Design guru Sir Jonathan Ive said in an interview on Thursday that he wants to stay at Apple, effectively squashing speculation that he would leave the company in order to return to England. Sir Jon made the comments to the BBC in an interview related to receiving his knighthood on Thursday.

Pascal Cagni, Apple’s General Manager and Vice President for Europe, Middle East, and Africa, resigned this week after 12 years with the company.

Rogue Amoeba’s Airfoil Speakers Touch app for iOS has been inexplicably removed from the App Store, Paul Kafasis, the company’s CEO, noted Thursday, leading some to speculate that iOS 6 will include functionality similar to that which the app provides.

Apple released Aperture 3.2.4 on Thursday, an update that addresses two issues. The first is improved stability with Snow Leopard, and the second is an issue when working with external editors in whatever OS you’re working in.

Apple and ten other companies have settled a lawsuit with licensing company SimpleAir relating to the delivery and processing of content, notifications, and updates on mobile devices.

Apple has become such a large company that its influence ripples throughout the market in ways we are just coming to understand. That, in turn, can dictate our personal technology choices in new ways.

Microsoft has won an injunction in a German court against Motorola Mobility Android devices, the company confirmed Thursday. The injunction arises from Motorola’s infringement of a Microsoft patent covering the transmission of long text messages by breaking them into multiple parts.

Google’s Android platform does not infringe upon Oracle patents, a federal jury decided Wednesday, ending a five week trial and lawsuit dating back to late 2010. Thepatents at issue relate to Oracle’s Java platform, which the company acquired during its purchase of Sun Microsystems in 2009. 

The Casellet is an iPhone case integrated with a wallet that can conceal a small amount of cash or credit cards. It’s perfect for those occasions when you need your iPhone (4 or 4S) but don’t want to carry a wallet or purse.

Sharp and Foxconn will be working together on a factory that will produce displays for Apple’s popular iPhone. The news follows reports that the two companies had struck a deal to work together on LCD panel technology.

Rumors that Apple is planning to release its own television have been circulating for months, and now Forrester Research is saying that Apple’s best move into the television market may be to make a TV that isn’t a TV at all.

The North Carolina Utility Commission approved Apple’s request to build a 4.8 megawatt fuel cell facility on Wednesday as part of its data center in Maiden. Once completed, the power plant will be the single largest privately held fuel cell center in the United States.

Apple aired two new iPhone 4S commercials Wednesday evening that show off the smartphone’s Siri voice control feature. Both ads include actor John Malkovich interacting with Siri, much like other recent iPhone commercials with celebrities.

Sir Jonathan Ive, Apple’s senior vice president of industrial design, said on Wednesday that the product his company is working on developing now is the “most important” product yet, and the one he’d like to be remembered for. While he didn’t name that product, by definition, it means that he thinks it’s more important than the original iMac, the iPod, the iPhone, or even the iPad.

Apple is accusing the U.S. Department of Justice’s antitrust suit against it and five of the so-called “Big 6” U.S. publishers is “fundamentally flawed as a matter of fact and law.” In court documents, Apple argued that the DOJ has sided with Amazon’s Ebook monopoly, rather than competition.

Many smaller developers without access to a professional public relations agency, don’t always know how to approach a blogger/reviewer.  For that matter, some PR agencies are also somewhat mystified about how bloggers work. This new e-book by Erica Sadun and Steve Sande lays it all out: How to pitch your product to a publication.

In a continuing series of reviews, John Martellaro has been looking at styluses for iOS devices, primarily an iPad. The SPIGEN Kuel H12 stylus, like the previously reviewed Wacom Bamboo, is almost perfect. But not quite.

Microsoft’s venerable Office suite may finally be heading to iOS and Android tablets this November, according to online reports. The software was said to look nearly identical to an alleged leak revealed in February.

Enterprise software and consulting firm IBM has banned the use of Apple’s Siri Personal Assistant feature on employees’ iPhones. Siri, and other apps and services such as Dropbox, pose a security risk to IBM due to their requirement that user data be transmitted to and stored on third party servers. 

In the latest development in the companies’ ongoing patent infringement litigation, Samsung has asked the US District Court for the Northern District of California to sanction Apple for allegedly withholding thousands of pages of testimony that the iDevice maker was ordered to deliver.

Patent lawsuit settlement negotiations earlier this week between Apple and Samsung failed, leaving the two companies on track for a trial next month. The negotiations came at the request of Judge Lucy Koh who is overseeing the infringement lawsuit, and included the CEOs from both companies.

