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After threatening to sue several iPhone app programmers last week for implementing a new iOS feature, a patent firm touched off a storm of controversy and even received death threats. Now the company has explained why it's going after the little guys, instead of Apple.

IMovie is designed only to edit video shot with the iPad 2, iPhone or iPod Touch. To fix this, you need first to convert the footage into the right format, and then introduce it gently to iMovie in just the right way.

The white iPhone is not actually thicker than the black iPhone, according to Apple vice president Phil Schiller and independent measurements by Consumer Reports.

We may have discovered the secret behind the new white iPhone, and why now, 10 months late, Apple finally thinks it will stay white instead of fading to a dirty, stained yellow. Extra paint, and lots of it.

Have you been wondering if that new 4G smartphone you purchased is really getting 4G speeds? Wonder no longer. RootMetrics performed an extensive study to determine how each network’s 4G speeds are really holding up to their claims.

This morning, I wished for a peek inside the workings of Apple’s iPad Smart Cover. Barely hours later, I get an e-mail from iFixit’s Miroslav Djuric, pointing me to iFixit’s teardown. Amazingly, the step-by-step photo-essay is even more interesting than I thought it...

It seems impossible for Apple to put a decent camera into anything but the iPhone, and despite many hopes, both cameras in the iPad 2 are about as rudimentary as you could get without having to load a roll of film in there.

Owners of the first-gen iPad are rushing to sell their tablets, according to online gadget-buyer Gazelle. In the hour after the new iPad 2 was announced yesterday, the company bought over 2,000 used iPads. This compares to 1,200 iPhones which Gazelle bought during the entire ...

Apple will likely unveil the iPad 2 at a press event here Wednesday morning, and Wired will be covering the event live.