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By Usman on January 30th, 2012

Looks like Apple’s iPhone could be the next most wanted tool by Manhattan’s police officers helping them track down shop lifters such as the one arrested by officer Robert Garland last week. The officer told the New York Times about the robbery of an iPhone 4 from a handbag store and how a high-tech arrest was made by him. It…

By Usman on January 30th, 2012

It appears that Apple’s obsession with secrecy of its upcoming products goes beyond a common man’s imagination. According to a report by Business Insider, Apple’s new engineers are sometimes placed on fake products before Apple can actually trust them for the actual projects. Adam Lashinsky reported this in his new book “Inside Apple” and a former Apple…

By Gary Ng on January 29th, 2012

We’ve heard lots about the book Inside Apple written by Fortune editor, Adam Lashinsky. The book spills secrets about what working at Apple is really like, and on one of his publicity tour stops at LinkedIn Lashinsky gets asked a few questions from a former Apple employee. It’s an interesting 50 minutes interview that makes…

By Usman on January 29th, 2012

An email from Steve Jobs which was sent to Google’e Eric Schmidt in 2007, was disclosed on Friday in a court ruling against Apple, Google, Adobe, Intel and a couple of other tech firms (via Reuters). The proposed class action accuses these companies of conspiring to keep employee compensation low by eliminating competition for skilled labor. According to…

By Usman on January 28th, 2012

Apple is without a doubt the most valuable company in the world. Only yesterday, we found out that Apple has become the world’s largest smartphone vendor as reflected by global shipments for Q4 2011. Earlier this week, the company reported a record net profit of more than $13.6 billion for its final quarter of 2011. Tim Cook alone…

By Gary Ng on January 27th, 2012

According to the latest Strategy Analytics research report, Apple topped all smartphone vendors in 2011 Q4 with the most shipments, toppling Samsung. Apple won the quarter but the South Korean conglomerate still took down the 2011 title by edging out Apple by 4.4 million shipments. Neil Mawston, Executive Director at Strategy Analytics, added, “While Apple…

By Usman on January 27th, 2012

We all know Siri as a digital voice assistant app in iOS, introduced by Apple for the first time with iPhone 4S. However, creators of famous American sitcom The Big Bang Theory have given us some idea of how this (sexy) voice assistant might look like in real life. The video clip is taken from Episode 14 of Season…

By Gary Ng on January 27th, 2012

Today the media has covered the extensive article published by the New York Times that covers in detail about the working conditions in China at various Apple suppliers. Apple CEO Tim Cook has now apparently responded to the alleged allegations, in an email to employees, notes 9to5Mac. Here’s a snippet of the first part of…

By Matt Watterworth on January 26th, 2012

In an interesting article, CNET is reporting on a poll taken by an organization called Lemelson-MIT, which tasks itself with celebrating inventors and their ideas. The group found that a collection of 1000 young people put Steve Jobs behind Thomas Edison as the world’s greatest innovator. The pollsters were surprised to find that 52% of…

By Gary Ng on January 26th, 2012

The New York Times has an extensive piece that profiles the working conditions faced by workers employed within Apple’s supply chain manufacturers. It’s a lengthy article that goes into detail with accounts about conditions at Foxconn, such as issues of worker suicides. Other former incidents such as the use of poisonous n-hexane at Wintek are…