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Images of Apple’s (AAPL) next-generation “iPhone 5S” have seemingly leaked, revealing a handset very similar in design to the current iPhone 5. Photos purportedly showing the upcoming new iPhone model were published recently on Chinese-language sjbbs.zol.com and later picked up by a number of sites. The images are said …

Investors and BlackBerry (BBRY) diehards were impressed with the company’s new platform and first two next-generation smartphones when they were unveiled late last month, but not everyone is sticking around to see how the BlackBerry Z10 and BlackBerry Q10 pan out. According to a recent report from AllThingsD, Home Depot …

Virginia Heffernan's son learns a spending lesson from iTunes.

When Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook says that he hates patent litigation, he’s apparently not bluffing. In a long Reuters piece about the complicated relationship between Apple and rival Samsung (005930), unnamed sources claim that Cook was always opposed to suing Samsung but was overruled by then-CEO Steve Jobs. According to …

The latest Nielsen survey confirms one of the major smartphone trends of 2012: That the Windows Phone operating system showed remarkable strength in India even before the new wave of Nokia (NOK) and HTC (2498) models launched in January. According to Nielsen, Windows Phone grabbed 8% of India’s smartphone market last autumn, …

One of the reported downsides to the 128GB Microsoft (MSFT) Surface Pro is that only around 70% of its advertised storage can actually be used for user data — in BGR’s review of the Surface Pro, for instance, we found that the 128GB version of the device had only around 85.3GB of actual free space. But new analysis from …

Apple (AAPL) fans who have been looking at the oversized Samsung (005930) Galaxy Notes with envy may soon be getting a “phablet” of their own. BrightWire has caught hold of a report from the Chinese Sina Tech website claiming that Apple plans to release two new iPhones this year: An iPhone 5S that is an updated version …

There's a new iPhone mail-app that has people excited because, like many email clients before it, it has potential to make longform Internet communication less painful. This one is called Mailbox and The Verge's Ellis Hamburger boldly declares it "just fixed email on the iPhone." The Atlantic Wire doesn't have access to …

The comparison between Christmas 2012 and Christmas 2011 is cruel for Sprint (S). Sprint just reported that it sold 2.2 million iPhones during the Christmas quarter of 2012, 38% of which to new Sprint customers. This sounds fairly impressive. But the problem here is that in the Christmas of 2011, Sprint sold 1.8 million …

Every time my husband and I drive the 677 miles from New York to my parents' house in Michigan, we dread the long stretch of Interstate 80 through the hills of rural Pennsylvania. It's beautiful, but lonely, ...

Yes, it seems that Steve Jobs knew what he was doing when he decided to launch the iTunes store all those years ago. Apple (AAPL) announced on Wednesday that it has now sold more than 25 billion songs over iTunes, an astonishing figure for the online store that has changed how people buy and listen to music. For the record, …

(Reuters) - Apple's iTunes music store hit its 25 billionth download - equal to selling more than three songs for every person on Earth - and on Wednesday gave the German student who bought the track a gift card worth 10,000 euro ($13,500). Economics student Phillip Luepke, 22, of Hanover, Germany, downloaded the techno …

FBI background check data released Wednesday suggests that America's great run on guns continues nearly unabated, as another 2.5 million guns flew off the racks amid manufacturer struggles to keep up with demand.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The answer to the trivia question will be: "Monkey Drums (Goskel Vancin Remix) by Chase Buch." That's the 25-billionth song purchased on iTunes.

At first glance, creating an advertisement that shows off how good your rival’s tablet display looks doesn’t seem like a smart move. But Amazon’s (AMZN) latest ad for its Kindle Fire HD tablet is actually pretty clever: it first sets its own tablet’s HD display up side-by-side with the Retina-equipped iPad and shows that …

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil's copyright regulator will strip Apple Inc of the right to use its iPhone trademark in Latin America's biggest market and granted the trademark to a local company that registered it first, a source familiar with the decision said on Tuesday. Gradiente Eletronica SA, a Brazilian consumer …

App Store Official Charts for the week ending Feb. 4, 2013:

iTunes' Official Music Charts for the week ending Feb. 4, 2013

Right on time, Apple’s (AAPL) new 128GB iPad is available for purchase in the company’s online store. As attention elsewhere continues to turn to the cloud, Apple last week unveiled a new version of its full-size tablet that doubles the maximum amount of internal storage. The 128GB iPad blurs the lines between tablet and …

Like other new mobile products Apple (AAPL) has launched in recent years, the company’s iPad mini has been in short supply ever since it was released this past November. The sleek device added a new, lower price point to Apple’s tablet portfolio and some analysts believe it will soon be more popular than Apple’s full-size …

By now we’re all familiar with the main reason Apple (AAPL) shares have tanked over the past few months: Investors are worried that the company’s growth has stalled and that its margins have already passed their peak and are headed for a long decline. However, AppleInsider points us to a new research note from Morgan Stanley …

Apple (AAPL) may be about to make up for delivering a disappointingly low resolution for its first-generation iPad mini display. BrightWire reports that supply chain sources have told Chinese website My Drivers that the next-generation iPad mini will indeed feature a 7.9-inch Retina display with a resolution of 2048 x 1536 …

Following reports that an untethered jailbreak was finally set to be made available for iOS 6.1 users on Monday, the Evad3rs Jailbreak Team has made their jailbreak tool evasi0n available for download. The tool jailbreaks Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone 5, iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad mini, all iPad models and third-, fourth- …