After Google experienced a Gmail blackout, it was Apple’s turn to feel the brunt of service outage. Apple acknowledged Wednesday that “less than 1 percent” of its iCloud users were unable to access iCloud mail. The company was informed about the outage as some customers posted their complaints to an Apple support forum, saying that they had been unable to access their mail for over 30 hours. If ...

Popular iPhone 4S maker Apple has recently reported its 4th quarter earnings ending September 24. The company reported a total revenue of $28.27 billion for the last quarter of the fiscal year that amounted to $6.62 billion worth of profits. This was an improvement from the revenues of the same quarter last year of $20.34 billion. The gross profit margin for this quarter also improved to 40.3 percent, a 3.4 percen...

It seems that the tech giants are reporting quite great numbers for earnings lately. Despite some economic issues here and there, tech companies like Apple don’t seem to be affected at all. This iPhone maker has recently reported its earnings for the third quarter of the fiscal year. Once again, it has exceeded estimates. Apple reported recently its third quarter results for the 2011 fiscal year that ended J...

There’s big business in licensing fees, especially for tech giants. And with reports of big tech companies suing each other for patents that one company uses without consent from the other that owns it, there tends to be big money involved. One such case involved Apple settling with Nokia for a patent dispute. According to a released statement from Nokia, Apple has recently agreed to settle and license the w...

Apple announced that it cuts business ties with a China-based manufacturing factory after finding 42 underage workers employed at the facility. This was revealed after the iPhone company released its “Supplier Responsibility” internal review, which also includes reports about its contractors exceeding working hour limits, running machines that lack safety devices, failing to control air emissions, and...

It seems that the popularity of the Apple iPad has not waned yet. Despite a lot of tablets being introduced to compete with it in the market, the iPad still gets the vote for being the most popular tablet device yet. During the last holidays alone, the very first popular tablet was able to sell a staggering 7 million units. According Apple in announcing its financial results for the first quarter for fiscal year 2...

The Apple iPad can be seen as nothing but a breakaway success. It seems quite surprising that it is even selling well than the new iPhone 4. Doing it on its first year of being launched is nothing short of incredible indeed. According to estimates posted on CNET from Bernstein Research, the iPad has already reached an average of 4.5 million units sold per quarter. Initially, the Apple iPad has sold 3 million units...

This may be the next big thing in media if ever it pushes through. Apple is said to be in advanced talks with a media outfit to offer TV shows for rent on the Apple iTunes Store. And with the planned rentals for TV shows pegged at 99 cents, it may just catch on well with consumers, just like what iTunes did at some point with helping revolutionize the music industry. According to Bloomberg, Apple is now in advance...

Apple products like the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch have become popular targets for jailbreaking. It is a term used to refer to a means of making these products work using third-party apps and codes not approved by Apple. Since Apple has been known all along as a company that intends to keep tight control over what is being used in their products, opening up such closed systems has become an interesting challenge ...

With the Apple iPhone 4 sales still booming despite recent issues, you would think that Apple would try to fast track its Apple iAds mobile advertising service. But it seems that, even the Apple iAds is going through a tough phase despite already having ad partners willing to try the service out after it was launched. The process to provide mobile ads to present seems to be getting quite an issue among advertiser...