Archive | March 28th, 2011
Barack Obama owns an iPad but still loves his Blackberry
With iPad 2s seemingly still in short supply, one person who apparently had little trouble getting Apple’s new fangled tablet is President Barack Obama. During a town hall meeting held in Washington earlier today, news anchor Jorge Ramos curiously, and quite bluntly, asked Obama if he owns an iPad. I do have an iPad,” Obama replied, […]
Continue reading...Apple Stores block access to Cydia on in-store wifi network
28. March 2011
iPhone jailbreaking may not be in the news much anymore, but the jailbreak community is alive and well. It typically takes jailbreakers just a few days to to compromise a new iOS release and Apple is perpetually involved in what CEO Steve Jobs once called a constant game of cat and mouse. Comically, Jobs quipped […]
Continue reading...Comedy Central renews Futurama for 7th season, 26 new episodes in the pipeline
28. March 2011
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Good news everybody! Futurama is coming back next season with 26 brand spankin’ new episodes. Deadline reports that after bringing Futurama back to the air in 2009 (thanks to a cult following and significant ratings on reruns), the latest episodes averaged approximately 2.5 million viewers, enough to warrant the commission of 26 brand new episodes. […]
Continue reading...OS X turns 10 years old
28. March 2011
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Last Thursday marked the 10th anniversary of OS X, Apple’s modern OS built on the technology of Steve Jobs’ NeXT OS. Looking back over the past 10 years, Macworld’s Dan Moren highlights the importance and integral role OS X had in helping Apple reemerge as an innovator and force on the technological landscape. Though nobody […]
Continue reading...Mac OS X 10.6.7 update for MacBook Pros shows expanded support for AMD graphics cards
28. March 2011
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As noted by hacker Tony of tonymacx86, the latest OS X 10.6.7 update for the 2011 MacBook Pro comes with support for AMD/ATI video cards not currently included on Mac machines. Tony speculates that this may indicate an opening up of the platform and that Apple’s reliance on Mac-only graphics cards may be coming to […]
Continue reading...WWDC 2011 schedule set; iPhone 5 may be pushed back until Fall 2011
28. March 2011
As had been rumored, Apple today announced that its annual Worldwide Developers Conference will be held from June 6 through June 10th at the Moscone West convention center in San Francisco. Passes to the conference are on sale for $1599 and should be picked up quick if you’re planning on attending. Attendance to WWDC over […]
Continue reading...Google’s Honeycomb OS not entirely open just yet
28. March 2011
A few weeks ago, I noticed that a friend of mine who happens to be decidedly not into Apple products toting around an iPhone 4. As it turns out, the phone was subsidized by his employer so an Apple user he became. When I asked him how he liked it, he had nothing but praise […]
Continue reading...ITC agrees to review Judge’s pro-Apple ruling from January in Kodak case
28. March 2011
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This past Friday, the US International Trade Commission (ITC) decided to review a Judge’s findings from this past January where he ruled that an image preview feature used in Apple’s iPhone and RIM’s BlackBerry devices doesn’t infringe on Kodak patents. The patent in question involves taking a high resolution photo yet using a low resolution […]
Continue reading...Huge lines for the new iPad at Regent Street Apple store as UK runs dry of iPad 2 units
28. March 2011
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Wow. The line that formed for the iPad 2 launch outside of the Apple Store on Regent Street in London this past Friday was insane. It should therefore come as no surprise that iPad 2 supply in the UK was depleted in less than 24 hours. Apple retail stores on Regent Street and Covent Garden, […]
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28. March 2011
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