple iPhone and iPad as a judge says that the Asian firm’s patents in its suit against Apple are likely valid.
The hint comes from Judge Thomas Pender of the US International Trade Commission where Apple and HTC are facing each other in a case that could lead to an injunction against the iPhone and the iPad.
Apple has argued in the case that HTC bought the patents just to use against the iPhone maker.
However, Judge Pender has said that that doesn’t have much …

25 years after hit movie Full Metal Jacket which starred Mathew Modine and was directed by Stanley Kubrick was released, the crew and cast of this war-time epic movie have another reason to celebrate. The Full Metal Jacket Diary, initially published as a limited edition book in 2005 has been developed into an iPad application. Readers can now access the book anytime they want to read it.

Full Metal Jacket Diary

The diary was written by actor Modine, who was encouraged by Kubrick to keep a …

The current patent infringement case between giant smartphone makers Apple and Samsung has coughed out several newsworthy numbers, with the court forcing both companies to turn in their financial records.
AllThingsD was able to snap up some documents filed on Thursday that revealed Apple and Samsung shipments in the US market, an action initiated by the former to establish how the latter impeded sales of iPhones.
Based on the statistics found in the filings, the Cupertino-based tech giant sold …

Apple may be planning a massive launch event on September 12 headlined by the unveiling of the iPhone 5 and the rumored iPad Mini.
Furthermore, the next-generation Apple iPhone, the newest smaller-screened iPad and two other new Apple gadgets will likely be available to the general public on September 21, the new report

Apple has reported that iPad market share is on its best run in years despite a global economic slowdown.
During the recent announcement of its quarterly earnings, Apple highlighted how iPad revenues and sales managed to keep the company on an earning status. Figures in the international market illustrated an increase of 52 percent in revenues valued at $9 billion and 84 percent in unit sales valued at $17 million.
(More: Apple Performs in Q2 But Misses Estimates After iPhone Sales …

Apple has released its latest iPad tablet in China after resolving a legal proceeding over the name ‘iPad’ and demanding customers to advance orders for crowd control. However, the Cupertino-based tech giant did not need one after all.
Under the surveillance of a few security guards, a couple dozen iPad buyers queued up at the front of Apple stores in Beijing and Shanghai after they opened at 8 AM Friday. The small number of customers who lined up was far from January’s chaotic setting …

In a significant win for Samsung against rival Apple in their legal war, a judge has just ordered the Cupertino, California-based iPad-maker to advertise that Samsung did not copy the design of their massively-popular tablet computer.
High Court of Justice, Chancery Division Judge Colin Birss has ordered Apple to run a notice on its website in the UK as well as high-circulation publications saying that Samsung did not copy the design of the

IPad owners primarily use their Apple tablet to browse online, watch videos and listen to music, a new study reveals.
A recent research by Consumer Intelligence Research Partners, which conducted a survey of over 1,000 respondents who bought an iPad this year, found that about 40 percent of the iPad owners use the device to browse the Internet. Entertainment activities, classified as watching videos, listening to music and viewing images, placed second at approximately 33 percent of those who …

Microsoft has revamped its Xbox Live app to allow Apple iPad users to auto-connect their Xbox games console straight from the tablet.
Despite its lesser technological advancement compared to Microsoft’s SmartGlass Companion, the ‘My Xbox Live’ iPad app provides access for users to check on what’s happening in their console and browse through applications that they have visited recently. In terms of discovering new contents and accessing live media controls, new added functions, …