According to Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster, Apple device owners are still hungry for mobile applications, so much that they are buying 61% more apps than they did in 2010,Fortune reports. Monitoring the health of the App Store can be troublesome, especially because Apple only tends to release information when it paints the company in a good light. Despite the announcement the App Store hadpassed 15 billion downloads, Munster was forced to find his own way of disclosing how well the marketplace was performing, creating a spreadsheet to compare and contrast previous App Store metrics....

Apple has all but confirmed that it will release an update for its popular iOS mobile operating system to fix a security hole that could potentially allow attackers to gain access to user data. The exploit, which takes advantage of a hole in Apple’s mobile Safari application, allows a user to jailbreak their device by loading an “infected” PDF file to gain root privileges. Comex’srecently releasedJailbreakMe website tool uses the same process....

Given the amount of time Apple has taken to get the white iPhone 4 to market, you would be forgiven for thinking that the mythical device would never be released. The company has long said that the device would become available inSpring this year, and yesterday it was given another independent confirmation after Phil Schiller, Senior Vice President for Worldwide Marketing at Apple,tweetedthat the device was still on course for its second quarter launch....

In an attempt to gain the upper hand in a lawsuit asserted against it for using of wireless patents registered by Samsung, Apple has filed a new federal case seeking to gain important information from chip-maker Qualcomm to determine whether its use of its processing technologies will be covered by separate licensing agreements,Litigating Applehas revealed. The new case, filed on October 5, does not see Apple pursue Qualcomm aggressively, instead it shows Apple is looking to prove it already licenses important Samsung wireless patents, which it has beenaccused of infringingin Australia, Japan, South Korea, Germany, Netherlands, France, Italy and England....

Having fought for a ban on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the Netherlands, Apple is now targeting a complete ban on all of Samsung’s Galaxy range of smartphones and tablets which could see a complete recall of stock from the Korean vendor’s European partners,Webwereld.nl reveals. Apple’s complaint against Samsung, which was filed at The Hague district court in Holland, is said to be more detailed than first thought and seeks an injunction that would ban the sale, import and also require stock of Samsung’s Galaxy Ace; Galaxy S, Galaxy SII, Galaxy Tab 7 and Galaxy Tab 10....