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A Shanghai court Thursday rejected a struggling Chinese company's request to bar Apple Inc. from selling its popular iPad computer tablet in China over a trademark dispute.

A Shanghai court has rejected a request in a trademark case to stop Apple selling its iPad tablet computers in the city, averting an embarrassing suspension of iPad sales in its own flagship stores.

With the rumored upcoming release of the Apple’s newest tech toy, the iPad 3, speculations about the devices features have been cluttering cyber space. The third generation tablet is said to slam rivals such as Amazon’s Kindle Fire and Blackberry’s Playbook. Although product information isn’t confirmed, here’s a roundup of the latest rumors and educated guesses that you might not have heard yet.

A Shanghai court has rejected a request by a Chinese technology firm that the sale of Apple Inc's iPads be halted across the affluent Chinese city, a source with direct knowledge of the ruling said on Thursday.

Apple's recently launched museum in Russia is fast becoming a spectacle for the tech nerds on the planet.

Hewlett-Packard and Dell Inc are keeping a close eye on a big jump in wages for workers that assemble Apple Inc's iPhone in China, and could be forced to nudge up prices for their own products if labor costs keep rising.

Six of the world's top consumer technology firms have agreed to provide greater privacy disclosures before users download applications in order to protect the personal data of millions of consumers, California's attorney general said on Wednesday.

Six of the world's top consumer technology firms have agreed to provide greater privacy disclosures before users download applications in order to protect the personal data of millions of consumers, California's attorney general said on Wednesday.

Hewlett-Packard and Dell Inc are keeping a close eye on a big jump in wages for workers that assemble Apple Inc's iPhone in China, and could be forced to nudge up prices for their own products if labor costs keep rising.

Twitter, the microblogging powerhouse used by so many celebrities and sports stars, has updated both its official Apple and Android apps as of Feb. 21, so here are the new changes in detail. Both apps have returned popular features many may have been clamoring for, but there are also new features and designs. Many of the Apple app changes are only for the iPhone however, so iPad and Touch users will have to wait for some of the new features.

In recent weeks, Apple has received increasing scrutiny over the working conditions within the factories that produce its highly profitable products like the iPad and MacBook. In an ABC exclusive that aired Feb. 21, Nightline was permitted to tour Apple's largest manufacturer, Foxconn, at its facilities in Shenzhen, China.

Apple will retain more than 50 percent of the market past 2015 according to projections from a recent TrendForce report. The company is expected to control 59.3 percent of the tablet market share in 2015.

In a heated courtroom hearing in Shanghai Wednesday, Apple defended its right to use the iPad trademark in China.

A scanned advertisement of the Proview iPad made its way onto the Wall Street Journal's China Real Time Report Blog, Feb. 17, so now everyone can see what the Apple trademark dispute is really all about. As mentioned in the accompanying report, Proview's iPad looks nothing like Apple's, but it does look a little bit like the iMac desktop computer of a decade ago.

Shares of Dell, the No. 3 PC maker, fell more than 5 percent Wednesday after the company reported earnings below estimates and issued a dismal forecast.

Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook is in an enviable position - market leading products, a $98 billion warchest and a seemingly gravity-defying stock price.

Apple is going to have the annual face-to-face meeting with shareholders Thursday, which is days after its shares crossed the record mark of $500.

The Apple iPad 3 is poised to sweep the tablet market and steal more than 50 percent of the Amazon Kindle Fire's customers, according to a new study.

Apple, the world’s most valuable company, is scheduled to convene its annual shareholder meeting Thursday at its headquarters in Cupertino, Calif.Here are three ket items to watch for.

In November 2011, Rupert Murdoch's tablet-only digital magazine The Daily discovered that Microsoft was planning to build a version of Microsoft Office for the iPad. On Tuesday, sources tell The Daily that the Microsoft Office app will soon be submitted to Apple for approval in its App Store.

Apple Inc's trademark battle moves to one of China's richest cities on Wednesday when a Shanghai court will deliberate a request by troubled technology company Proview to halt the sale of iPads across the city.

Apple fans are expecting the tech giant to debut iPad 3 on March 7, or at least in the first week of March, if rumors are to be believed, but they could be in store for disappointment - Apple might delay the release of iPad 3 as iPad tablets have been banned in China over a bitter trademark dispute between the tech giant and Proview – a bankrupt Chinese company.

OS X Mountain Lion, which debuted last week, has drawn a lot of attention as the latest operating system aims at bridging the gap between Mac and iOS devices.

Apple Inc has signed with China Telecom to sell its iPhone in China from next month as it looks to boost its flagging share of the world's biggest mobile phone market.

A Chinese court has ordered a local electronics vendor to stop selling the iPad, as part of the intensifying trademark dispute, which is threatening Apple to stop the sales of the popular tablet in the country.

China Telecom, the smallest of the country's three carriers, said on Tuesday it had signed an agreement with Apple Inc to sell iPhones in China, the world's largest mobile phone market.

China Telecom, the smallest of the country's three carriers, said on Tuesday it had signed an agreement with Apple Inc to sell iPhones in China, the world's largest mobile phone market.

Apple may release its next-generation iPhone -- presumably called the iPhone 5 -- in September or October 2012. Citing an Asian reliable source, Macotakara believes Apple is moving away from mid-year launches and leaning towards a 12-month iPhone upgrade cycle starting in the fall.

Apple Inc's legal row over its iPad trademark in China creates a window of opportunity for rivals such as Lenovo Group Ltd and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd as they try to chip away at the U.S. firm's dominance of the potentially vast Chinese tablet market.