Apple has today enabled the Find My iPhone and Find My Mac features of iCloud.com for developers. The device location service has a completely revamped interface which features a pleasant looking world map that sits on a wooden desk and features iPad-style modal popups. The Find My iPhone feature allows users to locate any iPhone, iPad or iPod touch that has had the service enabled. The devices show up on the map as a blue dot....
A court ruling stipulating that Apple would have to pay $625.5 million in patent damages has been reversed after the Cupertino-based company was found not to have infringed patents owned by Mirror Worlds LLC that focused on Apple’s Spotlight, Time Machine and Cover Flow features. In October, a jury said Apple was infringing three patents over how media and documents were displayed on a computer screen, awarding damages of $208.5 million for each patent....
Apple could produce up to 22 million iPhones in the fourth quarter, the majority of which would be the iPhone 4, or a comparable cheaper model,reportsRodman & Renshaw analyst Ashok Kumar. He says that Apple will continue to produce the iPhone 4 in quantity, which fits with previous years when Apple continued selling ‘last years model’ at a lower price point even as they introduced a new one. Kumar says that according to supply chain estimates, Apple could produce high volumes of the current iPhone 4, downgraded in price....
Apple’s iPad shipments show no signs of slowing after sources close to the company’s Chinese manufacturing partner Foxconntold Digitimesthat the world’s biggest technology firm will receive shipments of 20 million iPad 2 units in the third quarter. With the company in the enviable position of being able to sell nearly every iPad it has in stock, Apple may double the amount of iPad sales in its next quarter, previously posting sales of 9....
It seems a little odd for an as-yet unrevealed product to be the subject of an antitrust complaint, but that’s what appears to have happened in Europe. Music streaming serviceSimfysays that it has submitted a complaint to Germany’s competition authority,The Bundeskartellamt, as it believes Apple is holding back the approval of its iPad app. Apple’s iCloud service, which itannouncedthe official existence of in a press release last week, is widely believed to incorporate a music streaming element....
