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The questions surrounding the way in which the San Francisco’s Police Department assisted the Apple security employees for a missing iPhone prototype believed to be iPhone 5, has triggered an internal investigation at the SFPD.

Apple is planning on shipping out more than 20 million iPhone 5 units this year.

Apple's latest litigation was filed in Japan against its rival Samsung for violating patents for the iPhone and iPad.

Stock index futures pointed to a firmer open on Wall Street on Thursday, with futures for the S&P 500, Dow Jones and Nasdaq 100 flat to 0.2 percent higher at 0916 GMT.

Apple Inc. said last week that its new Chief Executive Tim Cook promoted Eddie Cue to Senior Vice President of Internet Software and Services from his previous position of Vice President of iTunes.

HTC Corp has extended its lawsuit against Apple Inc to include nine more patents the Taiwanese firm acquired from Google Inc last week, underscoring intensifying legal actions between the Google camp and Apple.

Apple is suing Samsung Electronics in Japan, accusing it of patent violations relating to the iPhone and iPad, Kyodo news agency said, the latest salvo in a series of patent battles between the two firms.

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Call it iKnife or ironic (Apple cutting apple), cooking videos using MacBook Air as a kitchen knife, to cut and peel a variety of vegetables and shrimp, have become a hit on the internet.

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Though Apple is yet to announce the iPhone 5, it's fifth-generation smartphone, German carrier Deutsche Telekom is reportedly selling it.

The much anticipated Motorola Droid Bionic will be officially released on September 8. Motorola’s smartphone has received rave reviews from tech journalists who had the opportunity to handle the device.

Next week a high-ranking Microsoft Corp executive will stand on stage and show off a new version of Windows on a tablet computer.

HTC filed infringement claims with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) against Apple on Wednesday using patents it got from Google last week.

The iPhone may be a cash cow for Apple but it is certainly turning into an embarrassment for the San Francisco Police Department. The latest report only confirms that the police department messed up, in some way at least, and has gotten pulled entirely too far into the apparent missing iPhone 5 prototype report.

Facebook for iPad app is still nowhere in sight. But on a brighter note, Facebook has updated its iPhone app with several new features and welcomed improvements. Facebook for iPhone v3.5 is now available for download and the new version includes a redesigned look for Profiles and Group walls - similar to its Web changes.

While Apple Inc. is tight-lipped towards its iPhone 5 release date, the smartphone is expected to face a good deal of competition from Android devices, particularly from Motorola Droid Bionic, which would be available at Verizon from Thursday.

Apple Inc., known for being a trendsetter, has continued along those lines with its new lighter and thinner MacBook Air. But the Cupertino company is facing competition in notebook category from Taiwan-based Acer, which has released its thin and relatively inexpensive Ultrabook called Aspire S3.

So many tech journalists writing lately that Amazon's new Kindle tablet won't really be a direct, serious threat to Apple's tablet industry-leading iPad because the company's first unit will be a 7-inch touchscreen instead of a 10-inch touchscreen miss one very valuable point.

When will the next generation of Apple iPhone, iPhone 5, be launched? Although Apple’s next-generation smartphone has not yet officially announced, new rumors have emerged suggesting that an early October release was likely.

At a time when the iPhone 5 release date and specification rumors are spreading like wildfire, many have forgotten about iPad 3, a successor to iPad 2.

Best Buy employees have been informed that preorders for the iPhone 5 will begin this week in time for a release date the first week of October. Sprint will carry the phone for the first time when it launches, a leaked report to BGR.com states.

Apple iPhone 5 is grabbing attention from all corners as the consumer electronics major is prepping for a bigger iPhone market in the second half of the year. The iPhone 5 production rumors and the reported loss of a sensitive prototype have fueled release date rumors.

Apple has posted two security expert job ads after its employees lost two iPhone prototypes in two years.

Deutsche Telekom AG (DTE) is now taking customer reservations for the next-generation of Apple Inc.'s iPhone 5 starting Sept. 5, as new evidence supports rumors that the iPhone 5, expected to be revealed in October, will launch on Sprint's nationwide CDMA network this fall.

A Sichuan, China-based food company whose logo looks strangely similar to Apple's logo is now in big trouble because Apple has complained of infringement of trademark.

Apple is expected to ship 86.4 million units in 2011, topping all other global smartphone manufacturers. Nokia and Samsung are ranked as second and third respectively.

According to a report, GameStop will be supplying its stores with iOS devices in the near future.

A shareholder in Research In Motion said on Tuesday it wants the BlackBerry maker to consider selling itself or spinning off its patent portfolio.