Bryan Chaffin

Apple has included images and video from its R&D labs and manufacturing facilities in the recent past, but this video offers the public (and the competition, for what that’s worth) a look into how Apple spent some US$100 million in developing its antenna design and testing facilities. “Apple never releases a product without thoroughly testing…

Apple had declined to comment on other aspects the iPhone 4 antenna controversy, but categorically rejected the Bloomberg report, saying: “We challenge Bloomberg BusinessWeek to produce anything beyond rumors to back this up. It’s simply not true.” Citing unnamed sources, Bloomberg had reported that senior engineer and antenna expert Ruben Caballero warned Apple execs that…

Apple’s interest in acquiring Palm centered around the company’s large portfolio of more than 450 patents, as well as another pending 400 patent applications. Had Apple been able to land those patents, the company would have been in a very strong place when it comes to defending its own large portfolio of patents relating to…

“Apple knows what you’ve downloaded, how much time you spend interacting with applications and knows even what you’ve downloaded, don’t like and deleted,” Rachel Pasqua, director of mobile at marketing firm iCrossing, told Bloomberg. The company is able to put to put together a behavior profile based on all this information, which allows the company…

Los Gatos is one of the smaller towns near Cupertino that make up the area locally known as South Bay. It has a number of multimillion dollar mansions in the hills overlooking the town proper, and is the home of Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak. The Apple Store in Los Gatos is located on Santa Cruz…

That said, that last drop landed in a different way than the first three, and it’s just as possible the test could have taken one drop or 100, depending on how it landed, but the video makes for some heart-rending viewing, especially if you’re one of those standing in line waiting for their own iPhone…

Mr. Jobs made the comments at the D8 Conference, where he said, “I think we need editorial oversight now more than ever. Anything we can do to help newspapers find new ways of expression that will help them get paid, I am all for.” He believes that (contrary to popular belief) people are willing to…

“When this whole thing with Gizmodo happened,” Mr. Jobs said, “I got a lot of advice from people that said. ‘You’ve gotta just let it slide. You shouldn’t go after a journalist because they bought stolen property and they tried to extort you.’” Mr. Jobs said that he thought “deeply” about the situation and the…

One question that has often been asked since competition between the two began heating up in recent years is Google’s current role on the iPhone. Google was the first company allowed on to the iPhone with a third party app, Google Maps, and Kara Swisher asked Mr. Jobs if the company’s apps might be removed…

MTV also said the app woud deliver “behind the scenes” access to its award shows starting with the 2010 MTV Movie Awards. Coverage will include streaming red carpet video interviews. Other features: Customizable: News content can be tailored to users’ interests based on the news category that interests them most (music, celebrity, shows, movies, gaming).…

“There are always lots of noises at the beginning of new category,” Mr. Guggenheimer told the newspaper. According to him, netbooks represented a similar situation, as early netbooks shipped with Linux installed on them. “It was 95% not on Windows,” he said, “and three years later it is 95% on Windows.” He added, “There are…

The Streak made an appearance in March in the guise of leaked photos to Engadget and Wired. Images released today by Dell differ slightly (see below), and the company’s announcement makes Streak official. The device is being built around a 1GHz Snapdragon ARM processor, and will include a 5 megapixel camera. Dell is touting Flash…

The survey was conducted among 3,174 consumers with the purpose of measuring future demand for the iPad. The company then conducted a second survey of 153 people who already owned an iPad to find out what they thought of the device and how they were using it. Looking ahead to consumer interest in buying iPads…

Even Apple made a rare public comment about the report, telling The Wall Street Journal: “This is a very limited report on 150,000 U.S. consumers responding to an online survey and does not account for the more than 85 million iPhone and iPod touch customers world-wide. We had a record quarter with iPhone sales growing…