When the new Macbooks came out a few weeks ago, Nvidia stated that the chips they provided to Apple did not contain the so-called bad bumps material believed to have caused higher-than-expected defect rates in certain notebooks, namely from HP and Dell, under certain usage models. But an investigation lead by The Inquirer seems to show this not to be the case.

Apple has noted that they have reached the 300 million download milestone for the App Store, almost five months after the store went live.

Amazon.com has launched on the Apple App Store an iPhone application that makes it possible to take a picture of a product and then send it to the online retailer, which will try to match it with products in its inventory.

Struggling smartphone maker Palm said Friday it is cutting its workforce, a move the company takes as it loses market share to rivals Apple and RIM.

U.S. District Judge William Alsup has handed Apple its latest victory against cloners that create and sell machines based on Apple's software.

Despite a raft load of nifty new features, Apple's new MacBooks will have a hard time moving off store shelves during the economic crisis, industry analysts say.

Apple has unveiled a new 24-inch LED Cinema Display which is Apple's first monitor with LED backlighting and supports the Display Port interface.

At a special press event held Tuesday, Apple introduced completely redesigned MacBooks and MacBook Pros with glass, multitouch trackpads, and Nvidia graphics.

The strategy marks a major shift for Nintendo. Previous versions of the DS were mainly old-fashioned consoles that required cartridges to play games. With the DSi's Wi-Fi and SD card features, Nintendo pushes further into the digital platform business. That puts it squarely in competition against Apple, which has been luring big-name studios to sell downloadable blockbuster games for the iPhone through the App Store. Studios that might have had second thoughts about manufacturing cartridges for the DS now have an online distribution channel...

After more than 30 years pitching first Macintosh computers and then iPod media players to consumers, Apple is using the iPhone to attract a new audience: business buyers. Jobs is seeking to recharge a stock that's shed 49% in 2008 and to keep momentum after revenued almost quadrupled in the past 5 years. Apple gets at least 80% of sales from consumers and half its revenue from the US, putting the computer maker at risk if people cut spending amid economic turmoil.

Apple has announced via its Apple Developer Connection website that it has dropped the NDA that has left iPhone developers frustrated since the release of iPhone OS 2.0 this past July. In a note addressed "To Our Developers," Apple finally admitted that the NDA had "created too much of a burden on developers, authors and others interested in helping further the iPhone's success."

Miami-based Psystar, owned by Rudy Pedraza, will sue Apple under two federal laws designed to discourage monopolies and cartels, the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Clayton Antitrust Act, saying Apple's tying of the Mac OS to Apple-labeled hardware is "an anticompetitive restrain of trade," according to attorney Colby Springer of antitrust specialists Carr & Ferrell. Psystar is requesting that the court find Apple's EULA void, and is asking for unspecified damages.