Archive | October, 2012
Apple acquires Color’s engineering team
All Things D reports: What’s really happening is that Color’s engineering team — about 20 people, comprising almost the entire company — is being “acqhired” by Apple at what’s being called a “nominal” price of something like $2 million to $5 million, according to multiple sources familiar with both sides of the situation. To repeat, […]
Continue reading...Apple’s 4th gen iPad already in the works
17. October 2012
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Digitimes reports that Apple has already begun informing its component suppliers to get ready for iPad 4 production by mid 2013. While the design will still incorporate a 9.7-inch display and the same approximate form factor, Apple is said to be tweaking the innards ever so slightly as to make the manufacturing process a tad […]
Continue reading...Chrisann Brennan, Steve Jobs’ high school sweetheart, to write memoir
17. October 2012
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Steve Jobs was a complicated man. Heralded as a genius and visionary who helped usher in a number of technological and cultural revolutions, Jobs was equally as famous for his wrath which he would often unleash upon unsuspecting employees when they didn’t perform up to Jobs expectations. And while Jobs reportedly toned down his temper […]
Continue reading...Foxconn says iPhone 5 is most difficult device they’ve ever had to assemble
17. October 2012
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Forget about Mapplegate (could there be a worse name for a ‘controversy’?), Apple continues to sell iPhone 5s just as quickly as Foxconn can produce them. Indeed, if anything, Apple has had trouble meeting pent up demand for its 6th generation iPhone up until recently. Recently, we reported on how stricter quality control measures requested […]
Continue reading...Phil Schiller says fifth-generation iPod Touch is too thin for ambient light sensor
17. October 2012
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Apple’s newly released iPod Touch is by far the best iPod ever released. Sharing the same 4-inch screen as the iPhone 5, not to mention the long-awaited addition of a competent camera, the 5th generation iPod Touch is a sight to behold. It’s also insanely thin, we’re talking just 6.1mm deep. To that end, there’s […]
Continue reading...Apple acquires web app firm Particle
17. October 2012
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Josh Lowensohn of CNET reports that Apple last month acquired a San Francisco based creative consulting company called Particle that specializes in HTML 5 and UI design. Particle was founded in early 2008 and has some celebrity financial backing. Pop star-turned-actor Justin Timberlake is an investor and helped fund short social video service Robo.to, which Particle […]
Continue reading...Purported photos of iPad Mini display with 4:3 aspect ratio emerge
17. October 2012
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Etradesupply today published photos purporting to show the iPad Mini’s LCD screen. If accurate, the screen will measure in at 162mm by 124mm in width. Notably, and running counter to previous leaks, the LCD obtained by Etradesupply suggests that the iPad Mini will not have a 16:9 aspect ratio and will instead share the same […]
Continue reading...iPhone 5 already surpasses Samsung Galaxy S3 in web traffic
17. October 2012
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Despite only having been out for less than a month, a new report from the research firm Chitika shows that web traffic from the iPhone 5 has already surpassed that from Samsung’s Galaxy S3. So while the pundits and even Apple enthusiasts and iPhone owners may have less than stellar things to say about Apple’s […]
Continue reading...Microsoft’s first commercial for Surface is very cool [Video]
16. October 2012
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Well done, Microsoft. Well done. This ad, dare we say, is very cool and I kinda wish Apple experimented with these kinds of numbers. Oh well, I’d rather have an iPad and decent commercials than a Microsoft Surface and amazing commercials.
Continue reading...Official invitations for iPad Mini are out; Apple teases “We’ve got a little more to show you”
16. October 2012
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Apple today finally sent out invitations for what promises to be the introduction of the highly anticipated iPad Mini. As expected, the event is scheduled to go down on October 23 at the California Theatre in San Jose, marking a departure from the typical events which Apple holds at the Yerba Buena Center for the […]
Continue reading...Tearing down Apple’s 7th gen iPod Nano
16. October 2012
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Has it been 7 generations of the iPod Nano already? Why yes, yes it has. And iFixit recently got their hands on Apple’s newest miniaturized MP3 player and did what they do best, tore that bad boy apart. Check out their teardown efforts over here.
Continue reading...Zynga is falling apart
16. October 2012
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Revenue is down, key employees continue to leave, and the stock price successfully continues to challenge all-time lows. And now comes this. In the wake of several upper level employee departures, Zynga has taken to the Courts over one in particular, alleging that one former general manager Alan Patmore took some of the company’s “most […]
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18. October 2012
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