Tag: Apple

Former Dixons CEO John Browett joins Apple as SVP of Retail

Yesterday Apple announced that it has hired John Browett, former CEO at European Technology Retailer Dixons, as the company’s new Senior Vice President of Retail. Prior...
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Apple expected to reach China Mobile by 2013, increase sales to 40 million

China is one of the biggest tech markets to reach, if not the biggest. Facebook has realized it and is currently working on making its...
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iOS-ification of Lion continues: Apple ports iOS AirPort Utility to Lion

Apple has released a new iOS-like AirPort Utility for Lion today. It’s not an upgrade to the current OS X AirPort utility that you’ve grown...
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Sony loves Apple’s AirPlay

Now that the CES foofaraw is well over, a few interesting tidbits are starting to come to the surface. Specifically, this interesting bit of news...
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And now, a video of Jony Ive talking about design and alu-minium

There’s something remarkably simple and yet profoundly complex about the design of Apple’s products. While many have tried to argue that Apple’s design for products...
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iPhone 4S in stock, available immediately for shipping

Good news for those of you trying to grab an iPhone 4S! The ever-popular device is now listed as “In Stock” on the Apple Store....
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Nope, Siri isn’t gorging on all the mobile bandwidth

At this point everyone knows what Siri is and how it’s intended to be used. While results tend to vary based on your cellular carrier...
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Siri now a recording artist courtesy of The Flaming Lips

It looks like the Flaming Lips may be trying upgrade Siri’s lot in life from personal assistant to mega-famous recording artist. The band has put...
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Microsoft ends up inadvertently buying Madison students iPads

It’s probably the last thing Microsoft thought would ever happen, but it has happened nonetheless. It seems that money has been going directly from Microsoft’s...
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Apple patent reveals programmable magnetic power cable

In a very complicated and long post, Patently Apple discusses a few new ground-breaking patents filed by Apple. There’s a lot of interesting things in...
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Tim Cook addresses the Apple troops, comments on human rights problems at Foxconn

Foxconn and its employees have been on a lot of people’s minds these days. It started with the This American Life episode about life in...
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Realmac Software goes ToDo, announces Clear

Big news today: one of our favorite Mac App developers, Realmac Software, has taken a step into iOS applications. Their app, Clear, isn’t available just...
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Proof is in the pudding: iMessage is clearly disrupting SMS profits

When iOS 5 was announced, and previewed last June, many expected it would drastically influence the text messaging world, but no one really knew just...
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Tim Cook announces new employee benefits at Town Hall meeting

Two days ago we reported that Apple CEO Tim Cook had sent out an email to Apple employees. In it, he congratulated them on the...
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Apple had a great Christmas Day with $120 million in iTunes sales

Apple had an amazing Christmas in terms of sales. The company released some figures for their 2011 holiday season. On Christmas Day alone, the company...
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Apple left Exxon in the dust and became world’s largest company today, for a few hours

Apple is on fire. The company just released revenue numbers yesterday that blow predictions and estimates out of the waters. Not to mention, an interesting observation was...
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Motorola gets in on the fun and sues Apple over six products

So it seems that the fight is no longer just Apple vs. Samsung. Rather, Motorola Mobility wants to snatch up a piece of legal leverage....
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Evernote quietly acquiring small startups to expand app platform

Over the last year, Evernote has been quietly acquiring small startups to help build the company’s app platform, Evernote Trunk. On top of the well-publicized Skitch acquisition from this...
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