Apple has announced that it is scrapping the 10% restocking fees that it previously charged on items returned to retail stores. The policy change goes along with the expected unveil of the iPhone for Verizon this week. Apple will offer the iPhone 3GS for $49. AT&T started offering the deal a while back making it [...]
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Apple scraps restock fee, Apple offers iPhone 3GS for $49, iXtreamer goes on sale
January 10th, 2011 |
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Compromised Apple iTunes Accounts Sell for Cheap Online
January 7th, 2011 |
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Some 50,000 iTunes accounts are being sold using a popular Chinese online store, according to a report. – Roughly
50,000 active iTunes accounts are reportedly being sold online for as
little as 15 cents.
According
to China’s Global Times
newspaper, the accounts are being sold through taobao.com, a popular
Chinese-language online store, for between 1 and 200 yuan the equivalent
of between 15 …
Apple Security Loopholes Open Mac App Store to Piracy
January 7th, 2011 |
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A number of security loopholes in the applications listed on the Mac App Store allow users to download paid applications for free and repackage bootleg programs with malicious code. – Security oversights by Mac developers and Apple allow users
to pirate or modify applications downloaded from the Mac App Store, several
users reported on Jan. 6.
Less than 24 hours after Apple unveiled the Mac
App Store for the Mac OS X, reports emerged on various user forums,
including Pastebi…
Microsoft CEO Ballmer: Xbox Passes Apple Among Young Consumers
January 7th, 2011 |
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Apple, ATandT Drop iPhone 3GS Pricing to $49
January 6th, 2011 |
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Apple and AT&T are reducing the Apple iPhone 3GS to $49 beginning Jan. 7. Are the pair competing against bargain-price Android handsets, or also expecting a Verizon iPhone? – @font-face {
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Apple Mac App Store Opens With More Than 1,000 Products
January 6th, 2011 |
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After several months of speculation and anticipation, Apple opened the Mac App Store giving users access to more than 1,000 free and paid applications, including games, productivity tools, and time-sinks. – The Mac App Store launched with over 1,000 free and paid applications,
on Jan. 6, Apple said. The inexplicably popular game Angry Birds is listed,
among other games and productivity tools.
The long-anticipated Mac App Store hopes to do what the App
Store did for the iPhone, making it easier and…
Apple retail worker vacation blocked, Samsung MobilePrint, Zeppelin Air
January 6th, 2011 |
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Word has come in that retail works at Apple Stores have been told they can have no vacations on some days later this month. In the past these blocked dates have been the launch of new important products, could this be the Verizon iPhone? Samsung has unveiled the MobilePrint app for iOS devices like the [...]
Apple Verizon iPhone Launch at 95% Probability: Analyst
January 4th, 2011 |
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Apple’s Verizon iPhone is almost a lock for a launch this year, according to Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster. Also, expect an iPhone 5, iPad 2 and iTunes streaming service in 2011. – A year ago at this time, the world was wondering whether
Verizon Wireless would launch Apple’s iPhone on its leading network.
Now, it’s not a matter of if–but when–as Piper Jaffray
analyst Gene Munster put the probability that Verizon would launch a CDMA
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Google Android Newsstand to Rival Apple iTunes Store
January 4th, 2011 |
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Google is allegedly mulling a periodical publication push for Android smartphones and tablets to challenge Apple’s iTunes store for its iPad magazine and newspaper apps. – Eyeing Apple’s digital content strategy, Google is making a stronger push
for getting major publications onto smartphones and tablet computers based on
the Android operating system.
The search engine is courting publishers to build versions of their publications
tailored for Android mobile gadge…
Apple iPhone Alarm Still Silent for Some
January 3rd, 2011 |
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Some Apple iPhones didn’t ring in the New Year, and customers are angry about the alarm-application malfunction. – While it might not sound as harrowing as the legendary Y2K bug that threatened to melt down every computer on the planet (depending on whom you talked to), Apple iPhone users rang in the New Year with a glitch in the clock application of their devices that caused the alarm function to stop working a…
10 Ways Google, Apple Will Clash in 2011
January 3rd, 2011 |
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People have been talking about Google battling Facebook for online user engagement for the last couple of years since the social network has rocketed to stardom and swelled to accommodate 550 million-plus users. Yet 2010 marked several fresh battlefronts between Google and its one-time cozy partner Apple. In 2010, the companies announced a number of new products and initiatives that encroach on the other’s turf. After a lukewarm 2008 and tepid 2009, Google’s Android platform blasted into the mobile stratosphere to challenge Apple’s iPhone and iPad. While advertising has largely been the provenance of Google, Apple launched iAds, an in-application platform to help developers make money from their iOS applications. The companies compete on several other fronts& Web browsers, computer OSes, Web TVs& and will continue to do so in 2011 as Google and Apple enter new areas to rival each other. For example, expect there to be a high-stakes battle between Google and Apple in near-field communications, the short-range wireless technology that can enable mobile payments from smartphones and other applications. In this slide show, eWEEK walks through 10 major ways Google and Apple will duke it out for the Web next year. Happy holidays. – …
WallWizard HDTV mount, iPhone clocks off, iPhone to drown in sea of Android?
