Archives for 2012

The Deal Brothers found us a deal on the refurbished Mac mini 2.5GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 for $699. This system…

A German court rejected one of Samsung’s patent infringement claims against Apple on Friday. The patent in question related to…

Ah, Melissa Holt’s first tip of the new year. Toss the confetti! Drink the wine! Blow the vuvuzelas! No, wait,…

When Apple announced Textbooks for K-12 in iBooks 2 this morning in New York, David Winograd believes the company forgot…

Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak has set off a few shock waves in the tech blogosphere by saying that the iPhone…

Apple’s OS X 10.8, “Mountain Lion,” marks some changes for Apple. The OS will now get annual updates, and Gatekeeper…

Apple offered a first look at the successor to OS X Lion, dubbed Mountain Lion, on Thursday. The next version…

Apple has seeded Safari 5.1.4 to developers, a release that includes improvements to JavaScript and asks developers to test printing…

Shares of Apple’s stock, which trade under AAPL on Nasdaq, broke the US$500 mark for the first time in the…

Apple released EFI Firmware Update 1.8, a firmware update for Mid 2010 iMacs that enables Lion Internet Recovery for the…

A long time ago, in a tech galaxy far far away, the personal computer operating system war came to a…

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has accused Apple of misrepresenting the third generation iPad’s wireless data capabilities by including…

Shares in Apple Inc. set another recording closing high Tuesday, ending the day at US$568.10, up $16.10 (2.92 percent). The…

Tim Cook has been in China this week to deal with a variety of issues. That’s very good news: the…

Apple’s Siri personal assistant feature is at the center of a new lawsuit filed by an iPhone 4S customer last Tuesday in…

Jeff Gamet, The Mac Observer’s managing editor, will be speaking at the Colorado Macintosh User Group meeting on Thursday, April…

Nancy Carroll Gravley offers tips for deleting videos from the iPhone, changing folder and file icons on your Mac, and…

The Deal Brothers found a deal on the refurbished 15” MacBook Pro 2.2GHz quad-core Intel i7 for $1,829. This system ships…

It’s a new edition of TMO Workspaces, our weekly segment in which we highlight a user’s workspace. This week, we…

The National Center for Public Policy Research is accusing former Vice President Al Gore of a conflict of interest concerning…

The Deal Brothers found us a deal on the Bluetooth Sliding Keyboard Case for iPhone for $34.99, which is 30% retail.…

For all the talk about how the iPad is transforming the way we work, the fact remains that, for many,…

Investment analyst Fred Hickey said in a newsletter that Apple’s valuation is unsustainable, and that the company is just another…

As we’ve done in the past, The Mac Observer will be in San Francisco attending WWDC, and we’ll be conducting…

Barclays analyst Ben Reitzes believes that Apple will announce new MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models “in the near future”…

Following the release of its new MacBook Pro and MacBook Pro with retina display computers, Apple released Thunderbolt Software Update…

Remember kids, if you don’t want something to be true, all you have to do is pretend. This appears to…

Apple’s online store was replaced with the familiar “We’ll be back soon” message Monday morning ahead of the company’s 10AM…

Even if you use Address Book on your Mac or iOS device frequently, you may not know how simple it…

Google announced on Wednesday a slew of new map features for its popular Google Maps service. With Apple expected to…

The long awaited patent infringement trial between Apple and Samsung finally started on Monday over mobile devices. Apple is claiming…

HP has reportedly bailed on Windows RT as a tablet OS, leaving the company . Citing unnamed sources, an online…

After a day-long hearing, U.S. District Judge George Daniels denited a request from Apple that its patent dispute with Kodak be…

Apple’s Senior Vice President of Industrial Design, Sir Jonathan Ive, was interviewed by British paper The Telegraph, where he reiterated the company’s focus on design…

Apple executives talked about a fall product transition during the company’s third quarter earnings conference call earlier this week, but…

The panel of Judges overseeing Apple and Samsung’s patent infringement trial in South Korea ruled on Friday that both companies…

Living Earth for iOS shows the Earth at a glance, global climate parameters plus local time and weather. It’s a…

Judge Lucy Koh has denied Apple’s request that she sanction Samsung for releasing evidence to the public that she had…

Apple CEO Tim Cook and Samsung CEO Kwon Oh Hyun met on Monday for last minute settlement discussions at Judge…

Apple’s MacBook Pro with Retina Display, a.k.a. “least repairable laptop ever,” just became slightly more upgradeable with the release of the Aura Pro…

Within minutes of Apple releasing iOS 6 for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, the company dropped OS X Mountain…

iOS 6 will be available today, and it’s a free upgrade. Are you planning on installing the new OS version…

Apple Store surveillance of a robbery offers us a wonderful glimpse at massive getaway driver FAIL. The robbery took place…

While much ado has been made out of Apple "only" selling 5 million iPhone 5s in the opening weekend of…

Following Apple's announcement that it sold more than 2 million iPhone 5 pre-orders during the first 24 hours of availability,…

Research firm comScore has released a new report for the three months ending in August, 2012, that show Apple's iOS…

The MacTech Conference for Apple developers, IT pros and consultants will be hosting a special session with NASA's Jet Propulsion…

Apple's headhunter team continues counting coup, as the company has hired the head of Amazon's search company, A9, to run…

Auto-correct is a handy feature of iOS, but if the system keeps suggesting the wrong word, it can quickly become…

An original Apple 1 motherboard failed to sell at auction on Tuesday. Christie's announced the auction in August, and at…

The WiFi iPad mini shipped a couple weeks ago, and the WiFi plus LTE version shipped today. Which do you…

General Motors (GM) is looking to companies like Apple and Best Buy for ways to improve customer training on so-called…

Apple has reportedly paid $21 million to Swiss Railway company SBB for the right to use an iconic clock design…

The annual RetailSails list is out, and Apple once again ranked as the top U.S. retailer based on sales per…

Want US$94 (and a penny) off of a new 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display? MacMall is offering the 15.4-inch…

Apple's CEO TIm Cook has appeared now in a TV interview with NBC's Brian Williams and also in a long,…

Google announced Monday the release of YouTube Capture for iPhone, an iOS app that gives users easy video recording and…

Apple is apparently ramping up for a spring launch of the second generation iPad mini only months after the original…

That wheezing sound you hear is the last gasp of the once-beloved netbook. Asustek and Acer, the last two major…

Apple suffered a big setback Monday evening when Judge Lucy Koh refused to grant an injunction blocking the sale of…