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- Apple Engineers Sue for Overtime, Better Working Conditions A former Apple engineer who worked at the company from 1995 to 2007 is the lead plaintiff in a class action suit seeking restitution from Apple for overtime pay and meal compensation under California labor law. David Walsh, a former Network Engineer claims he was required to work after hours and weekends without overtime compensation and [...]
- iPhone Firmware Contains Built-in Kill Switch A mobile applications development author has discovered functionality in iPhone 2.0 software that would allow Apple to blacklist and remotely disable iPhone applications on users phones. While the company already retains control over third-party iPhone apps through its certificate signing program, this more targeted system gives Apple the ability to kill specific applications and effectively [...]
- Apple TV to Become a Real TV? In February next year, receiving over-the-air television signals will require either a digital converter for current analog TVs or a digital TV set, creating a huge potential market of people looking to upgrade home viewing technology. Could this be the area for the mysterious product transition Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer mentioned last month? We would [...]
- $1,000 iPhone App No More; Mourning “I Am Rich” Ladies and gentlemen of the Cult, I bring you bad news: As of 2:18 p.m. Pacific yesterday, I Am Rich is no longer available from the iPhone AppStore. At the behest of VentureBeat and many other bloggers, Apple has yanked a brand new app in the prime of life. Yes, I know. Its tragic. Never [...]
- New Cinema Displays Rumored for Macworld 2009 Apple has been selling the same Cinema Displays, with occasional price adjustments and minor spec improvements since 2004. MacRumors adds today to growing speculation about Whats Next for Apple , suggesting the Cinema Display line may get a major makeover in time for Macworld 2009, scheduled for January 5th - 9th at San Franciscos Moscone Center. The [...]
- iUseThis Helps ID Trees in the Forest In an increasingly populous iPhone app universe, iUseThis may become a useful method for finding the sturdy trees in a deep dark forest of what some are calling useless crap. Blogger Erica Sadun calls it basically a Digg for iPhone apps, but says, [the] site shows early promise should it manage to attract a large [...]
- “Calvin and Jobs,” the Story of a Boy and His iCEO In my childhood, I had two obsessions: Calvin and Hobbes and Apple. And someone has finally had the foresight to bring them together for Calvin and Jobs, which chronicles the adventures of a boy and his imaginary Apple CEO. Its quite witty, very much in the tone of the real series. The cartooning isnt so [...]
- iTunes Remains Top US Music Retailer More people in the US turned to Apples iTunes Store for their music purchases in the first half of 2008 than to any other music retailer, according to a MusicWatch consumer survey released today by NPD Group, a leading market researcher. Apples digital distribution sales outpaced the three leading physical cd distributors, WalMart, Best Buy, and [...]
- We Need Your help: Important Mac Moments The great thing about blogging is the interactivity it provides. Id like to ask our readers help with a project Im working on. In your opinion, what are the most important moments in Mac history? They can be good moments like the release of OS X, or bad moments like opening the OS to clones, just [...]
- MIT Designers Resurrecting Apple II for India: UPDATED UPDATE: The MIT design team referred to in this post is basing its design not on the Apple II, but on the Nintendo Entertainment System, which used the same processor chip. We regret our error, which was originally reported by The Boston Herald article to whcih our post was linked. Thanks to David Zeiler at [...]
- Consumer Reports Piles on Apple Security Criticism Adding to recent criticism charging Apple with inadequate attention to security concerns, Consumer Reports takes the company to task for the lack of phishing protection in Safari. Among seven common online blunders that can ruin your computer or invite identity theft, thinking your Mac shields you from all risks comes in at #5, according to [...]
- Apple Reorgs Mobile Me, Jobs Says Web Services “Not Up to Apple’s Standards” Man, Apple is really trying to make things right today. First, the company released iPhone OS 2.0.1, which everyone seems to agree fixes virtually everything wrong with the prior release (except cut, copy, and paste, of course), and now, it comes to light via Ars Technica that Steve Jobs himself apparently sent out an e-mail [...]
- Leave Steve Jobs Alone!!! Kris Arnolds pisstake of the Chris Cocker/Britney video starts off pretty funny see the video below but like the original, it goes on a bit too long. Still, theres some good lines: How fing dare anyone even think about selling their Apple stock! All you people care about are Mac rumors, and stock shares! Hes human!& [...]
- iPhone 2.0.1 Highlights: Faster Syncing, No Keyboard Lag, NetShare Not Deleted I just installed the whopping 250-Mbyte iPhone 2.0.1 update, and it seems to fix most of the problems everyone complained about. Among the highlights: Everything runs much faster. Could be my imagination, but feels nice! Typing is much faster. No more keyboard lag. Infuriatingly sluggish Contacts app now loads fast and scrolls smoothly. Syncing is much speedier. No longer [...]
- iPhone OS 2.0.1 Arrives… Three Weeks Late As readers of this blog know, weve been a bit disappointed in Apples July 11 launches, from the mangled mess that is Mobile Me to the crashtacular iPhone OS 2.0 to the absurdly constrained supplies of iPhone 3Gs. Fortunately, Apple might be turning the corner, at least on the iPhone OS, which shipped in a highly [...]
- New MacBook Pictures Leaked from Taiwan? AppleOwner.com, a Taiwanese Apple-oriented website, has leaked what are purported to be pictures of the new MacBook, a highly anticipated revision to Apples line of increasingly popular notebook computers expected to be available within the next six weeks. The photographs are long on suggestion, but short on detail, and may well be noting more than placeholders [...]
- Juice Pack 3G Extends iPhone Battery Life The mophie juice pack 3g?, coming in September from mStation, promises to more than double the useful life of Apples iPhone 3G battery. Despite Steve Jobs insistence that iPhone 3G batteries would be an improvement over the those in the original model, many users have found surfing the web on AT&Ts 3G network, running Bluetooth [...]
- Apple Pulls Box Office from AppStore Fans of Box Office, an iPhone lifestyle app that lets users leverage the GPS functionality of the iPhone to list theaters and movies playing within a user-definable radius (e.g. 10 miles) will be disappointed to find the application no longer available on Apples AppStore. Metasyntactic, the developer responsible for the application, claims to have gotten no [...]
- Questions Mount On Apple Security Issues Amid growing criticism of a lassiez-faire approach to security issues, Apple has canceled participation in a public discussion of its security practices at the Black Hat security conference scheduled this week in Las Vegas. Black Hat Director Jeff Moss told reporters in an interview Friday that unnamed members of Apples engineering team had agreed in [...]
- Pigeon Plays Tap Tap Revolution On iPhone — But Sucks Blogger Chris Ainsworth tried to get his pet pigeon, Brisby, to play the popular iPhone music game, Tap Tap Revolution, a version of Dance Dance Revolution for your fingers. Unfortunately, Brisby wasnt very good, leading Chris to conclude that pigeons suck at video games. But with the proper operant conditioning, the bird could probably be [...]
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