Last week we told you that Verizon would be selling the iPhone 5 for 50% off later this month. The promotion has now begun, and the iPhone 5 is being offered for $ 99 with a carrier contract instead of the normal $ 199 retail price.
But there’s a catch that severely limits eligibility.
Verizon told Gotta Be Mobile that this deal will only be offered to select customers who are “identified as being [Read More...]
Topeka Capital Market’s Brian White doesn’t necessarily have a spotless streak of predictions when it comes to Apple, having claimed in 2012 that Apple would reach an average share price of $ 1,001 by year’s end. He also claimed in January 2012 that Sharp would provide the display for an Apple HDTV in 2012.
In fact, White’s a bit of a crank. So take the following report with a grain of [Read More...]
It wasn’t until I’d written the name at least five times that I realized the Amplifiear isn’t called the “Amplifear” after all. That’s not to say I’m disappointed: I’d much rather have an acoustic amplifier for my iPad than a small, buzzing metal box that amplifies the terror in my heart until my emotions are torn into rags and my live becomes a fearful shuffle from corner dark corner.
The name clearly comes from the words [Read More...]
You’ve got to love sweet irony.
A not-so-crafty burglar in the U.K. incriminated himself by accidentally recording a home raid on his iPhone. The 23-year-old thief, Emmanuel Jerome, thought he was using his iPhone’s torch to light his way during a late-night burglary, but he was actually recording the whole thing.
After trying to break into three other properties, Jerome was caught and arrested by the local cops. Things got worse when the [Read More...]
The #BoycottApple hashtag was trending hard on Google+ last week. No, I’m not talking about the boycott-Apple-to-save-Chinese-workers, the boycott-Apple-because-they-discriminate-against-Iranians or even the boycott-Apple-because-they-support-gay-marriage movements. I’m talking about the boycott-Apple-because-they’re-using-the-courts-to-compete-against-Android-devices movement. Specifically, the call to boycott is based on anger over Apple’s successful attempt to ban both the Samsung Galaxy Nexus phone and the Galaxy 10.1 tablet. An appeals court temporarily lifted the ban on the phone yesterday, but upheld the tablet ban. [Read More...]
Steve Jobs is already richer than most of us can ever dream. He’s worth more than 8 billion dollars according to the most recent estimates. But he could be richer. A lot richer. In fact, a single mistake once cost Steve more than twenty nine billion dollars. Back in the early days of Apple, Steve Jobs invested $ 1,500 to get started. All well and good, but when Apple went [Read More...]
A FedEx driver was arrested for forging signatures on iPad deliveries and selling the stolen goods. In a two-month period, police in Jennings, Louisiana say that FedEx driver Michael Wright scribbled the John Hancocks on the documents for iPad deliveries. Then he sold those magical tablets to a businessman named Shannon Guillory for $ 200 each. Wright, 31, was charged with 20 felony counts — 14 counts of theft of [Read More...]
Smart Cover? IntelliCase? Yeah, there’s no product-naming rivalry going on there. And just like its name, Griffin’s IntelliCase, is a cooler version of Apple’s ubiquitous iPad 2 Smart Cover, because it adds something sorely missing from Apple’s version: a back. For $ 60 ($ 20 more than the Smart Cover), Griffin’s version, which ships today, has the snazzy magnetic wake-on-opening trick and foldable stand brilliance, but turns into a folio case [Read More...]
