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What do NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Apple CEO Steve Jobs have in common?
What do Steve Jobs and NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg have in common? The answer might surprise you. Well, for starters, every year Jobs and Bloomberg both refuse to receive a proper salary for their respective services. Instead, they each receive a token $1.00 “salary” from Apple and the city of New York respectively. Second, both […]
Continue reading...Washington lawmakers question Steve Jobs about Apple’s new privacy policy
Sunday, June 27, 2010
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The Washington Post reported last week that key lawmakers want to have a little fireside chat with Steve Jobs to discuss Apple’s new privacy policy regarding their use of customer geographic information via location-based apps. Reps. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Joe Barton (R-Texas), co-chairman of the House Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus, Thursday sent a letter to […]
Continue reading...iPad approval rating soars in the White House
Friday, June 11, 2010
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The White House. Where treaties are signed, dresses are stained, and apps are downloaded. But these aren’t just regular iPhone apps. These are iPad apps, son. Photos of President Barak Obama using a Mac were quite popular during the last Presidential election, and that Mac passion from up above has now manifested itself in the […]
Continue reading...Obama laments information overload, claims not to know how to work an iPod or iPad
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
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In a speech to graduating seniors at Hampton University in Virginia, President Barack Obama lamented the way news in today’s connected world can sometimes bombard individuals with what can often be misleading and downright false information. “You’re coming of age in a 24/7 media environment that bombards us with all kinds of content and exposes […]
Continue reading...Seattle Mayor pushes for transition to Macs, right in Microsoft’s backyard
Monday, November 16, 2009
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Seattle’s newly elected Mayor Mike McGinn appears to be up to no good in the land of Microsoft. The mayor elect is a solidified iPhone user, and according to a recent report in Slog, his “transition team has eschewed the Blackberries usually handed out to mayoral staffers and instead asked for four iPhones.” But come on, […]
Continue reading...Apple removes Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ e-book from the iTunes App Store
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
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Last Friday, a Spanish translation of Hitler’s Mein Kampf made its way onto the iTunes App Store as an e-book. Even more perplexing was that the apps icon was a front and center picture of a swastika. We wrote on the topic last week: Now how in the world did Apple’s app store review team […]
Continue reading...Apple rejects caricature app featuring bobblehead politicians
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
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In the latest episode of Apple fumbling around the app store rejection process, Apple rejected an app which provided users with detailed information about members of the United States Congress because each politician’s entry was accompanied by a caricature of said politician, each drawn by talented Mad magazine illustrator Tom Richmond. Apple’s reasoning was that […]
Continue reading...Apple allows Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ e-book into the app store
Friday, November 6, 2009
Well this sure is surprising. Apple, which is notorious for rejecting apps that appear to poke just a little bit innocent fun at political figures like George Bush and Barack Obama, has accepted a Spanish translation of Hitler’s Mein Kampf as an e-book into the iTunes App Store. Even more disturbing is that the app’s […]
Continue reading...Karl Rove is a Mac user [Photo]
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Turns out that Karl Rove, the controversial former advisor to President George W. Bush, is a Mac guy with Apple roots that stretch all the way back to 1983. Rove’s role as an effective political consultant for Republicans left him with a reputation for being one of the more polarizing figures in D.C. But we […]
Continue reading...A look back at the iTunes App Store – Part III: The bannings and the rejections
Friday, July 10, 2009
The iTunes App Store has been exceedingly successful for Apple, but the past 12 months haven’t gone off without a hitch. Since its inception a year ago, the iTunes App Store has been embroiled in controversy, and it often seemed that the unprecedented breadth and popularity of the app store left Apple confused, and unsure […]
Continue reading...Al-Jazeera launches streaming app for iPhone and iPod Touch
Monday, July 6, 2009
The controversial Arabic TV News network Al Jazeera recently launched an iPhone and iPod Touch app that gives users a live feed of the English language version of the channel. The stream works both over Wi-Fi and 3G networks, though they note that there is a bug that prevents the program from working properly on […]
Continue reading...Apple rejects Obama trampoline app for the iPhone
Saturday, February 7, 2009
First Apple rejects an iPhone game that lets you throw a shoe at George Bush, and now it rejects a game that lets you bounce a number of political figures up and down on a trampoline! Oh the humanity. According to TechCrunch, ‘Obama Trampoline’ lets users “select a known U.S. politician (both republicans and democrats) […]
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
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