Category: Apple Inc.

The event video from the 23 October launch of the iPad mini is now available on the Apple event website.  Initially, the video was only viewable in safari but it is now available for all browsers. The october 23rd event saw the introduction of a slew of new products including: new iMac new Mac Mini with 16gb Ram new Mac book pro 13 inch with retina display iPad 4 iPad mini Also introduced in the event was iBooks 3 with…

Apple, Inc. sent out invitations to an October 23rd announcement event.  The event, scheduled to be held at the 1122 seat California Theatre in San Jose, has long been expected to be the introduction of the rumored iPad Mini.  Another rumor floating around is that Apple will introduce a smaller MacBook Pro at the event as well.

Here’s your chance to ask the Woz some questions for an interview on Slashdot. To kick-off our [Slashdot’s] 15th anniversary month, Woz has agreed to take some time to answer a few of your questions; as with other Slashdot interviews, you’re invited to ask as many questions as you’d like, but please ask them in separate posts. We’ll be running a number of other special interviews this month, so keep your eyes open. Post your question to Slashdot

The Apple Store has been taken down in preparation for the start of the iPhone 5 pre-orders.   While the phone was announced on the 12, actual shipping of the product will not begin until the 21st of the month.   Also, in coordination with the outage, AT&T has a counter on their website as well.   Apple is expecting that they will sell over 5 million units of the new iPhone 5 over the first three days they are available. http://store.apple.com/

Tim Cook, in an invitation only event in Sanfrancisco, introduced the iPhone 5 this morning.  The event which was held at the Beuna Yerba Center had a bevy of new announcements in regard to the iPhone / iPod series including the iPod Touch, iPod Nano and the iPhone 5.   Apple has posted the event in its entirety on its website  here: http://www.apple.com/apple-events/september-2012/

Apple has finally put an end to months of speculation concerning the iPhone 5.   With many different rumors and fake images swirling, Apple has announced that they will hold an event on the 12th of September. The event will take place at 10am PST at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.  This has been the location of all of the recent Apple events outside of the Education event held in New York. While apple generally does…

It is possible that an iPhone 5 prototype has made its way out of the unknown labs at Apple. According to a Gizmodo article, it appears that a Chinese manufacturer of iPhone cases is showing an iPhone 5 in one of their cases, complete with the miniaturized dock connector. The question now: is it really a prototype, or is it just a simple mockup? If we look to history, we know that prototypes from Apple have made it out into the wild,…

The Apple store went down at 12:00pm ET today.  No known reason for the outage is available, however, the message on the website circulates through multiple languages pointing to the possibility that it is a global outage for a possible website update or change. The apple store is located at: http://store.apple.com

If you were one of the millions of Apple developers who got left out of this year’s Wordwide Developers Conference in Muscone Center last week, you are now in luck.  The videos from the 133 sessions at this years WWDC are now available on the Apple Developers website at: https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2012/ You will need your developers login and password to view the videos, however, all of the videos are free for viewing.  The Keynote presentation for WWDC 2012 is also available…

The Application Loader, the app which allows developers to package Apps for the Apple App Store through iTunes Connect has been updated.  Version 2.7 of the Application loader addresses a host of issues including: You can download the update through the Software Update option under the Apple Menu or by going to the iTunes Connect Support page at:  http://itunesconnect.apple.com

Apple has released an update to their Thunderbolt Software, bringing it to version 1.2.1. The latest version of the software adds the support for the Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet adapter which comes as an option with the new Mac Book Pro. You can download the update through the Software Update menu under the Apple Menu or from the Apple Support website at: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1544

In response to Microsoft’s release of their new “Surface” tablet, Apple has done exactly what one would expect they would do in lieu of a new product release.  Release a commercial. The new commercial entitled “Do it all”, highlights the capabilities of the iPad and takes a swipe at the Microsoft product without mentioning it by focusing squarely on the high density retina display.  

The Apple Store, which is the center of the Apple consumer universe has been shut down in preparation for the pending announcements coming in today’s keynote at WWDC. The World Wide Developers Conference, held each year at Muscone Center in San Francisco, is the place to be today as Apple shows their developers the future direction of the product lines. Many rumors surrounding the conference are expecting an entire renewal of the Apple MacBook Pro line of products as well…

The 2012 rendition of the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference or WWDC sold out in less than 90 minutes this morning.  The conference which will be held from June 11th to June 15 as Muscone Center in San Francisco is an annual rite of passage for many developers.  Last year the conference sold out in twelve hours, however with the demand for information about Apple products growing at a similar rate as the demand for Apple products, the developers are all…

Apple announced their quarterly profits today with their net profits up a whopping 94% over 2nd quarter 2011.   During 2nd quarter 2012, Apple sold a total of 35.1 million iPhones and 11.8 million iPads resulting in a quarterly net profit of 11.8 Billion USD during the quarter.  They also sold 7.7 million ipods during the same quarter.  The number of iOS devices is now over 365 million devices thanks to to the sales of the devices this previous quarter. Apple’s…

Apple has released the same Flashback Trojan Removal Tool that is found in the Java update for OS X 2012-003 as a standalone tool.  The new standalone version of the tool is for those users without Java installed. You can download the Flashback malware Removal Tool from the Software Update feature under the Apple menu or from the Apple support website at: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1517

Apple has released a third update to Java for both Mac OS x Lion and Mac OS X 10.6 to deal with the infections of the Flashback Trojan.  Infections reached a whopping 600,000 machines globally according to three anti-virus companies that were monitoring it (Dr. Web, the discoverer of the Trojan, Kaspersky, and Symantec) , however, that number has dropped to 270,000 in recent days. The update on the Apple Support Website updates Java to Version 1.6.0_31.  This brings it…

Apple has had a knee-jerk reaction to the discovery of the Flashback Trojan that has infected up to 600,000 Macs globally.  Dr. Web, a small Russian anti-virus company, first discovered the Flashback Trojan and has been monitoring infections on a global basis.  Now Apple has sent a Shutdown notice trying to shutdown the company’s server, saying it is being used for command and control in the Flashback Trojan bot-net.  The Flashback Trojan is attacking a hole in Java and Apple…

Howard Cantin was the man behind the printed circuit boards for many of the early atari machines as well as the Apple01 computer.   Recently, Mike Willegal, creator of the Apple-1 Mimeo, sat down with Howard in a telephone interview to talk about what when into those days and his relationships with the heads of what was then Apple Computer as well as how things went with Nolan Bushnell of Atari As for the proverbial story about how Atari refused the…

An unnamed official of Samsung, the Korean electronics manufacturer and Apple’s biggest parts supplier, gave an interview in The Koream Times saying “The contract is expected to rise to $11 billion by the end of this year as Apple is planning to release a smaller iPad, probably with a 7.85-inch screen, and to sell more of its MacBook Air PCs using Samsung’s faster solid state drive (SSD) storage” While Apple itself would never mention any information about products that are…