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Why and How Apple Is Collecting Your iPhone Location Data

iPhone and iPad customers were spooked Wednesday to find out that their devices have recorded a detailed history of their geographical locations for the past year in an unprotected file. But it turns...

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Customers Sue Apple Over iPhone Location-Data Collection

Two Apple customers have filed a lawsuit accusing the Cupertino, California, company of committing violations of computer-fraud laws by recording location data of iPhone and iPad customers. Vikram...

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Patent Firm Shakes Down iPhone App Programmers

If your pockets aren’t deep enough to fight a corporate giant, then sue the little guys for milk money. That’s the idea behind a patent company’s legal threats against several independent iPhone app...

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Patent Firm Explains Why It Targets Developers, Not Apple

After threatening last week to sue several iPhone app programmers for implementing a new iOS feature, a patent firm touched off a storm of controversy and even received death threats. Now the company...

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Apple Defends App Programmers in Patent Dispute

Apple’s legal team has fired back at a patent-owning firm that was threatening to sue iPhone app programmers over usage of in-app payment technology. Apple stated in no uncertain terms that it planned...

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Nokia Beats Apple In Patent Dispute

Apple has settled a patent dispute with Nokia that has been rattling through the courts since 2009. The struggling Finnish mobile giant sued Apple, claiming that it had infringed on ten patents, and...

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Patent Firm Targets Lawsuit at Angry Birds

The mighty hand of Lodsys, a patent firm suing mobile-app programmers, continues to strike at iOS and Android developers. Now it's targeting a major and much-beloved player: Angry Birds.

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Courts Ban Sale of Samsung Galaxy Tab in Europe

A European court has blocked the sale of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 across the European Union, in every member state except the Netherlands. It seems that Apple applied to the court in Dusseldorf,...

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Courts Ban Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Sales In Australia

One thing Samsung doesn’t seem to be able to copy from Apple is the success of its crack legal team. The latest court to ban the sale of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet is Australia, which upheld a...

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‘You Talking to Me?’ App Lets You Report Bad Taxi Drivers

Taxi drivers: If they’re not sneaking in a few extra miles by taking the long way round, or so intent on chatting to their friends via Bluetooth headsets that they miss your street, then they’re...

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