APPLE NEWS

Apple has acquired the trademark for AirDrop from Urban Airship, according to documents published by the US Patent & Trademark Office

Nuance has acquired the Noterize iPad app and may use it to showcase the rumored integration of their voice technology into iOS 5.

For the first time ever, daily time spent in mobile apps has surpassed desktop web consumption

Orange has developed a t-shirt that can charge your iPhone by absorbing sound and converting it into useable energy.

Facebook is planning to rival Apple with more than just Project Spartan apps. It is also planning to launch new music services that will compete with iTunes

Gevey has released an Ultra SIM which provides an unlock for the iPhone 4 without the need to manually dial 112.

Meet new people, flirt and compete in a new role playing game on the Iphone of harem masters and mistresses.

Burn the Rope, Big Blue Bubble Inc. has announced that they are trading in their torches for monsters!

Hulu has updated its iPad application to remove its subscribe link, complying with Apple's new rules

CreativeMe manipulates photos and text to quickly create professional looking images that can be saved as a CreativeMe Project, emailed as a PNG image or PDF, printed directly to a network printer or exported to the iPad Photo Album.

Bling Your Screen HD is a high photo quality wallpaper app that gives the user the sheer power of its customizability.

Contagious fun of the photo shoot is visceral and the experience is more akin of a game than a serious time measuring app and that is the point of the People O'Clock app.

Color Range allows users to modify the color range of an image and achieve extremely stylish and eye-catching effects with any photo.

Hyper Facts was created to give users the opportunity to stumble from one interesting fact to the next, learning about the world around them in a fun, engaging, and spontaneous way.

Adobe today delivered an update to Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 and Flex 4.5 software to enable developers to build applications for iPhone, iPad and BlackBerry PlayBook.

Terra, a popular web browser for the iPad, has added Facebook, Twitter, and Instapaper integration.

The final version of Firefox 5 is now available to download, two days before its official release.

Apple preparing to launch an updated Mac Pro and Mac mini which will be available by the end of July or first week in August, according to tweets from CNET's Brian Tong.

Although Geohot was able to settle with Sony over the PS3 jailbreak, other hackers have not fared as well.

Best Buy will reportedly match Apple's Back to School special by giving a $100 Best Buy Gift Card to eligible customers.

Comex has drastically improved the iOS jailbreak install time and plans to apply the new technique to his upcoming iPad 2 jailbreak.

ChevronWP7 Labs is an upcoming tool that will jailbreak your Windows Phone 7 device with Microsoft's approval.

AppSlide is a new Cydia tweak by chpwn that turns your home button into a back button.

Bamboo Paper is a new app from Wacom that lets you create virtual notebooks for your iPad

iH8Sn0w has updated Sn0wBeeze to perform an untethered jailbreak of the old bootrom iPhone 3GS on iOS 5.0b1.

Apple has posted a new commercial for the iPad entitled, 'Now'

Check out this rare footage of Steve Jobs doing a Q&A at the end of WWDC 1997

Apple, Intel, Ericsson, RPX, and Google are some of the technology giants that will vie for Nortel's patent portfolio later this month

Apple could buy out every major phone vendor except Samsung in cash and cash equivalents.

Apple has reportedly enabled Nitro, its new faster javascript engine, for web apps in iOS 5

Apple has published a two page pdf outlining the Mac OS X Lion update procedure for business and educational institutions

Check out this hands on video of the upcoming dual screen edition of Real Racing 2 HD that uses iOS 5's enhancing AirPlay features.

PING has introduced the iPING putter app – a free, wireless, go-anywhere putting improvement tool that identifies a player's stroke type, analyzes their impact angle, and measures their tempo.

QuickGoogle is a new tweak that lets you quickly bring up a Google Search field from anywhere on your iPhone.

iShutdown works with Wi-Fi or 3G. It will automatically scan your local networks to find available hosts. Now you don't need to stand up from your armchair or bed to shutdown, restart, sleep, hibernate or even boot up your home mediaserver or any other host.

American Airlines began testing iPads yesterday in an effort to ditch paper navigational charts and save about $1.2 million a year in fuel.

Mind Color Test is a personality test based on chromatic stimuli: each colour corresponds to one of your different psychological dimension and to a different attitude.

Spotify, a popular music streaming service in Europe, has reportedly signed the remaining deals it needs for a U.S. launch.

Apple has amended its complaint against Samsung asserting more patents and other intellectual property rights than before

Griffin Technology and algoriddim have announced that their DJ Cable for iOS devices is now available.

Facebook is finally preparing to release an official application for the iPad

With Raskin the contents of your files and folders are displayed openly with full previews zoom-in for a closer look.

ThinkGeek has released the JOYSTICK-IT iPhone Arcade Stick, a physical joystick which that attaches to your iPhone to improve gaming.

FlashLock, a new tweak developed by Philip Bigarella, lets you quickly turn on your iPhone's flash from the lockscreen.

Now all users of Elmedia Player PRO can download streaming videos broadcasted via RTMP right to their hard drive.

J.P. Morgan hardware analyst Mark Moskowitz has increased his assessment of the MacBook Air's revenue opportunity from $2.2 billion to $3 billion-plus.

Apple's update to Mac OS X Lion yesterday brought a new linen look to the login screen.

Apple is reportedly putting all new hardware releases on hold until Mac OS X Lion is finished.