Apple continues to show tremendous growth in the enterprise and government markets, as Mac sales spiked sharply over the last three months.

On Monday, the iPad moved one small step closer to the Chinese market when it received the China Compulsory Certification from the China Quality Certification Center. Other certifications will be necessary, but this important first step has been taken

A visit to the US online Apple Store this morning produced the familiar, taunting sticky note. Perhaps those rumors of new iMacs , Mac Pros and displays are about to come to fruition.

Filed under: Cult of Mac , iPhone It goes without saying, but I’ll say it anyway: You gotta love Woz . Apple’s co-founder Steve Wozniak is well known for making himself extremely accessible to his fans and admirers

Filed under: iPad Apple’s products have been increasingly targeted by thieves since those now-ubiquitous white earbuds first announced, “I’m carrying an expensive Apple doohickey! Mug me!” iPhones and iPods are often too hard for ne’ er-do-wells to resist, and now iPads have joined their ranks.

Filed under: iPhone Analyst group IDC has been monitoring the mobile market in Australia, as they’re wont to do, and projected this week that the iPhone is poised to overtake leader Nokia . What’s more, the gap is closing quickly. From the first calendar quarter of 2009 to the same time in 2010, the iPhone’s Australian marketshare rose from 10.2% to 40.3%.

Filed under: Retail We’ve mentioned how closely Microsoft’s retail stores resemble Apple’s, and now they’re even physically close. At least in one Washington mall.

Filed under: Apple TV Well part the skies and let the doves descend. It looks like the Apple TV may evolve into a more desirable machine before too long. Quoting a tip that was “confirmed by a source very close to Apple,” Engadget reports that the next incarnation of Apple’s set top box will feature cloud storage (awesome), the same internals as the upcoming iPhone (meaning an A4 processor!) and be capable of full 1080p HD

Filed under: iPad As we noted earlier , finding the iPad of your dreams hasn’t been getting any easier in recent days. Even with an assumed uptick in production to handle the imminent overseas launch , the search for available units on the ground in the US has been tough

Filed under: iPad On May 28th, the iPad begins shipping in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK, at last rewarding customers who’ve been waiting longer than expected . Speaking of waiting, international access to the iPad App Store is available today, but with limited functionality

Filed under: iPad In an interview with Gary Severson, Walmart’s senior vice president of entertainment for US stores, Bloomberg learned that the retail giant intends to carry the iPad sometime in 2010. “We anticipate being able to have the iPad later this year,” Severson said, without providing any specifics. Walmart has been making a push towards selling more electronics, adding more and more TVs, Blu-Ray players and so on to their shelves

Filed under: iPad Now that the 3G iPad has been released in the US, many users are looking to sell their Wi-Fi models to make room for its better-connected counterpart. Fortunately, the process of restoring an iPad to its factory settings is easy. Here’s how to sell your old (if 28 days can be considered “old”) iPad.

Filed under: iPad South Korea’s ban of the iPad is being lifted . The Korea Communications Commission issued the ban earlier this month because it had not certified the iPad’s wireless networking features. Under the restriction, customers would not be allowed to import the iPad for personal use.