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Those of you who’ve purchased an iPhone 5 in the last few weeks, only to find that your old accessories no longer work due to Apple’s migration to the 8-pin Lightning connector, have reason to celebrate this morning. Customers in Australia are reporting this morning that they’ve received notification that Apple’s long-awaited 30-pin to Lightning…
At 1 p.m. Beijing time today, about 3,000 to 4,000 Foxconn production workers (ironically) went on strike due to strict demands to keep up with high quality standards for products, namely the Apple iPhone 5. There have been multiple conflicts, sometimes physical, between inspectors and workers that Foxconn decided to overlook plus high pressure to meet…
I remember when I found out about it. It was the night after the iPhone 4S announcement and I had volunteered to do some community work for a few hours that evening. About fifteen minutes before I was set to leave, my iPhone started buzzing like crazy. Buzz after buzz after buzz — I honestly…
It’s been exactly one year since Apple mastermind Steve Jobs passed away too soon, at the ripe young age of 56. Whether you loved or hated Apple, and we know there are many of you on both sides of that coin out there, one thing we can all agree on is that Jobs changed the technology…
The release of the iPhone 5 is just a few weeks removed, and its success has been talked about around the world. The latest Apple iPhone sold a record 2 million handsets during its first weekend. As a result, Apple’s out of this world success with the iPhone has caused crime to rise in the…
According to information from MacRumors and ifoAppleStore, Apple is encouraging its retail store employees to enter in map corrections as a way to improve the company’s beleaguered Maps application. The rumored program would use store employees, who would manually check map data and send corrections to Apple using an internal Apple portal. Sources for MacRumors suggest…
According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, Apple’s suppliers in China have begun mass producing the iPad Mini, Apple’s 7.85″ tablet set to shake up the smaller tablet market. The iPad Mini has been rumored for some time now, and Apple is allegedly set to unveil the device to the world later this…
The purple fringing seen in photos taken with the iPhone 5 camera is perfectly normal, said Apple support to at least one customer who inquired about the problem. Gizmodo posted what it claims is an email from AppleCare support representative Debby to iPhone owner and Gizmodo reader Matt Van Gastel. She writes, “Our engineering team…
Motorola Mobility did a 180 today and filed a motion with the ITC to withdraw its second complaint against Apple. This infringement complaint was filed in mid-August and includes seven non standard-essential patents covering messaging and multimedia application control. A few weeks ago, the ITC announced it would formally investigate the complaint and assigned Administrative…
Fortune is reporting this morning that it has received word from an Apple investor with “multiple sources” that Apple is planning to send out invitations on October 10th for an iPad mini keynote event. The source who wishes to remain anonymous said that the rumors floating around the Internet for the past few months are largely…