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Feb 03, 2012 - 05:30 PM EST — AAPL: 459.68 (+4.56, +1%) | NASDAQ: 2905.66 (+45.98, +1.61%)

Canalys: Apple iPhone led the way as smartphones overtook PCs in 2011

Canalys today released its full, detailed Q4 2011 country-level smartphone shipment estimates…

Apple updates Apple TV with Genius recommendations for movies and TV shows

Apple has added its Genius recommendation system from iTunes to Apple TV…

29% of tiny screen Kindle Fire owners plan to spend more at Amazon, but only 54% very satisfied

Research firm ChangeWave conducted a survey in January of over 2,600 North American consumers…

AT&T CMO: This is how we sold millions more iPhones than Verizon In 2011

One year ago, there was a lot of chatter about Verizon Wireless getting the iPhone…

Micron CEO Steve Appleton dies in small plane crash

Steve Appleton, Micron Chairman and CEO, passed away this morning in a small plane accident…

Snow Leopard Security Update breaks Rosetta support; Apple aware of issue

The separate Security Update 2012-001 download for Snow Leopard users…

Apple shares hit new all-time intraday, closing highs

Apple Inc. (AAPL) shares today gained $4.56 to set new all-time closing and intraday highs…

Apple Store Pasadena to celebrate grand reopening this Saturday

Apple Store Pasadena is re-opening this weekend…

Apple clarifies iBooks Author End User License Agreement

Apple has updated its iBooks Author app in order to clarify the language…

Citigroup reiterates $600 AAPL price target after meeting with Apple CEO Cook, CFO Oppenheimer

Citigroup reiterates a Buy rating on shares of Apple and a $600 price target…

Former Apple exec takes us inside the iPhone development team

Former Apple marketing executive Bob Borchers, who was part of the original iPhone team…

Apple controls Chinese scalpers with lottery; online iPhone 4S sales resume

With organized scalpers working overtime to keep the red-hot iPhone 4S in stock…

Apple in China: Should we applaud instead of condemn?

The issues run deeper than merely denouncing China’s working conditions…

U.S. government, military to get ‘secure’ modified Android phones

Some U.S. officials this year are expected to get smartphones capable of handling classified…

Why Apple’s share price has ways to go

Apple (AAPL) just reported a tremendous quarter where earnings per share eclipsed…

iTunes Match bug replaces explicit songs with censored versions; Apple working on issue

The iPad faces little competition among corporations…

Apple shares still a bargain, likely headed past $500

Apple (AAPL) continues to churn out impressive results, blowing away all estimates…

Is Apple truly ‘Agile’ in the sense of the Agile Manifesto?

Apple designed for Steve…

Apple iTV unlikely to launch in 2012 due to IGZO display panel manufacturing concerns, sources say

The chance is low for Apple to launch so-called iTV products…

German court suspends injunction; all iPad and iPhone models to return for online sale in Germany shortly

A German court has suspended an injunction that prevented Apple from selling…

Avid packs a prosumer video editor into Apple’s iPad 2

Avid grabbed some notice in consumer circles with a new offering for Apple’s iPad 2…

Outside of Apple, IBM may be the largest Apple deployment in the world

Big Blue has 30,000 employees sporting iPhones, 10,000 toting iPads…

Apple removes iPads, iPhones from German online store due to Motorola injunction based on FRAND patent [UPDATED]

There are two big Apple-Motorola news items from Germany today…

With 8.7% market share, Apple reaps 75% of mobile phone profits

Apple retained its top rank in profitability and regained the top spot…

Piper Jaffray: Apple iTV coming late this year

New evidence suggests that Apple iTV is coming…

Apple will unveil iPhone 5 in June, says report

Cupertino plans on revealing the sixth generation of its iPhone line…

Tim Cook touts Apple’s charitable contributions at all-hands Town Hall meeting

Apple CEO Tim Cook held a town hall meeting last week to celebrate Apple’s record quarter…

comScore: Apple’s iPhone now matching Android in growth rate; beleaguered RIM BlackBerry continues swoon

