“Apple is working on new technology to deliver video to televisions, and has been discussing whether to try to launch a subscription TV service,”says theWall Street Journal. Its sources: “people familiar with the matter”. The quoted bits come from a WSJ article on the uphill battle Apple CEO Tim Cook faces as he settles into his new role. It’s the kind of offhand comment you expect to see in WSJ’s articles on Apple, a company it has a track record of having reliable insider knowledge of....

A report fromReutershas Anne Bouverot, Orange’s head of mobile services quoted as saying that Apple has submitted a new requirement for a smaller SIM card. The submission was made to the European Telecoms Standards Body (ETSI) and the new SIM would be smaller than the one used in the iPhone 4 and iPad. This smaller SIM would theoretically allow for thinner future versions of the iPhone and iPad. Currently the iPhone 4 and iPad 2 use the micro-SIM standard, which is a variant of the original full-size SIM card introduced in 1991....

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission hasruledtoday that Apple didn’t violate any of Nokia’s patents with the iPhone and iPad 3G. Nokia claimed that Apple had included a variety of its patents within the iPhone and iPad 3G including enhanced speech, data transmission and “innovations” made to the antenna configurations. Back in July wereportedthat Apple was being sued by Nokia over 5 patents that apparently infringed on its copyright. In a press release Nokia stated:...

The big hot-off-the-presses Apple rumor right nowis that the company is not building a metaverse. According toBloomberg’s Mark Gurman, despiteaiming to releasea mixed reality headsetthis year, the Cupertino-based tech giant thinks the idea of craftings its own virtual environment is “off-limits.” “Here’s one word I’d be shocked to hear on stage when Apple announces its headset: metaverse. I’ve been told pretty directly that the idea of a completely virtual world where users can escape to — as they can in Meta Platforms/Facebook’s vision of the future — is off-limits from Apple,” Gurman’s newsletter said....

Apple’s dominance of the worldwide tablet market may be driven by its focus on North American and European markets but despite its strong presence and high tablet adoption in some European countries, Apple’s hold on the continent is open to disruption, a new report by technology and market research firmForrester suggests. In Europe, Apple has a varied retail presence; the UK plays host to 30 of Europe’s 52 Apple Stores, whilst it doesn’t have physical stores in Scandinavia, Austria, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Portugal or Belgium, as the Cupertino-based company maintains an online retail presence for consumers to order Apple products in those countries....