Noted iPhone security crusher Jonathan Zdziarski has cracked the iPhone 3GS encryption security, which is to be expected, but the ease and speed with which he did it is worrisome. Zdziarski claims the iPhone 3GS is thus “useless” to businesses that value extreme security in their communications. That’s a bold statement. The iPhone certainly isn’t [...]

Analysts are again bullish on Apple stock after the company reported a record third quarter in Tuesday’s earnings report, and provided higher-than-expected guidance in some aspects of its fourth quarter. Though Apple is well known for giving investors conservative guidance for the coming quarter, many analysts were surprised by Apple’s third-quarter guidance of 34 percent [...]

Sales of traditional MP3 players like the iPod nano, iPod shuffle and iPod classic continue to decline, as the enemies of these Apple products — the iPhone and iPod touch — come from within the same company. Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s chief financial officer, said the company had expected that consumers would lose interest in traditional [...]

A new patent application from Apple suggests the company could be working on proprietary global positioning system software that would calculate road trip times and recommend routes, based on real-time data collected from numerous users, and uploaded to a centralized server. In the recently revealed U.S. patent filing, Apple describes a system for obtaining drivers’ [...]

Shares of Nokia tumbled this week, as the world’s largest handset maker believes its market share will recede over the next year, while competitor Apple sees continued growth with the iPhone platform. Analysts said that Nokia Oyj would not be able to keep up with Apple without an App Store-like alternative. As a result, Bloomberg [...]

Apple’s patent policy: filing for basically any idea that any employee is willing to sketch, ever. This gives us an endless supply of speculation grist, some interesting, some not. Take this patent, which calls for flash microstorage in headsets and earbuds. The patent describes the sharing of device settings, preferences and even media between iPods [...]

While many of the early successful iPhone and iPod touch games came from small-time developers, big-name content creators like Electronic Arts, id Software and Konami are flocking to the platform, using their brands and marketing muscle to compete. The App Store has about 13,000 games in 19 separate categories, ranging from old-fashioned board games to [...]

Apple presents an image of quality, but an audit of its factories in mainland China showed that more than half of these weren’t paying their workers properly last year. Following an investigation on Tuesday into many Chinese companies violating recent labor laws, it’s now known through Apple’s 2009 responsibility progress report that 45 of the [...]

As reports of battery problems causing discoloration on the white model iPhone 3GS continue to grow, a patent from Apple published for the first this week looks to address both internal and external elements that could have adverse effects on a device’s power source. Apple continues to adopt non-user-replaceable batteries across its entire line of [...]

Apple announced today that they sold over one million iPhone 3G S’s over the weekend and iPhone 3.0 software downloads have reached six million. From weird sounds to activation issues, we’ve heard a few things about the iPhone 3GS since it launched. Now we’re curious, and want to know what is (or isn’t) going on [...]