Thus was it written, and thus shall it be, and Marathon shall come to the iPad of thee! It shall be! IT SHALL BE! How do we know this? Because the angels at Bungie told us! In a blog post/interview with the developer who ported the project, Bungie said that Marathon for iPad will released…
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MacProVideo.com Releases 8 Final Cut Pro X Tutorials
macProVideo.com offers training tutorials on more than 50 professional (and some consumer) content creation applications for the Mac, including Final Cut Pro, Logic, Live, Reason, Dreamweaver, Aperture, Photoshop, and the like. The tutorials are professionally made and are usually hosted by professionals in the relevant industry like Michael Wohl. The eight Final Cut Pro X…
Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.6.8, Including Lion Prep [Updated]
The update also boosts Snow Leopard’s defense against MacDefender and its variants. Apple’s patch notes: What’s included? Enhancements to the Mac App Store to get your Mac ready to upgrade to Mac OS X Lion. Resolves an issue that may cause Preview to unexpectedly quit. Improves support for IPv6. Improves VPN reliability. Identifies and removes…
Instapaper Servers Seized in Unrelated FBI Raid
Instapaper is a popular service that can be used through most Web browsers, but the company also has a successful iOS app and a popular following amongst iPhone and iPad users. With Instapaper, users can mark Web content for later and even offline viewing, in the case of its iOS app. Mr. Arment said the…
“Happy” Apple COO Tim Cook Spotted Inside China Mobile
According to a translation of the blog post by English-language Chinese gadget site M.I.C. Gadget, the reporter wrote, ““This morning, around 10, Apple COO Tim Cook is spotted in the lobby of China Mobile’s HQ, accompanied by 7-8 people. Probably Cook is talking with executives from China Mobile to discuss bilateral cooperation for the iPhone.…
CNBC Titans Offers Unauthorized Biography of Steve Jobs
In its description of the series, CNBC said, “CNBC Titans profiles remarkable people who made careers turning the ‘unthinkable’ into reality and companies that grew from humble roots to worldwide recognition.” This season kicks off with Steve Jobs, but it also includes looks at Jack Welch, Proctor & Gamble, Herb Kelleher, Quincy Jones, Milton S.…
Mozilla Releases Firefox 5.0 for Mac, Windows, Linux, Android
“The latest version of Firefox includes more than 1,000 improvements and performance enhancements that make it easier to discover and use all of the innovative features in Firefox,” the group said in its announcement. “This release adds support for more modern Web technologies that make it easier for developers to build amazing Firefox Add-ons, Web…
Apple Accused of Anticompetitive Practices in India Over iPhone
The issues are manyfold: Firstly, customers can only buy iPhones from its authorized resellers and from carriers Aircel and Bharti airtel. Relating to this, while customer can buy unlocked iPhones from these same outlets, the price of a locked phone is similar to that of an unlocked phone. The complaint appears to allege that carriers…
Apple & Intel Qualified for Nortel Patent Auction
The Journal also reported that the auction has been delayed until June 27th by Nortel in order to give all of these qualified companies time to advance their own talks with the U.S. Department of Justice. Nortel is hoping that the less the bidding companies are concerned about antitrust issues, the more they’ll be willing…
Report: Apple Store Secret Sauce: Control + Attention to Detail
The Journal spoke to current and past employees, industry experts, and it got a look of some of Apple’s own training manuals in putting together its story. In addition to the control and focus on the details, Apple also spends a lot of time and resources on actually training its retail employees, something almost unheard…
U.S. OK’s Google Bid for 6K Nortel Patents, Apple Interested
The patents cover a wide range of technologies, including Wi-Fi, some social networking patents, and patents related to the LTE, the misnamed 4G wireless network that is being deployed in the U.S. by most of the major wireless carriers. Microsoft, AT&T, Verizon, and HP had all filed objections to the very sale of the portfolio…
Barclay’s Capital Expects 22.5% Y/Y Mac Growth for Q2
Citing data from IDC, the analyst said that Apple saw 21% year-over-year Mac unit growth in May, up from the 9% growth the company saw in April. That compares to just 9.5% growth in May and 5% growth in April for the PC industry as a whole, meaning that Apple continues to make large gains…
