 SAN FRANCISCO, MACWORLD/iWORLD 2013 – When you walk onto the Macworld Expo floor you’re immediately assaulted by a cacophony of iPad cases and stands. Everyone thinks they have the perfect solution for you to rest your iPad on.
I roamed around the floor all day and this is the best one I could find. It’s called the Desktop Chair from Moku Woodware, and it’s [Read More...]
If T-Mobile really got its way your next iPhone would probably come in pink.
Earlier today T-Mobile announced that it will finally start selling Apple products in 2013. As the last major U.S. carrier to not offer Apple’s beloved iPhone, it’s about time T-Mobile joined the cool kids’ table.
T-Mobile CEOÂ John Legere has promised that buying the iPhone on his network will be “dramatically different” due to the carrier’s decision to abandon [Read More...]
“Bob Iger, you just cashed in $ 17.9 million worth of Disney stock, what are you going to do next?”
If you’re really into investing and the stock market and all that fun, heart-wrenching stuff, then now might be a great time to buy some Apple stock if you believe Disney’s CEO Bob Iger knows what he’s doing.
On Monday, Iger bought $ 1 million worth of Apple shares, according to documents filed [Read More...]
AuthenTec, the mobile security solutions company that was acquired by Apple back in July, has sold off its part of its business. The devision that supplies embedded security solutions and encryption algorithms to the likes of LG, Motorola, Samsung, and Nokia has been acquired by NFC specialists Inside Secure for $ 48 million.
With this portion of the business now gone, it seems Apple’s interest must lie in the AuthenTec’s other products, [Read More...]
The biggest shopping day of the year is fast approaching. The day after Thanksgiving in the United States is Black Friday, and it’s the best time to begin you’re holiday gift shopping — if you can face the frenzy, that is. Retailers all over the U.S. will be offering big discounts on some of this year’s hottest gifts, and the Apple store will be no exception, having given Black Friday discounts to [Read More...]
The iPad Mini at the Apple Store in Passeig de Gracia, Barcelona. Photo Charlie Sorrel (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
The iPad Mini is here, and it is lying naked and vulnerable on your desk/bed/lap/passenger seat. And that’s ok, because today is all about tweaking and configuring your settings, installing apps and seeing which of your pants have back pockets big enough to carry it (don’t sit down!)
But what of tomorrow? Soon you’ll [Read More...]
Buying an iPad mini today? You’re just another ‘sucker’, apparently.
Apple’s iPad mini goes on sale today, and a lot of you who are reading this are likely going to pick one up, or will be waiting in for yours to be delivered. One person who probably won’t be buying the device, however, is chat show host Jimmy Kimmel, who calls it “a bigger but not gigantic iPod you cannot talk on.”
Which iPad mini to pick? You probably only want the $ 329 model.
Starting at 12:01 AM Pacific Time on October 26th, Apple fans will be able to put their pre-orders in for the iPad mini, Apple’s diminutive new 7.9-inch tablet with an A5 chip, a 1024 x 768 display, a 5MP camera and that comes in the usual flavors of between 16 and 64 gigabytes and in white or black. This [Read More...]
A flurry of rumors have surrounded the failed video app start-up Color over the past 24 hours. First a rumors hit that Color was going to completely shutdown after failing to gain widespread use after a year. A few hours later a second rumor claimed that Color wasn’t shutting down, they were just being bought by Apple.
It appears that both rumors were completely wrong and sort of right at the same [Read More...]
This man has not sold two companies to Apple.
Yesterday, a new report said that Apple bought Color, a photo sharing service turn internet broadcast tool that managed to acquire $ 41 million in venture capital before it ever released, and has widely been considered a bit of a joke ever sense.
The report didn’t make sense. Why would Apple buy a startup that had released nothing but, in the words of [Read More...]
