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Apple Accepting Donations For Superstorm Sandy Relief Through iTunes

Apple has just started accepting donations towards the Superstorm Sandy relief efforts by launching a new page on iTunes Store, enabling users to donate money directly to the American Red Cross using their existing iTunes Store accounts in denominations of $5, $10, $25, $50, $100, and $200 (via MacRumors). The dedicated donation page is accessible through the desktop iTunes...

Apple’s 10-K SEC Filing Reveals the Company Has Over 76,000 Employees

Apple filed their 10-K this afternoon to the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC). The report is required by law to be submitted within 60 days after the end of a fiscal year (Apple recently announced their 2012 Q4 earnings) and also contains more detailed info compared to regular annual reports. Here are some detailed numbers...

Future Shop and Best Buy to Open at 8AM Friday for iPad mini Launch

This was expected (based on earlier Apple product launches) but we've just received confirmation from sources Future Shop and Best Buy stores will be opening at 8AM (local time) this Friday (regular opening hours are 10AM), November 2nd for the iPad mini and 4th gen iPad launch. Our tipsters note a recent meeting detailed the...

RHA SA950i Headphones (Review)

If you've never heard of RHA, don't feel bad. When I received a pair of their SA950i on-ear headphones I'd never heard of them myself. And yet, after spending a couple of weeks using them, I'd suggest it's a name worth knowing. Based in the UK, RHA (a division of Reid Heath) spent 3 years...

Confirmed: iPad mini Has Stereo Speakers on the Bottom

Yesterday's round up of iPad mini reviews revealed the iPad mini does indeed have stereo speakers, as noted in reviews from The Verge: All of the standard iPad button and switch placement is intact here, save for the move of the speaker grille to the bottom of the device (it's been around back for iPads...
Apple vs. Motorola&Google

Apple Says Motorola’s Wireless Patents are Worth $1 per iPhone

Apple has finally decided to offer for Motorola Mobility (now part of Google) a deal to license to its SEP wireless patents. But from its perspective the aforementioned patents worth $1 or less, compared to Motorola's previous claims that it wants 2.25% royalty for its standard-essential patents, which shocked the tech world First reported by...
iPhone 5 Supply vs Demand

iPhone 5 Shipments Could Top 40 Million in Q4 Says Digitimes

So the iPhone 5 has done quite well for itself. Big surprise. It's about to do a whole lot better. According to sources in Apple's supply chain, Digitimes claims shipments of key components (required to build the iPhone 5,) will be increased to 13-14 million units in November and 16-18 million units come December (that's a...

Ars Technica Details Fusion Drive, You Can Even Make Your Own

Ars Technica has detailed (via Tumblr blog posts by Jollyjinx) how Apple's new Fusion Drive works, an innovative new storage option that gives the performance of flash storage and the capacity of a standard hard drive, unveiled by Apple at iPad Mini event alongside the new 2012 iMac launch. New Fusion Drive-equipped Macs will come with a 128GB SSD and a much larger hard...

Realmac Software Announces Clear for Mac, Launching Nov. 8th

The to do app Clear launched with immense hype back in February (check out this HTML5 replica) due to its innovative and simplistic interface. The app was very easy to use but one problem made me stop using the app--the lack of cloud syncing for to do notes. I got tired of always having to...