A couple of days back, Sony Pictures announced that Aaron Sorkin, the Academy Award winning writer of The Social Network, will adapt Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs biography into a screenplay. Today, another report published by Chicago Tribune (via TUAW) has revealed that the Apple co-founder and longtime friend of Jobs, Steve Wozniak, will assist the oscar-winning writer with his...
Apple's iTunes Festival, which is held annually in London during the month of July, is coming back in 2012 but will be held in September instead. The iTunes Festival 2012 will take place at London’s Roundhouse music venue offering 30 nights of free music for live attendees as well as to users of iPhones, iPod touches and iPads through...
Facebook (FB) has finally gone public today, the second largest IPO ever in the history of U.S. The company, which was launched by Mark Zuckerberg from his Harvard University dorm only eight years ago, started trading at $42 a share under the symbol “FB,” bringing the company’s worth to $116.6 billion. However, shortly after the stock made its debut, the price began...
Chillingo, the makers of hit iOS games like Cut The Rope and Fancy Pants Adventures, have just made their popular puzzle game Feed Me Oil free for today only. Both Feed Me Oil and Feed Me Oil HD (iPad Version) can be downloaded for free from the App Store today which normally sell at $0.99 and $1.99 respectively....
Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer told Reuters in a telephonic interview today that the company is going to power all three of its data centers with 100% renewable energy, with its core data center in North Carolina going coal-free by the end of this year. Apple has been buying equipment from SunPower Corp and Bloom Energy to build two solar array...
Readdle has just pushed a major update to PDF Expert for iPhone, that takes the popular PDF viewing and annotating iPhone app to version 3.0. While the app already supported PDF Forms, the latest update brings the ability to sign PDFs using handwritten signatures right on the iPhone. This lets users sign contracts, agreements, statements etc. on-the-go and...
Following a report by DigiTimes, claiming that Apple has recently placed massive mobile dynamic random access memory (DRAM) orders with Elpida, Samsung's major chip rival in Japan, shares of Samsung Electronics fell down more than 6%, wiping $10 billion off the electronics giant's market value, according to Reuters. Samsung, which is the world's biggest DRAM maker, suffered its biggest...
Latest mobile device data released by research firm Gartner reveals that Apple now accounts for 7.9% of global mobile phone market selling 33.1 million iPhones during the first quarter of calendar 2012 (via Apple Insider). The report represents worldwide mobile device sales to end users instead of total shipments. It is notable that the 33.1 million iPhones that Gartner says...
In response to lawsuits filed last month against Siri, alleging that the intelligent personal assistant software introduced in iPhone 4S doesn’t perform as advertised, Apple has today filed a motion to dismiss the cases, reports Wall Street Journal. Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, defending Apple against these claims, said in a recent court filing that Siri is currently...
Apple has recently been hit with a major lawsuit across U.S and Canada for allegedly colluding with book publishers in order to raise prices for e-books. Even though Apple has already responded by stating that none of these allegations are true, some very interesting details regarding the case have just been brought forward by Paid Content's reporter Laura Hazard, the most important of...
According to a recent publication by Reuters, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled that that Apple could press its bid for an immediate injunction to block the sale of Samsung Galaxy tablets in the U.S on allegations of a patent infringement. The court further ruled that district court judge in California was...
Glenn A. Britt, the CEO of Time Warner Cable, reportedly said in a group interview with NY Times on Friday that that there was no simple way to get Internet-based video onto the television screen. Even though he claimed to be an enthusiastic Apple customer, he stated that he had never heard of anything called 'AirPlay'. Looks like...
