Apple

Apple has maintained its place as the world's most valuable brand over the past year, leading a group of technology-related companies that dominate the top 10, according to a study published today.

Samsung Electronics unveiled a new top-of-the-range Galaxy smartphone in London, updating the most direct rival to Apple's iPhone with a larger touch screen and more powerful processor.

A Chinese tech firm that claims it still owns the iPad trademark will seek a ban on exports of Apple's computer tablets from China, which could deal a blow to the US technology giant's sales worldwide.

The European Commission is investigating whether e-book publishers owned by Lagardere , Pearson Plc, News Corp and two other firms fixed prices with Apple Inc, blocking rivals and hurting consumers.

The first person in New Zealand to be sold the latest iPhone was more excited by the device than by the All Black who sold it to her.

In a sold-out theatre in downtown Manhattan, two miles from the square where anti-Wall Street demonstrators daily use iPhones, iPads and other devices to mobilise their forces, a performance artist named Mike Daisey is mounting a subversive attack on Apple Inc.

More than a million people have placed early orders for Apple Inc's latest iPhone, the last product that the company debuted before the death of its co-founder Steve Jobs.

He was a conjurer, a modern magician who reached into tomorrow and came up with things that changed millions of lives.

The release date for a Steve Jobs biography has been pushed up to October 24, according to a spokesman for Simon & Schuster, the publishing house behind the long-awaited book.

Steve Jobs, who transformed the worlds of personal computing, music and mobile phones, died today at the age of 56 after a years-long battle with pancreatic cancer.