All network devices, from computers, to smartphones, to printers, to televisions, need a unique IP address. These are usually handed out by a router as needed and change from time to time. Some devices, however, such as file or print servers, greatly benefit from having an IP address that never changes. The Mac Observer shows you how to easily set up static IP address, or “DHCP Reservations,” using your Mac and an Airport Extreme.

After being awarded the title of Knight Commander of the British Empire last December, Apple’s senior vice president of industrial design Jonathan Ive was officially Knighted on Tuesday. 

Apple released Camera Raw Compatibility Update 3.13 late on Tuesday. The update added iPhoto ‘11 and Aperture 3 support for new digital cameras from Canon, Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic and Sony.

Using Terminal commands, you can change the default behavior of your Dock in all sorts of ways. In this tip, Melissa Holt will cover how to “pin” your Dock to a corner of your screen, how to keep any icons from being removed or added, and how to gray out the icons of hidden applications. It’s practically a tip-o-rama in here.

Apple dominated mobile PC shipments during the March quarter, according to a new report from NPD DisplaySearch. When combining laptops and tablets, NPD said that Apple had 22.5 percent of the market, well ahead of second place HP, which had 11.6 percent of the market, as shown in the chart below.

Apple is so big, the company’s influence should be dictating your tech investment strategy, according to Barclays analyst Ben Reitzes, and what Apple doesn’t have, Samsung does. The analyst outlined a three column investment strategy for investing with companies aligned with either Apple or Samsung, or at least steering clear of companies that aren’t “Apple-safe.”

Apple has been coy in the past about disclosing its sales of Apple TVs. Data has come out in bits and pieces.  However, to gain insight into the prospects for an Apple HDTV, it seems timely to estimate how Apple has done with the Apple TV over the years.

Buffalo Technology recently released the market’s first 802.11ac router, capable of 1300 Mbps wireless link speeds. Dave Hamilton took some time to look at it, and he found that not only is it a great device to use at the new, faster speeds, it’s also a great, high-quality, dual-radio router to use with your existing 802.11n and 802.11g networks, too. Watch his video review for more.

Apple is the world’s most valuable brand for 2012, according to Millward Brown’s annual BrandZ report, which estimates brand values. Apple, which maintained its number one position from 2011’s BrandZ list, saw its brand value rise over 19 percent, to nearly $183 billion. 

Apple’s hearing for an injunction blocking the import of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet into the United States is set for June 7, and Samsung has until May 25 to respond to the iPhone and iPad maker’s motion.

Google completed its purchase of Motorola Mobility on Tuesday. The deal cost Google some US$12.5 billion and now makes the Internet search giant responsible for the patent infringement lawsuits Motorola was dealing with before the buyout was complete.

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was honored during Monday night’s Webby awards through a video featuring Al Gore, Buzz Aldrin, President Obama, and more.

A former Apple engineer has offered up the inside story of how the Apple logos on our Mac laptops went from being upside down when they were open and in use, to right side up, as they are today. It’s long been known that the late Steve Jobs eventually put through the change, but Mr. Moreno’s story shows us how that process actually worked.

An Administrative Law Judge issued a ruling on Monday declaring that a major battleground patent owned by Kodak is invalid. The judge found that both Apple and Research In Motion had infringed on this patent with some smartphone models, but ruled that “obviousness” invalidated the patent and its claims.

Textbook giant Houghton Mifflin Harcourt  Publishers, Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Monday. Many of the company’s titles are found on Apple’s iBooks Store, and its mainstay business of textbook publishing was an inaugural partner to Apple’s iBooks 2 digital textbook platform announced in January. 

Bryan Chaffin will be speaking at the Silicon Valley Mac User Group on Monday evening. At the top of his agenda will be whether or not Apple is going to release a 7.x” iPad (Hint: the answer is “Yes.”) He’ll be discussing the pros and cons of such a device, Apple’s possible pricing strategies for it, and what we might expect it look like

The iPhone 3GS, currently offered on some carriers for free with a two-year contract, may find new life as Apple’s first official pre-paid iPhone option, according to Jeffries analyst Peter Misek. The analyst told clients that Apple had signed an agreement “with a major global distributor” to look for opportunities to extend the life of the 3GS.

Griffin’s new, easy to use SmartTalk Solar Speakerphone connects to your iPhone for hands-free talk, and it’s solar powered. 

The cult-like way that some Apple customers follow the company has been discussed for many years, but now Samsung claims that the same level of “slavish adoration” exists in some of Apple’s trial experts testifying on the Cupertino company’s behalf in the ongoing patent litigation.