Today sees something of an oddity, for two high-powered CEOs and an army of legal help will sit down and try to thrash out an end to one of the longest, most tedious legal battles we can think of. There may be blood!

All the talk right now is of the next iPhone. There have been rumors about everything from whether the new handset will sport a 4G radio, to how large the screen will be this time around.

The latest leg in the long running, never ending and exceedingly tiresome legal battle between Apple and Samsung sees the Cupertino firm once again seeking an injunction against the Korean firm’s Galaxy Tab slate.

When an individual makes the kind of impact Steve Jobs managed to make in the consumer electronics industry, more often than not, a movie is made to offer a deeper, dramatized insight into proceedings – particularly when that individual has passed away. Such was the impact of the late, great Apple co-founder, that there are two movies being produced contemporaneously, both of which will undoubtedly claim to offer the most accurate, entertaining account of Jobs’ life.

Remember when Apple first introduced the FaceTime video calling service in 2010, causing quite a big stir? Video calling on a mobile device wasn’t anything new or revolutionary, after all, one of the core services when networks started pushing out UMTS connectivity was the ability to make device-to-device video calls. As usual, Apple somehow managed to make this feature seem exclusive to iOS devices and was made even more palatable to users due to the fact that it was free over a wireless connection.

Although Apple’s iPhone remains one of the most popular and sought-after devices on the market, the news earlier this month of Samsung taking its crown as the number one smartphone manufacturer will have sent alarm bells ringing. To make matters worse, it has now been revealed that Microsoft’s Windows Phone has overtaken the fruit company’s iPhone in terms of market share in China – the largest market in the world.

Apple’s iTunes Festival has increased in popularity since first launching in 2007, and has just released details of some of this year’s featured acts, including popular artists such as Usher and Norah Jones.

Five months before Apple is expected to bring the next iPhone to market, rumors are already swirling like a tornado waiting to rip out the hearts of fanboys the world over. We’ve had plenty of claims and counter claims already, and that shows no sign of changing before an Apple executive puts foot to stage in order to announce just what the next iPhone will be like.

Sony’s biopic of Steve Jobs’ life is at production stage, and although some details have yet to be confirmed, it has been revealed that the movie will be written by Aaron Sorkin, and will benefit from the insight of Apple co-founder-turned-Lumia-fanboy Steve Wozniak, often referred to simply as “Woz”. The guy who started Apple along with Jobs in a garage some 35 years ago, he would seem as apt a figure as any to offer guidance to Sorkin, who himself does his suitability stripes no harm with the likes of The Social Network to his name.

One of the things I personally found most fascinating about the late, great Steve Jobs was his dogmatic approach to everything that he did. Unfazed by skepticism, he took visions and ideas, remained vigorously dedicated to them, and while some were relatively hit-and-miss, the company he co-founded with Steve Wozniak has produced some of the most iconic and era-defining devices and innovations ever seen.

All the talk may currently be surrounding the unannounced iPhone 5, but there is still plenty of life in the two models that are currently on the market. Apple’s iPhone 4S is arguably the best smartphone out there right now, especially if you don’t want to go the Android route, and the iPhone 4 is becoming a killer budget smartphone in its own right.

When it comes to securing its domains, Apple has been somewhat slack in the past, and made instant millionaires of quite a few intuitive domain squatters. Earlier on this month, the fruit company sought to gain control over the iPhone5.com domain, which was being utilized by a squatter to run a forum and benefit from ad revenue, and today, it would appear that request has been granted.

With all eyes set towards WWDC next month for any news pertaining to the next version of Apple’s iOS, it is easy to put out of our minds the persistent rumor about Apple releasing a miniature version of the iPad. However, that rumor is indeed still persisting, and the latest information to come from Taiwan seems to suggest that the rumor could soon become a mini reality.

OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion may be in the hands of developers, but there is another group of people that get software releases often even before those with paid developer accounts.

There has been a lot of internet chatter over the last week or so about Ashton Kutcher transforming himself to look like Apple founder Steve Jobs for the upcoming Jobs movie. The movie itself will more than likely end up being a cult hit, mainly because of the coverage it has received, but also because of the popularity of Jobs himself. It seems Kutcher will most definitely play a convincing role, but he may not be the only actor to play Steve Jobs on the big screen.

With Apple looking likely to follow the launch pattern they set in 2011 with the iPhone 4S, users can expect to see an announcement and launch of the sixth-generation iPhone around October time. As the expected release date draws closer, the inevitable speculation and conjecture about the possible aesthetics of the device have started to surface.

Ever since the release of iOS 5 alongside the iPhone 4S, Apple has been struggling to bring the battery life up to par. At first the belief was that perhaps the issue was hardware related, rather than the software that it shipped with. Soon though, it was clear that owners of the iPhone 4 and other hardware were also suffering from less than stellar battery life. Problems indeed.

Tying in rather nicely with the reports of an imminent Retina display-toting 15-inch MacBook Pro, it has also been revealed that the next installment to the iMac series could also pack in the pixels, bringing the super-sharp screen we’ve grown to love on the iPhone and iPad.

Although it is highly likely that it will take another five months or so until Apple decides to introduce the world to their sixth-generation iPhone, the company thankfully never leaves technology fans waiting too long before it gives us something to get excited about. Apple has only recently pushed out iOS 5.1.1 to the public, but with their annual Worldwide Developer Conference looming, recent findings are adding to the speculation that we will see iOS 6 introduced at the event in San Francisco.

With Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference being just a few weeks away, we have reached that point in the year again when speculation and conjecture surrounding the launch of the next-generation iPhone increases dramatically. Historically, Apple have used their developer conference in San Francisco to showcase new iPhone releases, but that trend was broken last year when the Cupertino company decided to launch the current model, the iPhone 4S, in October rather than June.