Apple seeds iPhone 2.1 with directional GPS, push notification

Apple is already providing developers with a new iPhone firmware beta with enhanced location-finding that could lead to true navigation as well as the roots for background push services. Those with hands-on access to the beta 2.1 code at Gear Live...

published yesterday, 12 hours 2 minutes ago

Virginia Tech's Mac Pro supercomputer to crack 29 teraflops

A switch to newer Intel-based Apple Mac Pro workstations for an upcoming rekindling of Virginia Tech's supercomputer efforts will more than double the performance to as much as 29 teraflops and will once again put a Mac cluster in the limelight -- th...

published yesterday, 14 hours 47 minutes ago

Intel may cater to Apple with system-on-a-chip, dual-core Atom

Intel's options for Apple and other customers interested in ultra-portable devices are about to expand thanks to the official launch of an all-in-one processor and a dual-core version of its Atom processor. The semiconductor firm on Thursday revea...

published yesterday, 15 hours 52 minutes ago

Microsoft sets sights on providing an Apple-like experience

Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer on Wednesday issued a company-wide memo outlining his battle plan for the new fiscal year in which he singled out the Apple experience as a benchmark for future success. "In the competition between PCs and ...

published yesterday, 21 hours 17 minutes ago

Tight supply of iPhone 3G leaves customers waiting for hours

Two weeks after it launched on July 11, the iPhone 3G is still hard to find in the US. Many Apple retail stores have no supplies at all, leaving buyers to track down the stores that do have remaining stock and wait in slow moving lines that stretched...

published yesterday, 23 hours 17 minutes ago

Montreal flagship to headline weekend of Apple store openings

Canadians will get their first taste of a high-profile Apple retail store this weekend when the iPhone maker takes the wraps off a spacious, double-decker flagship shop in downtown Montreal. The company will also open its first store in South Carolin...

published yesterday, 1 day 1 hour 17 minutes ago

AT&T says initial iPhone sales double that of last year

AT&T said Wednesday that sales of Apple's iPhone 3G during the first twelve days were nearly double that of last year, this despite shortages that have seen backorders stretch one to three weeks at its retail stores. AT&T made the announcement wh...

published on Wednesday, the 23. July 2008

Steve Jobs in good health following second surgery - report

Steve Jobs is reassuring some of his closest associates that rumors of his health are greatly exaggerated, but is telling those same people that he underwent a procedure this year related to his weight, the New York Times is reporting. "[In] recen...

published on Wednesday, the 23. July 2008

AT&T developing voice-controlled iPhone apps (video)

AT&T has developed a software trick that will let modern mobile handsets, including Apple Inc's iPhone, recognize voice commands without the need for specialized voice recognition software. The research project is based on a new version of AT&T's ...

published on Tuesday, the 22. July 2008

Second firm tests Apple's legal resolve with Mac OS X-ready PCs

Ignoring action just taken against Psystar, a new company known as Open Tech says it's making Mac OS X-compatible PCs, and believes it has found a loophole that prevents legal action from Apple. Open Tech Inc. is following in the same vein as its ...

published on Tuesday, the 22. July 2008