APPLE NEWS

Historically, Apple shares have risen significantly in the six months prior to a new iPhone's debut.

The consensus of the six best Apple analysts over the past six quarters has Apple selling 10.95 million iPads last quarter.

Verizon has revealed that the iPhone accounted for a majority of its smartphone sales last quarter.

Plants vs. Zombies has been updated with a new game mode, new mini-games, and more.

Blogsy, an iPad app for bloggers, has received a major update bringing support for the iPad Retina Display, Tumblr, Vimeo, Featured Images, WordPress Media Library, and more.

Apple is offering MobileMe customers a free copy of Snow Leopard to help them upgrade to iCloud.

Check out this screen protector for the iPhone that offers amazing shock absorption and scratch protection.

Apple says it wants to go to trial to defend itself against the Department of Justice's antitrust lawsuit that alleges the company colluded with publishers to fix the price of e-Books.

The Fotopedia National Parks App is now available for free to celebrate National Park Week and Earth Day.

Apple has released an update to the Apple Configurator app that allows anyone to mass configure and deploy iOS devices.

Draw Something has been updated with numerous new capabilities including Comment, Share, Save, Undo, and Refresh.

Apple has provided developers with Xcode 4.4 Developer Preview 3 for Mountain Lion following the release of new beta of the upcoming operating system.

Apple today released the third developer preview of OS X Mountain Lion.

Logitech has announced the Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard Cover - made for the new, third-generation iPad as well as the iPad 2.

Photojojo is selling a boom microphone accessory for your iPhone that allows you to take directional sound recordings.

Here's what former U.S. Vice President Al Gore had to say when writing the description of Apple CEO Tim Cook who topped TIME's list of the Most Influential People in the World.

A report from Korean site ETNews.com claims that Apple will launch a liquid metal iPhone 5 at WWDC in June.

New data from RetailSails reveals that Apple Stores outperform the average retailer by seventeen times.

Notability has been updated with support for the Retina Display iPad, text boxes, PDF searching, note tweeting, and more.

Greenpeace activists scaled the roof of Apple's Irish Headquarters to protest the company's use of dirty energy at its data center.

Apple has announced that its monitored suppliers have reached 95% compliance with the 60-hour work week specified in their Supplier Responsibility Code of Conduct.

PCWorld has performed 3G and 4G speed tests of AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile at multiple locations in 13 major cities.

FireCore has released aTV Flash 1.5, an update to their software package that supercharges your black AppleTV.

Brent Schlender, a journalist who spent years covering Steve Jobs, has found lost tapes of interviews conducted during Steve Jobs' Wilderness Years.

Despite a Software Update and various removal tools the Flashback trojan still infects about 140,000 Macs.

Pod2g has announced that the Chronic Dev-Team now has all the exploits required to release a userland jailbreak of iOS 5.1.

Check out this custom designed video rig called 'The Padcaster' that was announced at NAB this week.

Apple CEO Tim Cook, Samsung CEO Geesung Choi, and the company's chief lawyers have agreed to meet in San Francisco for moderated settlement talks.

Autodesk has released a preview of Inventor Fusion for Mac.

For those looking to purchase a Thunderbolt storage solution, here is a nice overview chart of the currently available options.

G‐Technology is now shipping its 8TB G‐RAID with Thunderbolt drive, a fast and high‐capacity, two‐drive, RAID 0 storage solution.

Gemini, a duplicate file finder app for OS X, has been updated with the ability to scan multiple folders or volumes, to exclude paths, and to scan from the drop-down menu in Finder.

Twitter today announced the Innovator's Patent Agreement which makes the popular Pull-to-Refresh action safer for iOS developers to use.

Verizon Wireless has announced that its 4G LTE Network will be available to more than two thirds of the U.S. population starting April 19th.

Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu says Apple has been working on iPads of various shapes and sizes since 2009.

Four major telecom operators in Europe have told Reuters that the new Nokia Lumia smartphones are not good enough to compete with Apple's iPhone or Samsung's Galaxy.

Greenpeace has released a new report called 'How Clean is Your Cloud' which criticizes Apple and others for relying heavily on dirty energy.

T-Mobile is planning to relaunch its brand this fall and will highlight the change by having T-Mobile girl (Carly Foulkes) abandon her pink summer dresses in favor of a black leather biker suit and a Ducati.

Google could face a large fine for bypassing mobile Safari's privacy restrictions to enable functionality of its +1 button on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

ScoreBig Daily is a new app that helps you find deals on live events.

Google Play Books for iOS has been updated with numerous new features including the ability to bookmark, highlight, and translate.

Read It Later has relaunched itself as Pocket and overhualed its apps to make it easier save an interested article, video, or web page for viewing later.

Air Aroma has create a fragrance that smells like unboxing a new MacBook for the first time.

Microsoft has announced that its next operating system will officially be called 'Windows 8' and will have just three editions.

Another new iPhone 4S Siri commercial has aired this time featuring Zooey Deschanel.

Check out this new iPhone 4S ad that features Samuel L. Jackson using Siri.

Google has leaked a Mac OS X client for the new Google Drive service that is expected to launch next week.

Apple has reportedly hired Zane Rowe, executive VP and CFO of United Continental.