Apple

Apple fans were left disappointed yesterday when the pre-announcement hype of a new iPhone failed to live up to reality.

Apple fans are amped. The computer and gadget maker is expected to announce a new, more powerful version of its wildly popular smartphone this week - more than a year after it unveiled the iPhone 4.

Silicon Valley legend Steve Jobs has resigned as chief executive of Apple Inc in a stunning move that ended his 14-year reign at the technology giant he co-founded in a garage.

At first, it looks like a sleek Apple store. Sales assistants in blue T-shirts with the company's logo chat to customers. Signs advertising the iPad 2 hang from the white walls. Outside, the famous logo sits next to the words "Apple Store".

That iPhones and other Apple handheld gadgets keep track of their users' moves may have been news to most users when it was publicly disclosed late last week.

Apple and its new iPad 2 have set a new standard for hardware devices, with Apple chief executive Steve Jobs launching the new device yesterday ahead of schedule.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs is taking his second medical leave of absence in two years, raising serious questions about his health and the leadership of a company at the forefront of a personal computing revolution.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs' compensation package remained the usual $1 in fiscal 2010, but the value of the shares he owns has skyrocketed amid the company's ongoing success with introducing shiny new gadgets many people come to find indispensable.

Apple says people snapped up more than 450,000 copies of Beatles albums plus two million individual songs during the Fab Four's first week on sale through iTunes.

The release of a New Zealand iPad application (ap) is the start of what technology supplier Renaissance Group chief executive Richard Webb hopes will be big things to come for the company.

Samsung has unveiled a new tablet PC named Galaxy Tab as the latest device meant to rival Apple's popular iPad.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced a new line of iPods today, including a Nano model that has a touch screen and lacks buttons.

Apple has officially announced the pricing for its iPad tablet computer which goes on sale in New Zealand today.

The Apple iPad will finally reach New Zealand on Friday, the company announced today.

Apple will give free protective cases to buyers of its latest iPhone to alleviate the so-called "death grip" problem in which holding the phone with a bare hand can muffle the wireless signal.