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Apple has increased its lead in music sales in the US through iTunes, with 28 percent share of all music sold and a 70 percent of all digital music downloads. Excerpt from:  NPD: Apple increases lead in music, Amazon catches up to Walmart Related posts: Apple’s iTunes lead increasing, now selling 26.7% of US music Since edging out WalMart in 2008 to become the top... Apple increases holiday quarter iPhone orders by 20 percent Demand for the iPhone 3GS this holiday season is expected... Read Full Story

Two of the leading solutions for running Microsoft’s Windows operating system within Mac OS X received new feature improvements over the past week, including Parallel’s Upgrade to Windows 7 to VMWare’s Fusion 3.1. Originally posted here:  Parallels offers Upgrade to Windows 7 as VMWare issues Fusion 3.1 Related posts: VMware Fusion 3 Offers 'Snow Leopard,` Windows 7 Support | ICT … VMware is planning to release its updated Fusion 3 virtualization... VMware Fusion 2.0.6 update for Snow... Read Full Story

A new report by Google’s AdMob subsidiary details that the installed base of iPhone OS devices visible on its ad network in April is twice as large as Android in the US, and 3.5 times larger globally. Read the original post: AdMob: iPhone OS market still twice as big as Android in US Related posts: Google to have larger iPhone ad presence with AdMob acquisition Google's purchase of AdMob Inc. will make it the Internet's... Multi-phone Android platform seen overtaking iPhone by 2012... Read Full Story

Apple’s market capitalization hit $222 billion on Wednesday, leaving it ahead of rival Microsoft as the largest technology company in the world when the closing bell rang on Wall Street. Go here to read the rest: Apple market cap tops Microsoft, is now world’s largest tech company Related posts: Mac sales grow 11.8% as Apple takes 9.4% U.S. market share Mac sales saw double-digit growth in the third quarter of... Smartphone sales jump 50%, Apple 3rd largest vendor globally Global... Read Full Story

As part of its corporate infrastructure shakeup revealed this week, Microsoft will consolidate its Mac Business Unit — the team that produces software for Mac OS X — into the company’s Business Division. View original here:  MacBU moving into Microsoft Business Division Related posts: What Do I know?: Moving To Snow Leopard I bought a copy of Snow Leopard when it came... Setup Microsoft Exchange in Mac OS X Snow Leopard – OS X Daily A much anticipated feature of Mac OS X Snow Leopard... Read Full Story

Apple reportedly explored the possibility of adding an OLED screen to its forthcoming next-generation iPhone, but ultimately rejected the feature for a variety of reasons, and will stick with an LCD IPS display. The company has also allegedly developed a minor iPhone upgrade as a backup plan in case of production issues. More: Apple rejected OLED screen for next iPhone, developed backup handset Related posts: Wireless iPhone sync software rejected by Apple from App Store Apple this... Read Full Story

Wired this week released the iPad edition of its technology oriented magazine, with the App Store software converted by Adobe from its native format of Flash to the Apple-approved Objective-C language. Read more from the original source:  Wired’s iPad edition arrives, converted from Flash by Adobe Related posts: Not quite Flash, Adobe announces iPhone native app porting Though Flash is still not available on the iPhone, Adobe... Adobe to respond to Apple by giving employees Android... Read Full Story

As overseas electronics manufacturer Foxconn continues to come under fire for a number of suicides over the last year, Apple has officially commented on the matter and revealed that it plans to carry out its own independent investigations. See the original post here:  Apple looking into Foxconn suicides, says it is ’saddened and upset’ Related posts: Apple partner Foxconn says it’s not a ’sweatshop’ as suicides mount A Chinese employee of Foxconn, the overseas manufacturer of numerous... Read Full Story

Two lost prototype iPhones, presumed to represent the fourth-generation handset that will be be announced by Steve Jobs at the Worldwide Developers Conference, have taken away the element of surprise for Apple, one prominent analyst believes. The rest is here: Piper: Apple has ‘little room for surprise’ at WWDC 2010 Related posts: Steve Jobs to kick off Apple’s WWDC 2010 with June 7 keynote As expected, the first day of Apple's annual Worldwide Developers... Foxconn to ship 24M next... Read Full Story

The US Department of Justice is looking into Apple’s negotiating tactics with music labels related to sales and marketing within the iTunes Store. Go here to read the rest:  US DoJ looking at Apple’s iTunes for antitrust issues in music Related posts: Apple launches iTunes Music Movies with exclusive content Apple has begun to promote music-themed movies on the iTunes... Music industry wants performance compensation from iTunes A consortium of music industry groups has begun lobbying... Read Full Story