With Apple’s MacBook Pro line now widely rumored to be gaining ultra high-resolution “Retina” or “HiDPI” displays at next month’s Worldwide Developers Conference, CNET reports that such panels are already available in the supply chain and that they carry price premiums of up to $100 over their non-Retina counterparts. But what remains to be seen [...]
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Retina-Resolution Displays to Add Up to $100 to Apple’s MacBook Pro Costs
Posted by Gary on May 17, 2012
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Flipboard CEO: Apple’s iPad ‘created a revolution’ for beautiful Internet content
Posted by Gary on May 11, 2012
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Published: 11:30 PM EST (08:30 PM PST) Mike McCue, founder and CEO of Flipboard, credited Apple on Friday with creating a “revolution” with its iPad tablet and said the impact of that revolution is still being understood more than two years after the device reached the market. Speaking at the Global Mobile Internet Conference in [...]
Apple’s iPhone was No. 1 smartphone in Japan in 2011 with 7.25M sold
Posted by Gary on May 11, 2012
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Published: 03:45 PM EST (12:45 PM PST) Sales of the iPhone reached 7.25 million units in all of 2011, making Apple the top smartphone vendor in the country. The data comes from a report issued by MM Research, translated by Macotakara on Thursday, which shows that Apple represented 30 percent of smartphone sales in Japan. [...]
T-Mobile planning network compatibility with Apple’s iPhone by end of year
Posted by Gary on May 8, 2012
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Published: 01:00 AM EST (10:00 PM PST) T-Mobile has revealed plans for the wireless carrier’s network to offer iPhone-compatible HSPA+ 4G service by the end of this year. T-Mobile CTO Neville Ray made comments during a dinner event on Monday that T-Mobile will use 1900MHz spectrum for its upgraded network that would allow iPhone users [...]
Activists block train tracks to protest Apple’s coal use
Posted by Gary on May 6, 2012
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Protesters point finger at coal-powered cloud Apple’s ongoing issues with environmental groups were thrust to the forefront today in Catawba County, NC, WCNC News reports. Protesters in Catawba blocked the train tracks leading to the Marshall Steam Station, which powers a data center Apple uses for its iCloud service. Four protesters locked themselves to the [...]
Walmart slashes price of Apple’s iPhone 4S by $74
Posted by Gary on May 5, 2012
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Published: 10:20 AM EST (07:20 AM PST) Walmart, the largest retailer in the U.S., has dropped the price of Apple’s iPhone 4S with a two-year AT&T contract by as much as $74 at some locations. The price drop was first discovered at a Walmart store in Edmond, Okla., by Cult of Mac. There, both the [...]
iOS Apps with Dropbox Integration Running Afoul of Apple’s App Store Rules
Posted by Gary on May 3, 2012
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The Next Web points to a recent thread in the Dropbox support forums revealing that a number of developers have been seeing their iOS apps with Dropbox integration being rejected by Apple. The apps have been rejected because users without the Dropbox iOS app installed on their devices who attempted to set up Dropbox integration [...]
Apple’s 1984 Internal Inspirational Video with Steve Jobs as Franklin Roosevelt
Posted by Gary on May 3, 2012
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Network World shares a rather unique internal Apple video from 1984 intended to inspire Apple employees as the Macintosh sought to supplant IBM in the workplace. The short black-and-white film is set to a World War II theme and features a brief appearance by Steve Jobs in the role of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. [...]