With less than 5 hours to go before Apple's big media event, 9to5Mac has obtained significant details regarding what the Cupertino company might be hiding in its closet for unveiling later today. The leaks range from the new mini dock connector's name to a unique new ‘Loop’ accessory in multiple colors for the new iPod touch. Yesterday,...
Apple's senior vice president of industrial design Jonathan Ive a.k.a Jony Ive, who is widely credited for his unique industrial designs of the iPod and iPhone, has reportedly purchased a $25 million house on one of San Francisco's most exclusive blocks (via WSJ). According to people familiar with the deal, Jony, who has been living in San Francisco with...
Just weeks after losing to Apple in the patent battle, Samsung is working on yet another anti-Apple commercial. This time the Korean-based company is once again re-creating an Apple Store. The fake Apple Store is full of Macs and iOS devices, but there is no telling what they have planned. The set is located in...
Noreen Krall, the 47 year old who led a team of lawyers from inside Apple and some of the top U.S. law firms to fight Samsung and making the world's biggest smartphone maker pay Apple more than $1 billion for infringing design patents, has today been profiled by Bloomberg in an interesting article that highlights how she became...
For the past couple of days, Apple has been prepping for the big media event on September 12, where it is widely expected to unveil the next generation iPhone, hanging all those colourful banners with a big Apple logo outside the Yerba Buena Center of Arts. As Apple has now finished decorating the venue's front, one keen eyed...
Some new images have surfaced of Apple's upcoming Campus 2 project, set to be their new headquarters. AppleInsider and 9to5Mac both received 'leaked' images from a source that shows some new detail and insight into what the building will look like when completed. Check them out below--this campus is mammoth-sized: The Apple Campus 2 project...
Yesterday, Amazon founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos introduced a new line of Kindles and Kindle Fire HD tablets to take on Apple and the iPad. The hour long presentation featured Bezos solo on stage, in what I thought was a pretty good keynote. There were similarities to Apple's keynote presentations--a clear description of new devices...
Apple is planning to introduce an updated 9.7-inch Retina display for the iPad, addressing issues such as weight and improved LED backlighting among other enhancements according to a report by CNET . Market research firm NPD DisplaySearch has learned that Apple is aiming to make it considerably lighter than the first-generation Retina iPad, says the source. In a research...
Bloomberg Businessweek has profiled John Gruber from Daring Fireball. Gruber is well known in the tech industry as one of the most influential and connected writers about Apple. Here's a snippet: Last year, Apple inducted Gruber into an elite club of outsiders who get access to products before they hit stores, a group that includes...
For the eighth consecutive time, Apple has topped the Smartphone Customer Satisfaction Study by J.D. Power and Associates with its legendary iPhone. According to the study, which is based on experiences reported by 8,736 smartphone owners and was conducted between January and June 2012, Apple scored 849 on a 1,000-point scale, and performed “well in all factors, particularly in physical...
Over the past one year, Apple's stock price has soared 80%, helping it to become the biggest company in the United States based on market value and now, Forbes has officially ranked Apple as No. 8 in the list of World’s 100 Fastest-Growing Companies for 2012. Apple's three-year average growth has shown a profit of 70 percent...
Marko Ahtisaari, the head of Nokia’s design studio, shared his thoughts on several smartphones from Nokia’s Lumia lineup in New York City, saying that not every smartphone needs to look like an iPhone. In fact, nothing else looks like the Nokia’s Lumia 920 in a phone store today, he added (via Wired). Ahtisaari picked up a canary yellow Lumia 920 (pictured...
