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Apple won big in California today as a federal court jury awarded the company $1.05 billion in damages after ruling Samsung infringed on six of Apple’s patents.

The damages awarded to Apple fall short of the company’s requested $2.5 billion, but still rank as one of the largest intellectual-property awards ever recorded. Also, the jury found that Apple did not violate any of the patents Samsung presented at the trial, a stark contrast to a decision made ...

If you didn’t hear already, Facebook launched their new Facebook 5.0 application for iOS yesterday, which was rebuilt from the ground up and is much faster and less crash happy than the older version. Today, Facebook has followed up with an update for their Facebook Messenger application (version 1.9), which adds support for more features such as Facebook smiley faces, iOS Emoji, and Timeline View. In addition, the ...

GizChina highlighted a number of iPad case designs featuring the 7.85” dimensions of the rumored iPad mini.

The cases in question all feature the same dimensions for the unannounced device, and include the same design which seems to confirm reports of a smaller iPod-like bezel. Also, the cases feature holes for the FaceTime camera as well as the rear facing camera.



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If you like animations, you will probably like this new jailbreak tweak called TVLocker Pro by iOS developer Bensge. The tweak enables the old television-style locking animation that appears when you lock your iOS device with the sleep button and lets you change it around. The animated .gif image above shows what the animation looks like.

There are other tweaks that can enable the old television-style locking animation, such as Springtomize 2. The major difference ...

Since the Status Bar shows us important information such as Internet signal, battery percentage, and time, users generally prefer to have it in sight at all times. When in the multitasking App Switcher, the Status Bar is hidden until you exit the interface. A new tweak is now live in Cydia that makes it so the Status Bar shows up in the App Switcher when you open it to multitask dubbed App Switcher Status Bar by iOS developer alistairgeesing ...

According to the latest informed word on the streets, Apple will begin offering an unsubsidized iPhone in 2013, possibly for as low as $200 by next year at this time.

The outcome of that move could be a significant spike for Apple in emerging markets, where Apple is massively losing ground to Google. In these markets, less expensive Android devices are flooding the landscape and lending ...

A South Korean court ruled today that Apple and Samsung infringed on each other’s patents and has banned the companies from selling the infringing devices in the country.

The three judge panel ruled that Apple violated two of Samsung’s wireless technology patents and Samsung violated a single Apple patent pertaining to bounce-back technology. Also, The judges ruled that there was “no possibility” that consumers ...

Although Apple is no stranger to the occasional production glitch, a new rumor originating from the far east suggests that a glitch may hobble the initial inventory of the 6th generation iPhone next month.

According to sources in contact with Digitimes, projected shipments of a new iPhone in the third quarter of 2012 could fall to (or below) 15 million units. Although that doesn't sound a small amount, ...

The developer team behind the iOS version of Minecraft has recently submitted an update, version 0.4.0, of the popular app. The dev team seems to be adding some really important elements to the game with Chests being one of them. Chests can be built with materials found in the world and allow players to store more and more of what they find and collect out there. In addition to Chests, Beds are also being added in to the game. ...

Just last week, a pair of photos that showed what was claimed to be the logic board for the next-generation iPhone had surfaced. Although the pictures didn’t provide much information due to the shielding on the device shown, more pictures continue to surface on the web. Chinese site, Sina.com now shares a new set of photos showing components allegedly from the next-generation iPhone, including a pair of photos showing ...

A new mod lets current iPhone 4 and 4S owners enjoy the brushed-aluminum aesthetic expected to be a staple of the iPhone 5.

The “iPhone 5 conversion mod kit” is a simple backplate mod kit based on the leaked iPhone 5 backplate photos. According to the seller the mod kit is composed of a “Glass-Like Acrylic and features a “Camera Glass Lens of the same Quality as Original iPhone Back ...