Apple and Samsung head back to court

The never-ending legal battle between Apple and Samsung enters a new phase Monday when lawyers begin selecting a jury for a new trial that will address new complaints against a different set of phones.

Why the iPhone 6 should take a cue from the new HTC One

You’ll never get either side to admit it, but Android and iOS have learned an awful lot from each other. From the pull-down Notification Center to the fine art of inertial scrolling, the two operating systems may have different spins on things, but at their cores, they’re really quite similar.

BusyMac launches all-new Mac contact-manager

BusyMac Software, maker of the popular BusyCal app for OS X, has announced the upcoming launch of the all-new BusyContacts.

Office for iPad shoots to the top of Apple's free app chart

Naysayers who expected the legendary Office suite to land on the iPad with a thud couldn't have been more wrong.

EA Games site hacked to steal Apple IDs

An Electronic Arts website was hacked in a phishing scheme aimed at the acquisition of Apple IDs and credit card numbers, security researchers reported Wednesday.

How to dismiss Mac App Store notifications

Start by launching System Preferences, selecting App Store, and disabling theAutomatically Check For Updates option. Do this and the nudging stops. Of course it also means that you may miss out on some important updates. To help avoid that, you might create a weekly calendar alarm or reminder that reminds you to manually check for updates. You do that by opening that same App Store preference and clicking on the Show Updates button.

There are one or two things you can do within the App Store application. Launch it, click on the Updates tab, and locate updates that appear under the Software Update heading. Click the More link and then Control-click (right-click) on any updates that you don’t want. For example, printer driver updates that you’ll never use. A Hide Update command will appear. Select it and that update disappears. (You can make it reappear by choosing Store > Show All Software Updates.)

Regrettably this option isn’t available for all updates. Third-party updates will display no such command and remain in the list.

You can hide some updates from the Mac App Store.

You also have the option to hide items in the Purchases tab—something you may want to do if you never intend to install an application that you purchased years ago. To do that Control-click (right-click) on an item in the list and choose Hide Purchase. (You can later unhide these items by choosing Store > View My Account, logging into your account, locating the Hidden Purchases entry, clicking Manage, clicking the Unhide button that appears next to each hidden application, and then clicking the Done button.)