We take a look at some areas in which the iPhone 5 must improve if it's to keep Apple in the smartphone race.

8″ iPad, Retina Display, smaller dock connector, LTE, and more, coming March 7th from Apple.

In the past few months there has been a lot of speculation surrounding the release of the next iPad. There have been reports that Apple had already begun production of the device with a release early 2012, and now there is talk that the iPad 3 release date is to coincide with Steve Jobs birthday.

One after another, problems are popping up for Apple ever since they launched their iPhone 4S. What seemed to be minor battery problem last week, now turned into a list of annoying problems, including microphone failures, Wi-Fi signal loss, and cellular network reception issues.

According to research by myvouchercodes.co.uk, a sizeable proportion of those with an Apple tablet get bored with their new device pretty quickly. When asked how often they use their tablets, 26 per cent of iPad owners said once a week, while another 11 per cent said with even less frequency.

Apple's new Siri voice-control system apparently has a feature which directs you to local prostitutes if you say you make a reference to feeling horny. If you tell your phone 'I am horny' or 'Do I make you horny?' to the handset, it uses the GPS to bring up numbers of nearby 'escort' services.

Armed with new patents transferred from Google, HTC has filed a new lawsuit against Apple and amended two previous legal complaints. HTC filed the new lawsuit against Apple in US court this week. HTC accuses Apple of infringing four patents in a range of products and services including Macintosh computers, iPhones, iPods, iPads, iTunes, MobileMe and iCloud.

A German court has upheld a ban on the sale of Samsung's Galaxy Tab, saying it did infringe Apple designs. It was asked to reconsider a previous ruling that elements of the tablet were copied from the iPad.

On Thursday, Adobe released Flash Media Server 4.5, which introduces support for Apple's iOS mobile operating system. It does this by letting broadcasters stream Flash-based video content in an Apple-derived format, HTTP Live Streaming (HLS).

Right now the internet's quaking with speculation about Steve Jobs' possible death—all sparked by a single tweet. But rumors from news desks and people dumping AAPL stock are making us wonder: is this it? We really hope not.

The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) is seeking to invalidate a pair of Apple patents so the underlying technologies can be used as part of a royalty-free HTML5 stack.

Apple is to launch an updated version of the iPad 2 later this year ahead of the Christmas rush, with the revamped tablet to sport the moniker Apple iPad 2 Plus, new reports have suggested.

Apple has reportedly placed its first order for its next-generation iPhone with a Taiwan-based electronics manufacturer, according to DigiTimes. The devices, said to be produced by Pegatron Technology, are set to ship in September of this year.

Christina Warren over on Mashable.com is reporting on the beta version of iOS5, where the iPhone Dev Team have found that Apple has made changes to the operating system in order to make it more difficult for people to jailbreak their devices.

The "Rumour du Jour" for the followup to the iPad 2 comes from two people "familiar" with Apple's plans and is quoted by news website, Bloomberg. The sources claim that Apple is testing an iPad 3 with the "retina display" technology, which matches the screen of the iPhone 4 with a 326dpi pixel density.

Asymco reports, the success of the iPhone means Apple could buy all its competitors bar Samsung and LG in one swoop.

They have a record of censorship, but Apple are taking it to the next level by trying to control what you film on your iPhone. Why? It's simple really - Apple sell you devices, but they also sell you music. They don't want you recording music on your phone that you could buy off them on their iTunes stores.

Following Nokia's patent win against Apple where it must pay the former rubber boot maker some dosh per unit of an iOS device sold, industry rumours are beginning to surface about how much money Jobs will have to fork out. The number doing the rounds is $11 per iOS unit sold. That's including back royalties as well as running royalties from the future.

Just one week after Steve Jobs announced Apple’s iCloud services to the world at WWDC in San Francisco, the company is being sued for use of the iCloud name. iCloud Communications, an Arizona based company, has launched a legal attack against Apple for trademark infringement.

Trevor Harwell, a 20-year-old Los Angeles, California area certified Mac repair specialist is in a load of trouble after police discovered his unusual hobby -- installing spyware on female clients' Macs and using it to take naughty pictures of them remotely.