Well this isn’t something that you see Apple do every day. According toMacrumors, the company prematurely posted several images of a new LED displayon its site, with the part numberMC914. This part number had been previously ascribed to new MAcBook models. The new display is also shown to have a Thunderbolt port in other images on Apple’s site. The new LED display looks almost identical to the existing LED Cinema Display, although the promotional images on the site show it off with the default Lion background, not the older Snow Leopard one....

Apple looks to be galvanising its operations in Korea after it has reported that the Cupertino-based company has appointed Dominique Oh, former Vice President of LG’s Smartphone Business, as its new general manager in Korea. Oh, who still lists LG as his current employeron LinkedIn, was appointed as the new head of Apple’s Korean unit early Wednesday according an industry source, who wished to remain anonymous. The new Apple general manager’s previous roles saw him oversee LG”s Android and Windows Phone 7 product portfolios, as well as establishing relationships with global operators and potential partners....

It’s been a while since we’ve heard complaints about Apple’s App Store review process. Gathering input from peers and on Twitter, it appears that the time taken to review an app these days is about 2 weeks. So it’s surprising when we come across an exception. TrapCallis a paid web service fromTeltech Systemsthat lets you unmask blocked or private phone calls, record incoming calls, transcript voicemails etc. which has been around for quite some time now....

Apple will need to cough up $300 million from its pocket for LTE patent infringement. According to a report fromBloomberg, afederal juryin Texas ordered the iPhone maker to pay PanOptis Patent Management and its Optis Cellular and Unwired Planet, for using their patented wireless technology in iPhones and iPad. Last August, a jury had slappeda $500 million fine on Apple. However, that amount has been reduced in the retrial. AsThe Registernoted, the wireless patents originally belonged to LG, Samsung, and Panasonic that were later acquired by Optis....

It’s not at all uncommon to hear stories about apps being removed from Apple’s App Store, but this most recent story has nothing to do with intellectual property infringement, which is often the case. Israel’s Public Diplomacy MinisterYuli-Yoel Edelsteinhas sent a request to Apple’s Steve Jobs, requesting that Apple remove an application called ThirdIntifada. The application, according to Edelstein’s assertion, could “unite many toward an objective that could be disastrous.”...