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Ever wondered why your iPhone had patchy service even though it showed the signal bars at full strength? Apple has an answer for you - and it's not a defective antenna.

Are you an unemployed antenna engineer who specializes in wireless mobile devices? Apple might have a job for you.

Apple's new iPhone 4 costs almost $US20 ($NZ28.70) more to make than its predecessor, the iPhone 3GS, but the device will still help the company continue to rack up high profits, the research group iSuppli says.

Apple chief executive Steve Jobs has once again pulled a new iPhone out of his proverbial magician's hat, leading hordes of gadget-happy consumers to wait in line for hours to snag one.

First there's the anticipation. Then, the long lines, followed by the triumphant walk out of the Apple store, new gadget in hand. Now, inevitably, the first slew of complaints are in, among them that just holding the iPhone 4 a certain way can interfere with calls.

Apple's newest iPhone was in short supply just hours after its global launch began in Tokyo, as hundreds queued outside stores across the city to become among the first in the world to own the device.

The smallest sibling of the Mac family just graduated. Little brother has some new smarts and a sharp new suit.

Apple said it and its phone company partners took orders for more than 600,000 iPhone 4s in one day, the highest number it's ever seen.

After decades of false starts, will Apple be able to bring video chat to the masses?

Google thinks its increasingly bitter rival Apple is trying to muscle it out of the mobile advertising competition on the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

After a series of leaked prototypes, it's almost a given that Apple will unveil a new version of the iPhone during its annual software developers conference that opens this week in San Francisco.

Companies are paying newspapers and magazines up to five times as much to place ads in their iPad applications as what similar advertising costs on regular websites.

There's no safe place on the web, reports former hacker Marc Maiffret, who shared some interesting insights recently with CNET.com regarding Internet security.

Apple said today that iPad sales have topped 2 million since its launch almost two months ago.