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Apple’s next-gen TV reported to support hand gestures and voice commands
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Apple’s upcoming next-generation TV set will allow users to control it using voice commands and hand gestures, according to sources cited in an article from Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail, which is reported by MacRumors. An unnamed figure from one of Canadian firms Rogers Communications and BCE is reported to...
VIDEO: i-Knight: Apple designer becomes Sir
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The man responsible for designing some of the most popular Apple products has been knighted by the Princess Royal at Buckingham Palace....
Test Drive Apple’s New Messages App Before Mountain Lion Launches
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Members of the general public will have to wait a few more months before they can play with Mountain Lion proper, but one of the update’s newest features is ready for a taste of the limelight. Apple has just made their revamped Messages app available for everyone to download, but...
Disguise your iPhone as old Apple products
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These iPhone cases make your smartphone look like retro Apple products. Well, for now, at least....
Gannett’s reason for embracing Apple products was Android’s fragmentation
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Towards the end of last year, an internal memo was sent to Gannett journalists letting them know that they would be outfitted with new iPhones and iPads to assist them with breaking stories. It’s a forward-thinking approach for an old-school company that owns publications such as USAToday. Not only is...
Sources say the US is going to approve Google’s purchase of Motorola
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The “will they or won’t they” argument is apparently over when it comes to Google’s monster $12.5B acquisition of Motorola. According to a report by Reuters, the Department of Justice will soon officially approve the sale. The deal has been held up since Google announced the bid in August, and...
Protesters to rally against Apple at Grand Central store tomorrow
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Protesters plan to stage a demonstration tomorrow in an effort to take Apple to task for partnering with Eastern manufacturers repeatedly accused of mistreating factory workers. Change.org and SomeOfUs have combined their efforts to raise awareness of poor working conditions in factories operated by Foxconn that manufacture consumer electronics...
Next iPhone to launch in early September, according to report
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Apple will likely launch its sixth-generation iPhone in early September according to a new report from a well-connected insider. KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo on Monday told clients that Apple will likely launch its “iPhone 5″ smartphone in early September following the release of the Gold Master version of...
Angry iPhone Users To March On Apple Tomorrow (APPL)
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Tomorrow at 10 a.m. local time, a group of ticked off Apple customers will show up at Apple's headquarters and stores in D.C., New York, San Francisco, London, Sydney, and Bangalore. They will be delivering petitions signed by 250,000 people asking the company to develop a worker protection strategy...
The Telegraph interviews Apple lead designer Jonathan Ive
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Being the senior vice president of Industrial Design at Apple, Jonathan Ive has played a key role over the years getting Apple products to being the most well designed out there. While Ive was out of Cupertino and back in his native homeland of Britain, The Daily Telegraph snagged a pretty lengthy interview getting some insight...
Here's The Samsung Super Bowl Ad That Infuriated All The Apple Fans (AAPL)
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Here's the latest in Samsung's ads ripping Apple customers who line up for the iPhone. Somehow we're supposed to believe that people who love the iPhone would jump out line for an oversized phone with a stylus. Or, maybe we're not. It's an ad after all, not a documentary....
Report Claims 7-Inch iPad in August, New iPhone in September, New 10-Inch iPad by End of Year
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Digitimes has had a hit-or-miss track record when it comes to Apple rumors, but with the site having offered some accurate information in the past, its claims continue to be closely watched. In its latest report, the site lays out a timeline for Apple's iPhone and iPad plans for the...
Google's Foray Into Hardware Will Be A Total Disaster — Here's Why (GOOG)
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It's finally clear: Google is getting into the hardware business. Last week, word came out that it was testing some sort of mysterious entertainment device in employees' homes. Today the Wall Street Journal reported that Google will build and market a Google-branded music gadget that will stream tunes around...
IBM bans Siri on its networks over worries that Apple may store sensitive data
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Worried that Apple may be able to store sensitive queries and potential company secrets, IBM has put the kibosh on the use of Siri on its networks, Wired reports. IBM CIO Jeanette Horan confirmed that Big Blue had imposed the restriction, telling the publication that the company “worries that the spoken...
Apple Beats Out Google, Amazon For Highest Corporate Reputation Score
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Apple took the top spot from Google for the highest corporate reputation score, according to the 2012 Harris Poll Reputation Quotient, a survey which measures corporate reputation for brands and companies in the U.S. The poll asks the general public to measure the reputations of the 60 most visible companies...
Eau de unboxing: Australian artists create the scent of the opening of a new Apple product
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While videos and photos of unboxing Apple products have become commonplace, what about immortalising the moment through the memory of a smell? That thought came to three artists in Australia who have concocted a fragrance that will appeal to Apple fanboys the world over, the smell of the opening of...
