Guide to Mac, iPod, iPad and iPhone news and reviews
We’ve already seen 100-foot (30 Meter) Thunderbolt Optical cables from Corning and others, but we had a chance to drop into Intel’s CES booth this morning to discuss their Thunderbolt products. While there wasn’t much new to us, we did note the new “thin” one-meter cable. It is as thin and flexible as any USB […]
Apple’s Holiday Gift Guide just went live as part of the online Apple Store. The new page breaks down gifts by product line, catalogs the best of the Apple Store, and Apple notes it offers free shipping on all products. Santa, if you are listening… We’re also hoping to get a preview of Apple’s Black Friday […]
Ukrainianiphone.com reports to have obtained parts for the upcoming iPad mini. The parts, labeled in the gallery above, according to the Russian-language website, were from a source who visited the factory in Asia. Notables include the plastic spacer bars, which Apple has traditionally used for 3G and 4G radio equipment, and an Audio jack at the […]
This can’t be good. Intel Corp. (INTC) Chief Executive Officer Paul Otellini told employees in Taiwan that Microsoft Corp.’s Windows 8 operating system is being released before it’s fully ready, a person who attended the company event said. Improvements still need to be made to the software, Otellini told employees at a company meeting in Taipei today, If anyone should know, […]
. Apple hired Sally Cole as the Director of Employee Communications last month. Cole comes from cross-town rival Google, where she served as the Director of Internal Communications for almost six years. The Scarsdale native has a B.A. in history from Yale and a J.D./M.B.A. from nearby Stanford University, from which both companies hire liberally. […]
MICGadget translates a report from the Shanghai Evening Post which sheds some more light on the Foxconn assembly plants.. A reporter went undercover as one of the many people hired to build the iPhone 5. He (pictured right) kept a diary but was only able to stomach the work for a few weeks (reporters are lightweights […]
David Lawee, vice president of corporate development, says some things that will likely sound familiar if you used the Internet at all during the Samsung v. Apple trial. Wake-up call, indeed. [Bloomberg (non-flash) via BI]
The interesting thing is not that T-Mobile created placeholders on both its internal and external systems in the United Kingdom, because that is pretty standard at this point, but rather it thinks there needs to be an “8GB iPhone X” placeholder. This runs counter to what we heard for iPhone 5 sizes, so perhaps the […]
Interesting thing on iTunes today: . Update: Dave Matthews band’s new album too too. We are hoping this is a trend. Maybe Apple could even make some sort of Pandora-type thing out of it. Thanks:
There are a lot of interesting announcements this Sunday morning. Here’s a rundown, make sure to hit us with anything you find in the comments below. iFixit has a special tool for opening the new iPad which is reinforced with extra glue: From the makers of Doxie comes Shreddie, the portable document shredder. ThinkGeek –whose […]
Seeing Epson’s MegaPlex iOS device projector at tradeshows and in still pictures doesn’t do it justice. Set up in a small, awkward booth and surrounded by bright lights, the projector doesn’t usually inspire a second look. It wasn’t until I got a private screening at Macworld that I really saw what this thing could do. […]
FireCore announced today that it successfully jailbroke the Apple TV 2 (not the new Apple TV 1080P that released earlier this month). The jailbreak is tethered, which requires the Apple TV to be connected to a Mac/PC when first powering it on (only once). You also have to pay fireCore $30, but it has been […]