STEVE JOBS

U.S. securities regulators have dropped a stock options backdating investigation against former Pixar Animation Studios Chief Financial Officer Ann Mather, according to a letter obtained by Reuters on Friday.

A majority of college-bound students getting reading for the coming school semester are a preferring to steer away from Mac laptops, a new study reveals.Instead, students are leaning toward affordable netbooks from a variety of manufacturers, according to Retrevo, a consumer electronics website, that conducted the study.While 49 percent of students will buy full-sized Windows laptops, 34 percent will purchase netbooks. That places Mac's at the very bottom with only 17 percent of students...

A tablet version of the Mac will be on the market by early 2010, if not sooner, which, according to industry analysts who follow Apple would bring Apple billions of dollars of new sales.

Apple is speculated to roll out a new Apple TV within the next several months, according to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster. Apple has strong incentive to build a new set-top if it decides to offer a subscription service for iTunes video.

Apple is speculated to roll out a new Apple TV within the next several months, according to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster.

Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs was reportedly rejected two years ago by former Palm Inc. CEO Ed Colligan when he asked for an agreement between the two companies that required them to not poach each other's workers.

Market researcher Richard Doherty said that Apple has developed two tablet computers prototypes: a 6-inch oversized-iPod version and another with a bigger display. The researcher speculated that the smaller Apple tablet would cost about $679 and will probably run on an iPhone-based operating system

When it comes to Apple's tablet rumor, the plot thickened today.

Apple is investigating media reports that one or more of the company's iPhones have exploded in Europe, a European Commission spokeswoman said Tuesday.

Apple Inc. will hold its music event Sep. 9 but it won't debut a tablet as previously speculated, according to reports Tuesday.

Apple Inc's board plans to meet next Tuesday and discuss potential replacements for Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, who stepped down from the board earlier this month, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing a person familiar with the matter.

A prominent technology analyst predicted that Apple Inc. would release a tablet or mini-computer for sale early next year, and that it could boost the consumer electronics company's revenue by 3 percent in 2010. Gene Munster, a Piper Jaffray analyst said the tablet from Apple will look like an iPod Touch, but a bit larger.

Senior officials from Apple Inc had begun negotiations with China Unicom in Beijing, a source close to both sides told Netease on Monday night, noting that the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS will be introduced to China at the same time.

Former corporate executive Don Yows took an entry-level job that set his career in information technology back by two decades.

Apple passed an important milestone last quarter that nobody on Wall Street seems to have noticed: the iPod, once Apple's No. 1 source of revenue, fell into third place after the Mac (No. 1) and the iPhone (No. 2), Fortune's Philip Elmer-DeWitt said on Wednesday.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said it will continue to investigate the relationship between the boards of Apple Inc and Google Inc, after Google's chief quit Apple's board on Monday

Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt has quit Apple Inc's board of directors, a move that may help defuse some scrutiny of their relationship as they compete in key markets.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has resigned from Apple's board of directors due to conflicts of interest between the two companies.

Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt is resigning from Apple Inc's board of directors, the companies said, citing increased competition between the two leading technology companies.

Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt is resigning from Apple Inc's board of directors, Apple said, citing increased competition between the two leading technology companies.

Eric Schmidt, chief executive officer of Google, announced his resignation from Apple's Board of Directors due to potential conflicts as the two tech giants compete in similar markets.