Archives for June 2011

June, 15th June 2011

• Next Gen iPhone, iPad May Use Rogue Video Chip

  Apple’s next generation iPhone and iPad may get a performance boost from Imagination Technologies and its new PowerVR Series6 GPU,…

• Apple May be Prepping Sweden Retail Store

  Apple is apparently working on its first retail store in Stockholm, Sweden. The Mac, iPhone and iPad maker has already…

• Reader Discussion: Microsoft’s Grand Tablet Plans

  Microsoft has grand plans for its Windows 8 tablet computer as a competitor to the iPad and the Mac. Today…

• Color Co-founder Peter Pham Leaves the Building

  The photo-based social networking service Color hit the Web with a big splash back in March, then quickly faded into…

• Mac OS X: Customizing Fields in Mail’s Compose Window

  When you’re writing a message in Apple Mail, you can easily customize which fields show up in the window. It’s…

• Microsoft Patches Excel Security Flaws

  Microsoft released updates for Office 2004, 2008 and 2011 for the Mac on Tuesday to patch a security flaw in…

• AirPort Utility Update Addresses Stability Issues

  Apple released AirPort Utility 5.5.3 on Tuesday to address stability-related issues. The update fixes a problem where the application could…

June, 14th June 2011

• Barclay’s Capital Expects 22.5% Y/Y Mac Growth for Q2

  Barclay’s Capital analyst Ben Reitzes reiterated his forecast for 22.5% year-over-year growth for Apple’s Mac product line for the June…

• Apple Adds Coldplay & Kasabian to London iTunes Festival

  Apple announced Tuesday that Coldplay will be playing London iTunes Festival 2011, which runs from July 1st through July 31st.…

• UBS: Timing of Nokia Settlement Favorable to Apple

  The timing of a patent infringement settlement between Apple and Nokia announced earlier on Tuesday could indicate that the settlement…

• TK-421 iPhone Case with Flip-Out Keyboard:  $39.99

  The Deal Brothers found a deal on the TK-421 iPhone Case with Flip-Out Keyboard for $39.99. This case makes it way…

• MobileMe to iCloud: Lost in Translation

  As explained by Steve Jobs in the WWDC Keynote earlier this month, iCloud has nine main features. What Steve didn’t…

• Steve Jobs Gets Comic Book Biography

  Apple CEO Steve Jobs will be gracing the pages of a new comic book come August with the Bluewater Productions…

• GPS Maker Garmin Buys Navigon

  Garmin announced on Tuesday that it is purchasing Navigon and will operate the navigation software company as a wholly owned…

• Apple Retail VP Ron Johnson Leaving for J.C. Penney

  Ron Johnson, Apple’s senior vice president of retail, will be leaving the company to take over as CEO of J.C.…

• MacBook Air Update Rumored for Late June

  Apple’s MacBook Air may be set for a refresh near the end of June. Anonymous industry sources claim Quanta will…

• Andrew Stone: App Developer’s Obi Wan

  Andrew Stone started developing software for the NeXT computers back in the 1990s, moved on to the Mac and has…

• Reader Discussion: Apple Back to School Promotion Predictions

  Apple hasn’t announced its Back to School promotion yet, which is giving TMO readers extra time to debate what deals…

• TiVo for iPad Adds Video on Demand Support

  TiVo unveiled an update for its iPad app on Tuesday that adds support for Video on Demand through cable partners.…

• Unlocked iPhone 4 Officially Available in US

  True to the rumors, Apple began selling unlocked GSM-based iPhones in the United States on Tuesday. The change means customers…

• Apple Settles iPhone Patent Lawsuit with Nokia

  The two year patent lawsuit battle between Nokia and Apple has finally ended with Apple agreeing to pay Nokia an…

June, 13th June 2011

• Steve Jobs First Conceived “Statement HQ” for Apple in 1983

  Apple CEO Steve Jobs made quite the impression last week with his presentation for a giant circular headquarters for his…

• MGG 336: Six Years of Gabbing Geeks

  Today marks six years since John F. Braun and Dave Hamilton released Mac Geek Gab episode 1, and they’re going…

• Ticonderoga: Apple Q2 Poised for 1.8% Sequential Growth

  Sales at the companies that make up Ticonderoga Securities’ Apple Barometer rose in May, enough so that analyst Brian White…

• Analyst: iPhone 4 Top Selling Smartphone at AT&T, Verizon

  Apple’s iPhone 4 remains the top selling smartphone “by far” at both AT&T and Verizon, according to Canaccord Genuity analyst…

