New Apple Stores coming to UK, France, Canada, Salt Lake City, & more
Apple announced its plan last year to spend roughly $900 million opening 40 new retail locations in 2012. In March, we told you new stores were coming to Germany, Spain, Australia, and France‘s Burgundy wine region, and several reports this week confirmed a handful of new locations for the United Kingdom, France, and Canada. Ten of the...
T-Mobile announces no-contract broadband passes starting at $15
T-Mobile announced new “worry-free No Annual Contracts” today for its mobile broadband service that is expected to launch through T-Mobile retail stores and online May 20. The plans start at $15 per one-week pass capped at 300MB and $25 per one-moth pass capped at 1.5GB. The carrier is also offering 3.5GB and 5GB one-month passes at $35...
New MacBook Pros will get Samsung’s fast 830 series SSD too
In January, following a meeting with Samsung Storage solutions at CES 2012, we told you that Apple’s next-gen MacBook Air would likely make the switch to the speedier 830 series SSDs from Samsung alongside an update to Ivy Bridge. This was of course before we revealed some major changes coming to Apple’s new MacBook and...
Apple patent details steering wheel remote control
PatentlyApple covered a number of Apple patents today that were recently published by the US Patent & Trademark Office. One of the 21 patents originally filed in Q1 2011 is for an iOS remote control that would clip onto a steering wheel. The remote shown in the patent drawings essentially looks like the iPod click wheel, but...
Apple, Disney discuss bringing WatchESPN feature to Apple TV
According to a report from Bloomberg, which cites ESPN executive Sean Bratches, Apple is currently in talks with Walt Disney’s ESPN network to bring the WatchESPN app, currently available for iPhone and iPad and recently opened up to Comcast customers, to Apple TV: ESPN subscribers with AppleTV would gain access to the network’s Internet service on their sets. The sports...
No, the next iPhone won’t have a flexible display
Sometimes it is important to apply just the slightest bit of logic and understanding of Apple and its ecosystem when taking stories from foreign publications and reblogging them like brain-dead drones. Thanks to either a bad translation or simply a quote taken out of context, the latest Apple rumor floating around is that the next iPhone will...
Apple admits iCloud was hosed for 15 million users this morning, after the fact
After a number of reports and tweets from across the web claiming outages for iCloud mail this morning, Apple has updated its system status page confirming the outage lasted from 08:00-09:30 PDT and impacted approximately 12 percent, or 15 million of iCloud’s 125 million users. Unfortunately Apple’s iCloud Support page wasn’t updated until after service...
Apple to debut new Photo sharing social Network at WWDC, reason Schiller quit Instagram?
According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Apple is about to unveil an upgraded iCloud service at WWDC in June. Citing the usual sources “familiar with the matter,” the report also claimed the features would include new photo-sharing capabilities for sharing and commenting on sets of photos. It also mentioned the ability to sync video...
Debunked: Apple is not acquiring Loewe, Foxconn CEO denies iTV rumors, Digitimes is “wrong most of the time”
Less than a month after posting a false claim about Apple CEO Tim Cook visiting the Valve HQ, ol’ Danny Dilger this weekend claimed that Apple is moving to acquire a German TV manufacturer called Loewe. Again, we didn’t run with the story preferring instead to mock it via Twitter. Not only has that story...
Kaspersky analyzing Mac OS X security at Apple’s request
Following a breakout of malware on Mac OS X that some experts estimated could have infected up to 600,000 Macs, research firm Kaspersky made claims late last month that Apple was 10 years behind Microsoft in terms of security, while claiming roughly 140,000 Macs were still infected. Today Kaspersky CTO Nikolai Grebennikov confirmed with Computing that...
