Apple Inc's new iPad topped Consumer Reports' list of tablets despite the influential watchdog stoking doubts two weeks ago by saying the latest iteration of the best-selling tablet threw off more heat when used heavily. The widely followed group that reviews everything from electronics to cars, said on Monday that it did not find the higher temperatures to be cause for concern. The nonprofit organization also tested the iPad for concerns …

Apple Inc's new iPad topped Consumer Reports' list of tablets despite the influential watchdog stoking doubts two weeks ago by saying the latest iteration of the best-selling tablet threw off more heat when used heavily. The widely followed group that reviews everything from electronics to cars, said on Monday that it did not find the higher temperatures to be cause for concern. The nonprofit organization also tested the iPad for concerns …

Apple is expected to reveal a new version of its coveted iPad on Wednesday in its first major media event since the death of legendary founder and beloved pitchman Steve Jobs. In typical Apple style, the California-based company has offered the scantest of hints as to what it will unveil on the stage of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, igniting a wildfire of rumor in the online technology world. A picture on press invitations, …

Apple Inc raised the stake in an intensifying global patent battle with Samsung Electronics by targeting the latest model using Google's fast growing Android software, a move which may affect other Android phone makers. Apple has asked a federal court in California to block Samsung from selling its new Galaxy Nexus smartphones, which use Google's newest version of Android, called Ice Cream Sandwich, alleging four patent violations including new …

Microsoft founder Bill Gates coolly parried some harsh criticism from late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, in an interview Sunday, saying their professional rivalry was positive. Gates, who maintained a long rivalry with the Apple innovator, was asked about an authorized biography of Jobs by Walter Isaacson which portrayed Gates as comparatively uninspired as a creative spirit. The Microsoft founder was told that Jobs "basically said that you were …

Steve Jobs was honored online and off Wednesday as tributes poured into a memorial website set up by Apple for its late co-founder and shops closed temporarily as workers celebrated his life. Doors were locked and curtains drawn at Apple Stores to allow retail store employees to tune into a private memorial being held in an amphitheater at the company's headquarters in the northern California city of Cupertino. Shops reopened at noon, two hours …

Board of Directors (BoD), Pakistan Steel Mills, in their meeting on Saturday would demand government to help getting loan of Rs20 billion from banks or provide Rs50 billion for shutting down the corporation, Geo News reported. The meeting of Board of Directors would be held here on Saturday in which five-year plan for the revamping of the organization would come under consideration.

Apple on Tuesday unveiled an updated iPhone complete with a built-in "personal assistant" in a move that failed to dazzle investors but promised to keep the smartphones ahead of the pack. Apple shares slipped on Wall Street after the California gadget maker showed off a slick, improved version of the iPhone but not the revamped next-generation iPhone 5 smartphone many had hoped for. Apple's new chief executive Tim Cook, who replaced ailing founder …

Apple is working on new versions of the iPhone that will be cheaper and smaller than the most recent ones, a media report said Friday. The move is aimed at slowing the advance of competing handsets based on Google’s Android software, according to people who have been briefed on the plans. One version would be cheaper and smaller than the most recent iPhone, said a person who has seen a prototype and asked not to be identified because the plans …

Apple’s set-top box TV system Apple TV has long since passed the phase where it’s the domain of hobbyists, according to Apple head Steve Jobs. That’s because the second generation of the Apple TV system is set to surpass the million sales mark in the next weeks, if it hasn’t done so already. “Apple had seriously underestimated the possible sales of Apple TV, particularly in Europe,” said Archibald Horlitz, head of Gravis, an Apple vendor in Europe, …