APPLE NEWS

Yamaha has released NoteStar, a digital sheet music app for the iPad.

MBA Online has posted a new infographic which tries to describe just how much cash Apple has.

Copic is a tweak that enables contact pictures in numerous iOS applications.

Steve Jobs sent a direct email to Eric Schmidt asking the former Google CEO to stop his recruiting department from poaching Apple engineers.

Adam Lashinsky explains how Steve Jobs walked all over Cisco to get the iPhone trademark in his new book, Inside Apple.

A leaked T-Mobile document reveals that the company will soon begin offering additional support to its unlocked iPhone customers.

Bill Gates reveals that he wrote Steve Jobs a letter just before the Apple co-founder passed away.

Apple reclaimed its position as the world's largest smartphone vendor in Q4 2011.

CallDelete, a simple tweak to remove calls from your history, has been updated with support for the iPhone 4S and iOS 5.x.

SwitcherSettings has been updated with support for iOS 5 and the iPad and is no longer dependent on SBSettings.

In this week's episode of The Big Bang Theory, Raj buys an iPhone 4S from the mall and falls in love with Siri.

Using Apple's Game Center Technology, the app lets people connect to one another remotely so that two, three, or four people can have a 'visual conversation,' creating animation together on an infinite two-dimensional plane.

At MacWorld, 148Apps announced that Jetpack Joyride has won its 2011 people's choice award for the Best App Ever.

Custom Siri Background is a tweak by Ori Kadosh that lets you easily change Siri's background wallpaper.

Tim Cook has written a letter to Apple employees addressing allegations that the company has known about labor abuses in foreign factories but done little to change the situation.

Trim Enabler 2.0 has been released to let you enable the Trim function for non-Apple solid state drives.

Google has announced an update to Google Earth that brings a seamless globe.

Western Digital has demoed its upcoming My Book Thunderbolt Duo dual-drive storage system at the Macworld/iWorld show.

John Gruber of Daring Fireball has declared that the iPhone 5 is not gearing up for production, contradicting a recent report.

Check out this web-based phone size comparison tool that shows the actual size of various smartphones on your screen.

Valve has announced the release of a Steam Mobile application for iOS.

RAGE HD has been updated for iOS 5.x with support for video out and a new Mutant Bash Store with In-App purchases.

Microsoft may be working to bring Xbox Live Games to iOS and Android devices

QuickShot automatically syncs photos taken with your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch to Dropbox.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has started a petition at jailbreakingisnotacrime.org to ensure jailbreaking is kept legal.

Clear is an upcoming To-Do List app for the iPhone that features an innovative and simple interface built by Realmac Software, Milen.me, and Impending, Inc.

Launch Center, an iPhone app that lets you easily launch apps and trigger actions, has been updated with scheduled launch actions.

A new Apple patent filing reveals Apple's solution to simplifying the remote control.

Lingual is a new tweak by the CodeThemed team that adds translate functionality to Siri.

AT&T has announced that last quarter was its best smartphone sales quarter ever.

At Apple's Town Hall Meeting yesterday, CEO Tim Cook announced that employees will get $500 off Macs and $250 off iPads starting this June.

Ron Johnson, former SVP of Retail Operations at Apple, has outlined his plan for rejuvenizing JCPenney.

Brazil has reportedly approved tax exemptions pertaining to tablet production that paves the way for Foxconn to start producing iPads in the country.

AssistantExtensions is a new tweak that lets you extend Siri's functionality. It includes built-in support for additional commands including tweet, launch app, search YouTube, toggle switch, and more.

AT&T has updated their myAT&T app for iPhone with the ability to pay bills and live chat with customer service agents.

A Foxconn employee has reportedly told 9to5Mac that the iPhone 5 is being geared up for production.

Evernote is planning to release a To-Do app with help from its acquisition of Minds Momentum, creators of the Egretlist application for iOS.

Apple is reportedly hiring engineers for a new research center in Haifa, Israel.

WeatherMin is a Mac OS X weather notification app that lives on the desktop.

Dot Lock Protection is an app allowing you to lock your private albums, photos and videos with a Dot Lock code.

Apple CEO Tim Cook says the company 'didn't bet high enough' on the demand for their iPhone 4S smartphone in China.

Belfry is a new tweak from Ryan Petrich that installs the default iPhone apps on your iPad.

Bill Gates talks about his philanthropic work and his last conversation with Steve Jobs in this interview with Yahoo News.

Samsung has posted two new ads touting its Galaxy S II smartphone and mocking iPhone owners.

President Obama made reference to the late Steve Jobs during his State of the Union address which was attended by Jobs' widow, Laurene Powell Jobs.

Last year Apple added $38 billion in cash and cash equivalents to reach a total of $97.6 billion.

Apple CEO Tim Cook has sent employees an email informing them of a Town Hall meeting tomorrow to 'discuss some exciting new things going on at Apple.'

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is asking for your help to keep jailbreaking legal. Last month, the EFF filed a request with the Copyright Office to renew the exemption to the DMCA that allows for jailbreaking (otherwise it will expire).