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Imagine being stuck in a room watching re-runs of terrible reality shows, or a collection of some the worst movies ever made. Well, that’s what this patent war feels like: nauseating. Apple, in a message to the ITC claims it inspired Andy Rubin to make Android (yes, you heard right). This claim could have major…
In a reply to a link-baiting column titled “The Mystery of Steve Jobs’s Public Giving” published in The New York Times, U2’s Bono publicly thanked Steve Jobs for his (and Apple’s) “invaluable” support in fighting AIDS in Africa. Here’s what he said: Re “The Mystery of Jobs’s Public Giving,” by Andrew Ross Sorkin (DealBook, Aug.…
A Best Buy employee with a complete lack of respect for corporate security and authority, which is just the type of guy we like, recently sent an image to the folks at This is my next showing that the retail giant is going to install an “Apple Fixture” on October 21st. What makes this planned…
Apple’s next generation iPhone, which some say will be called the iPhone 5, while others are convinced it’s going to be the iPhone 4S, is so close to be being unveiled that between now and whenever Tim Cook gets on stage in Cupertino there are going to be so many rumors about this mythical device…
Remember that story about the iPhone 5 prototype being lost in a bar? Well, the San Francisco Police Department is saying that it doesn’t have any record of this happening. The original CNET story cited anonymous sources which said an Apple employee lost the prototype at a San Francisco bar, the San Francisco police helped…
Apple has relapsed iOS 5 beta 7 and Xcode 4.2 with iOS 5 SDK beta 7. Interested developers can grab it from the iOS Dev Center or install it over the air from devices that run iOS 5 beta 5 or later. Presuming you’re a developer looking to make apps for iPhone, iPod Touch and/or…
There are no doubts Steve Jobs will be missed by many as the CEO of Apple. The guy who re-invented Apple and introduced such products like iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad deserves a place in the history at large (not just the tech history). On the heels of his resignation at Apple, websites all around…
CNET is reporting today that an Apple employee lost an iPhone prototype in a bar yet again. This time around, it’s the iPhone 5. Apparently, this unreleased Apple product went missing at Cava 22 in San Francisco back in July. The company was aware of the problem at the time and quickly sought its safe…
Another day, another lawsuit. Today we have the case of Openwave against Apple and RIM. Openwave is effectively filing a lawsuit against these two companies to defend its intellectual property for mobile Internet access. In a statement, Openwave CEO Ken Denman said: “Openwave invented technologies that became foundational to the mobile Internet. We believe that…
If your iPhone 4 runs iOS 4.1, you’ve probably already tried out HDR (High Dynamic Range) camera mode, which takes multiple (three) photos to combine them and get a higher-quality result. Heck, you may’ve used some third-party apps for the same purpose even before Apple included this capability in the iOS. The problem with the…