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It now seems inevitable that Google and Apple will face each other in the courts. The great irony is that Apple will be fighting for open standards for the smartphone industry, while Google appears set on a course to make FRAND deals a whole lot less friendly. So much for the 'open' OS...

Apple is in accelerated lock-down as it attempts to identify the best possible apps to demonstrate on the iPad 3 the company plans to launch at a special event next month.

Apple is facing international protest against the plight of workers in its supplier factories. Isn't it time the campaign bought the fight for fair working conditions against Apple's competitors, too?

Despite the departure of engineering chief, David Tupman, the iPad 3 is coming -- Apple intends shipping the new product perhaps as soon as March 2012. What will you find inside?

Better days are likely ahead for Windows Phone, but for now at least, sales continue to be dismal, losing ground to both iOS and Android. Overall sales have also declined according to the latest report from the analyst firm Canalyst.

This time it turns out tales claiming Apple has pondered moving the Mac to ARM aren't spurious at all, and that OS X has been running on iOS chips inside the company's r&d labs -- but don't hold your breath for an iOS Mac -- not just yet...

Google is moving to bridge the user experience divide between the iPhone and Android devices, delivering security enhancements and hinting at future product integrity improvements to improve devices within the Android ecosystem. Is that enough as Apple preps the ground for the next-generation of mobile devices?

Sometimes I worry about iTunes. Specifically, I'm concerned that Apple and its iTunes team are making lousy decisions when it comes to censorship. Now the latest iTunes Match 'bug' censors your music collection, replacing explicit songs purchased elsewhere with the cleaned-up versions. Bad Apple.

Apple sees games as an essential part of its future, today naming former Microsoft Xbox Product Marketing chief Robin Burrowes as head of App Store Marketing for iTunes Europe.

Apple has failed in its bid to have Samsung's latest tablet banned in Germany. So Europeans can still buy the Galaxy Tab 10.1N. A Munich court ruled that a key Apple patent was probably invalid, due to prior art. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers count their Euros and run to the stores.

Apple has begun assembling the component suppliers it needs for the future Apple television, an analyst claims. And the company may transform the industry this year....

It's Samsung and not Apple who faces the wrath of EU competition regulators, who today announced a probe into the company over possible patent rights abuses in its smartphone war with the iPhone-maker.

Jony Ive isn't the only Brit at the top of Apple's executive tree any more. He has a retail-focused potential chum as Apple hires away Dixons chief exec, John Browett, to lead its rapidly-expanding and highly profitable retail arm. What do we know about the new boss?

Apple continues to explore solutions to transform a future iPhone into the mythical 'iWallet', an interview with MasterCard's head of emerging markets, Ed McLaughlin, suggests. Will the iPhone 5 put coontacless payment technologies into the mainstream?

iPhone is king of smartphones once again. Apple [AAPL] sold 37 million of the things in Q4 2011, dashing Samsung from its briefly-held position as world's number one smartphone vendor. Samsung, meanwhile, is watching its Android advantage become its Achilles' Heel.