Apple Stores get a little nuts during the holidays. Apple is helping those who want to get in and out with “Reserve and Pick Up“. It is what you’d think: You buy something online and pick it up at the nearest store. Also a good way to make sure they have the product you are looking for in stock (and no aiting for adding memory or upgrading hard drives). They’ll even wrap it for you, you lazy bastard.
If you have any of the iPhone games above, iPhone developer Storm 8 might have collected your iPhone number according to a lawsuit investigated by Boing Boing.
…the suit claims that the practice is not authorized by Apple and involves the execution of “malicious software code”. Storm8 has written the software for all its games in such a way that it automatically accesses, collects, and transmits the wireless telephone number of each iPhone user who downloads any Storm8 game,” the suit alleges. ” … Storm8, though, has no reason whatsoever to access the wireless phone numbers of the iPhones on which its games are installed.”…The number farming was not disclosed to players until an acknowledgement in August that described it as a “bug.” The lawsuit claims that only “very specific and specialized software code” could do so, however, and seeks injunctive relief and damages.
This follows news earlier this year that Mogo, a Swiss developer was stealing numbers, and calling their free customers to update to their paid app.
Who remembers the days of summer when we spent quality time speculating that iTunes LP content would fit snugly onto Apple TVs for playback on your big TV sets?
Well, as we know this exact feature took its place inside Apple TV 3.0, but owners of iTunes LP content were advised they
Media invitations went out today for the grand opening of Apple’s 4th Manhattan Store, on 67th and Broadway. The date is set from a week from tomorrow on Saturday the 14th of November. By many accounts, this store is thought to be even more spectacular than the other Manhattan Apple Stores, including the iconic square cube venue on 5th Avenue.
While the store will miss today’s Yankees ticker tape parade, it will be along the route of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade which heralds in the Holiday Shopping Season. It might make sense for Apple to use its location during the parade for publicity. Maybe we’ll see a giant iPod floating down Broadway?
A couple of points to note:
http://plus.cnbc.com/rssvideosearch/action/player/id/1320297032/code/cnbcplayershare Jim Goldman, below, is much more in favor of the iPhone.http://plus.cnbc.com/rssvideosearch/action/player/id/1311309323/code/cnbcplayershare
Want to hitch a ride on another person
Well, with the latest Pew Internet and American Life Project finds (gasp) that people
The acclaimed Mus
Looking at Apple
We’re not sure why you’d want to hold one key down and type with the other finger…but you can’t do it on Droid.
Munir Kotadia is a journalist who specialises in internet security – and he
So what would you do with an RFID-equipped iPhone? Use it as a credit card, perhaps? As a driving license? A passport? As a way to find your iPhone, in conjunction with GPS? Well, if a report crossing our desk this afternoon has substance, Apple
We’ve heard the reports that Canada’s Rogers was going to introduce an 8GB iPhone 3GS a few months ago, but now BGR is hearing that AT&T has similar plans to replace the low end $99 iPhone 3G with a faster iPhone 3GS. Faster processor, more RAM faster network speeds at same price just in time for Christmas shoppers according to their source. They also added:
One source said this was AT&T
Apple today announced the opening the first Apple Store in France, at the Carrousel du Louvre shopping center. Apple plans other French Store openings in Montpellier in ten days and another Paris Location, Op
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Yet more eBook-related activity in the education markets, with library and schools provider, OverDrive, offering up 1,001 audiobooks to US schools.
The collection – designed to work on Macs, iPods and other platforms – reflects the increased willingness of schools in the US sector to embrace electronic learning, partially, of course, to tweak a little extra out of their budgets.
However, that today
BlackBerry-maker, Research In Motion (RIM), has announced plans to repurchase $1.2 billion in stock in order to compensate shareholders for the company
Mossberg reviews the Droid with the inevitable comparisons to the iPhone. Key downsides: Camera, Keyboard (cramped, no autocorrect), only 12,000 apps. Likes the docks, navigation system, network. More.
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Hey, fresh this morning from the spurious but strangely amusing iLifestyle desk comes a breakdown of the dating habits of iPhone users..
According to Retrevo (remember them, they told Apple what to charge for its current fantasy tablet product last week), iPhone users are gadget-friendly, like things up-to-date and don
A slight upgrade for music makers out there, Apple has introduced WaveBurner 1.6.1, an update to the component application included within Logic Studio.
The upgrade resolves a number of niggles which had been impacting users of the CD mastering and authoring tool. Musicians use this to produce demo discs, premasters, Red Book
Apple’s got an interesting seed note with the latest 10.6.2 release (10C540). Under the GraphicsDrivers category, it says:We’re not quite sure what that means but it could be a strange way of saying that AppleTVs, when connected/disconnected to the MacOS, cause issues.
For the conspiracy theorists: The 27″ iMac only takes Mini DisplayPort in, and the Apple TV only does Component and HDMI out. It isn’t likely that AppleTV 3.0 was updated to a Snow Leopard kernel, is it?
Also, the kernel has been updated to be more compatible with VMWare and Airport drivers have been updated on the new iMacs. We heard earlier today that it was back to being compatible with Atom processors.
Known Issues
Focus Areas (Changes in 10C540):
AFP
AirPort
GraphicsDrivers
Kernel
USB
Updated Components in Mac OS X 10.6.2
Apple
We’re thinking our first teardown will be Apple’s Displayport to Dual-link DVI adapter. From Kyle@iFixit:
I am proud to announce iFixit Answers, a collaborative repair community of people helping people make devices work longer. We are launching the private beta today, but we will be inviting more people throughout the testing period. To get an invite, add your name to our list (we