Apple may not be the world's leading mobile phone maker, but its cut of both profits and sales puts it firmly at the top. Though it holds only around 9 percent of the global mobile phone market, Apple raked in 75 percent of all profits across the industry last quarter, according to Asymco analyst Horace Dediu. That left rival Samsung with 16 percent of the profit pie, RIM with 3.7 percent, HTC ...

Apple holds only a 9 percent share of the global mobile phone market, but it grabbed 75 percent of the industry's overall profits last quarter, according to data from Asymco.

Noise-reduction technology from a start-up called Audience accounts for the size of the iPhone 4S chip and keeps Siri off the iPhone 4, analyst Linley Gwennap concludes.

iPhone 5, predicted to be launched at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) this June, will be the first iPhone to be waterproof, according to the latest rumor reported in the Daily Mail UK.

The iPhone and the iPad have helped make chips more popular for wireless devices than they are for personal computers. According to an iSuppli report, wireless devices have become the largest consumers in the semiconductor market, accounting for 24% of all total chips sold.

(Credit: Apple) The iPhone 4S launch in China did not go quite as Apple had planned. Throngs of people are a norm for new product launches at Apple, but the gaggle of scalpers trying to hustle the system caused Apple to delay sales, earning its stores an egg wash and plenty of animosity. Now, after implementing a lottery system for ordering the iPhone 4S, Apple has resumed selling the device ...

Apple’s iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS are back on digital shelves on its German Web site, the latest turn in the company’s patent tussle with Motorola. That dispute had led the Cupertino, Calif.-based company to temporarily remove its older iPhones and iPads from the company’s Web site. Read full article >>

The iPhone 4S launch in China did not go quite as Apple had planned. Throngs of people are a norm for new product launches at Apple, but the gaggle of scalpers trying to hustle the system caused Apple to delay sales, earning its stores an egg wash and plenty of animosity. Now, after implementing a lottery system for ordering the iPhone 4S, Apple has resumed selling the device online and will ...

Apple will be able to sell its iPad 2 with 3G, iPhone 3GS, and iPhone 4 via its online store in Germany after all, thanks to a temporary extension courtesy of a German court. As noted by the BBC , an appeals court lifted the ban on certain iOS devices just after Apple was forced to remove them from its German online store earlier on Friday. Still, not all is going Apple's way, as a Mannheim ...

Apple forced to pull older iPhones off its online store, faces an injunction on push e-mail