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Steve Jobs’ Super Yacht Reflects His Years Of Work In Refining Its Design
Co-created by French designer Philippe Starck, Steve Job's super yacht named “Venus” has been recently completed, almost a year after Jobs' passing. In an interview with SuperYacht Times, Starck has shed some light on Steve Jobs' design process and how he worked for years to refine the details of the boat (via CNET). Stark said that in the beginning, Jobs only told him the length of the...
Apple To Reportedly Release Next iPad & iPhone Around The Middle Of 2013 [DigiTimes]
A new report by DigiTimes is claiming that Apple will launch the next-generation iPad and iPhone around the middle of 2013, according to sources inside the supply chain. Furthermore, Apple's suppliers such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), are expected to receive a boost in demand for ICs during the latter half of the first quarter. Chipmakers TSMC and Advanced Semiconductor Engineering...
Apple Specialist Sam Sung is Here to Help at Pacific Centre
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.
LostWinds 2: Winter Of The Melodias [Review]
LostWinds 2: Winter of the Melodias by Frontier Developments Ltd, is one of the most beautiful and elegant games I’ve seen on the App Store. You play as Toku, and your goal is to find and save your mother. At the same time, you’re trying to find out what happened to the Melodia people of...
Siri and Apple Maps Reportedly in Early OS X 10.9 Builds
Apple's upcoming desktop operating system, OS X 10.9, may feature Siri and Maps, as the early builds in testing reveal, 9to5Mac sources claim. (more…)
Authentec Sells Embedded Security Division for $48 million
The news broke back in July that Apple had acquired mobile security company Authentec and the blogosphere was full of rumors claiming the iPhone 5 would feature NFC and biometric security, courtesy of Authentec. (more…)
Apple-Redesigned iMacs Will Be Available for Sale as Scheduled [Update]
Despite earlier rumors claiming Apple's redesigned iMac's wouldn’t hit Apple Store shelves on schedule in November–December, 9to5Mac's own sources say the 21.5-inch and 27-inch iMac lines are still on track. (more…)
The App Store Has Now Passed The 1 Million App Submission Milestone
Apple has unofficially surpassed the 1 million approved app milestone, according to the App Store discover company Appsfire as cited by The Next Web. (more…)
JFK Airport Worker Implicated in iPad Mini Heist
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...
How to: Force Send an iMessage as a Text Message
iMessage (and FaceTime) is currently suffering from another outage, as most of you probably have noticed by now. If iMessage is down, your message should be sent through as a text message. However, you'll probably get hit with a 'did not send' error then have to resend it manually as a text message. But what...
iMessage and FaceTime Outage Currently Affecting Some Users [Update]
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...
Apple’s iOS App Economy Drives Almost 300K Jobs in the U.S.
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...