Apple is building “the nation’s largest end-user-owned, onsite solar array” at its Maiden, North Carolina, data center, the company says in an environmental report on the project that provides new details on the facility. The Maiden facility is home to the company’s iCloud service, which just passed 100 million users. The 100-acre, 20-megawatt facility will [...]

Here’s the latest punch in the ongoing mobile-device patent brawl: Apple has filed an official complaint with the European Commission against Motorola Mobility for violating agreements to fairly license standards-essential patents. The action comes just days after the U.S. and E.U. approved Google’s purchase of Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. Motorola revealed the complaint Friday [...]

This weekend, fans and mourners of the late Whitney Houston received a shock when they decided to purchase her albums on iTunes. The prices of Houston’s records seemingly shot up overnight, causing some to point fingers at Apple for taking advantage of her untimely death.However, Apple wasn’t responsible for the price hike, which boosted Houston’s [...]

Apple’s latest OS X update- Mountain Lion, adds a slate of new features, nearly all derived from iOS 5.But Siri, Apple’s voice-controlled virtual assistant, does not make the migration from mobile to desktop. Technically Siri isn’t a part of iOS 5. It’s the game-changing feature of the iPhone 4S, and Apple has remained mum on [...]

The concept of mobile connectivity in today’s multi-device world is changing,it means more than just connecting our laptop computers to WiFi or 3G carrier networks wherever we go. Today people work on more than one computer. Increasingly, workers and consumers alike rely on a growing collection of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet PCs.Sending [...]

Apple reveals a developers’ preview of the next version of its OS X operating system, and it’s loaded with some of the features found in the company’s popular iPhone, iPad and iPod.Parts of the OS X refresh, called “Mountain Lion” and expected to be released in late summer.A new messaging app  will replace iChat . [...]

Vimeo (Free – iOS, Android) Vimeo has always been second fiddle to YouTube. Yet, Vimeo does attract a more professional grade of videographer and often the contents of Vimeo are much more polished than the much uploaded to YouTube from millions of would-be Internet stars. Vimeo finally has a new app for iOS and Android [...]

Google is launching a paid cloud storage service called “Drive,” five years after they first came up with the idea.Google Drive will let consumers store documents, photographs and videos on Google’s servers for sharing and easy accessibility from any Web-connected device.It is expected to be free for most consumers and businesses, but Google will charge [...]

Many cable companies are using iPad as a way to build a better navigation system, there’s one app that’s trying to build TV-like navigation for web videos. Nowbox, which is available as a free download on the Apple App Store, has succeeded in letting viewers surf through channels of web video on the iPad in [...]

The New York Times showed the sobering account of conditions at Apple’s contract factories in China. Essentially, the manufacture of those sleek and sexy devices that consumers love so much has been accompanied by 23 deaths and 273 injuries. In a horrific account of one of the deaths, the Times told of Lai Xiadong, who [...]