If, like me, you’ve looked longingly at the 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display but have decided to hold out for a smaller and less expensive option, you may be interested to hear that production of displays for a 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro is reported to be under way.
After Apple’s lawsuit victory against Samsung, Apple CEO Tim Cook sent out a memo to the Cupertino company’s corporate employees. In the email, which 9to5Mac obtained a copy of, Cook describes the lawsuit as being ‘about values’ rather than patents or money.
Following less than three days of deliberations, the jury in the Apple vs. Samsung patent trial has unanimously ruled that the Korean company must pay Apple $1.05 billion (£665m) in damages for infringing its design and utility patents.
While previous reports have claimed that Apple will announce its next-generation iPhone and a smaller 7-inch iPad at a special media event on the 12th of September, John Gruber of Daring Fireball makes a pretty good case for the Cupertino company holding separate events for the devices.
After several weeks of beta testing with registered developers, Apple has now released its OS X 10.8.1 update for Mountain Lion users, with “general operating system fixes that improve the stability and compatibility of your Mac.” Unfortunately, there’s no mention of a fix for the battery issue plaguing MacBooks.
The latest installment in the Counter Strike series, one of the most popular PC shooters of all time with more than 27 million units sold, has arrived on the Mac. Counter Strike: Global Offensive comes almost 12 years after Valve released the original, and it features an arsenal of over 45 weapons, stacks of maps, new game modes, new visuals, and more.
What is thought to be a rare iPhone 4 prototype running Apple’s software testing framework – Switchboard, briefly appeared on eBay earlier today. First spotted by 9to5Mac, the item attracted a single bid of $4,500, before being pulled.
UK communications regulator Ofcom has today given Everything Everywhere — the parent company of mobile network providers Orange and T-Mobile, the green light to roll-out the country’s first 4G network. And according to a report by Pocket-lint, Apple’s next iPhone could be one of the first devices to support the new service.
With the much publicised Apple vs. Samsung patent trial drawing to a close, Bloomberg reports that Apple CEO Tim Cook and Samsung CEO Kwon Oh Hyun will today have a phone discussion to see if the two companies can reach a settlement before the jury starts its deliberations.