Archive | September 2nd, 2011
Did Apple investigators pose as San Franscisco Police Officers in search for missing iPhone
Yesterday we recapped a strange story about yet another misplaced iPhone prototype. This time around, the story goes, an Apple employee left an iPhone 5 prototype at a bar. A few days later, Apple reportedly contacted the San Francisco Police Department looking for help to secure the device’s return. Following that, Apple employees together with [...]
Continue reading...U2 frontman Bono defends Steve Jobs: Calls him ‘poetic’ and labels his charitable efforts ‘invaluable’
2. September 2011
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Though he famously only receives a salary of $1/yr, Steve Jobs is beyond wealthy. And while his tech counterpart Bill Gates has made quite a name for himself as a philanthropist, Steve Jobs’ philanthropic activity, if any, remains unknown. Consequently, Jobs has been taken to task for not following in the footsteps of Gates despite [...]
Continue reading...Samsung CEO Choi Gee Sun says WebOS acquisition ain’t happening
2. September 2011
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Earlier this week, we reported that Samsung was perhaps interested in acquiring the WebOS originally developed at Palm and now in the hands of HP. With HP effectively out of the mobile market and Samsung fighting patent infringement claims from Apple across multiple continents, a shift to the relatively sleek WebOS arguably made a little [...]
Continue reading...New iPhone 5 case photos purport to show much thinner and longer form factor
2. September 2011
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With rumors of Apple releasing two new iPhone models this Fall, we’ve seen an increasing number of purported iPhone 5 case schematics and moldings over the past few weeks. In the latest development, the Italian site Macitynet posts photos of an iPhone 4 resting comfortably inside what they claim is an iPhone 5 case. While [...]
Continue reading...Eric Schmidt says he stayed on Apple’s Board until he “couldn’t stand the board anymore”
2. September 2011
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Update: The original source of this story, Bloomberg, contained a misquote as Schmidt did not claim, after all, that he couldn’t stand Apple’s board. In a recent interview at the Dreamforce 2011 conference, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt explained that he stayed on Apple’s Board of Directors until he “couldn’t stand the board anymore.” Schmidt’s [...]
Continue reading...Apple makes FCP 7 available again via reissue of Final Cut Studio
2. September 2011
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Apple in June released Final Cut Pro X, the long awaited 64-bit update to FCP 7. While the update brought with it a long list of innovative features, a large and vocal number of professional video editors were frustrated at what Apple chose to leave out. In short, video professionals derided FCP X for being [...]
Continue reading...Jon Whipple’s solution to OS X Lion’s invisible scrollbars – The “Scroll Compass”
2. September 2011
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By David Goldman: OS X Lion ushered in a number of significant user interface changes with one of the more controversial debates centering on Apple’s decision to reverse mouse scrolling so that scrolling downwards takes a user to the top of a particular window – which is exactly how it works on the iPhone and [...]
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2. September 2011
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