APPLE NEWS

Apple is inviting Australian journalists to attend WWDC suggesting something big will be unveiled at the event.

The U.S. International Trade Commission has agreed to a partial review of Nokia's patent case against Apple which it lost in March.

Instagram has been updated with the ability to quickly like photos by double tapping them, username autocomplete, a new interactive comment screen, and more

Tap & Tell allows users to update any number of their social networks in one tap, all within the same interface. Tap & Tell houses a selection of popular social networking sites including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn & MySpace and more.

Knapsack gives users the tools to plan, journal, and relive their travel adventures with many user-friendly features including map pins with location postcards, a flexible itinerary planner, trip checklists, convenient printed itineraries, and iCal syncing.

Intel has said that it would consider making chips for rivals even if they were based on a competing architecture.

iShutdown is a utility that allows users to remotely shutdown or restart their PC or Mac.

Interview Assistant is the perfect digital companion for professional recruiters, students conducting research for school projects, and everyone in between who happens to find themselves needing to conduct interviews for any reason!

Schedule Planner offers a very accessible and highly practical layout that gives users the power to coordinate all of their important tasks event-by-event and category-by-category.

Swipe enables credit and debit card payments to be quickly processed from any location. The app is compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and, soon, Android devices.

Take a look at Conan O'Brien impersonating Steve Jobs for FastCompany's The 100 Most Creative People in Business.

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary is now available free for the iPad

Apple has filed a lawsuit against Fei Lam, the teenager who started WhiteiPhone4Now, a site that sold white iPhone 4 conversion kits.

Amazon has launched a Mac Download Store with 250 software titles available for download.

Jack Dorsey's payment service Square was called Squirrel until a lunch at Apple

Google today unveiled Google Wallet an upcoming mobile app that will allows you to tap, pay, and save using your phone and near field communication (NFC).

Asymco has posted an interesting chart which helps visualize smartphone vendor performance along two dimensions: market share growth vs. profit share growth

AndroidLoader is a Cydia Tweak for iOS that lets you launch and view all your applications in one place, Android style.

A recently leaked photo of the supposed iPhone 5 back cover may have actually been taken by an iPhone 5

Omnio is now shipping WOW-keys, its full-size QWERTY keyboard for the iPhone

Apple COO Tim Cook reportedly visited Samsung headquarters in South Korea recently to discuss the use of its OLED technology for the iPad 3

Agmethod uses sonic induction to quickly and easily treat everyday pain, including headache, toothache, insomnia, minor muscle aches and other pains.

Users can practice both Western and Chinese styles with accurate calligraphic pens, 7 different pen effects, 1 pointed pen, 4 art brushes.

Avernum 6 is set in the world of Avernum, an enormous series of caves far below the surface of the world. Travel into the strange subterranean land of Avernum, full of dungeons, labyrinths, and constant warfare.

The reader uses 3DES encryption to encrypt the cardholder data in the magnetic read head of the device, thereby enhancing PCI compliance as the cardholder data is kept secured until received by the credit card processor.

The Sparrow email client for Mac OS X has been updated with Facebook integration, a unified inbox, gravatar support, a new interface design and more.

Apple's iPhone PR team is reportedly reaching out to British journalists to persuade them to attend WWDC

A new variant of the Mac Defender has been found that does not require an administrative password to be installed.

Bills has added the ability to sync between all versions of the application using Dropbox.

NowStream is an upcoming iOS application that will let you stream torrents and other file types to your iPhone

George Lambro has posted an impressive video of himself performing a guitar solo using the iPad and Apple's Garageband app.

TechnoBuffalo reveals some of the precautions Apple took to keep the Verizon iPhone a secret until the very last moment.

Apple is being sued for alleged racial discrimination perpetrated by Apple Store employees at the New York City Upper West Side store.

The iPhone 4 is officially launching in India on May 27th

Twelve South has released its BookBook vintage case for the new MacBook Air.

Two former Apple employees have released Hype, a HTML5 Animation Builder for Mac OS X.

Apple MacBooks have topped every Consumer Reports laptop category

Taiwan-based backlight module maker Coretronic will become a supplier for Apple's iPad

AT&T has announced that LTE will arrive to five markets this summer and to ten more in the second half of the year.

Nike+ GPS has been updated with new features including the ability to control whether incoming calls will pause your run

OnePass offers you a safe and convenient way to store important information on your iPhone or iPod touch.

CarLights provides a complete guide to the more than 100 symbolic indicator lights used in BMW and Mini automobiles.

TripCam shows only the contours of the image the camera is capturing, all in realtime. Just tap on the image and a photo is taken.

Head Shot Pro was developed to be a fully functional mobile portrait photo studio that users could utilize to make official quality personal photos.

Prototypes is a new Mac App Store application that lets you take your still images and create a tappable prototype app that runs on the iPhone

Jan-Michael Cart has posted another iOS 5 concept video this time demonstrating a Mac OS X style dashboard concept.

Apple has posted instructions on how to remove Mac Defender and says it will update Mac OS X to automatically detect and remove the malware soon.

NBC Nightly News has launched an application for the iPad