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Apple really must have faith on its new CEO, Tim Cook. A look at the company’s latest SEC filing has revealed that the company will give him an additional one million shares worth US$383 million as part of his CEO bonus.
UPDATED: Apple’s Steve Jobs has resigned as CEO of Apple and will be replaced by Chief Operating Officer, Tim Cook, who is currently handling his role during his absence from the company since January.
The Samsung Galaxy S II is one of three smartphones banned from sale in the EU (technically)
Competency issues be damned. A Dutch court has passed an EU-wide injunction that has banned the sale of the Samsung Galaxy S, Galaxy S II and Ace smartphones after a lawsuit from Apple, despite questions about the evidence provided.
Thought the iPhone 4 was a bit too expensive? With recent rumours of the iPhone 5 coming out in October, there is now talk that Apple could be building an 8GB version of the iPhone 4 and will be releasing it within a few weeks.
The iPhone 5 rumour mill is set alight again with one blog quoting a source, who was just told by the Vice President in AT&T, that the iPhone 5 is set to launch in early October and told staff to be prepared for a busy couple of months.
A new report has claimed that Apple has also provided false evidence in its trial against rival Samsung in the Netherlands, manipulating a photo of the Galaxy S to appear like it is in similar proportions to the iPhone when in reality it is not.
Will it, or won’t it? That’s the biggest question on a supposed iPad 3 launch – you know, the successor of the less-than-a-year-old iPad 2. Now, the rumour mill is spouting out that the iPad 3 won’t come out this year after all, mainly because of the screen.
Hot on the heels of the wailing and gnashing of teeth of 10.7.0 users, Apple today released OS X Lion 10.7.1 that addresses a few issues.
MacBook users will be pleased to know that any WiFi dropouts experienced after upgrading to Lion seem to have been resolved as well as freezes when playing videos in Safari.
Screenshot from the filing. (Image: Webwered.nl)
Apple may have produced false evidence in a case that resulted in the banning of rival Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Germany, with the one produced in the case is being claimed to not match the proportions of the actual device.
Thought the iPod was dead? Well, it’s about to get some new life with reports of Apple set to hold an iPod-specific announcement sometime in September 8 (Melbourne and Tokyo time), despite the company’s recent break in announcement traditions.
Turns out, Samsung isn’t the only company that is getting screwed by Apple. Motorola is too, with a recent court filing in a German court revealing that Apple is using the same argument it is using against Samsung – it looks the same as the iPad.
The product in question that Apple has successfully banned (Image: Supplied)
Apple has successfully been able to petition an Australian court to not allow the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet to be sold until the lawsuit against its maker is finally resolved over patent infringement allegations.
While Apple has failed to stop Amazon from using the word “Appstore” in the United States, it has managed to do so in, of all places, Germany. Yes, Germany.
In addition, Apple has successfully asked a court for an injunction, forcing Amazon to no longer able to accept new applications from German developers who were looking for a place to sell their application outside of the official Marketplace.
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Get the Rumour Mill churning. Latest Apple rumours are pointing towards an iTunes upgrade coming soon, with version 11 having a brand new user interface, full scale merger between the iTunes store and integration with iBooks and iCloud.
You can now be safely assured that you have bought the right track as Apple has now rolled out their 90 seconds preview on iTunes today for international markets – something that the Americans had since last year.