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Nothing quite like spending $500 and opening up your mint iPad 2 box to find a giant piece of clay. At least it wasn’t coal right?

A number of Canadian consumers thought the same thing this holiday season after some sneaky scammers returned a number of iPad 2s with clay replicas in the boxes instead of iPad 2s. The total number of iPad 2s swapped is as many as 24 all at Future Shop, Best Buy, Walmart and London stores. ...

Wednesday marks the beginning of the last week viewers can cast their vote for one of twelve finalists in the Original iPhone Film Festival.

The 12 films spread across four categories—fiction, non-fiction, brand film, and music video—are of course filmed entirely with the iPhone. None of the films are very long (its more of a short-film festival), and the music videos are well, music videos, but all of the films do showcase ...

Bloomberg is reporting Apple filed a new lawsuit in Germany taking aim at Samsung’s Android handsets.

Late last year Germany’s Dusseldorf Court called into question Apple’s previous design patent suit against Samsung, but this was after Apple won an initial injunction in September. Also, the previous suit involved the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, not the 10 handsets targeted in the new suit including ...

Nuggets of A5 Untethered Jailbreak goodness continue to leak today and the latest bit of information is sure to make IntelliScreenX fans happy.

@Planetbeing tweeted at 9:40 p.m. a picture of IntelliScreenX running on an iPad two with the accompanying tweet:



This is the second iPad 2 untethered jailbreak photo released today with @pod2g posting a simpler iPad 2 jailbreak ...

Apple’s announcement this Thursday has spurred its fair share of speculation, and while little is known ArsTechnica is claiming Apple will release the e-book equivalent of Garageband.

A textbook announcement of some kind is coming Thursday, but ArsTechnica is claiming Apple will simplify the complicated world of authoring a “standards-compliant” e-book.



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Apple has officially assassinated Steve Jobs’...action figure.

The figurine in question is a frighteningly realistic replica of Steve Jobs i produced by In Icon. The company behind the doll, planned to include a laundry list of Jobs accessories including mini-iPads, glasses, shoes, an Apple II, and a bevy of other Jobs' attire. Sadly the company issued a statement today informing the creepy collectible public that they officially ...

Nissan isn’t the first name most associate with the cutting edge of gadget case technology, but their self-healing Scratch Shield iPhone case has the potential to be a revolutionary product in an already oversaturated market.

The technology behind the “self-repairing” case technology isn’t new, it’s been in use on several Nissan and Infiniti car models since 2005. The collaborative effort between ...

Four years ago Apple introduced the Macbook Air to a fawning public. The devilishly thin build, unibody construction, and speed when paired with a SSD was compelling, but expensive.

Fast forward to the present day, the MBA is faster, just as thin, and priced within the stratosphere. The MBA’s original $1,799 entry price has given way to a $999 11” model complete with 64GB of flash storage and a 1.6 Mghz i5 dual core processor. ...

A ton of brief updates flooded the Twitterverse today highlighting minor advancements in the iPhone 4S and A5 untethered jailbreak. However, none of them were quite as telling as the video above of a working iPhone 4S untethered jailbreak.

The video made by @DHowett, Chronic Dev Team member and famous iOS developer, shows a jailbroken iPhone 4S successfully shutting down, rebooting, ...

Motorola scored a huge preliminary ruling today by The International Trade Commission stating their Droid line of phones do not violate Apple’s patents.

The original complaint filed by Apple with the ITC claimed that Motorola's Droid phones infringed on a number of multi-touch patents Apple holds. Motorola issued the following statement in response to the ITC’s ruling.


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Tim Cook is on a Friday the 13th Apple transparency roll, topping off the day with the unveiling of a full list of Apple’s suppliers.

Earlier today Apple announced an unprecedented agreement with the Fair Labor Association, that would grant the FLA access to all of Apple’s suppliers' factories for independent and unannounced audits. The list pictured above is a complete compilation of Apples 200+ ...