Steve Jobs First Conceived “Statement HQ” for Apple in 1983
Then, as now, Mr. Jobs had lined up a world-class architect to head the project. In 1983 it was I.M. Pei, who designed such buildings as the John F. Kennedy Library (see photo below), the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell, the Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong, and several other iconic buildings. Mr.…
Ticonderoga: Apple Q2 Poised for 1.8% Sequential Growth
The Apple Barometer is the name of Ticonderoga’s look at a basket of companies in Apple’s supply chain with “a high concentration of sales generated” from the Mac, iPad, and iPhone maker. The financial services firm believes it that this provides a more accurate indicator of Apple’s own performance than the more common method of…
British Licensing Authority: No UK iCloud Music Until 2012
Apple introduced iCloud earlier this week during a keynote address at the company’s annual World Wide Developer Conference. iCloud offers a host of document hosting and syncing services, including the ability to have most of your iTunes purchases (music, apps, and iBooks) synced to any and every Mac and iOS device you have. While iCloud…
Steve Jobs Pitches Massive Apple Spaceship Cupertino Campus (Video)
Apple purchased the land in two transactions. In 2006, the company bought 50 acres off Wolfe Road, and in 2010, the company bought 98 adjacent acres from HP, giving Apple not quite 150 acres. Mr. Jobs told the Cupertino city council that his company wanted to take that space, increase the number of trees on…
Apple Lists 254 New Features for OS X Lion
The features are broken down into 38 different categories, including the ten overall categories Apple already showed us during the keynote. Accessibility Address Book AirDrop AppleScript Auto Save Automator Electronic Distribution FaceTime FileVault 2 Finder Full-Screen Apps iCal iChat Internet Restore and Utilities Launchpad Mac App Store Mail Mission Control Multi-Touch Gestures Networking Photo Booth…
Analyst: iCloud Stole the Show
One cloud to rule them all… “The introduction of the widely anticipated iCloud service offering stole the show (relative to the previews of iOS 5 and Mac OS X Lion),” Mr. Marshall wrote. “While it is unlikely to move the ‘financial needle’ at AAPL anytime soon, we believe iCloud is significant as it increases the…
Apple Reveals iCloud Logo in WWDC Banner
Apple had been rumored for some time to be working on a cloud service that could replace MobileMe, rumors that accelerated with the news that Apple had bought iCloud.com earlier this year. On Tuesday the company acknowledged iCloud by announcing that Steve Jobs would be participating in a keynote event for WWDC that focus on…
X2Y Sues Apple, Intel, HP for Patent Infringement
X2Y is based in Erie, Pennsylvania, and the suit was filed the Western District of Pennsylvania. According to Bloomberg, all five patents are in areas covering ways of overcoming electromagnetic interference. X2Y alleges that Intel is using the techniques covered by the patents in its processor line, and it named the Core i7 as “one…
Apple Brings Keynote, Pages, Numbers to iPhone as Hybrid Apps
Keynote, Pages, & Numbers “Now you can use Keynote, Pages and Numbers on iPhone and iPod touch to create amazing presentations, documents and spreadsheets right in the palm of your hand,” Philip Schiller, senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing for Apple, said in a statement. “The incredible Retina display, revolutionary Multi-Touch interface and our…
Apple Reportedly Experimenting with A5 Processor in MacBook Air
As rumors go, this is a weak one, and on many levels. We’re only bothering to mention it in order to squash the idea that Apple is planning on shipping such a MacBook Air. There is little doubt that Apple has long been experimenting with running Mac OS X on ARM and its own ARM-derivative…
Amazon Launches Mac Software Download Store
The Loop first spotted the new substore, and many on the Internet are hailing it as an effort by Amazon to “go after Apple,” referring to Apple’s Mac App Store launched earlier this year. The reality, however, is that this is more an effort to pull all of the existing software downloads Amazon already sold…
Apple Posts Steps for Removing Mac Defender Malware, Fix Coming
Mac Defender is a fake anti-virus piece of malware that tries to extort credit card numbers out of Mac users by creating phony problems on their system (read more in our original coverage). The malware first came to light with a security alert from Intego earlier this month, and has made headlines since because Apple…