In line with the rumored April 23 launch date, BBC News reports that Intel has officially introduced the first batch of its next-generation Ivy Bridge processors. The processors are Intel's first to use a 22-nm manufacturing process and "Tri-Gate" technology of 3D transistors to reduce power and increase efficiency.

Following last week's rumor that Apple is looking to adopt thinner in-cell touch technology for the display of the next-generation iPhone, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who recently took on a new position with KGI Securities, has issued a report looking at how that change could help Apple reduce the thickness of the iPhone from the current 9.3 mm of the iPhone 4S to under 8 mm. The move would help Apple to compete against its Android-based challengers, which have continued to see reductions in their thickness over time

I have been trying to download an app off of the app store, and it keeps on saying "unable to purchase". I use my brother's apple account because I haven't synced mine into a computer yet. I don't know anything about computers, so anything simple would be nice

Yesterday, law firm Hagens Berman filed a lawsuit in a California U.S. District Court against Apple Inc. related to “gesture recognition technology for touchscreens” covered in patents owned by Flatworld Interactives.

As announced earlier this week, Apple today began selling the new iPad in twelve new countries: Brunei, Croatia, Cyprus, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Malaysia, Panama, South Korea, Saint Maarten, Uruguay and Venezuela.

I got an iPod touch with iOS 5. I have an Xbox 360 with 250GB.

Apple CEO Tim Cook didn't visit Valve headquarters according to company co-founder Gabe Newell. The rumor , originally reported by AppleInsider , was squashed by Newell in a podcast interview. Video game website Kotaku had a preview of the podcast from Seven Day Cooldown that included this quote: We actually, we all sent mail to each other, going, "Who's Tim Cook meeting with

9to5Mac claims Apple's marketing chief Phil Schiller told a fan that the uber-popular photography app Instagram " jumped the shark " after it launched an Android version.

Back in January, blogger Seattle Rex announced that he would be suing Apple over issues related to his 2008 MacBook Pro that appears to have suffered from an NVIDIA graphics card failure . According to Rex, the graphics chip on his top-of-the-line 17-inch MacBook Pro began to flake out late last year, two months after his AppleCare extended warranty expired, and a month later the machine died completely, refusing to boot.

As noted by Macgasm , Apple has begun notifying at least some MobileMe users of a new upgrade program offering a free copy of Mac OS X Snow Leopard.