Former chief executive of Sun Jonathan Schwartz has accused Steve Jobs of threatening patent action against his company in 2003, related to desktop OS technologies, in a long blog post that highlights a series of tech patent squabbles.

Apple's orders to its Taiwanese manufacturing facilities call for the production of roughly 5 million iPads before the heart of summer rolls around, according to a new report which also praises the company for its iPhone, notebook and desktop secular growth trends.

Apple today released MainStage 2.1.1, an update to Apple's Logic Studio component for bringing virtual instruments and effects to live performances, via Software Update. According to the release notes, t...

Fortune reports on a new research note from Oppenhiemer & Co.'s Yair Reiner claiming that Apple in January began high-level talks with major phone manufacturers expressing its displeasure with what it con...

The iTunes LP format introduced by Apple last year was the brainchild of record labels looking to increase sales of whole albums, but sales thus far have been soft, a new report alleges.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) yesterday announced that it had obtained a copy of Apple's iPhone Developer Program License Agreement and published it for public consumption. While the contents of the license agreement, which govern...

Apple today released iPhone SDK 3.2 Beta 4 via the iPhone Dev Center, offering developers updated tools for building applications for the iPad. The last update to the SDK was issued two weeks ago, continuing a trend of biweekly revisions.

Microsoft today issued a handful of updates for users of the company's Office productivity suite, primarily addressing security issues.
- Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.2.4 Update (221 MB...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation took a critical stance against Apple on Tuesday, when the digital rights advocacy group posted in its entirety the confidential license agreement to which all iPhone, iPad and iPod touch developers must agree.

Fueled by Friday's announcement of a shipping date for the iPad, Apple's stock price has jumped over 6% in recent trading, pushing the company beyond $200 billion in market value for the first time in its history. AAPL currently sits at over $223 pe...

A few times a year, MacRumors partners with MacHeist to promote their Mac application bundle deal. Their latest bundle delivers at least eight Mac applications for $19.95 (over $280 value if all purchased separately) including:
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Apple subsidiary FileMaker today announced the release of FileMaker Pro 11, the latest version of its popular database application. The updated version brings several new features, as well as streamlined...

Last month, speculation that a number of minor iPhone applications such as Stocks, Weather, Voice Memo, Clock, and Calculator "missing" from the iPad could reappear in some sort of "widget mode" similar t...

Before Apple publicly sued HTC, the iPhone maker has privately had "blunt conversations" with other smartphone companies that have proven disruptive to the roadmaps of would-be iPhone killers, according to a new report.

FileMaker Pro 11, the latest version of the Mac database software, was officially released Tuesday, packing in improved chart visuals, "on the fly" reporting, a new Quick Find capability, and a number of productivity tools that aim to make database creation simpler and quicker.

The sale of applications, e-books, newspapers and magazines for the iPad is predicted to equal nearly 30 percent of the revenue Apple will earn from selling the hardware by the end of 2011.

In anticipation of Monday's official announcement regarding Steam for Mac, AppleInsider spoke with John Cook, director of Steam development at Valve, about the process of porting the online gaming system to the Mac, and the role Apple played in its development.

Valve Software today officially announced that it is bringing its Steam game distribution platform, as well as its own library of games, to Mac OS X next month.Steam and Valve's library of games including Left 4 Dead 2, Team ...

Valve officially revealed Monday that its Steam online gaming service, along with the Source engine that powers titles such as Half-Life 2 and Left 4 Dead 2, is coming to the Mac in April.

Following reports that Apple began rejecting App Store software with "minimum user functionality," the iPhone maker has now set its sights on applications that employ a "cookie cutter" formula.

