Apple may not be participating in Cyber Monday sales, but it does have some nice perks for those who wants to buy Macs, iOS devices, or accessories online. From now until December 22 Apple will be offering free shipping for anything in it’s online store. To qualify for the free shipping, all you need to more »

An Apple Store located in the Fashion Mall at Keystone in Indianapolis was broken into on Sunday night. The thieves apparently made off with $39,600 in Apple products including 17 iPhones, 14 iPads and 18 Macbooks.

I’m pretty sure most of you who are reading this have at some point in time created multiple Apple IDs to purchase Apple products be it from the Apple Store, iTunes App Store and Mac App Store. I have more than two Apple IDs I think. While this may seem ok at first, it can more »

Following the revelation that some stores in China were posing as legitimate Apple stores, China has started doing something about it. According to China Daily, officials in Beijing have began telling businesses to stop using Apple’s trademarked logo in its shops if they aren’t authorized by Apple to do so. Furthermore, stores have been ordered to not falsely refer to themselves as authorized Apple resellers or Apple direct retailers.

The fake Apple Stores that were discovered in China are not the only locations that set out to make money using Apple’s trademarked style. Apple Insider reports that Apple has filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against dozens of defendants in the United States. Since the contents of the lawsuit are currently sealed, a lot of the details are unknown.

The last time we heard about the fake Apple stores in Kunming, Chinese investigators were looking into the legitimacy of the stores. The investigations were meant to determine if the stores were authorized to sell Apple products in addition to checking out their purchasing channels. This event has unfolded in the way we thought it would. Two of the fake Apple stores have been closed down.

This past week spawned a very interesting story about fake Apple Stores were discovered in the city of Kunming in China. These stores were designed to have the traditional Apple Store layout and appearance, but are allegedly not associated with Apple in any way. In response to the original report that blew the whistle on this operation, authorities will be investigating the stores in Kunming.

According to research quoted by USA Today, where I get all my tech news, Apple is ahead of Amazon and Walmart in sales growth through the first 3 months of 2011. Apple’s retail sales rose by, get this, $4.6 billion, an 80% jump over the same period last year. Of course, Apple introduced the iPad more »

As we learned yesterday, the white iPhone 4 was going to finally be available for sale as of this morning. And well, true to their word — Apple now has the white iPhone 4 available for sale. The handset is sporting the same pricing as the previously existing black model (16GB for $199.99 or 32GB more »

Did Apple really get so many online orders of the iPad 2 or is this just a ploy to spark interests from prospective buyers to head over to Apple Stores and authorized distributors before 5 pm today? This is because after a few hours of opening up online orders of the iPad 2, the Apple more »