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French Designer Starck Confirms He Is Working on Steve Jobs’ Yacht
Earlier we heard rumours of French designer Philippe Starck working on a 'revolutionary' project with Apple, which the company denied. Starck has now confirmed to the WSJ (as noted by App Advice) he is indeed working on the yacht project he started with Steve Jobs, but it is being continued by his wife Laurene: A spokeswoman...
Angry Dad Refuses to Pay $1,400 Rogers Wireless Bill
Alex Dunsmore of Kamloops, BC is refusing to pay his son's $1,400 Rogers bill, that was incurred while texting on an "unlimited" text plan. Dunsmore thought it would be okay to let his son send hundreds of texts, because his contract states he can send unlimited texts to anywhere in Canada. How the charges were...
New Trojan Named ‘LuckyCat’ Hits Mac OS X, Spreads Through Microsoft Word Documents
Only a couple of days back, Apple released its own Flashback Removal Tool for OS X, making the world's most advanced operating system fully secure again and today, a new Java based trojan has been discovered by Kaspersky Labs expert Costin Raiu. The expert explains in a blog post that the trojan, which is known as "LuckyCat", takes advantage of...
Apple Factory To Be Audited By Chinese Environmental Group For Pollution Issues
A Beijing based group, Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE), is set to carry out a joint audit with Apple of one its supplier factories in China, regarding environmental pollution concerns. Wang Jing Jing, the vice director of IPE said that they will be working with Apple and an auditing firm hired to investigate the supplier's pollution controls, the...
Toronto Police Want Carriers to Create Registry to Disable Stolen Phones
The Toronto police have noticed cellphone robberies have risen over the the past three years and want the cellphone industry to do more to protect their customers, such as creating a database that can disable stolen cellphones, says Supt. Ron Taverner: “Our goal is to get the carriers, the providers, the cellphone companies to come...
Dev-Team Releases Redsn0w 0.9.10 b6b [Download]
Dev-Team has just updated their popular jailbreak tool Redsn0w which supposedly addresses certain issues plaguing the OS X users. The latest release is Redsn0w 0.9.10 b6b which has been pushed out for OS X only and does not add any jailbreak support for iOS 5.1, tethered or untethered for current A5 devices. However, like the previous version,...
Steve Jobs Movie To Start Filming In May, Will Cover Apple From 1971-2000
In an interview by Neowin, Mark Hulme, the producer of upcoming Steve Jobs indie movie starring Ashton Kucher, has revealed some interesting tidbits about the movie's plot. According to Hulme, the film will cover Apple and Steve Jobs' life from 1971 to 2000. The producer also said that they chose Ashton to play the role of Jobs because of his...
Genius Bars Instructed To Replace White iPhone 4 Handsets With iPhone 4S In Canada & U.S Apple Stores
In a recent publication, 9to5Mac points out that Apple Store Genius Bars have been issued a notification regarding white 16GB iPhone 4 handset replacements. They have been instructed to upgrade white 16GB iPhone 4 customers seeking replacement under warranty to iPhone 4S instead due to shortages in inventory of white iPhone 4 16GB. The order stands valid for...
New Mock Up of Rumoured iPad Mini
The folks that brought us the mock of the teardrop iPhone 5 are back, with a mock of the supposed iPad Mini that has been rumoured of late. CiccaraseDesign.com have posted some pics of what they think the iPad Mini could look like. Using the rumoured screen specs, they were able to mock up the...
Download Apple’s Official Flashback Malware Removal Tool For OS X
Just yesterday, Apple pushed out a Java update (via OS X Lion Software Update) to remove the Flashback malware from Macs running OS X Snow Leopard and OS X Lion and now, a new standalone Flashback malware removal tool version 1.0 has been released to allow the trojan's removal from non-Java systems as well. The tool is based...
OS X 10.7.4 Build 11E46 Now Available For Download [Developers Only]
Apple has just seeded OS X Lion 10.7.4 (Build 11E46) exclusively to the developers which addresses issues related to stock OS X apps like Mail, QuickTime, Time Machine etc. in addition to a bunch of bug fixes. Like always, the beta release is available only to registered Mac developers who download the latest update from the Developer Center....
Tim Cook Visits Headquarters Of Popular Game Designer ‘Valve’
Apple CEO Tim Cook has reportedly been seen visiting the Washington headquarters of Valve Corporation, the famous video game developer and owner of Steam gaming platform (via Apple Insider). Since Valve's Steam platform works similar to the iOS App Store, providing a market for downloadable PC video game titles, it is being speculated that Cook's visit might...