After the initial screengrabs of Mac user interface elements and the subsequent blatant teasers, we've known this was coming for quite awhile. Now a Mac version of Valve's Steam gaming platform is official with todays press release, below:
Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal, and the Half-Life series will be available in April
March 8, 2010 ? Valve announced today it will bring Steam, Valve?s gaming service, and Source, Valve?s gaming engine, to the Mac.
Steam and Valve?s library of games including Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal, and the Half-Life series will be available in April.
?As we transition from entertainment as a product to entertainment as a service, customers and developers need open, high-quality Internet clients,? said Gabe Newell, President of Valve. ?The Mac is a great platform for entertainment services.?
?Our Steam partners, who are delivering over a thousand games to 25 million Steam clients, are very excited about adding support for the Mac,? said Jason Holtman, Director of Business Development at Valve. ?Steamworks for the Mac supports all of the Steamworks APIs, and we have added a new feature, called Steam Play, which allows customers who purchase the product for the Mac or Windows to play on the other platform free of charge. For example, Steam Play, in combination with the Steam Cloud, allows a gamer playing on their work PC to go home and pick up playing the same game at the same point on their home Mac. We expect most developers and publishers to take advantage of Steam Play.?
?We looked at a variety of methods to get our games onto the Mac and in the end decided to go with native versions rather than emulation,? said John Cook, Director of Steam Development. ?The inclusion of WebKit into Steam, and of OpenGL into Source gives us a lot of flexibility in how we move these technologies forward. We are treating the Mac as a tier-1 platform so all of our future games will release simultaneously on Windows, Mac, and the Xbox 360. Updates for the Mac will be available simultaneously with the Windows updates. Furthermore, Mac and Windows players will be part of the same multiplayer universe, sharing servers, lobbies, and so forth. We fully support a heterogeneous mix of servers and clients. The first Mac Steam client will be the new generation currently in beta testing on Windows.?
Portal 2 will be Valve?s first simultaneous release for Mac and Windows. ?Checking in code produces a PC build and Mac build at the same time, automatically, so the two platforms are perfectly in lock-step,? said Josh Weier, Portal 2 Project Lead. ?We?re always playing a native version on the Mac right alongside the PC. This makes it very easy for us and for anyone using Source to do game development for the Mac.?

Steam, the PC gaming platform from Valve Software, will be coming to Mac systems in May, while one of the company's most anticipated forthcoming titles, Portal 2, will also be available for Apple machines in the fall.

TechCrunch discusses a picture that is being pieced together from reports from App Store developers suggesting that Apple is looking to crack down on "cookie cutter" iPhone applications that offer little...

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was in attendance at the Oscars Sunday night, and during the telecast the first iPad ad revealed, upon closer look, prices for some titles in the new iBookstore.

A slow start to Mac sales in early 2009 will work to Apple's advantage, potentially making strong 2010 sales seem even more impressive with numbers reflecting huge year-over-year growth, according to a new analysis.

Apple just aired their first iPad commercial during the 82nd Annual Academy Awards. A description of the ad by Doju:The commercial was just on, depicted a person using the iPad on their lap, going through the various features (iBook...

From the AP, some better pictures of Steve Jobs at the Oscars.

The iPad commercial aired at 8:53pm EST during the Oscars.(Who has the Youtube?) Also, Steve Jobs is in attendance and was spotted on the Red Carpet.
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After Valve's series of teaser images, it's now been revealed that their upcoming sequel Portal 2 will also be coming to the Mac. The above image comes from a series of scans from the latest issue of Gameinformer magazine which carries a cov...

This is getting a little silly isn't it? Released in April(?!) 2010, these are believable specs for new Core i5 and i7 MacBook Pros which top out at 640GB HDs or 256GB SSDs. We especially like getting the Express Card slot back in the 15-inch model.
But alas, this is probably a publicity stunt. Anyway head over to New Zealand (updated w/Google cache, their site taken offline?weird!) for the latest in MacBook Pros from the future.
BTW - This site was actually updated to from Core 2 Duos here

This is probably just a case of mistaken identity, but Best Buy currently has the current model MacBook Pro published adorning a Core i7 logo. The rest of the specs are still in line with the current MacBook Pros including Core 2 Duo processors. Also, other MacBook Pros, even more expensive ones, still have the old Core 2 Duo logo on them.
Getting a little head of ourselves are we?
(How far ahead is the question.)
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San Francisco 3D design and visualization studio Transparent House has created a visualization entitled "Anatomy of Apple Design" as a tribute 34 years of Apple design, starting from the Apple I and leading up to the new iPad.