The iPhone has been a staple of mobile communications around the world for half a decade. Unfortunately for Apple, it was already a “thing” in Mexico in 2003 when the iFone trade name was registered in Mexico in 2003. Now, Apple has lost the right to the iPhone brand name in the country. With the two largest Mexican mobile carriers scheduled to start selling the iPhone 5 on Friday, the lawyers in Cupertino have to act quickly to come up with a financial settlement with the telecommunications company or risk major complications both in branding and in sales. According to Electronista: Apple has lost…

Most are well-aware of Apple’s uncanny ability to put on a big production. They are the masters of hype when it comes to launching major products such as the iPhone 5 and the machine is able to keep the excitement going for weeks at a time when other companies often have their products fall off the map in days. What doesn’t get as much attention is Apple’s skill at the lite launch. The iPad Mini is reportedly getting a lite launch and this is the perfect strategy for it. With dozens of quality Android devices on the market for the small tablet buyer, the iPad Mini is expected to still make a splash. It won’t…

You have to give Apple credit. They know they launched a dud and they’re willing to admit it. Mostly. In a letter to their customers, Apple CEO Tim Cook encouraged iOS6 users to download apps to use instead of Apple’s version. This humbling experience has been treated very well by the company; the finger pointing has been minimal and the willingness to accept failure has been admirable. Here’s the letter from their website: Now, they’ve taken it a step further by reducing their claims that they placed on the website . Instead of saying it’s the “most beautiful, powerful mapping service ever”, they…

The New York Times is not known as a publication that looks for the silver lining in news, but they make a point that may be the only good one for Apple when it comes to their disastrous iOS 6 maps launch. Things Can Only Get Better. They certainly couldn’t get any worse. In the ongoing cold war between Apple and Google, users were hit as the first casualty. The brand new maps, brought about as a replacement to help remove a relationship between the two tech giants that has existed since the first iPhone, are so bad they’ve become comical. It’s not funny in the way that Google handled their 8-bit maps for April…

Next week, all of the rumors surrounding the upcoming iPhone 5 will be confirmed, refuted, or left in the air. One thing is certain: September 12th will be the official Apple iPhone 5 event. Though the invitation they sent to tech magazines across the internet didn’t give many specifics, the clever play on the date with the shadowed 5 makes it pretty clear what the event is going to surround. Will it have a 4″ screen as rumored? When will it officially be available? Will there be major changes to the hardware, battery, or other components? Are they really rolling out a new type of charger? We’ll know…

If reports from the hacker group are to be believed, the FBI has over 12 million Unique Device Identifiers (UDIDs) on file and now 1,000,001 of them have been leaked to the public. Using the AtomicReferenceArray vulnerability in Java, the group allegedly hacked into Supervisor Special Agent Christopher K Stangl’s notebook in March of this year and retrieved a file with information about Apple iOS device users. The file, named “NCFTA_iOS_device_intel.csv”, is claimed to have usernames, device names, device types, push notification tokens, zip codes, phone numbers, addresses, and other…

If you thought the battle between Apple and Samsung was big, you may be in for a mobile device war between the two largest superpowers if recent statements out of the Google camp are to be believed. Reuters is reporting that the new heads of the two companies, Google’s Larry Page and Apple’s Tim Cook, were in meetings last week that were expected to continue today but had to be postponed for unknown reasons. Apple won the first major battle over Samsung which many are considering a proxy war against the overall Android operating system. Mobile OS is considered both the present and future of computing…

How ’bout them apples. With a market cap of over $632 billion, Apple is huge. That’s common knowledge. What may surprise people is how it compares to other giants in the tech world. While the company often competes with Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, the three giants total combined market cap is still well-below that of Apple. Throw in Facebook for good measure and Apple still comes out triumphant. TheNextWeb gave us the numbers: Value by market cap: Microsoft: $256.78B Google: $221.48B Facebook: $41.43B Amazon:  $111.26B Total: $630.95B Not bad at all, especially when you consider that all…

An unwillingness to “sleep with the enemy” may be behind cable companies’ reluctance to deal with Apple, but that isn’t stopping the Cupertino tech firm from trying. Their latest round of talks with various entertainment brokers would give their set top box the ability to integrate traditional cable feeds. It’s a matter of compromise. Apple has been trying for years to break into the television industry, even contemplating licensing content directly and competing with cable operators. If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em… The walled-garden of the television industry has long been reluctant…

The wait is finally nearly over. After a false start earlier in the year that got everyone excited about the iPhone 5 only to be offered the iPhone 4s instead, Apple appears to be ready to release their latest generation smartphone to its adoring fans. According to iMore, the iPhone 5 event will be held September 12 with pre-orders opening up that day. The information on Apple pre-orders comes from sources that have provided iMore with accurate iPhone related launch dates in the past. The information on the international launches comes from sources that have provided our network, Mobile Nations,…