Cygnus, a small Indiana company, has sued the Big Three of Tech — Microsoft, Apple, and Google — claiming that it holds the patent on a common file preview feature used by browsers and operating systems to show users small snapshots of the files before they are opened. Cygnus’s owner and president, Gregory Swartz, developed [...]

Although the atmosphere surrounding this year’s MacWorld has been rather downbeat from Apple’s standpoint and one of why Apple decided to exit a major marketing event like MacWorld. Macworlds are not going to be the same as they once were without Steve. However, stealing the rumors for this year’s MacWorld are reports of the launch [...]

On Wednesday, the French courts ordered Apple to come away from the monopoly of supplying iphones only to Orange. At the time we published that article, Apple hadn’t yet responded tothe news. However, in an e-mail, company spokesman Alan Hely said thatApple is deeply disappointed by the council’s decision. The iPhone, hesaid, has created “vigorous [...]

BBC announced that a version of the iPlayer that works on the Mac and Linux computers is now available. The iPlayer is the BBC’s online media player that lets viewers stream programmes for up to seven days after broadcast or download and watch them for up to 30 days. While streaming had previously been available [...]

Image via Wikipedia Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, one of the most outspoken figures on all things Apple, told clients on Wednesday that Steve Jobs’ absence from this year’s Macworld Expo signals “the beginning of a shift in leadership roles” at the company. “Steve Jobs remains CEO of Apple, however, yielding this year’s Macworld keynote [...]

The Trails application for iPhone makes GPX tracking and mapping super-easy and at a very very low cost.This full-featured GPS application by German programmer Felix Lamouroux does many things that turnkey GPS hardware will do but at a super-bargain price of $1.99.

We can’t count the number of times we’ve heard from one random source or another that Apple was about to pull the trigger on a subscription-based / 100% DRM-free music service, and given how those have worked out in the past, we’d highly recommend taking this one with a huge dose of salt. French site [...]

Guys, I am really excited to see this release of Songbird. It really promises to be the Firefox of music management and player softwares. For one thing, they’ve taken the Itunes interface seriously. Artist info for even Indian artists is awesome. It imports directly from Itunes libraries and what more, it’s cross platform and is [...]

http://www.macrumors.com/2008/11/29/app-store-almost-reaches-10000-apps/ While several sites have reported that 10,000 iPhone Apps have been released into the App Store, the actual number of active iPhone apps that can be downloaded is about 9,676 as of today's count. The discrepancy comes from the fact that many apps..

QuickTime 7.5.7 allows SD iTunes playback over DisplayPort Calming a controversial situation, Apple on Tuesday night released a new QuickTime update that allows standard definition iTunes movies to play over the new MacBooks’ DisplayPort to older displays. The update, currently available only through Software Update on the unibody MacBook and MacBook Pro as well as [...]