Gartner estimate Apple are set to sell 40m iPads this year; as they prepare to launch their second generation iPad for sale in the UK, all eyes are on the competition from the likes of Samsung and HP; but while the manufacturers battle it out to compete with Apple’s hardware development; elsewhere attention is being turned to the global impact of mobile web technology.

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Technology giants Apple have ignored calls for the company to announce  successor for their current CEO Steve Jobs, who has been taking an increasing amount of time off due to ill health. (more…)

Recent plans by Apple to levy a thirty percent subscription charge on certain types of mobile content have been slammed by industry critics, leading to a high degree of pressure on the company to revise their strategy. (more…)

According to Apple, enterprising hackers are still managing to find ways of Jailbreaking the latest software update for the Apple IOS 4.1 operating system. (more…)

Research by the security firm Sophos has revealed that Apple’s Ping site has already been targeted by hoards of spammers seeking to trick members in to revealing personal details. (more…)

Technology giants Apple have announced that they will be moving in to the social networking arena with the launch of a new network focusing upon music. (more…)

iPhone users have been placed in an ethical dilemma this week, following Apple’s development and introduction of a new patch for iPhones, iPads, and the iPod Touch. (more…)

Mark Papermaster, the Apple executive who was responsible for overseeing the development of iPhone 4 has announced that he will be quitting the company. Papermaster has been head of the iPhone and iPad engineering department since 2009, when he moved across from IBM. (more…)

Symantec, the US-based security firm, has issued a warning relating to Apple’s iOS which is designed to support the iPhone, iPad and iPod. According to the firm, there is a vulnerability in the iOS which could lead devices wide open to security attacks by remote operation, as hackers take control of devices through the system. (more…)

The Apple iPhone 4 has been hit with controversy since it was launched, due to poor signal reception when users try to make calls. The antenna problem occurs when the phone is held in a certain way, which blocks the phone’s capability to receive a signal. (more…)

Yet more news from Apple as they dominate June with announcements, while many thought that the iPhone 4 was the only announcement worth listening to from Apple at the Worldwide Developers Conference 2010 in San Francisco, they would be mistaken. (more…)

Last week Apple revealed an early test version of its WebKit2 rendering engine, more an update than an all new service, WebKit2 will add process management technology to WebKit based browsers and applications. (more…)

Another day another banned iPhone App. This time it was a fairly route one app that simply displays pictures of women. The app was briefly tolerated by the App Store big wigs, leading to rumours that the store was relaxing its strict no adult content policy, until the developer started uploading topless pictures to it, at which point they shut it down… With extreme prejudice. (more…)

Fairly big win for the Apple PR department this week; the New Yorker magazine hit the shelves with a piece of digital art on its front cover. Not just any digital art either, but a portrait of Times square created with just a finger, an iPhone and a $4.99 app. The picture took roughly an hour to create and was done entirely from scratch. (more…)