According to a Wall Street Journal report, Apple has written a letter to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute asking it to lay down some specific guidelines that would govern the manner in which patents are licensed by member companies.

With the Apple-Motorola patent scuffle in Germany resulting in a Manheim court verdict which granted a permanent injunction against Apple's iCloud push email notifications, some of the mobile devices from Apple were briefly unavailable for sale in the country on Friday.

Watchdog group SumOfUs has put up a new online petition in which it has demanded that Apple's next-generation iPhone - which is widely referred to as the iPhone 5 - should be the "the first ethical iPhone"; thereby hinting that the iPhone-maker should take necessary measures to clean up its act in its overseas iPhone manufacturing factories like Foxconn.

According to the latest statistics released by research firm Canalys, the 2011 fourth quarter witnessed Apple surpassing Hewlett-Packard (HP) to emerge at the top-notch position among the PC makers. However, the research firm's counting of PCs also included tablet computers.

Despite the fact that Apple’s recent announcement of its iBooks 2 and iBooks Author software has been made with the key objective of ‘reinventing’ the textbooks by offering reasonably-priced interactive texts, the actual execution of Apple’s plans to transform the education industry appear to be rather problematic.

In the first post-Steve Jobs quarter, Apple witnessed a staggering 118 percent increase in its quarterly profits, largely due to the notably robust sales of the iPhone - with the iPhone 4S launched during the quarter - and the increasingly popular iPad.

In a new, comprehensive article that highlights some interesting details pertaining to the popular Apple iPad tablet, The New York Times’ Charles Duhigg and Keith Bradsher have shed light on Apple’s practice of overseas production of components of its devices, particularly at the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, China.