Steve and Laurene Jobs together at the 82nd Academy Awards back in 2010
When Steve Jobs passed away in 2011, he left behind a wife and four children. His widow, Laurene Powell Jobs, has stayed hidden from the public sphere for years, but now she is starting to receive more recognition as an influential philanthropist.
She is passionate about a host [Read More…]
People love to sue Apple whenever they can, and now a Florida woman is seeking $ 5+ million in damages because her iPhone 4′s power button doesn’t work. The class action lawsuit is intended to fight for the iPhone 4 users who have reported defective on/off buttons over the past several years.
GigaOm reports:
In a class action suit filed in San Jose, California, Debra Hilton claims that Apple knew about a [Read More…]
Be careful where you leave your iPad. It might end up impaling some poor lady’s bumper.
That’s what happened to one unlucky iPad owner who forget they placed their iPad on top of their car. After getting onto the road, the iPad eventually fell off the roof of the car, slammed into a Georgia woman’s front bumper, and then stayed there for the rest of day.
The woman driving the [Read More…]
Anytime you think you’re scoring a super hot deal on Apple’s latest amazing device, you really should make sure everything’s 100% legit before forking over $ 200 to some shady dude at a gas station. That’s the lesson Jalonta Freeman learned when she found out the “$ 800 iPad” she purchased was really just a mirror.
Freeman was fueling her car at a gas station when a man pulled up beside her [Read More…]
The Geniuses at your local Apple Store are used to deal with a wide assortment of complaints and problems. Broken harddrive, cracked iPhone screen, kidnapped woman? They can handle it all.
A few nights ago a kidnapped woman from Kentucky was forced to walk into an Apple store with her kidnapper who was trying to force her to purchase a bunch of Apple products with her credit cards. But thanks to an [Read More…]
Legal trouble and Apple tend to go hand-in-hand lately, but the latest lawsuit against the company doesn�t involve IP litigation. It involves an 83-year old woman and a glass door.
According to the lawsuit Evelyn Paswall is suing Apple after walking into the glass doors at the Apple Store Manhasset on Long Island. According to the CBS New York report Paswall is asking for $75,000 in medical expenses plus $1 million in punitive damages for negligence.
I�m not a huge fan of The Big Bang Theory, but this clip from the latest episode is too good not to post.
What if Siri wasn�t just Wolfram Alpha stapled onto a smart text-to-speech program, but instead an actual woman, working a call center, and just as slinky and sexually promiscuous as any bro showing off in front of his drunken friends by asking for a blow job could ever hope?
That�s probably not many people�s fantasies, [Read More…]
Of all the product tie-ins Apple never approved, getting an iPod for predicting a death has got to be the worst.
Cynical journos have long had newsroom betting pools on when public figures would meet their makers but website The bare-bones site features pics of the singer at her most disheveled and out-of-sorts along with a form inciting readers to �use the form to guess Amy�s final breath and be [Read More…]
A thief fleeing with an iPhone pushed a woman to her death down a flight of metro stairs in Chicago. At rush hour on Monday, a man snatched an iPhone from a woman who was using it at Fullerton station platform in the Lincoln Park neighborhood.
As he ran off, the man knocked over Sally Katona-King, 68, on her way home from her church receptionist�s job.
Katona-King died yesterday after tumbling down the station [Read More…]
