After weeks of hype and hoopla about Apple's event that was suppose to be held on January 26, the company has finally confirmed that the event will be hosted on January 27. Via an invite mailer, Apple has conveyed that it will announce its "latest creation" at the Yerba Buena Center of Arts Theater in San Franscisco. No information about the event except the location and the graphics art was sent across by Apple to select Tech websites.

I wouldn’t like to insult our regular readers of TFTS but for those out of the know who are wondering who is Steve Jobs, you guys should know that he’s the co-founder and chief executive officer of Apple. What’s up with that you may ask? Well after reading a report that two in ten people in Britain don’t know who the guy is, we decided to shed some light for those who’re trying to find out.

A recent small survey carried out last month in London by Lewis PR revealed that only 200 out of a thousand people in knew who Steve Jobs is. Proving just how interested is the UK in the IT sector or signaling a major image problem, 10-percent of those questioned think that Steve Jobs may be working for a trade union, while only 5 percent think he’s a a Division Two football player.

With the launch of iTunes 9, Apple revamped many of the areas of the iTunes online store so that they were rendered with WebKit, the open source web layout engine (which browsers like Safari and Chrome also use). Alongside this, the whole store was redesigned. But one area that remained untouched were the pages for individual apps in the App Store.

Some companies swap Christmas cards. Others swap lawsuits. Apple has matched Nokia’s patent lawsuit with a countersuit of its own.

Apple on Friday said Nokia is infringing on 13 Apple patents (statement). So much for Christmas spirit.

Apple has posted a free 20-song Holiday Sampler (iTunes link) in its new iTunes LP format. iTunes LP can display lyrics, liner notes, performance videos, photos, and other bonus materials all within the iTunes interface.

iTunes have pulled together a list of their favorite media of 2009, in a country specific format. Your mileage may vary, but here’s the American link. Each category is arranged differently, with winners and top sellers listed.

Apple has made iTunes a bit more useful for surveying entire albums. A reader directed our attention to the addition of a 'Preview All' button for albums on the iTunes Store.

The store has always given prospective buyers the ability to preview individual tracks. While 30 seconds of sound may not be an adequate representation of an entire song, it is at least

Apple has bought music streaming site LaLa. Could its decision to snaffle up the much smaller music site be the first step towards iTunes streaming from the cloud? The evidence seems strong.

After a flurry of online speculation, Apple confirmed it had bought LaLa with a characteristically terse statement: “Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time and

In a press release posted Friday from the UK’s Office of Fair Trading it’s stated that Apple has agreed to clean up the language in their terms and conditions.
The contract or terms of use between a company and a consumer, whether they are found online or on paper, must be clear, fair and

 

Apple is no stranger to lawsuits, St. Clair Intellectual Property Consultants have slapped them with a lawsuit that claims the iPhone infringes upon four digital camera patents that the company holds. The four include the ‘459, ‘219, ‘010 and ‘899 patents.

Apple is looking for yet another engineer to help make the iPhone even better. A new job listing found on Apple's website was posted looking for a full-time software engineer to be a part of the Maps application team. The position description explains that Apple wants to take their Maps application to

It looks like Apple is using its rejection power for good this time — removing games built on the Unity engine which included private-API calls that could be used to steal private user information like your iPhone’s phone number.