January 3rd, 2011 |
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A company called WallWizard has unveiled a new line of motorized HDTV mounts that will break cover at CES. The mounts can be controlled by an iPhone app letting you adjust from across the room. If you found yourself still asleep when you should have been up over the weekend, you can blame the clock [...]
Apple Verizon iPhone Coming After CES: Report
December 31st, 2010 |
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Apple will launch a Verizon-capable iPhone soon after this January’s Consumer Electronics Show, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek report. – Apple will host an event for the Verizon iPhone quot;very soon, quot;
according to a new report by Bloomberg
Businessweek, adding to the steady drum-roll that the smartphone’s break
from exclusive U.S.
carrier AT amp;T is imminent.
quot;Apple’s introduction of an iPhone for use on Verizon’s n…
Facebook, Apple, Google Topped 2010 List of Odd Interview Questions
December 30th, 2010 |
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Tech companies such as Facebook, Apple and Google asked their job applicants some very odd and revealing questions, according to IT careers expert Glassdoor.com. – Despite an economy still struggling to lift itself from the
ashes of a long-term global recession, recruiters expect a rise in
technology-job hiring activity in 2011, particularly in areas such as project
managers, developers and business analysts.
Accompanying with that rise is an uptick in job…
Forget Android, Apple iPad Will Do Even Better in 2011: 10 Reasons Why
December 30th, 2010 |
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News Analysis: Googles Android platform is expected to make a serious play for the tablet market. But when its all said and done, Apples iPad will have the best year of all. – If 2010 was the year of anything in the technology industry, it was tablets.
Apples iPad ushered in a new craze in the marketplace
that will stay on the minds of consumers and enterprise customers around the
world for the foreseeable future. Its influence was bolstered by competing
dev…
Apple slapped with privacy lawsuit
December 30th, 2010 |
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Apple has been slapped with a lawsuit contending that applications for its iPhone and iPad unlawfully provide unique and personal information about users to advertising networks. The lawsuit against Apple and four other companies that provide apps for its popular devices was filed in San Jose, California Dec 23 but was first reported Wednesday by [...]
Apple iPad Could Add USB Port: Report
December 30th, 2010 |
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Apple’s next-generation iPad could add a USB port, according to reports. That adds to other hardware rumors surrounding the best-selling tablet. – Rumors surrounding Apples next-generation iPad
continue, with the newest ones suggesting the device yet to be officially
unveiled will feature a USB port.
“Talked with a colleague while working with some
ODM [original design manufacturer] vendors connected with Apple,” Eldar
Murtazin, editor-i…
Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Re-Launches Suit at Google, Apple
December 29th, 2010 |
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Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen re-launched his patent lawsuit against Apple, Google and a host of other large tech companies. – Microsoft co-founder Paul Allens firm Interval Licensing LLC has decided to
re-launch a patent-infringement lawsuit against some of countrys biggest tech
companies, including Apple and Google. That comes despite the original
lawsuits dismissal earlier in December.
In the wake of that dismissal, …
Apple iPad, Samsung Galaxy Tab, Android Created 2010 Tablet PC Market
December 29th, 2010 |
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Apples iPad helped move tablet PCs from niche industry device to must-have consumer item in 2010 and ignited other manufacturers interest in the devices. Following months of speculation, Apple unveiled the iPad in January 2010 and released it to consumers and businesses in April. As the device ramped up to selling more than 1 million units a month, rivals began planning their own tablets. Dells 5-inch Streak, marketed as a hybrid between a smartphone and tablet, hit the market over the summer; Samsung followed that up a few months later with the 7-inch Galaxy Tab, which has gone on to sell more than 1 million units. Despite having not existed a year ago in any appreciable way, the consumer tablet market looks to continue its white-hot ways in 2011. In addition to a much-rumored second-generation iPad, Research In Motion is intending to release the enterprise-centric PlayBook, and Microsoft executives have been talking for months about their plans for a line of Windows tablets that run on Intels upcoming Oak Trail processors. More Android-based tablets& optimized for full-screen apps& will also appear. – …
Apple iPad Shipments Could Top 65 Million in 2011: Report
December 29th, 2010 |
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Apple iPad shipments could top out at 65 million in 2011, according to an estimate from DigiTimes, but an analyst is warning of potential dangers for Apple ahead. – Apple iPad panel shipments will top 65 million units in
2011, estimates DigiTimes. However, another analyst suggests that the iPads
continuing success could start to affect the market for other Apple products,
notably the Mac and iPhone.
DigiTimes 65-million-units figure comes from the combin…