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ChangeWave: Demand for iPhone 4S still rising

Six months after its release, 56% of future smartphone buyers say they're getting Apple's

The 4,413 consumers polled in ChangeWave Research's March survey are not exactly a representative cross-section of the buying public. They're primarily American (87%) and almost all early-adopter types. But as ChangeWave members they do tend to indicate which way the technological wind is blowing.

And according the bar chart above, it's blowing Apple's (AAPL) way. Despite growing competition MORE

Barcelona blues: Apple reaps most of the cellphone profits

Just in time for this week's Mobile World Congress, a snapshot of where the money goes

To get a sense of what Apple's (AAPL) competitors are up against in Barcelona this week as they unveil their new mobile phone models for the 2012 season, consider the relative size of the solid color profit (and loss) bars in the chart above.

It's the money shot in a series of eye-opening graphs that the inimitable Horace MORE

Where are the smartphones of yesteryear?

The Samsung Moment? The Motorola Cliq? The HTC Magic? The BlackBerry Tour? 

Maybe I don't spend enough time shopping for Google (GOOG) Android phones, but I always get a kick out of the Top 20 Mobile Phone lists -- measured by ad impressions -- that Millennial Media posts each year.

In the 2011 report issued Thursday there weren't many surprises at the top of the list.

Apple's (AAPL) iPhone, the No. 1 best MORE

Apple forced to shut off push e-mail service in Germany

Motorola Mobility (and Google) give Cupertino a taste of its own patent medicine 

Following a loss three weeks ago in Germany's Mannheim Regional Court, Apple (AAPL) late Thursday informed German iPhone customers that e-mail would no longer be "pushed" to their phones -- BlackBerry style -- through their iCloud or MobileMe services.

Pending Apple's appeal, which could take months, iPhone users in Germany will have to retrieve their e-mail the old-fashioned way: by MORE

Today in Tech: Google replacing Motorola Mobility CEO

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"We are working as hard as ever this year to deliver an incredible year and some products that will blow your mind." -- CEO Tim Cook at Apple's annual shareholder meeting

* Apple (AAPL) has acquired the app search and discovery engine Chomp. The Chomp team and technology will MORE

Video: ABC takes a camera crew inside an iPad factory

Nightline to air its special after the kids are asleep Tuesday at 11:35 p.m. ET and PT

Four years ago, when I first starting writing about Foxconn, it was almost impossible to get a photo of the factory workers who assemble 40% of the world's electronic devices.

Now, 18 suicides, two fatal explosions, an off-Broadway show and a New York Times exposé later, Foxconn has opened the factory where Apple's (AAPL) iPads MORE

Apple goes after Motorola and Google with legal guns blazing

Seeks billions in damages and an injunction against the flagship Android 4.0 phone 

One measure of how quickly events are unfolding in the smartphone patent wars is the number of typos appearing in Florian Mueller's FOSS Patents dispatches. The German-born blogger's coverage of the "thermonuclear war" Steve Jobs promised to unleash against Google's (GOOG) Android operating system are closely read by all sides in the cross-continental disputes, and lately he's hardly had MORE

Chutzpah: Google also wants 2.25% of every iPhone sale

It's not enough that Google borrowed the phone's look and feel to make Android?

It took a Techmeme news cycle for the import of Google's (GOOG) letter to the IEEE -- the nonprofit organization that sets technical standards for everything from AC/DC converters to Wi-Fi networks -- to sink in.

Early reports praised the company for joining Apple (AAPL) and Microsoft (MSFT) in their calls for adherence to the "fair, reasonable and MORE

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.

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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