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Steve Jobs has resigned as Apple CEO

Apple won an injunction in a Dutch court on Wednesday to stop Samsung Electronics from marketing three smartphone models in some European countries after alleging a breach of patents.

Steve Jobs co-founder of Apple (AAPL), a visionary, and the driving force behind one of the United States' premiere and most trail-blazing companies in the modern/postmodern era, has had several medical leaves.

Steve Jobs has resigned as Apple's leader. The move has been speculated because of questions over Jobs' health. He was diagnosed with a rare form of pancreatic cancer in 2004 and underwent a liver transplant two years ago. Speculation has focused on when Jobs might retire, but even though the timing might come as a surprise, Jobs' impact as a 21st century leader is clear. Here are five reasons Apple's Steve Jobs made his mark as one of the greatest CEO's ever.

teve Jobs, resigned as CEO of Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) Wednesday and will replaced by Tim Cook, the former chief operating officer

Steve Jobs, the iconic founder and creative force of Apple Inc., has stepped down as Chief Executive Officer and will assume the role of Chairman of the Board.

Apple announced Wednesday that Steve Jobs is resigning as Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective immediately.

The world's two largest cellphone vendors, Nokia and Samsung Electronics, unveiled new cheaper smartphone models on Wednesday hoping to defend their stronghold from Apple.

A new app for the Apple iPad gives users access to more than 6,000 corporate white papers in the business and technology fields.

Apple's iPad has been crushing the com[etition in the tablet market, but suddenly HP's discontinued TouchPad is red hot and Lenovo has entered the market with the first ThinkPad tablets that are now available. The 10.1-inch ThinkPad is built around the Android system, the most competitive tablet platform to Apple's iOS used in the iPad tablet. The ThinkPad is also geared toward the business market, not the consumer market. Lenovo introduced its first business-class Android-based...

Sprint may finally jump on the bandwagon and join its rivals in offering Apple's products, starting with none other than the iPhone 5. Bbut this may not prove to be such a boon to the No.3 U.S. carrier.

A German court will decide on Thursday whether Samsung can sell its latest iPad rival in Germany after an preliminary injunction requested by Apple barred the South Korean company from selling its new Galaxy tablets in Europe's biggest economy earlier this month.

HP thought its webOS system was a bust, so the company decided to kill webOS devices, including the TouchPad tablet and smartphones. But once HP discounted the slow-selling TouchPad to $99 just seven weeks after launching the product consumers flocked in, selling the tablet out of stock.

Apple will ship 44.2 million iPads, researchers say

The world's two largest cellphone vendors, Nokia and Samsung Electronics, unveiled new cheaper smartphone models on Wednesday hoping to defend their stronghold from Apple.

In a remarkable and near-amusing turn of events, Stanley Kubrick's movie 2001: A Space Odyssey has come to the rescue of Samsung in its patent dispute with Apple which will decide the fate of four key Samsung products, Infuse 4G, Galaxy S 4G, Droid Charge, and Galaxy Tab 10.1.

Samsung Electronics unveiled four new smartphone models under its flagship Galaxy line on Wednesday, expanding its offerings of cheaper phones to tap growth in emerging markets.

Apple's tight-lipped approach towards its iPhone 5 release date has fueled several rumors, and the latest is that U.S. carrier Sprint will carry it along with Verizon and AT&T.

Apple Inc will release a cheaper iPhone 4 within weeks, jeopardizing profit margins to win lower-end customers from rivals such as Nokia in China and other emerging markets.

Apple is getting ready to launch two phones, according to people familiar with the matter, confirming rumors that have run rampant for months which suggested another phone would join the launch of the iPhone 5.

Asian suppliers to Apple Inc have begun manufacturing a lower-priced version of its hot-selling iPhone 4 with a smaller 8 gigabyte flash drive, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.

Sprint Nextel Corp. will begin selling the iPhone 5 in mid-October, sources close to the matter tell the Wall Street Journal.

Apple Inc will release a cheaper iPhone 4 within weeks, jeopardizing profit margins to win lower-end customers from rivals such as Nokia in China and other emerging markets.

Apple has sent Korean manufacturers a new orders for a smaller 8GB iPhone 4 according to sources who have not revealed their identity as the information has not yet been made public.

As the rumors around the iPhone 5 release date heat up, the market for Apple's next-generation smartphone could be well overheated.

Asian suppliers to Apple Inc (AAPL.O) have begun manufacturing a lower-priced version of its hot-selling iPhone 4 with a smaller 8 gigabyte flash drive, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.

Asian suppliers of Apple are working on cheaper version of 8GB iPhone 4, also known as the iPhone 4S will be launched along with the iPhone 5 at the end of September.

China Telecom Corp Ltd, the smallest of the country's three telecommunications carriers, is still in talks with Apple Inc to carry its iPhone, targeting growth in high-end users.

Apple is holding the top spot among US smartphones with last year's iPhone 4.