With rumours speculating Apple would release the iPad 3 in the fourth-quarter, despite the introduction of the iPad 2 earlier in the year,analysts at J.P Morgan believethat the Cupertino-based company should be in no rush to release a next-generation tablet this year as a result of the poor performance of its rivals. With the release of the iPad 2 in March, analysts and industry insiders suggested Apple were already working to release a more powerful and feature-heavy tablet by the end of the year....

Apple has started to introduce new security checks in its new iOS 5 software that could possibly restrict owners of an iPhone, iPad or iPod from downgrading the firmware on their devices, theiPhone Dev-Team has revealed. The collective says that Apple has adapted the role of “APTicket” in its iOS 5 beta releases, making sure that the boot stages of an iOS device now depends on the authenticity of the APTicket....

As Apple’s latest lawsuit against Samsung continues to dominate technology press headlines, Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee has spoken of the patent fight, suggesting that Apple is trying to keep the Korean electronics giant “in check” by filing its complaint. Mr Lee, South Korea’s wealthiest man,spoke with Korean pressin response toApple’s legal filingsuggesting Samsung’s mobile devices mimicked the design of the iPhone and iPad, and said: “It’s like the proverbial nail that sticks out gets hammered down....

At some point soon, Apple willditch the MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar. But I have a simple request: rather than dispensing of it entirely, Apple should instead replace it with something I’ve brilliantly named ‘Touch Keys.’ Before we get there though, let’s have a little natter about the Touch Bar itself. In case your memory needs jogging, the Touch Bar is an OLED screen that stretches across the top of some MacBook Pro models....

Apple, AT&T and US Cellular have found themselves at the centre of a new lawsuit issued by Visual Interative Phone Concepts Inc. which accuses the companies of infringing on patents that protect videophone mailbox technologies. The three lawsuits were filed in the Eastern District of Michigan on Wednesday with Visual Interactive Phone Concepts asserting that both patents it owns:U.S. Patent No. 5,606,361andU.S. Patent No. 5,724,092. Both protect the ability to employ “videophone interactive mailbox facility system and method of processing information....