An unnamed company appears to be targeting iOS developers that utilise Apple’s in-app purchasing feature, threatening to issue a patent infringement lawsuit to creators of applications that utilise the payment processing mechanism. CultOfMac reportsthat James Thomson, the lead developer of a popular scientific calculator iOS app named pCalc, is about to be sued for patent infringement because the pCalc app allows users to sign up and pay for a subscription within the app itself....

I had an idea for an app the other day. If you’re a developer, you know that feeling. It will eat at you until you can find a way to make it happen. So, the first thing that I had to decide is how I wanted to create it. It obviously needed to be native, I also wanted it to be able to tie in with an existing, complimentary app. The problem?...

According to thisDigiTimesreport Samsung has shipped a total of four million LCD panels for the iPad 2 in the first quarter of 2011. This outpaces competing supplier LG by about 800,000 units. The reason for the shift in supply is reportedly light leak issues. The report, which comes to us viaAppleinsider, states industry sources in claiming that LG was forced to reduce shipments of LCD panels in Q1 because of a light leakage problem....

Aresearchnote from Yuanta Securities Co. claims that Apple’s iPad 2 may be delayed until June, from its original April launch. The company notes that this possible delay is due to “production bottlenecks” at Apple’s sourced manufacturing plant Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. after some last minute design changes were made just before the Lunar New Year. This is rather odd because the proposed date coincides with Apple’s annualWWDC, where the next iPhone is usually announced....

Hot on the heels ofthe rumorsthat theiPad 2might be delayed until sometime in June,All Things Dhas just gotten word to the contrary. According to its sources, the event will be held a little more than a week from now, on March 2nd, in San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Now, here’s the clarification: All Things D has not yet gotten an invitation for the event, if it is indeed happening....