For the close followers of Oprah out there, she recently shared her love for the Microsoft Surface on twitter, but the tweet was sent via the Twitter app--from her iPad (via TNW). Is that wrong? I wonder how much she got paaaaiiiiddddd (Oprah voice) to send out that tweet. Because as we all know, when...
Hardly anybody knows where Black Friday got its name (stories of businesses finally turning a profit for the year and such abound) but the reality is that with American Thanksgiving finished, the day afterward is the traditional start to holiday shopping. Now, with special thanks to the Internet, you don't have to be living in...
A week ago Apple's iPhone 5 online availability improved to 2-3 weeks from 3-4 weeks, and just now it has improved to 2 weeks in both the US and Canada online store. Below, you can see from Apple.ca the availability times have improved to 2 weeks for factory unlocked iPhone 5 units: Apple still offers...
You may have heard about an Apple specialist gaining some internet fame lately. Why? Because his name is Sam Sung (first posted on The Loop), and he works at the Pacific Centre retail location in Vancouver. Our sources have noted Sam is a cool co-worker. Check out his business card below: Happy Monday.
In a crime that was originally likened to one seen in the Goodfellas movie, it seems more appropriate that the New York Post would liken it to the 'Dumbfellas'. Court papers identified that JFK Airport employee Renel Rene Richardson was behind the theft of a USD $1.9 million dollar iPad Mini shipment moving through the...
You're not going crazy--iMessage and FaceTime is currently down for the count. Apple's iCloud status page was recently updated to reflect the outage, even though it the outage has affected users for the past 2-3 hours. Expect Apple to fix this shortly. iMessage was previously down a couple times in late October. Apple needs to...
The New York Times has published a lengthy article about Apple, this time taking a closer look at how it is challenging to find success as an iOS developer. The story profiles various developers, seemingly portraying a picture it is not as easy as it sounds to create that monster hit in the App Store--although...
Popular Science has come out with a list of the Top 25 Innovations of the Last 25 years. A couple Apple creations made the list, in particular the original 2007 iPhone that started the smartphone revolution as we know it today, along with the 2008 App Store debut that helped keep us addicted to our...
Apple's senior vice president of Hardware Engineering, Dan Riccio has disposed of 20,726 shares of stock, according to SEC Form 4 filings. He sold off 19,726 shares worth a total of $10,713,452.33 dollars, at stock prices ranging from $526-$532 per share. Riccio also made a donation of 1000 shares to an unspecified charitable organization. At...
Reuters reports Samsung plans to ask a U.S. judge to coerce Apple into handing over a copy of their recently settled agreement with HTC, as noted in a court filing (via the Verge) today: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, which could face such a sales ban following a crushing jury verdict against it in August, now plans to...
Apple has just sent out an email to notify customers the Messages Beta program will end on December 14th. They encourage any customers who want to continue to use Messages for OS X to upgrade to Mountain Lion via the Mac App Store. Messages allows Mac users to send and receive messages to any other...
