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Apple has long been listed on the NASDAQ stock index and will be moving to the Dow Jones Industrial index. The move for Apple, also ousts long time Dow Jones stalwart, AT&T. Source: Reuters
Apple has announced an initiative to make their latest data centers in Denmark and Ireland completely 100% energy self-reliant. The two plants will come to a total cost of 1.7 Billion Euros and will go into operation by 2017. According to the press release ” CORK, Ireland—February 23, 2015—Apple® today announced a €1.7 billion plan to build and operate two data centres in Europe, each powered by 100 percent renewable energy. The facilities, located in County Galway, Ireland, and Denmark’s…
Apple CEO Tim Cook has announced that the National Parks system will soon be another Apple Pay customer. If you have ever entered a national park that is popular like Yellowstone or Mt. Rainier National parks, the lines entering the parks can sometimes be overwhelming. This will soon be alleviated by the Apple Pay enabled iPhone 6, with travelers being able to pay their park entrance fees with Apple Pay. One can only hope that this will alleviate the lines…
The Apple II Scans website (http://www.apple2scans.net) has posted two new AppleSource Newsletters/ AppleSource was an Apple dealer centric newsletter produced by Apple Computer Inc. The latest additions include the AppleSource 24 and the non-numbered AppleSource issues. You can download all of the available issues from the Apple II Scans AppleSource page at: http://www.apple2scans.net/magazines/applesource/
Apple has released an update to iTunes for both Mac and Windows. Version 12.1 includes a new control widget which allows users to control which song is playing within the notification center. It also includes fixes which are meant to improve the ability of iOS devices to sync with the desktop. The widget allows users to control the song choice, see which song is playing or to buy new songs or albums from the App store. http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1614?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
Cash away the old year passes as Cupertino has to be a happy place given the wild success of the iPhone 6. Only now are wait times reverting to normal after the most successful product launch in tech history. Apple is once again in ascendancy, Samsung and other rivals descending. The question is, what does iTim do to keep the momentum going, or will 2015 be a relative disappointment by comparison? Try iPhone 6s and 7, refreshes of Apple TV…
Over the years of the computer revolution, we always knew one fact. 48K or 64K or RAM memory or Random Access Memory, was not ever exactly 48K or 64K. When we bought our computer, we always expected and knew that we would be limited in what of that memory we could actually use. The Disk Operating System would eat a good chunk as would the Basic Interpreter. But now in this day an age where those not educated in computer…
Apple Computer Inc went through many versions of standards with their brand, products and product presentation over the years. A recent Acquisition by Apple II Enthusiast Javier Rivera shows the standards which were followed when presenting the Apple brand from the early 1980’s in a much clearer light. This 42 page book is a gold mine of information and shows the purest essence of the Apple II and the beginnings of the company we know today. To download the PDF,…
On this, the third anniversary of Steve Jobs passing, we take a look back at the man we knew or thought we knew. Many of us had passing experiences with the one person who changed so much about the way we do business and run our personal lives. Where would the world be without the iPhone or the iPad or the iPod. These three items made our daily lives different in the way we enjoyed our music, our movies and…
In the aftermath of the outrage over forcing users to download the U2 Album, Songs of Innocence, Apple has relented and created a website tool which allows users to remove the album. Many users found the album automatically added to their purchases who had absolutely no interest in the album and no way to remove the album from their purchases. The SOI removal tool webpage is at: https://buy.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/offerOptOut
World famous designer Marc Newson is joining Sir Jonathan Ive’s design team at apple according to an article in Vanity Fair. The article. While the pair have worked on some projects before, this has all the appearances of a Steve Jobs/Tim Cook style ascendency to the top design position in Apple currently held by Sir Ive. This is not the first time that Marc and Sir Ive have collaborated on projects, having worked together on the famous Apple Red project…
Apple has announced that they will be streaming the Scheduled September 9th live over the Internet. The event which is expected to announce the availability of the iPhone and iWatch among other things will be held in Cupertino at 10am that day. The announcement for the live stream appears on the main Apple website, allowing users to add the calendar item to their calendar app. This is a marked separation from the Steve Jobs era in Apple’s current habit of…
The first hints of anything really happening in the world of the now highly anticipated iWatch come from Apple’s master of design, Sir Jonathan Ive. Sir Ive has been long known for his brashness and his means of shaping the Apple product line and said recently in a New York Times Interview , “According to a designer who works at Apple, Jonathan Ive, Apple’s design chief, in bragging about how cool he thought the iWatch was shaping up to be,…
Apple has released another Developer Preview version of their latest version of Mac OS X 10.10. As they ramp up for release, there are several items in this preview which reflect the direction Apple is taking with the desktop including a number of updated icons in both the System Preferences and the Applications / utilities directories. In addition to these changes, Apple has also removed the Software Update option from the Apple Menu. Updates are now completely handled through the…
Apple has announced an event on September 9th at the Flint Center for the Performing Arts in Cupertino, Ca. The event which has been long expected by those following the iPhone 6. The schedule currently has the event beginning at 10am PST. Also expected to be introduced are a number of other related products including a new version of iTunes, iOS 8, and the iWatch among others. While the iTunes and iOS 8 are pretty much a foregone conclusion due…
iSchool, or the Pitter Patter of little feats September is supposed to be back to school, but here in British Columbia of the frozen north, the public school teachers union and the Provincial government are so far away from each other in their contract positions that the mediator they consulted walked away from the dispute because his involvement had no prospect of success. It doesn’t help that after a previous government gave the union a sweetheart deal on class size…
The annual World Wide Developers Conference keynote for the 2014 rendition of WWDC will be broadcast live. Breaking with past years, the past several keynotes have been broadcast over the Internet, making it available to more people, especially in light of the popularity of the tickets for the event. WWDC is held each year at Muscone Center in San Francisco and is a week long chance for developers to rub elbows with the developers at Apple. It is also a…
Apple has announced that Peter Oppenheimer, the Senior VP and CFO, will call it a career in September. His retirement opens up a slow for the VP of Finance to move up. Luca Maestri will replace Peter beginning in June. For more on this story, see the announcement at apple.com — http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2014/03/04Apples-Peter-Oppenheimer-to-Retire-at-the-End-of-September.html
Apple, Inc. celebrated the 30th anniversary of the introduction of the Macintosh this week. January 24th, 1984, Steve jobs showed the world his new machine complete with graphical user interface. The machine initially envisioned by The like of Jef Raskin and Steve Jobs had come to a fruition and Apple introduced it in a manner which has never been forgotten. Few can forget the image of Steve Jobs up on stage two days after the commercial aired during the Superbowl,…
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…