• 11” MacBook Air 1.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo:  $929

  The Deal Brothers found us a deal for the refurbished 11” MacBook Air 1.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo for $929, a price…

• John F. Braun Discusses Apple Mothership, More on IMP

  The Mac Observer’s John F. Braun joined the International Mac Podcast team over the weekend to talk Apple’s plans for…

• Steve Jobs Email Says iWeb is EOL

  When Apple CEO Steve Jobs showed off MobileMe’s successor, iCloud, at the company’s World Wide Developers Conference last week, website…

• John F. Braun Looks at Lion, iOS 5, iCloud on Mac Roundtable

  The Mac Observer’s Mac Geek Gab co-host John F. Braun joined the Mac Roundtable crew to talk about Apple’s OS…

• Analyst: iOS Developers Like Mobile More than Mac

  Apple’s annual World Wide Developers Conference last week was packed with iPhone, iPad and Mac developers, so Piper Jaffray’s Gene…

• Forum Discussion: Apple’s New iPhone Launch Cycle

  Apple has historically launched new iPhone models around the beginning of July, although this year it looks like the company…

• Apple Sued Over iCloud Name

  Apple’s legal team has even more to keep them busy thanks to voice over IP provider iCloud Communications and a…

• Unlocked iPhones May Hit US on Wednesday

  The Apple rumor mill raised a few eyebrows over the weekend with a report that U.S. customers may be able…

June, 11th June 2011

• Ken Ray’s WWDC-palooza Wrap Up

  Apple had a busy week thans to the slew of announcements at its annual World Wide Developers Conference this week.…

June, 10th June 2011

• Apple Adds Arctic Monkeys & Gwyneth Paltrow to London iTunes Festival

  Apple announced Friday the addition of four new bands/acts to the London iTunes Festival 2011, which runs from July 1st…

• Cupertino Councilwoman Brushes Off “Free WiFi” Question as Joke

  When Councilwoman Kris Wang asked Apple CEO Steve Jobs for free WiFi for her city, it gave cause to Internet…

• Particle Debris (wk. ending 6/10) Change Artistry

  This was WWDC week, and that means a boatload of change. And change brings questions, questions about the iCloud, how…

• Report: Apple Orders 380K Sandy Bridge MacBook Airs

  Apple has ordered some 380,000 next generation MacBook Airs from its manufacturers in Asia, models that use Intel’s Sandy Bridge…

• Serendipity Strikes Lithium & Tweed

  James Wilson tells a fascinating story of how he started with a small band of übergeeks and networking services, founded…

• NYPL Biblion: World’s Fair

  The New York Public Library is a vast storehouse of history and their new free app, Biblion: The Boundless Library,…

• Refurbished iMac 21.5-inch 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo: $889

  The Deal Brothers noted that Apple is offering the refurbished iMac 21.5-inch 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo for $889, with free…

• Apple May be Recalling Some Verizon iPads

  Apple is apparently recalling some Verizon-compatible iPad 2 models before they make their way into customer’s hands. iPads that are…

• iWork ’09: Setting Default Templates (and Creating Your Own!)

  I use Pages pretty much daily. I love me some Pages. Couldn’t live without it. But if I always had…

• Reader Discussion: Should Apple Buy Twitter

  When Apple showed off iOS 5 earlier this week, Twitter support was tied into several apps that ship with the…

• AT&T Bringing Free Wi-Fi to NYC Parks

  AT&T will be bringing free Wi-Fi Internet access to 20 New York City parks this summer that’s open to all…

• Magellan RoadMate 2 Adds Lifetime Map, Traffic Updates

  Magellan released RoadMate 2.0 for the iPhone earlier this week. The new version of the turn-by-turn GPS navigation app gained…

• Apple Moves to Intervene in Lodsys Patent Lawsuits

  Apple filed a motion on Thursday to intervene in the patent infringement lawsuits Lodsys has brought against several iPhone and…

June, 09th June 2011

• Google Pays Tribute to Les Paul With Playable Doodle

  Google is paying tribute Thursday to legendary inventor and guitar virtuoso Les Paul, who would have been 96 today. The…

• Apple Offers Free Lion Upgrades on New Macs

  In all the hullabaloo from Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference, there’s one little tidbit that has gone mostly overlooked: Apple…

• 3 Tips: Repairing Permissions, Screenshot Drop, & iPad Keyboard Magic

  Nancy Carroll Gravley shows how disk utility can come to the rescue in time of need, shares a shortcut for…