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Path Uploads And Stores Your iPhone’s Entire Address Book On Its Servers

Alex Heath — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:31:18 +0000

In what can only be considered the very definition of irony, it has been discovered that Path 2 for iPhone secretly uploads and stores your entire address book to its servers. In case you didn’t know, Path is a hot iOS app that offers an exclusive, confined social network experience with a limited number of people. [...]

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Apps have created 466,000 U.S. jobs in four years

Steven Sande — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:00:00 +0000

Apps for mobile devices are a surprisingly robust source of jobs in the United States, according to research from TechNet. Since 2008, apps have created 466,000 American jobs. TechNet estimates that about 155,000 of those tech-related jobs are relate...

Buffalo Wild Wings testing Apple’s iPad for quicker customer ordering

AppleInsider — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:50:00 +0000

Restaurant chain Buffalo Wild Wings is expanding a pilot program in which customers place orders for food and drinks via Apple's iPad right from their table.

Briefly: Exposure 4 launching this month, Macbundler bundle

MacNN | The Macintosh News Network — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:25:00 +0000

Alien Skin Software has announced that Exposure 4, the latest version of its photography effects plug-in for Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, and Photoshop Lightroom, will launch this month. The software provides accurate film simulation as well as...

Change Or Reset Your Apple ID Password On Your iOS Device [iOS Tip]

Killian Bell — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:00:31 +0000

Forgetting a password to any service is frustrating, especially if you’re itching to download the latest Angry Birds update. But when it comes to your Apple ID, it’s actually very simple to change or reset your password on your iOS device. Here’s how to do it.First, open up the App Store and tap on the [...]

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Apple Mini-Stores May Be Coming To Your Local Sam’s Club

Buster Heine — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:57:51 +0000

A report claims that in an effort to expand their US retail prescense, Apple is in talks with Walmart subsidiary Sam’s Club to open new Apple stores inside the company’s warehouse retail locations. Both Walmart and Sam’s Club currently sell a number of Apple products, including iPhones, iPads, and iPods, but the retail giants are looking [...]

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Apple Board Has Been "Considering" Dividends and Buybacks Since 2005

Jordan Golson — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:40:27 +0000

Much has been made of the recent comment by Apple CEO Tim Cook that the Apple board of directors has been "actively discussing" what to do with its enormous cash pile. Some see it as a sign that Apple will soon pay a dividend or initiate a share buybac...

Apple’s iTV and the carrier question

Ryan Lawler — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:26:46 +0000

Apple is reportedly looking to partner with TV operators for the launch of its upcoming iTV product. But why would it? Because doing so would give it more content, enable it to offer a better user interface and give it wider distribution.

Mac sales surge as PC sales drop 20% in UK, 12% in France

AppleInsider — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:25:00 +0000

PC sales in Europe plummeted in the fourth quarter of 2011, but Apple bucked that trend over the holidays, particularly in France and the U.K., with continued strong growth.

VooMote Zapper Universal Remote Appcessory: One Remote to Rule Them All! [Review]

Eli Milchman — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:01:17 +0000

Oh, sure. The idea of being able to reach out from across the room and dramatically direct your mighty will to zap stuff on, off, up, down, or cause the very Air to shimmer with Play, is intoxicating — that is, until those nine remotes you’ve been using to control all your magical devices become [...]

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iOS Monitors (And Cursors)

Federico Viticci — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:48:10 +0000

Gabe Weatherhead has an interesting take on my iOS-ification of Apple’s Ecosystem piece: But there is one feature missing from iOS that will prevent it from ever being effective with an external display: a cursor. I know this seems blasphemous but if you have ever tried to us an iPad with mirroring, you know that [...]

Analyst: an ‘iTV’ could nab 5% of the HDTV market

dsellers — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:44:06 +0000

In a note to clients -- as reported by "AppleInsider" (http://www.appleinsider.com) -- Barclays Capital analyst Ben A. Reitzes says that an Apple-branded HDTV (the rumored "iTV") would bring in ...

Google (finally) brings Chrome to Android

Ryan Paul — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:36:48 +0000

Google is finally bringing Chrome to the Android platform. A beta release of the increasingly popular Web browser was published this morning in the Android Market and is available to users who are running Android 4. The por...

Daily Update for February 7, 2012

Steven Sande — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:30:00 +0000

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple s...

iPad’s Momentum in Restaurants Grows with Buffalo Wild Wings Trial

Eric Slivka — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:28:57 +0000

Ever since the iPad was introduced two years ago, its potential to revolutionize the restaurant industry has been widely touted, with some restaurants already moving to replace their traditional point-of-sale devices with iPads and companies such as Sq...