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Police Officer Shares His High-Tech Arrest Of An iPhone Robber [Must Read]
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...
Apple Assigns Fake Projects To Its New Employees Until It Can Trust Them [VIDEO]
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...
Watch the 50 Minute Interview by ‘Inside Apple’ Author Adam Lashinsky at LinkedIn
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...
Steve Jobs Personally Asked Google’s Eric Schmidt Not To Poach Apple’s Employees
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...
Breaking Down Apple’s Billions [INFOGRAPHIC]
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...
Apple Takes the Crown as World’s Largest Smartphone Vendor in Q4 2011
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...
Find Out How Siri Looks Like In Real Life [Must See Video]
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...
Tim Cook Responds to NYT Article Over Apple Supplier Working Conditions
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...
Steve Jobs Listed As Second Greatest Innovator Of All Time
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...
New York Times Profiles Working Conditions in China Endured by Apple Suppliers
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...
Microsoft Xbox Live Games Are Coming To iPhones & iPads
According to a recent publication by Forbes, it seems that Microsoft is planning to expand Xbox Live, its online gaming network to iOS and android platforms. Xbox Live games, which are currently compatible only with Windows, will soon be making their way to iPhones, iPads as well as Android smartphones and tablets. Since iOS and Android are the...
‘Phone Size’ Compares the Actual Size of your iPhone to Smartphones on the Web
Ever wonder how much larger or smaller other smartphones are compared to your iPhone? Well, you can now do a straight up comparison on the web via the website Phone Size. Just add your phones (in our case, the iPhone of course), enter your screen type and size, and voila--the actual sizes of phones appear...