Apple maintained its #2 position, growing 2.2 percentage points to 29.6 percent of the U.S. smartphone market…

Apple: Reported iMessage ‘bug’ not a bug

After receiving help from an Apple Genius at a retail store, a customer started getting texts…

Security concerns about Apple’s FileVault decryption via FireWire are overblown

The chances that your system would be attacked in this way are quite slim…

Google begins to auto-scan Android Market for malware

On Thursday, Google announced a new functionality in the application market for Android…

Apple patent application for virtual controls points to future iMac Touch (with video)

On February 2, 2012, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple…

Sony warns of bigger-than-expected $2.9 billion annual loss, new CEO expects pain

Ailing Japanese electronics giant Sony Corp warned it was heading for a bigger-than-expected loss…

USA Today’s Baig: Apple scores with iPad textbooks and iBooks Author for Mac

Two weeks ago, Apple declared its intention to be at the head of the class…

Mark Zuckerberg, and all of Facebook it seems, are Mac users

Earlier today, Faceboko CEO Mark Zuckerberg uploaded a photo…

Easy fix for Mac OS X 10.7.3 ‘CUI’ and other issues

Reports of problems after upgrading to Mac OS X 10.7.3 have begun…

Judge Posner wants Apple and Motorola to ‘winnow’ more patents out of Chicago litigation

Still too many patents in play, says the judge…

Mac OS X 10.7.3 supports new crop of compact cameras

If there’s any doubt about the accelerating shift from traditional SLRs to more compact cameras…

RUMOR: Apple to hold iPad 3 event in March, ‘unusual’ event in February

The iPad 3 announcement and launch will both take places in March…

Trashy Android settlers more likely to have sex on first date

Android phone settlers are more likely to partake in one-night stands…

IDC: Apple vaults into #3 spot of global mobile phone vendors

In North America, smartphones held the spotlight with the launch of the Apple iPhone 4S…

Entire high-end handset/tablet component market may soon be completely at Apple’s mercy

Apple’s strength is reshaping the entire component market…

Taiwanese TV ad depicts Steve Jobs using Android tablet in afterlife (with video)

A bizarre commercial has surfaced from Taiwan’ Action Electronics]promoting a new Android tablet…

Apple nabs Microsoft’s Xbox Live marketing chief to lead App Store Marketing for iTunes Europe

Apple has named former Microsoft Product Marketing chief Robin Burrowes…

Facebook CEO Zuckerberg to take Jobs-like $1 salary, could be worth $28 billion after IPO

The SEC filing behind Facebook’s long-expected IPO has seen company founder Mark Zuckerberg…

Rush Limbaugh: The New York Times has turned on Apple; they wouldn’t do this if Steve Jobs was alive

I know a lot of you get upset and irritated with me when I talk about Apple. So I’m gonna talk about Apple….

Google perturbed as lawyers it hired sue company’s Android partners

Google Inc. is sparring with a law firm it’s been using since 2008 after discovering…

Apple releases Mac OS X 10.7.3 and Safari 5.1.3

Apple today released Mac OS X 10.7.3 which is recommended for all OS X Lion users…

Apple shares hit new all-time intraday high

Apple set a new all-time intraday high today…

Most of your Apple iPhone and iPad was Made in the U.S.A.

Apple CEO Tim Cook has been taking some heat lately…

Apple loses bid to get preliminary ban on Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1N, Nexus Phone in Germany

Apple Inc. failed to get a preliminary ban on sales of Samsung’s Galaxy 10.1N and Galaxy Nexus mobile phone…

iPhone and iPad help make Apple the world’s largest semiconductor buyer

Propelled by the red-hot appeal of items like Apple Inc.’s iPhone and iPad…

Photos show iPad 3′s quad-core ‘A6′ processor, Wi-Fi and global LTE options

From the data in the photos, which contain the output from an iPad 3…

Steve Jobs inspires Best Buy’s Super Bowl ad

Until Steve Jobs died, Best Buy Co. was plotting a familiar course for its Super Bowl ad…

Did Apple wait too long to fix Final Cut Pro X?

This week, FCP X took another step towards becoming a credible replacement…