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The Apple v. Samsung case firmly planted in tech news for the last couple weeks has resulted into some incredible insight to Apple’s inner-workings, as well as some interesting courtroom fireworks.

But, what is it all about? Patents can be incredibly confusing and when the courtroom battle involves multiple patents and over 30 devices things get smoggier than a doomsday LA sunset. Which is why Apple ...

Reports of Apple axing recent hires at the company’s retail locations have started to flood the interwebs.

Apple store employees reached out to MacRumors over the past few weeks saying recent hires are being laid off in the U.K. and at select locations around the world while part-time employees are getting less hours. Reports are now beginning to surface in the U.S. and Canada that part-time staff ...

For those of you that want more control over the location, size, and content of your Notification Center and iOS 5 notification banners, an upcoming jailbreak tweak is just what you’ve been looking for. It comes packed with a ton of settings for changing the way they look when you get notifications. The tweak will be called Bulletin Pro by iOS developer Smartviper E75 and it will be live on the BigBoss repository soon for 99¢.

You can use the tweak to make your iPhone or iPod touch feel more like an iPad, by compressing the size of your notification banners and Notification ...

For those of you that like to refer to your friends by specific nicknames instead of their first and last names, a new jailbreak tweak has dropped into the Cydia store today called Nickname by iOS developer Malcolm Hall. The tweak will basically replace all of the name labels in iOS with their nickname instead, so you see their nickname in notifications rather than their first and last name.

Nearly the same result could be accomplished ...

iOS' security has come come a long way since the original iPhone. Its security has come so far, in fact, that the encryption is a nightmare for law enforcement trying to view information from devices seized from criminals for evidence. Apple uses an encryption method known as AES (Advanced Encryption Standard), which is a tough nut to crack. However, it's not just the encryption itself that makes iOS so hard to break into.

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As MMi has covered extensively in recent days, Apple is on the verge of introducing the 6th generation iPhone in the coming weeks. But just because we may get our first look at the new iPhone in early September, it isn't yet clear when consumers will be able to get their hands on the hotly anticipated device.

On Monday, however, sources close to the development and launch of the next-generation device ...

With Apple's 6th generation iPhone now just weeks away from launch, the rumor mill is sputtering with new details about what Apple and its retail partners will do with regard to current generation iPhone pricing.

As the next-gen device looms large, All Things D is drawing attention to how Target has just begun selling the 16 GB AT&T and Verizon iPhone 4S for just $179 with contract. If ...

The French site, Nowhereelse.fr recently pointed toward two new photos that were originally posted on its Chinese forum, Weiphone. The photos in question appear to be the front and back of what is being claimed to be the next generation iPhone logic board (the part that houses the processor and other support chips for the device). The board seems to be different from both the logic boards ...

Here are the best jailbreak creations for the week of August 6th until today, August 12th as per the opinion of our staff. This is a weekly recap of this week's jailbreak tweaks only.

1. BattSaver - $2.99

BattSaver is a new application by iOS developer Xvolks that gives the user a better understanding of his or her battery and gives them a means of controlling the battery drain. It includes intuitive graphs that show the user important information and offers battery saving methods ...

Some of you probably hate how the device rotates on you when you don’t want it to, for example when you’re laying on your side in bed and your iPhone’s orientation changes to fit gravity instead of your eyes. The rotation lock that iOS comes with allows this rotation feature to cease from working until you disable the lock. The rotation lock feature can be accessed from the multitasking App Switcher in the iPod controls section, but for some, that's ...

Earlier in the week, we showed you MiniBanners, a free jailbreak tweak by iOS developer Rudolf Lichtner that displays iOS notifications in smaller notification popups that take up less screen space than Apple’s stock banner system. The banners are very similar to that of the growl-like notification pop-ups. Today, we are showing you the upgraded version of MiniBanners, known as MiniBanners Pro. The tweak will be live soon in the ModMyi repository for $1.79 and it does a lot more than the free version did.

The ...