Florida woman sues Apple for $5 million under racketeering law

• Today in Tech: Why the TV business may be on the verge of collapse

  The social network is testing out ways to give children safe and legal access; why the TV business may be on the verge of collapse.

  Facebook explores giving kids access [THE WALL STREET JOURNAL]

  Facebook is developing technology that would allow children younger than 13 years old to use the social-networking site under parental supervision, a step that could help the company tap a new pool of users for revenue but also inflame MORE

  JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jun 4, 2012 1:04 PM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Buddy Media, Facebook, iOS, iPad, iPhone 4, iTunes, Siri

• What Motorola wants: 2.25% of Apple's iPhone sales revenue

  A blogger uncovers the $2 billion dispute behind Friday's bizarre back and forth 

  Apple (AAPL) watchers were shocked Friday when the company, in response to a court-ordered injunction, removed the iPhone 4 and 3GS from its online Apple Store in Germany.

  The injunction was suspended before the end of the day -- and the products restored -- but the bizarre incident left analysts and investors wondering what the hell was going on.

  FOSS MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 4, 2012 11:25 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Florian Müller, FRAND, Germany, iPhone, iPhone 4, Motorola, Patents

• iPhone patent wars: What's going on in Germany?

  Apple forced to pull older iPhones off its online store, faces an injunction on push e-mail

  UPDATE: Sales of Apple's iPhones resumed Friday. See here.

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  It was a crazy day for Apple (AAPL) in Germany.

  First it removed the iPhone 4 and 3GS from its German online store -- the first time, as far as we know, that the company has been forced to stop selling a product because of alleged MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 3, 2012 10:56 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Florian Mueller, FOSS Patents, Germany, iCloud, iPad, iPhone, iPhone 4, Lawsuits, Motorola, Patents

• Don't blame the iPhone 4S if your network is congested

  Who are the 1% who are sucking up half the world's cellular bandwidth?

  It's tempting to blame -- as many headline writers have -- Apple's (AAPL) newest iPhone and its voice-activated personal assistant for the fact that 3% of mobile users now consume 70% of the world's bandwidth, up from 40% in 2009.

  After all, the iPhone 4S with Siri consumes nearly twice as much data as the iPhone 4 and nearly MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jan 6, 2012 7:16 AM ET
  Posted in: 3G Modems, Apple, Arieso, Bandwidth, Dongles, iPhone, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, Mobile, Siri, Tablets

• Pre-Christmas chatter about iPhone supply constraints

  Apple is selling iPhones as fast as it can make them, but that may not be fast enough

  A pair of analyst reports Tuesday warn that Apple (AAPL) may be having trouble feeding the demand for iPhones in advance of the holiday selling season.

  In a note entitled "Limited near-term upside for iPhone," Rodman & Renshaw's Ashok Kumar alerted clients that low yields on an unidentified "key component" is likely to constrain production MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 29, 2011 6:59 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Ashok Kumar, iPhone, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, Jeff Fidacaro, Rodman & Renshaw, Susquehanna

• 4 million iPhones 4Ss in 3 days. 135% better than the iPhone 4

  Apple's latest gadget sets a new launch weekend record

  Apple (AAPL) announced Monday that it sold more than 4 million iPhone 4S units between 8 a.m. Friday and 12 midnight Sunday.

  That's 135% better than the launch of the iPhone 4 in June 2010, and better than any analyst had predicted. The average estimate among the few who had ventured a guess was a little over 3 million.

  In our poll of 4,300 MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 17, 2011 10:18 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, iCloud, iPhone, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, Philip Schiller

• How many iPhone 4S units did Apple sell this weekend?

  Analysts have published estimates ranging from 2 to 4 million. What's your guess?

  UPDATE: We have a winner. Apple announced Monday that the correct answer was "over four million," the guess of nearly 23% of our readers.

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  When the iPhone 4 went on sale 16 months ago, Apple (AAPL) sold 1.7 million in the first weekend, counting pre-orders.

  The analysts who have ventured a guess seem confident that by Sunday MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 15, 2011 5:55 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, iPhone, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, Mobile, Piper Jaffray, RBC Capital, Yankee Group

• Today in Tech: Why Steve Jobs wore turtlenecks

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  * The initial crop of iPhone 4S reviews are out, and while the smartphone's chassis might look virtually identical to its predecessor, the upgraded components -- a dual-core processor, 8-megapixel camera, among them -- and brand spanking new software (hello, Siri) are enough to make the phone another successful Apple (AAPL) MORE

  JP Mangalindan, Writer - Oct 12, 2011 3:30 AM ET
  Posted in: Amazon, Apple, eBay, HP, iCloud, iOS, IOS (Apple), iPhone, iPhone 4, Netflix, PayPal, Project Z, Siri, Steve Jobs, Zynga

• iPhone 4S pre-orders topped 1 million worldwide in 24 hours

  Surpassed the 600,000 record set in 2010 with the iPhone 4

  Apple (AAPL) on Monday issued the following press release:

  CUPERTINO, California—October 10, 2011—Apple® today announced pre-orders of its iPhone® 4S have topped one million in a single day, surpassing the previous single day pre-order record of 600,000 held by iPhone 4. iPhone 4S is the most amazing iPhone yet, packed with incredible new features including Apple's dual-core A5 chip for blazing MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 10, 2011 9:47 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, iPhone, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, Mobile, Philip Schiller, Pre-order