Apple’s Jony Ive: Our competitors want to be different and appear new, but they are the wrong goals
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Apple’s Senior Vice President of Industrial Design, Jony Ive, doesn’t often give interviews but when he does, we are really able to gain an understanding Apple’s design ethos and how prototypes become bestselling electronic products. Holding a Bachelor of Arts and an honorary doctorate from Newcastle Polytechnic, in the UK, Ive...
THD N2-A is a KIRF MacBook Air that runs Ice Cream Sandwich for $149, we go hands-on (video)
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It wouldn't be Computex without some KIRF Apple products. And what we have today isn't quite a MacBook Air. But it's amazingly close. The N2-A, as it's known in the OEM underground, is one of the most impressive MacBook Air lookalikes we've seen -- and one of the cheapest....
Apple II Forever: a 35th-Anniversary Tribute to Apple’s First Iconic Product
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The Apple II didn't make headlines when it was unveiled in April, 1977. But it went on to change the world, as surely as any of the Apple products that followed it....
EXCLUSIVE: Steve Wozniak in Line for iPad 3 at Apple Store (VIDEO)
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It has become a tradition to find Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak waiting first in line for the next big Apple product. Tonight, was no different as Wozniak checked in on Foursquare at the Westfield Mall in Century City, California. The new tablet is available for pre-order and in stores at...
Microsoft Barring Many of its Employees from Buying Apple Products with Company Funds?
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ZDNet's Mary-Jo Foley reports that she has received an internal email regarding a new purchasing policy for Microsoft's Sales, Marketing, Services, IT, & Operations Group (SMSG). According to the email, employees of that group at Microsoft are now prohibited from buying Apple products such as the Mac and iPad using...
Foxconn Bears The Brunt Of Ivory Tower Assault On Capitalism
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Editor’s note: Ruslan Kogan is founder and CEO of consumer electronics company Kogan. Follow him on Twitter @ruslankogan. Recent media reports about working conditions in Apple’s (Foxconn’s) Chinese factories are way off the mark. Through Kogan, I have been working with China for the past six years. Having most of...
First unboxing of Retina iPad shows a whole lot of nothing [Video]
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Tinhte.vn appears to have gotten their hands on a legitimate 3rd generation iPad. The site in the past has gotten early access Apple products and prototypes and this appears to be legitimate. There isn’t much to note except that the added size and weight don’t seem to make much...
Tim Cook again says Apple could work more with Facebook, says to ‘stay tuned’
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Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke at the All Things D Conference today in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. At the conference, Cook repeated his sentiments from earlier in the year when queried about Apple integrating with Facebook, saying to ‘stay tuned’. Cook had this to say after being queried about Facebook integration: They have...
IBM Outlaws Siri, Worried She Has Loose Lips
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Siri doesn't work on IBM's internal networks (Image: Flickr/Photo Giddy) If you work for IBM, you can bring your iPhone to work, but forget about using the phone’s voice-activated digital assistant. Siri isn’t welcome on Big Blue’s networks. The reason? Siri ships everything you say to her to a big...
Cook: 'I want there to be' Apple products made in America
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Apple CEO Tim Cook is currently being interviewed by AllThingsD's Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg, and took time to answer the question of whether or not Apple is interested in manufacturing any of its products domestically. While pointing out that it does source components locally, including the glass for...
Apple critic Mike Daisey is as hot as ever
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Public ridicule for embellishing and fictionalizing details of suffering at Foxconn plants that make Apple products has done little to slow down the career of the theatric monologist. [Read more]...
Foxconn Human Resources Chief Claims October Launch for iPhone 5
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Proving that Foxconn employees, even those associated with worker hiring, aren't necessarily privy to information on launch schedules for Apple products, Kotaku reports on an article from Maeil Business Newspaper offering new claims on an iPhone 5 launch date. The report notes that the newspaper contacted the chief of human...
Collected Videos of Late Apple Co-Founder Steve Jobs at D, Now Free on iTunes
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There’s lots of video of the late Steve Jobs, primarily from his famous introductions of Apple products over the years, and from his oft-quoted Stanford commencement address. But by far the largest trove of video of the legendary innovator candidly answering unrehearsed questions and explaining his views on technology and...
Group plans disruptive protest tomorrow at Apple’s Grand Central Store over Foxconn conditions
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Looks like Apple won’t be getting away easily this time as a petition over unethical working conditions at Foxconn factories blew up, turning into a real-world protest over Apple’s labor practices. Consumer groups SumOfUs and Change.org previously said that over 35,000 people signed their “Stop Worker Abuse” online petition...
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