Apple’s CEO Tim Cook recently took the time to respond to a report made by the New York Times that pointed fingers at Apple over an alleged permissiveness and indifference for workers’ conditions in China. In his email, Cook rebutted the accusations by saying “any suggestions that we don’t care is patently false and offensive to us.”

For those of you who aren’t in the loop, a NYT report cited former Apple executives ...

Apple’s tablet market share is massive compared to its competitors, and as a result the iPad’s enterprise presence is thriving.

According to enterprise mobile services vendor Good Technology, Apple’s iPad accounted for 96% of tablets activated at the 2,000 plus companies that use the company’s services. Apple’s enterprise popularity extends to the iPhone as well with 53% of new activations at companies ...

A patent application recently published by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office earlier today reveals that Apple is looking with the idea of a universal touchscreen controller capable of controlling multiple devices including a “television, a video tape player, a video disk player, a stereo, a home control system, or a computer screen.” The patent application is titled “Apparatus and Method to Facilitate Universal Remote Control” and was ...

AT&T recently announced its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2011, revealing that the wireless mobile carrier saw record-breaking sales of 9.4 million smartphones. This number is nearly double the previous quarter’s sales and 50% higher than the company’s previous record. The iPhone was clearly the primary driver of smartphone sales for AT&T as the carrier reported 7.6 million iPhone activations during the quarter, with the “majority” of ...

Apple unveiled the iPhone 4S late last year to a great deal of criticism.

Critics cried foul of the identical design. Complained it didn’t include 4G/LTE technology. The screen wasn’t any bigger. Many claimed Apple released a dud. Their first misstep.

Well Tim Cook and company laugh all the way to the bank, reclaiming the number one spot amongst handset manufacturers with the iPhone 4S accounting for 89% of total iPhone sale during ...

Meet a new way to dismiss Notification Center notifications!

Great news folks, if you don't like the way that Notification Center makes you dismiss notifications by tapping on the 'X' button and then tapping on the 'Clear' button, then you might be interested to hear about this really cool new way to dismiss your Notification Center notifications. The jailbreak tweak has been dubbed Lorem by iOS developer iStopped. It works by allowing you to swipe to dismiss a Notification Center ...

A lot of us have been waiting for this moment.

Steam, a popular game-purchasing, game-launching, and social-gaming platform is now available on the iOS platform. On Windows or on Mac OS X, it allows us to purchase games with which we can launch from Steam itself and it includes things like chatting with the friends that we make in those games and/or people we already know that we have added as contacts. ...

Newegg is running a "Mid-Winter Super Sale" with a few interesting deals for iDevice owners.

For those looking to add a noticeable, but effective layer of protection to their iPhone 4, Newegg has the Otterbox Defender case for $17.99, $32 off the case's retail price. Amazon has a few color-ways retailing for $18.99 and $19.99 as well. Bright royal-ish blue isn't my thing, and neither ...

A new plugin allows Siri to make language translations for you!

Do you remember yesterday's introduction for AssistantExtensions? It's arguably the most useful tweak every designed for Siri and probably will continue to be the most useful tweak ever designed for Siri for the upcoming future because it lets developers use its framework to build extensions for Siri so that Siri can do more stuff than it already can! Long enough sentence? Whew. Now let's try translating it ...

Although most of Apple's critics come from outside of the company's immediate circle, that trend is being broken today by a new report that shows former Apple executives blasting the Cupertino-based tech giant for "ignoring" overseas labor abuses.

According to coverage provided by The New York Times, more than one unnamed former Apple executive sounds off in order to assert Apple's culpability in the alleged abuses. ...

It just got a little sweeter to be an Apple employee today.

Tim Cook announced yesterday at a Cupertino Town Hall meeting new discounts available to both corporate and retail Apple employees. Before yesterday Apple employees enjoyed a nice 25% discount on Macs which equates to $250 for every $1,000 spent on a new mac. The new discount is a flat $500 off any Mac excluding the Mac Mini (which would almost ...