Chinese writers sue Apple Inc for $ 1.88 Million.


Apple is now dragged into court, not for patent fights, and not even by Samsung, but by a group of Chinese writes, who accuses them of stealing their work and making money out of it.

A case is filed against Apple by well know Chinese writers in Beijing over unofficial copies of their works uploaded to Apple’s store. It’s a $ 1.88m (11.91 million yuan) lawsuit.

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Apple's App store acheives 15 billion downloads mark with in just three years.

According to Apple, iPhone, iPad and iPod users had downloaded more than 15 billion applications in the past three years, and the released stats suggest the rate of downloads is sharply accelerating.

The latest figures from Apple show that customers have downloaded around 5 billion apps so far this year, considering the company said in January that it had just passed the 10 billion download mark.

Developers now can get hands-on iOS 5 Beta 2

Apple release it's second Beta version of iOS 5. Yet to come newly iOS 5 has some new feature and overhauling. You may be seeing new notifications system and of course, the newly announced iCloud integration.

There are a total of nine distributions of iOS beta build number 9A5248D, which includes three for the iPad 2 (WiFi-only, GSM, CDMA), one for the original iPad, two for the iPhone 4 (GSM and CDMA), one for the iPhone 3GS, and two for the iPod Touch third and fourth generations.

iPad users, the more data hungry users: Study


According to Meraki, a cloud service provider, Apple’s iPad accounts for an explosive increase in percentage of the browser market. According to their new report, iPad users consumes 400% more Wi-Fi data on a monthly basis than the average iPhone, iPod or Android portable device.

This report prepared by Meraki, took account of data collected from the anonymously surveyed 100,000+ devices accessing public, educational and general use Wi-Fi networks in the U.S. It analyzed bandwidth usage and operating system popularity between 2010 and 2011 to reveal the huge gap between the Wi-Fi data usage of iPads and other mobile devices.

Apple now directly sell unlocked iPhone 4 at their website, starts from $649.


So, at-last the rumors come true about the Apple selling unlocked iPhone 4. Now, you can grab yours iPhone 4 by shelling out $649 for 16GB and $749 for 32GB. You can order iPhone 4 in both colors, Black and Snow White. The Black one is expected to be delivered within three business days and for snow white you may have to wait for three to five working business days.

Sue, Counter Sue and then comes the agreements.

The long pending patent infringement battle between two tech giants namely Nokia and Apple comes to an end with a technology licensing agreement.

This truce comes after almost more than a year and half when Nokia sued Apple for patent infringements (infringements of touch interfaces, caller ID, display illumination, and 3G and wi-fi technology) in 2009 and so after world saw Apple countersued Nokia for the similar thing.