After Apple’s historic holiday quarter, Wall Street analysts (for the most part) are champing at the bit to raise predictions for AAPL, citing overwhelmingly strong iPhone and iPad sales last year and high expectations for new product releases this year. Screenshot by Joe Aimonetti According to a report by The Apple Blog, several analysts think …

According to app store analytics researcher Distimo, developers who put their iPhone and iPad apps on sale in Apple’s App Store see a significant jump in revenue, as do Android developers using the Android Market. For the report, Distimo examined 100 of the top apps in Apple’s App Store (for iPhone and iPad) as well as the top 100 for …

Apple is making a move to break into South America–and Brazil is ready (and willing) to help. According to a report from Brazilian newspaper Folha (via MacRumors), Foxconn will begin producing iPads in its Brazilian factory after being officially granted a batch of tax incentives from the Brazilian government. Cult of Mac As Tim Cook noted in his quarterly earnings …

Holiday earnings reports are being posted, and Verizon’s indicates that more than half of its smartphone sales were iPhones. This resulted in a revenue surge for its wireless division, but because of heavy subsidies, an overall decline in profits. Apple Verizon’s Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo said in a report by CNNMoney the loss is OK in Verizon’s eyes, noting …

In October 2011, Apple won a patent detailing the method of sliding an onscreen mark to unlock the iOS operating system on a mobile device. Now, just four months later, Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus is coming under fire for violating that patent. As Samsung and Apple have been going head-to-head in court lately, this should come as little surprise. The latest …

With the spotlight turned on education after Apple’s latest media event, iTunes U has gotten a facelift as well as some important resource pages on Apple’s Web site. Screenshot by Joe Aimonetti iTunes U is a source for hundreds of thousands of lectures, videos, books, and other resources originating from many of the world’s leading educational institutions. There are thousands …

After a yearlong pilot program in California initiated by publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the math scores of students using iPads jumped 20 percent compared with classrooms that used traditional paper textbooks. Apple HMH Fuse: Algebra I was instituted at Amelia Earhart Middle School in the Riverside Unified School District as the world’s first iPad-driven algebra curriculum. According to the HMH …

Apple has long been at the forefront of battery technology, especially for mobile consumer electronics. One of Apple’s most recent patent applications details a new line of thinking for battery design that could lead to thinner, more efficient power on the go. Patently Apple Apple believes that the current standard for battery design is approaching its maximum limitations. But, not …

Rumors are a funny thing. In one instance they create a whole culture of fodder for bloggers and their readers. In another, they cause whole factories to produce cases for products that neither exist, nor have official specifications. Such was the story before the iPhone 4S release and has now returned as the rumored iPad 3 launch looms. This is …

It’s no surprise that China’s mobile market is highly coveted by any handset manufacturer. According to a new report from Wireless Intelligence, reported by GigaOm, China is approaching the 1 billion mark for mobile connections, largely due to the popularity of 3G, which accounts for nearly 25 percent of subscribers. China’s mobile connections grew almost 17 percent from 2010 to …