Category: Apple Inc.

Apple is once again being accused of unfair business practices, this time in France, where 3rd party retailers are accusing Apple of not supplying all of their products to the re-sellers.  While Apple keeps their own stores well stocked with all of their most popular products, they apparently are not doing the same for those resellers in France that sell Apple’s products.  French retailer Ebizcuss is suing Apple for said unfair practices.   This suit comes on the heals of the…

According to the DigiTimes site, two new versions of the next generation iPad are scheduled to make an appearance in January.     While Apple has as usual, no comment about the rumors, this is not unusual for their stance.  The funny part of this is that Samsung, Apple’s bitterest and most outspoken opponent in court, is the supposed supplier for much of the technology in the machine.   Apple will supposedly release the new machines at iWorld on 26 January 2012. While…

There is another Phishing Scam striking users this holiday season.  The latest scam poses as an official Apple email, complete with the official Apple looking email address and graphics.   A couple things to note about the scam is that the page you are taken to is not an Apple page, so be sure to check the URL of the page if you click on a link in an email from any company or bank. This particular scam is really difficult…

According to the BGR website, there is a high probability that the latest version of the iPhone will be released in Late 2012.  While the iPhone 4S was released as just an update to the iPhone 4, many of the features that were instituted into the 4S are only available on the 4S.  However, some changes in design including the case are coming according to BGR.  “We have also learned that Apple is planning to use a rubber or plastic…

Apple Inc’s Italian division has been fined 900,000 Euros (1.2 Million USD) for failing to comply with Italian statutes regarding warranties on their products.  Italian law requires manufacturers to provide a minimum of two years warranty on electronic products, yet Apple was only providing one year.   They also were having customers sign contracts for the two year extension on the warranty, when only one year extension should have been required. The Italian Antitrust Authority has specified that Apple must notify…

The latest build of Mac OS X, Build 11D36 is the developer version of 10.7.3.  With this update arriving less than a week after the previous build, it is expected that a gold version will be available to developers within about month or so.   With the normal upgrade of Apple’s line of computing platforms in early 2012, it is suspected that Apple is trying to release 10.7.3 in time to coincide with the upgrade of the product line. The latest…

According to an article in the New York Post, 141 New York City merchants have been busted in a major crackdown on places which deal in stolen iPhones.  The problem of iPhones and iPads being stolen in New York has reached epic proportions and it seems the merchants have been just a bit too eager to help the crooks out with this one.  This sting by the New York City Police began at the crook level and worked its way…

Apple has purchased the Israeli Flash Chip manufacturere, Anobit, according to a report in the Hebrew daily,  Calcalist(http://www.calcalist.co.il ).  The purchase, falling in line with Apple’s current path of owning as much of the manufacturing as possible, was accomplished with a price tag of $500 Million USD.  Anobit manufacturers a chip which speeds up flash memory and is already in most of Apple’s mobile devices including the iPhone and iPad. If rumors about the potential of this purchase are true,…

Apple in their infinite wisdom, ave offered those folks who have not purchased their Christmas gifts yet, the possibility of purchasing them and still getting them to the person’s door by the 24th.  Unfortunately this offer is for non-customized, non-engraved items and the offer ends tomorrow, 21 December 2011. For more information about the offer check out Apple’s holiday shipping  web page at: http://store.apple.com/us/browse/holiday/shippingo

Apple’s new just in time for Christmas ad campaign has kicked off with a new made for TV ad.  The ad, featuring that man in the red suit with the jolly laugh, seems to need Siri now to make his life complete.  Of course, we all know what a practical joker Siri can be, but when she suggests Mrs Claus says to lay off the cookies, Santa takes the appropriate action and laughs it off as he eats his in-hand…

Apple has released a minor update to the current iOS 5.0.1 for the iPhone.  The update has the moniker 9A406 making only minor alterations to the current version of iOS.  This version has not been pushed out globally yet and details of the update have been a bit difficult to come by.  However, this release was addressed in the Apple support document and is meant to fix issues with the following items on the iPhone 4S: “Invalid SIM” or “No…

iTunes is having a number of issues according to reports we have received from our members and readers.  Reports late last night of Apple rolling the system out early in the wrong parts of the world and then refunding the monies hours later were rampant.  Then it was Apple ID’s not being recognized.  Now it seems as though some of our readers are having issues with getting through the screens associated with registering for the service. Unfortunately, this issue is…

Apple Computer Inc. has released an update to their Logic Express program.  Logic Express is Apple’s consumer level version of their Music Mixing package which allows for the user to manage multiple sound streams and build songs in a professional manner. With its 36 instruments, the program is a very capable “little brother” to the professional version of the software,  Logic Pro.  It can handle up to 255 tracks of audio and has 83 plug in effects. The latest version…

A story this morning mentioned that Apple will be producing their A5 iPhone CPU in a new factory in Texas.  This would not normally raise any eyebrows outside of the fact that Samsung is the company running the factory. This would generally lead people to believe that Apple and Samsung had settled their differences.  This, however, is not the case. The court cases are still on and the South Korean company is merely a supplier who has contracts with Apple…

Many iPhone users who have had their iPhone stolen are finding that the thieves or those who purchased the stolen property can actually still send text messages as the original owner of the phone.  Apparently, this was first discovered in the Mac Rumors forums at http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1267235 Initially, Apple made users believe that the remote wiping utility which is now on all iPhone, would resolve such issues, however, as it seems many users in the forum have discovered, the thieves will…

Speculation that Apple may be losing out to it’s Chinese competitors in mainland China is coming to the forefront.  While Apple products are popular the glove over, in China, there is a possibility that infrastructure to handle the iPhone and iPads may be the major limiting factor in China. According to a report in Reuters by Lee Chyen Yee, “A tie up with another telecoms service provider would help catapult Apple sales. But the biggest by far, China Mobile Ltd…

Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, Inc. has said that a different thinking company like Apple could never have emerged in a group think country of Singapore. His recent interview with the BBC on BBC Radio exposes the ultimate question he has for Singapore: “Where are the creative people? Where are the great artists? Where are the great musicians? Where are the great writers?” Although education and infrastructure play a major role in the foundation of Singaporean society, The whole…

Apple Inc. has released an update for both the Lexmark printers and the Brother printers.  This driver updates fix some of the compatibility issues that people were having with the printers under Mac OS X Lion 10.7. Brother Printers supported are listed in the Apple Printer Support Document at:  http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3669#brother To Download the Brother Driver version 2.8, go to:  http://support.apple.com/kb/DL894 Lexmark Printers supported are listed in the Apple Printer Support Document at:  http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3669#lexmark To Download the Lexmark Driver Version 2.7,…

Rumors of a mid sized Apple iPad are once again flairing up on the internet.   The latest in a posting from DigiTimes Systems mentions the possibility of Apple launching a 7.85 inch iPad  late 2012.  The site goes on to compare the Apple iPad and the Kindle Fire, obviously in an effort to give the iPad some competition. While the mini iPad would make some people happy with the fact that the iPad would then be able to fit into…

Mike Willegal of Mimeo fame has created an online registry of all known Apple-1 computers. While Apple Computer Inc produced 175 of the units in 1976, very few of the machines have survived the years and the tradein program Apple had when they introduced the Apple ][ computer. To date, Mike has catalogued 39 units complete with information about owners, auctions, auction / sale prices and current state of the machine. The original Apple-1 computer sold for $666.66 USD in…