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Wapple Wins Trademark Battle Over Apple

While Apple is busy fighting Proview over the iPad trademark in China, it has lost a separate trademark battle in Europe: Wapple, the mobile web developers, have won a suit filed by Apple over its name.The suit, originally filed in 2007, claimed that Wapple was trading on Apple's brand associatio...

Stockholder Dividend, Worker Abuse Allegations Hot Topics Ahead Of Apple's Annual Shareholder Meeting

Amidstconcerns about trademark battles in China, an unprecedented factory audit of Foxconn, and the question of potential stock dividends, Apple is scheduled to meet with AAPL shareholders tomorrow at the company’s headquarters in Cupertino, California. All investors are encouraged to atte...

Introducing The CultCast, The New Cult of Mac Podcast You'll Want To Listen To Every Week

I’m excited to announce Cult of Mac’s shiny new audio podcast, The CultCast - made with absolutely 0% child labor! Why should you listen to The CultCast, you ask? Simply put, it’s the best 30 minute conversation about Apple you’re going to hear all week. Join Leander Kahn...

Apple fights for iPad trademark in China's largest city

Apple Store in ShanghaiThe fight over whether Apple has the right to sell the iPad in China continued Wednesday in Shanghai, China’s most populous city and one of the most important places for Apple doing business in the country. Chinese manufacturer Proview wants to ban the iPad from all s...

$1.29 Can't Buy Me Love, but it will get me the ringtone

Apple and EMI announced on Wednesday that the iTunes store is exclusively selling ringtones from The Beatles. The 30-second tones are from the The Beatles no. 1 hits album called 1, which represent the 27 top Beatles tunes in both the U.S. and U.K. Each individual ringtone is $1.29 for iOS device...

Mac 101: Deleting files and erasing drives

Mac 101 is an ongoing series aimed at bringing attention to important technical issues facing Mac owners. A wide variety of topics will be explored in an effort to inform as well as help make your day-to-day Mac computing experience a better one.There are two ways to think about securing informat...

Workers claim Foxconn hid underage workers before FLA inspection

After facing criticism from both the media and human rights organizations, Apple has opened up the doors to its manufacturing plants for the world to see. This has allowed the Fair Labor Association in to do an inspection, andABC to do a report.If you haven’t seen ABC’s “A Trip ...

What it actually costs Apple to build an iPhone

Asymco analyst Horace Dediu published an interesting report this morning that attempts to figure out what Apple pays to manufacture each iPhone. Over the last 5 years, the handset has quickly become Apple’s largest money-maker.Dediu uses a number of resources, including manufacturing inform...

Apple agrees to new standards requiring developers to share their app's privacy policy

Apple and five other companies agreed today to new standards for showing users the privacy policies associated with apps offered in their app stores. The new agreement will improve privacy protection for customers around the world.Spotted by MacRumors, California’s Attorney General Kamala D...

Is Motorola becoming a patent troll? Microsoft seems to think so

Last week, Apple lodged a complaint against Motorola with the European Commission regarding FRAND abuse. Apple believes that Motorola is not making its standards-essentials patents available under Fair, Reasonable, and Non Discriminatory terms.The truth is, Apple’s right. Motorola is asking...

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