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Apple prepping iTunes changes including spotify-style features.
Bloomberg reports that Apple is planning a major overhaul of iTunes in an effort to more closely integrate its iCloud service to enable users to better manage their media content files. Apple will unveil the changes by year’s end, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the plans aren’t public. The company […]
Continue reading...Apple launches new Podcasts app
27. June 2012
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Looks like podcasts are getting some dedicated love from Apple. Yesterday, Apple released a standalone podcasts app in the iOS App Store aptly titled “Podcasts.” As you might expect, the app is free to download and checks in at a more than reasonable 8.8 MB. Apple describes the apps new features thusly: Enjoy all of […]
Continue reading...Apple granted preliminary injunction against Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet
27. June 2012
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All Things D reports that Apple has been granted a preliminary injunction against the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, a huge victory for Apple as it continues its legal efforts to battle what it deems to be flagrant copying of its iOS products by Samsung. US District Judge Lucy Koh explained in her ruling: “Although Samsung […]
Continue reading...Foxconn CEO says iPhone 5 will shame the Samsung Galaxy S III
21. June 2012
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Well here’s some intriguing news for the day. Focus Taiwan reports: Gou said he has made it a lifetime goal to defeat Samsung — “a company with a track record of snitching on its competitors.”… He was referring to Samsung’s action in 2010 of snitching on four Taiwanese companies in an investigation by the European […]
Continue reading...Apple retail employees getting a nice little pay hike
21. June 2012
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Dow Jones reports: Apple has begun raising the wages of its retail store employees by as much as a quarter of their wages following an internal review period earlier this year. Employees began learning of the raises in face-to-face meetings with managers last week, according to three Apple employees in various regions across the U.S. […]
Continue reading...About the iPhone’s new mini dock connector
21. June 2012
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So long 30 pin dock connector! TechCrunch reports: Although the form factor and actual size are still unknown, TechCrunch has independently verified that Apple is working on adding a 19-pin port, replacing the current 30-pin port, to the new iPhone. It is a move that will surely send shocks through the iPhone accessory ecosystem.
Continue reading...Apple releases new iPad ad – “Do it all”
19. June 2012
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Check it out below. It’s called “Do it all” and yet another example of Apple highlighting the iPad as both a productivity and content consumption device. Send a note. Stay informed. Catch a show. Make your point. Make a memory. Make a masterpiece. Read something.Watch something. And learn something. Do it all more beautifully, with […]
Continue reading...iFixit calls MacBook Pro Retina Display an “engineering marvel”
19. June 2012
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The folks at iFixit write: The Retina display is an engineering marvel. Its LCD is essentially the entire display assembly. Rather than sandwich an LCD panel between a back case and a piece of glass in front, Apple used the aluminum case itself as the frame for the LCD panel and used the LCD as […]
Continue reading...Jesus Diaz has guts
19. June 2012
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For heaping a heap of praise on a product that no one has ever used just yet. “Microsoft Surface Just Made the MacBook Air and the iPad Look Obsolete,” he writes. Hmm, we’ll have to wait and see on that.
Continue reading...When Steve Jobs dropped some social media knowledge on the Obama campaign
15. June 2012
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BusinessWeek reports on how Obama campaign manager Jim Messina got some solicited advice from Steve Jobs, among others. In two long, private conversations, Steve Jobs tore into Messina for all the White House was doing wrong and what it ought to be doing differently, before going on to explain how the campaign could exploit technology […]
Continue reading...Fortune profiles Apple’s former retail chief Ron Johnson
15. June 2012
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Fortune has a thoroughly entertaining and informative profile of Ron Johnson, Apple’s former retail chief who recently assumed the CEO position at JC Penney where he’s excited to tackle his latest challenge – transforming JC Penney from a has-been department store into a rousing shopping experience. Described as relentless and cheery with an all-American upbringing, […]
Continue reading...Apple readying 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display for October release
14. June 2012
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AppleInsider reports: Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI shared in a note with AppleInsider on Thursday that he expects Apple to ramp up production of a 13-inch next-generation MacBook Pro with Retina display in September. That would allow the product to hit stores in early October, in time for the holiday shopping season. Kuo was the […]
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28. June 2012
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