New iPad charging too slowly? Blame the big-ass battery (and new specs)

The race to find something disastrously wrong with the new iPad is on (it’s already confirmed as a decent crotch warmer), and now there’s word that there may be issues with charging its battery.

The new iPad is apparently very …

iPhoto for iOS hits 1M users in less than two weeks

Apple‘s iPhoto application for the iPhone and iPad reached one million users in the less than two weeks since its release, according to the Loop.

The company announced the iPhoto app at its March 7 third-generation iPad launch. The app …

Mobile menace: China just passed U.S. in smartphone activations

China now leads the world in smartphone activations.

Until last month or so, the U.S. was the leader, claiming around 22 percent of the world’s Android and iOS activations. But between February and March 2012, China eclipsed the U.S. and …

Investor Ben Horowitz on why Apple may win the mobile war

Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Ben Horowitz thinks Apple could be better poised to come out ahead in the mobile platform wars against Google.

The venture capitalist spoke about the future of mobile technology at Business Insider’s Ignition West conference Wednesday. Ignition …

Apple gave Yelp some Siri-ous love in iOS update

Local business reviews are at your beck-and-call on Apple’s iPhone 4S, thanks to deeper ties between mobile virtual assistant Siri and Yelp’s reviews service.

Yelp, one of a group of third-party services to be integrated into the Siri experience at …

You’re not crazy: New iPad runs 10 degrees hotter than iPad 2

Updated at 9:07 a.m. PT with Apple’s response.

Hope you like your apples crispy. The new iPad actually burns about 10 degrees hotter than the previous model, according to Dutch site Tweakers.net.

While just about everyone who has handled the …

Neil Young’s path to the multibillion-dollar mobile social game market (interview)

Neil Young sold his San Francisco startup Ngmoco to Japan’s DeNA for $403 million in the fall of 2010. And that was just the beginning of Young and DeNA’s quest to create a multibillion-dollar mobile entertainment group, he told VentureBeat …

Tim Cook says new iPad had a “record weekend” for sales

On a call to discuss its first-ever share dividend Monday morning, Apple CEO Tim Cook admitted that the new iPad had a "record weekend" for sales.

Cook did not get specific with sales numbers because the call was focused on the new dividend and share buyback. However, the announcement is a curious one because of the notable lack of sell-outs at many stores around the country this past weekend.

Apple to announce plan for $98B cash balance Monday morning

Apple is holding a conference call bright and early Monday morning to announce plans for its large cash balance. The company is sitting on around $98 billion in cash, and investors are getting increasingly antsy and clamoring for a dividend …