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A super-bout of fisticuffs among more than 2,000 employees broke out Sunday night at an iPhone-manufacturing plant in China, sending 40 people to the hospital. But don't worry: it won't affect shipping dates. (We think.)

People sure do love their iPhones, but they also can't seem to stop dropping them—good news for the booming iPhone-repair business. In fact, a recent accident survey by SquareTrade found that the American population has spent nearly $5.9 billion fixing their damaged phones since the first device hit the market in 2007.

In their now annual hardware events, Apple announced the new 'iPhone 5' today from the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco. If you had been following the rumor mill on sites like Gizmodo, The Verge, and Engadget, they thought they had a pretty good idea of what Apple's new iPhone was going to look like. Turns out they nailed it exactly.

Barbara Walters has named her Most Fascinating Person of 2011: Steve Jobs. While her policy has always been to choose only living people for the annual roundup, Walters said that when Jobs retired as CEO of Apple last summer, she knew he’d be her pick to top the list. And even after his death on October 5, Walters stuck to her choice because, much like Jobs believed, “rules were made to be broken.

One of the first things most people do when they get a smartphone or iPad is buy a case to protect it from accidental drops. Cases themselves range from purely decorative to nearly hardhat-industrial — and now one iPad case manufacturer, G-Form, has put its products to the ultimate test.

Apple’s highly-anticipated ‘Let’s Talk iPhone’ event on Tuesday began with newly-installed CEO Tim Cook reflecting on some of the company’s successes, as well as one new one: the new iPhone. Dubbed the iPhone 4S, the gadget keeps with the company’s tradition of introducing completely new models every other year, with upgrades in between.

At WWDC, Apple's annual developers conference, head honcho Steve Jobs came and went in only two hours, but left the rapt audience of gadget geeks with the next full year of the company's plans, including the launches of iCloud, iOS5, and the new Mac OSX Lion. In the spotlight, and held for Jobs' trademark "one more thing" segment at the end of his keynote, was the groundbreaking iCloud s

Top Story Podcast 4/25/11: First hour - Who is to blame for the rising gas prices? Second hour - Does it bother you to know your cell phone is tracking your every move?  Apple Inc. says your iPhone and iPad stores files on your device from everywhere you've been ...

Wondering what the new iPad will look like when it's announced in April? Gizmodo took a close look at all the rumors and came up with what they feel is a pretty concrete representation of the new iPad HD.

(CNN) -- Not forgetting Sunday morning's time change is hard enough.