Returning from a holiday break, Apple today seeded iOS 5.1 Beta 3 to developers to allow for further testing of the next update to the company's mobile operating system. The new version arrives as Build 9B5141a, up from the previous Build 9B5127a released ad iOS 5.1 Beta 2 on December 12.

Citing "explosive momentum" for both Apple and Samsung, ChangeWave Research today released the results of a new survey of North American smartphone customers showing that over half of those looking to purchase a smartphone over the next 90 days are planning on buying an iPhone 4S. The 54% share of future buying plans held by Apple as of December was down from 65% in September, but easily marked Apple's best performance when measured two months after a new product release after demand has generally slackened considerably

Ion Audio's original iPad iCade started life as a ThinkGeek April Fool's joke but has since become one of the most well supported iOS game controller accessories. If you aren't familiar with it, it was a small arcade cabinet stand that allowed you to prop your iPad up and play games using a real joystick and buttons

A few more interesting items are starting to leak out ahead of CES 2012.

Most of my music I downloaded from free websites and not iTunes, so if I sync it with my original iTunes account will it only let me put the purchased songs on it and will it erase the other ones?

i have an iphone 3gs and i just got a 4s. the sim cards are different siZes so i was told to go to the apple store and they will switch it all over

I got a MacBook Pro for Christmas, and I got a case to put it in, too.

Before her surgery, she potty trained.

Im 15 years old 5'7 and 150 pounds.

soo i got a news iPod touch and I'm having problems setting it up! my apple id says its invalid and i use my email? it says reset but i don't want to start all over> .< what can i do???