Tag: Apple
Two Apple Executives To Retire, Bid Farewell To Apple
Apple Vice President and Corporate Controller, Betsy Rafael, plans to retire from the company on October 10, 2012. She has been responsible for managing the...
Analyst Tests Siri, Finds Comprehension At 83 Percent And Accuracy At 62 Percent
Analyst Gene Munster, of Piper Jaffray, took a closer look at Apple’s personal assistant, Siri, and found that she’s not quite reliable enough to replace...
Google Chrome Already Number One Free iOS App
Well that was fast. Just twelve hours after its release, Google Chrome for iOS devices has hit the top spot in iOS free apps in the...
Worker Rights Violated By Apple’s Other Chinese Suppliers
According to a labor rights group in New York, while Foxconn attempts to improve working conditions, there are serious workers’ rights violations at Apple’s other...
Reno Grants Apple $89M Tax Break For Area Data Centers
On Wednesday evening the city council in Reno, Nevada, approved a tax incentive to bring two new data centers to the area. In exchange for...
Virgin Mobile Starts Selling Prepaid iPhones
Earlier this month it was announced that Virgin Mobile would begin selling the iPhone 4 and 4S off-contract by the end of the month. The...
Next Major iTunes Update To Improve Sharing, Have Better iCloud Integration?
According to Bloomberg, Apple is planning the next major iTunes update. One of the more exciting features expected in the next release is a new...
Infographic: Happy Birthday iPhone, $150 Billion In Revenue Over 5 years
In two days, it will be the fifth anniversary of the first iPhone. In the five years of its existence, Apple’s iPhone has generated an...
Spotify Comes In Second To iTunes As Source Of Revenue For Record Labels
With iTunes taking the lead, Spotify, the free on-demand and subscription-based music streamer, is reportedly the second largest source of revenue for major record labels...
Apple Brings iTunes Stores To Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, And 9 More Countries In Asia
Apple is at it again! Last week it was announced that an additional 32 countries now have access to the iTunes App Store. Apple is...
Apple Wins This Round, Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Banned In U.S.
Apple’s request to ban sales of Samsung’s iPad competitor, the Galaxy Tab, has been granted by U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh. This marks one of...
Apple Releases ‘Podcasts’ For iOS
Apple has just released their own podcast viewing app, which is available for download in the iTunes App Store. While we originally thought this app was going to be built into...
Latest Update To Instagram For iOS Brings It To Version 2.5
Following its acquisition by Facebook for $1 billion in April, Instagram has received its first major update. Version 2.5 of Instagram includes some tweaks to...
Facebook Messager 1.8 Loaded With New Features
With Facebook’s messaging app getting an update, other IM services such as WhatsApp and Kik need to kik (see what I did there?) it into...
Gmail App For iOS Improved With Exciting New Features
Fans of the Gmail app for iOS will be excited to hear that this app has been updated with some exciting new features. The Gmail...
A Second Berlin Apple Store Planned For 2013?
With construction coming to an end on the future Rosenstraße retail store in Berlin, Germany, Apple might be planning to open a second store. This...
Hone For iPhone 4S/iPad 3 Finds Lost Keys In A Hurry
“Where are my keys!?” Everyone has had or will have this problem at some point in their lives. This age-old question may now have an...
Sorry, No Retina iMacs This Year
In what was originally an article speculating about the shipment of Retina iMacs and Mac Pros, Marco Arment set out to give some thoughts about...