The latest in a string of patent lawsuits has just been announced: a relatively unknown Colorado company named Potter Voice Technologies claims that all major smartphone vendors, including Apple, are infringing on a patent on natural-language voice control of a computer . Apple’s in good company — the other…

Nintendo has reported its first annual operating loss ever . The company lost US$454.4 million from 2011 to 2012. The Wii is a few years old now, and the company’s latest handheld, the Nintendo 3DS, hasn’t been selling near as well as it was supposed to. Nintendo claims it’ll turn sales…

TIME Business has a short, but poignant article from Sam Gustin about Apple and its business strategy. Unlike similar articles that focused on Steve Jobs and his leadership style, this article looks at Apple as a whole. Gustin says that Apple has…

I’ve been slowly wading into App Store development recently , and while I’ve found Apple to be extremely supportive developers on the Mac, it hasn’t released any development tools for iOS (“Xcode for iPad” is one of those mythical creatures that developers will tell you they want only after…

Apple just posted its Q2 2012 SEC filings. CUPERTINO, California-April 24, 2012-Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2012 second quarter ended March 31, 2012. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $39.2 billion and quarterly net profit of $11.6 billion, or $12.30 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of …

Apple’s yearly Worldwide Developer’s Conference provides three key functions. First, it offers up-to-the-minute tech briefings from Apple engineers. Second, it allows developers access to labs for specific technical…

John Welch over at Ars Technica wrote a wonderful post about using an iPad as a system administrator’s tool , noting that Apple’s tablet is “an addition, not a replacement” to the many tools that IT pros currently …

Malaysia’s Maxis Bhd has announced that it will be offering the data plans for Apple’s iPad , starting as soon as this week. The iPad will take advantage of the company’s recent carrier upgrades (presumably, since we’re talking about the iPad…

FireCore just updated aTV Flash , an alternative software package for the second generation Apple TV. With a jailbroken Apple TV and the FireCore software, you can use the media device to surf…

Before Ubisoft, there was Jordan Mechner, a Yale University graduate and video game designer. He may not be a household name among younger Apple fans, but vintage Apple aficionados fondly remember his first title, Prince of Persia . The…