Apple’s surprising response to SMS spoofing flaw: Use iMessage instead!

In a statement sent to media outlets yesterday, Apple said it takes security very seriously, but it directs users to use Apple's own iMessage service instead of texting.

Motorola-Google’s first patent suit against Apple seeks import ban of all major Apple devices

Motorola, the phone company Google acquired this year, filed a patent infringement suit against Apple that effectively seeks to ban the import of the iPhone, the iPad and the iPod Touch to the U.S.

The paperwork was filed by Motorola …

New Apple Store “prototype” in Palo Alto has massive bandwidth for live video

Apple is building a new store in the heart of Silicon Valley with an extremely high-bandwidth connection to one of the Internet's major hubs.

Decide the outcome of Apple v. Samsung with this handy flow chart

Can't make up your own mind about the Apple v. Samsung patent trial? Use this entertainingly useful Verdict-o-matic from the Joy of Tech.

IPhone 5, iTV talks drive Apple’s stock price to new all-time high (updated)

Apple's share price on the Nasdaq stock exchange reached a new all-time high of $648.02 at the end of trading today, a sign investors are enthused about the rumored next-gen iPhone, Apple television, and smaller iPad.

Google Voice Search adds 13 languages for a total of 42; Siri still at 4

Adoro falar con xente na súa propia lingua.
You probably don't understand that, but Google does. Google Voice just added 13 new languages, including Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, and Portuguese to bring its total linguistic competency to 42 languages and dialects.

Security flaw in iOS lets hackers spoof texts

While dedicated hackers can be an annoyance to companies like Apple, they can sometimes be helpful when it comes to digging up potentially devastating security vulnerabilities.

Good news for Apple: State Department cancels its $16.5M Kindle order

The U.S. State Department has terminated its agreement to purchase 2,500 Kindle e-book readers from Amazon today -- perhaps giving the iPad another chance at winning the lucrative federal contract.

Apple’s vision for a set-top box blurs the distinction between live and on-demand videos

Apple is planning hardware that could store movies on the internet and blur the line between live and on-demand video

Will Apple TV be a glorified cable box? Cable companies sure hope so

The cable industry has been a tough nut to crack for Apple, which appears to be scaling back its TV ambitions.

Judge tells Apple and Samsung CEOs to hug it out before jury vote

The latest from the big Apple vs. Samsung intellectual property legal fight is that the case isn't ready to be judge by a group of peers.

1 million transit stop schedules: Google wants to help you get around, globally

Google Maps now has transit stop schedules for more than one million locations, meaning that if you need to get from the Tower Bridge to Trafalgar Square, Google can get you there.

And there's a little bonus for Android smartphone users.

Tablet computer sales will overtake notebooks by 2016

Sleek, fast and slim notebook computers are coming as early as this fall. But that might be the last hurrah of the laptop.

Can I get a witness? Nope. Intel says Samsung witness can’t answer questions

Intel showed up at the Apple versus Samsung trial to quash a Samsung witness' testimony today. The chip manufacturing giant said witness Tim Williams was under a non-disclosure agreement and could not discuss certain topics to be brought up in the trial.

The Internet 2002-2012: What a difference a decade makes

A decade -- 10 years. Doesn't sound like much, right?

But a decade ago, the big social networking story was Friendster with a whopping 3 million users. Microsoft's Internet Explorer had 95 percent market share. And less than 600 million people were online globally ... fewer than Facebook users alone in 2012.

Worldwide cellphone sales fell 2.9% as users wait for iPhone 5, says Gartner

Consumer anticipation for the iPhone 5 is so high that it helped to slow global sales of mobile phones in the second quarter, according to the latest research from Gartner.

iPhone 5 pre-orders reportedly set for September 12, AT&T preps for launch

The latest iPhone 5 rumors point to Apple announcing the phone on September 12. Now it looks like we may be able to pre-order it on the same day.

Microsoft and Apple: mobile partners as Apple licenses patents to Redmond

Apple and Microsoft are better buddies that we've previously supposed ... and they are cooperating more tightly on mobile device operating systems than has previously been revealed.

This diagram makes sense of all the leaked iPhone 5 parts

We've seen a lot of leaked iPhone 5 parts, including a new battery and longer cases, but so far we've had to imagine how they would all fit together. Thankfully, a new diagram from the folks at iFixYouri makes sense of the madness.