Apple Products and News

Following its October 25th outage, Apple’s iMessage service is down for many users this afternoon. Our readers and several people on Twitter are expressing their annoyance over the problem. These iMessage outages seem to be happening on a weekly basis, spanning for a few hours. Additionally, readers are reporting that Game Center, iTunes Match, FaceTime, […]

At its September media event Apple showed off the new iTunes 11, software complete with a redesigned player, new mini player, redesigned store, preview history, iCloud integration, and more. Apple promised the new iTunes was going to be released during October, however, an Apple spokesperson speaking to CNET just announced that Apple has delayed iTunes […]

An Apple spokesperson says iTunes 11 will be late and should ship by the end of November, according to a report from CNET. The software had been expected by the end of October.

This follows recent analysis of Apple’s recent executive reorganization mo…

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As promised, Google has released an update for its Search for iOS app that adds Google Now-like voice recognition. The new voice recognition feature also remind us a lot of Siri. Users can perform tasks like “asking for the weather in a natural way and it will provide results,” Google explained. You just need to […]

Kentucky-based regional carrier Bluegrass Cellular originally had plans to offer the iPhone 5 at the end of September following its launch, but today announced it will finally have the device to offer its customers starting Friday, November 2nd. Like it and other regional carriers have done in the past with the latest iPhone models, it […]

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been covering a few of the recent unofficial Lightning accessories that have been surfacing into the void left by Apple’s decision to wait until early November to begin bringing most of its official accessory partners up …

Only a week after Apple announced the new 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display, Other World Computing has already revealed its third-party SSD upgrade. The Mercury Aura Pro can increase your storage to 480GB, while possibly saving you some dough in …

Former Apple employee Matt Drance has an interesting take on yesterday’s executive shakeup at Apple. He notes that the new division of responsibilities across three top executives is a sea change from how Apple has traditionally operated.
Not only is …

In a note to clients — as reported by “AppleInsider” (www.appleinsider.com) — Piper Jaffray Gene Munster says the big shake-ups to Apple’s executive team (http://macte.ch/ncQJj) is no cause fo…

Like it does for the 15-inch model, OWC announced today it is offering its 480GB Mercury Aura Pro SSD for Apple’s new 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro. As noted by OWC, the $580 aftermarket upgrade option will cost you approximately $220 less than Apple’s comparable 512GB built-to-order upgrade, and will also allow you to keep your […]

The launch of the iPad has created new opportunities for pharmaceutical companies. According to estimates by Research and Markets (www.researchandmarkets.com), almost 50 million tablets were in …

Apple’s iPhone 5 launched at the end of September,  but first week sales slowed Android’s growth in Cupertino’s two biggest markets: the U.S. and U.K. during the 12 weeks ending Sept. 30,…

In an “Adweek” interview (http://macte.ch/Hqb4p), famed investor Mark Cuban said the idea that Apple would invest its bundles of cash in trying to “blow up cable companies” with its own deals wi…