Reuters reports that Apple’s efforts to attain a preliminary injunction against the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S III release has fallen short. Then in an order late on Monday, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, effectively dashed Apple’s hopes of stopping the launch of Samsung Electronics Co Ltd’s new Galaxy S III smartphone, […]
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Comments Off on Apple applying for top level .Apple domain names
The Associated Press reports: Proposals for Internet addresses ending in “.pizza,” ”.space” and “.auto” are among the nearly 2,000 submitted as part of the largest expansion in the online address system. Apple Inc., Sony Corp. and American Express Co. are among companies that are seeking names with their brands. Google Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. sought […]
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Comments Off on iFixit tears down new Retina Display MacBook Pro
Some notes of interest from iFixit’s MacBook Pro teardown which is apparently the hardest Mac to repair! – The new battery packs quite a punch: 95 Wh at 10.95 V compared to last year’s puny 77.5 Wh. – The Retina display LCD is situated in the display assembly, and it’s not going anywhere. Chances are […]
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Comments Off on Apple to share advertising revenue with Baidu
Bloomberg reports that Apple, as part of its inclusion of Baidu as a search engine option in iOS 6 for its Chinese customers, will receive a slice of advertising revenue. The revenue-sharing agreement with Apple follows similar accords between Baidu and manufacturers of handsets that useGoogle’s Android operating system, Wang Jing, vice president at Beijing-based […]
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Comments Off on iTunes Match in iOS 6 now streams music
Apple’N’Apps reports: When you’re on a Mac, you can stream music without any files being stored on your device. On your iOS device, if you tapped to play a song, the song plays automatically, but downloads too. In iOS 6, that’s changed, at least in the first beta. Now when you tap to play a […]
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Comments Off on Apple and Time settle their differences
All Things D reports: Apple and Time Inc. have settled their differences: The giant publisher is now selling subscriptions to its iPad magazines directly from the apps themselves. If that seems like non-news, consider that it took the two companies two years to figure this out. Up until now, Time Inc. has been the notable […]
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Comments Off on Apple agrees to pay Australian consumer commission $2.25 million over iPad 4G claims
When Apple released its latest iPad a few months ago, one of its more heavily touted features, aside from the Retina Display, was its support of 4G LTE networks. The only rub, though, was that the iPad was 4G if you happened to reside in North America. You defnititely wanted to read the fine print […]
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Comments Off on Apple announces 2012 Apple Design Award winners
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Comments Off on WWDC 2012 keynote video now available
Tim Cook! Phil Schller! Scott Forstall! All of Apple’s all-star lineup doing their thang at WWDC 2012 can now be checked out over here via streaming from Apple’s website.
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Comments Off on Shipping times for 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display pushed to 2-3 weeks
If you’re hoping to get your hands on Apple’s brand new 15-inch MacBook Pro with the Retina Display, it looks like you’re going to have to wait awhile. Shipping times have been pushed back to 2-3 weeks and encompasses all configurations. Apple’s other upgraded notebooks – the MacBook Air and the non-Retina MacBoko Pro – […]
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Comments Off on WWDC 2012 Liveblogs
Stay up to date with all the latest WWDC announcements at these lovely destinations. The Verge Engadget Ars Technica MacRumors 9to5Mac
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Comments Off on Apple to release two new native apps today – Report
9to5Mac reports on a rumored new native app Apple might announce later today: Apple is working on a new in-house application for iOS called “Organize,” but we’re not sure if Organize will be announced with iOS 6 at WWDC, or if it is a future App Store app from Apple, a future iOS enhancement, or something […]
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14. June 2012
Comments Off on Apple can’t stop the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S III release as Judge Lucy Koh says it would “overload” her schedule