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The regional carrier covers central Kentucky, and has deals in place for nation-wide roaming, too.More regional carriers join the iPhone familyBluegrass Cellular’s service plans includes unlimited SMS along with 3GB of data, and start at $64.99 a month for 600 voice minutes on network and 200 minutes off network. The company’s unlimited on network and…

Apple’s legal team apparently tried to sidestep ITC page limit by including over 3,000 pages of attachments with a filing challenging the validity of Samsung’s patent. Now Apple has until the end of the day on Tuesday to file a sigle-page document with a table showing why the company thinks Samsung’s patents aren’t valid in…

Total revenue for the company was €75.4 million ($106.3 million) with pretax earnings of €48 million ($67.6 million), a margin of 64 percent for the year. Rovio, founded by three Helsinki University of Technology students in in 2003, had its big break in December 2009, when the company released the first Angry Birds title for…

 Cult of Mac’s Apple Television Mockup (with a little commentary added by TMO) Why? Because, while we think the product described by Cult of Mac’s source will share much in common with an eventual Apple television, it’s what the mockup lacks that’s going to be the “killer feature” of Apple’s “next big thing.” Apple, under Steve Jobs’s…

“We feel that the attitude of Apple Inc. has changed. Although they expressed that they were willing to negotiate, they have never taken any action before. But now, they are having conversations with us, and we have begun to consult on the case,” Mr. Xie said in an interview with Xinhua on Sunday. Without disclosing…

“We’ve seen a ton of excitement for both CS6 and Creative Cloud since our April 23 announcement,” Scott Morris, Adobe senior marketing manager told Macworld. “We want Creative Cloud to be an amazing experience for our customers and we feel that we just need a little more time to fine-tune it. At the same time,…

This week, we’re taking a look at The Mac Observer’s Senior Editor, John Martellaro.John’s office is the central hub of his digital life, from which he brings us great weekly columns and reviews, keeps up with Twitter, and roams the internet looking for the next big thing. On the left is John’s 3rd Generation Verizon…

Richard Fairhurst, a board member of the OpenStreetMap Foundation, said in an interview with TalkingPointsMemo Idea Lab, “Obviously we’d rather that Apple had attributed right from the start, but nonetheless this is a big step forward. If the biggest computer company in the world, one with a perfectionist instinct, feels that OpenStreetMap data meets its needs and is…

Let’s face it, Steve Jobs could often be hard to work with. The facts are that he could be abrasive and arrogant, and that sometimes made it hard for Apple to work with other executives. Mr. Cook’s style is very different, and while he’s demanding and tough, he’s also able to negotiate with other human…

Apple’s current iPad lineup, including the “new” iPad 2 with a 32nm A5 SoC (source: AnandTech) The Samsung-sourced chip grants benefits to both Apple and consumers. From Apple’s perspective, the new SoC gives Apple the ability test out the 32nm process, likely to make its way into the next iPhone, on an existing architecture with…

Due to its limited adoption thus far — Macs and only a few PCs support it — and its significantly higher cost compared to legacy connection options such as USB and FireWire, one of the areas Thunderbolt has yet to penetrate is memory card readers, a niche market crucial to professional photographers and videographers.  Up…

Amazon to produce its own TV showsShows that are picked up and run as a series will earn the makers US$55,000, royalties, and up to 5 percent of the sales from t-shirt and toy licensing.The move to online TV shows doesn’t come as a big surprise since Amazon Studios launched in November 2010 and has…

According to the Smithsonian’s Newsdesk on May 1, “The exhibit, a display of 30 4-by-8-foot panels made to resemble iPhones, showcases more than 300 patents and trademarks granted to Jobs throughout this career. Each panel displays facsimiles of the front pages of 12 patents granted to Jobs, totaling 312 of the 317 he acquired in…

During the April 24, 2012 Apple Financial Results Conference Call, Tim Cook responded to an analyst question about a possible Apple hybrid product, one that can be used as both a MacBook and an iPad. He responded: Well, I think anything can be forced to merge. But the problem is that the products are about…

The dissenting vote came from Commissioner Sarah Eckhardt who said she had hoped Apple would’ve been required to promise more in exchange for the incentives, according to the Austin Business Journal.Tax incentives for Apple’s Austin center gets the go aheadApple now stands to get between US$5.4 million and $6.4 million in tax rebates from the…

Research in Motion made the case for the continued relevance of its BlackBerry platform during its Blackberry World keynote Tuesday morning. Three months after taking the helm at the struggling company, RIM CEO Thorsten Heins took the floor to argue for the “unique value” that BlackBerry delivers to its customers. Distinguishing BlackBerry customers from those…

Chart by The Mac Observer from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners data.The study, conducted in February, asked new iPad customers where they had purchased their product. As mentioned above, 26 percent of iPads were bought directly from Apple’s online and retail stores while long-time Apple partner Best Buy accounted for 24 percent. Walmart, with 11 percent, came…

“Apple reinstated @napkinstudio cancelled WWDC tickets. Still real annoying we had to go through all of that. Need better process next year,” the developer wrote. Andrew Gould Tweet Tickets for this year’s WWDC went on sale early on April 25th and sold out in just under two hours. Later that same day, several developers, including…

Apple Chomps Android Support… The decision to drop Android was expected—Apple has a long track record of limiting software and services that it buys to its own platforms. From Final Cut Pro to Quattro Wireless (which became iAd) to Siri, Apple either dropped support for other platforms or has limited development and implementation to OS…

Despite suggestions to the contrary raised by The New York Times this weekend, Apple pays “an enormous amount of taxes,” the company argued in a letter published by The Times on Saturday. The highly-profitable electronics company also referenced its controversial data released in March on the number of jobs it “creates or supports” in the United States,…

This week, we’re taking a look at the setup of TMO reader Jason (a.k.a “aftermac” on the forums). Jason, as you can see from the pictures, feels he has a bit of a “problematic” hobby. With 84 computers from all eras of computing history, however, we here at TMO think his only problem is an…

The film, written by Matt Whiteley, “chronicles Steve Jobs from wayward hippie to co-founder of Apple, where he became one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of our time.” Mr. Gad, 31 years old, is best known from his role in Broadway’s The Book of Mormon, a religious satire musical written by South Park creators…

Poaching Apple Mr. Fay will be getting a new title at J.C. Penney, serving as executive vice president of real estate, store design and development, a significant step up from a senior director. “Ben is an incredibly creative professional with extraordinary leadership skills. Having worked with him over the last 12 years, I am delighted…

At first look, this didn’t strike me as a fair or wise way to have handled the ticket sales. What exactly was Apple thinking?Many west cost developers are missing out on WWDC this year According to John Martellaro, my colleague here at The Mac Observer, “events unfolded exactly as Apple wished…The developer community in California…