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College Essentials: The Best Ways to Spend Your $150 Apple Gift Card
Improve your college experience with these ways to spend your free Apple gift card, from headphones to subscriptions.
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Smile Lowers Subscription Pricing for TextExpander 6
New pricing for TextExpander 6 is $4.16 per month if billed monthly, or $39.96, if billed annually (that's $3.33 per month). This compares to $4.95 per month/$47.52 per year at launch. That not only makes the half-off upgrade pricing just under $20 per year for those upgrading, Smile extended that offer to become a lifetime…
Replace AppleCare for Your iPhone With These Credit Cards
It's not a perfect replacement for AppleCare in that it doesn't include service or access to Apple repairs, but it's something that's already included in many credit cards, and might be just the ticket for you. Here's what you need to know. Firstly, be sure and check your bank's credit card features to know what…
One Analyst Thinks Apple Had Best Black Friday 'in Its Entire History'
Not bad for a company that's in the process of disappearing, right? If you remember, this same Trip Chowdhry said in early 2014 that if Apple didn't release the “iWatch” (as we all thought it would be called at that time) within 60 days, the company would disappear and become irrelevant. Those 60 days came…
Randomly Selected Developers Offered Expedited Apple Watch Delivery
Apple said the purpose of the offer is to give more developers a chance to test their Apple Watch apps as early as possible. A screenshot of the invitation: Apple Developer Invitation According to our developer sources, others who received this offer were all offered the same model Apple Watch. Speculation on the blue sport…
Procrastinator's Guide to Last Minute Holiday Gifts
There are upgrades to a larger amount of space with an online service, but the most popular ones don't offer an easy way to gift that space: Dropbox suggests using your card to pay as you upgrade the recipient's account, and iCloud space can be gifted in the form of physical gift cards or digital…
iPhone Carrier Deals Pushes up Wells Fargo AAPL Target Price
More iPhone carriers means more money all the way around, according to Wells Fargo “Apple started adding more carriers but seems to have gotten more aggressive in the last six months on a relative basis,” Mr. Um told investors. Instead of driving up iPhone 5S sales, however, Mr. Um sees the new carriers as a…
Spotify Buys Music Discovery Company Echo Nest in $100M Deal
Spotify buys music discovery company Echo Nest Spotify isn't commenting on exactly how much money it spent to buy Echo Nest, but sources speaking with TechCrunch said it was about $100 million. Part of the deal included multimillion dollar payouts to company founders Brian Whitman and Tristan Jehan, as well as CEO Jim Lucchese. Echo…
Analyst: Get Ready for AAPL Boost from China Mobile Deal
Wells Fargo expects China Mobile deal to boost iPhone sales Mr. Um told investors, The deal should give further confidence to both December and March quarter iPhone units. China Mobile's TD-LTE network operates in the 2.5GHz band, which could also bode well for iPhone at Sprint, which plans to overlay a faster 4G coverage in…
iPad Scores Big for Black Friday Retailers
Apple's iPad was the popular purchase over the Thanksgiving Holiday The research firm followed the purchases of 50,000 in-store shoppers for last Thursday and Friday. Thursday was the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States, followed by Black Friday which is a huge holiday shopping day. According to the company's research, the iPad mini was the…
iPad and iPhone Own Black Friday Mobile Shopping...Again
IBM “tracked millions of transactions and terabytes of data from approximately 800 U.S. retail websites.” The computing giant then analyzed that traffic and issued a report called “Black Friday Report 2013.” According to the report, mobile traffic accounted for 39.7 percent of all online traffic, up some 34 percent from Black Friday 2012. Purchases made…
TMO Holiday Gift Guide: Gifts for iPhone and iPad Lovers
Slope iPad Stand The Slope from Dekke is a sleek iPad stand that looks great on your desk along side your Mac and Apple display. It uses nanofoam to securely hold your iPad or iPad mini in place, but it's easy to pull your tablet free with a gentle tug. The Slope matches Apple's gear…
iPhone 5s Online Orders, In-store Purchases Start Sept 20
Apple will begin accepting online orders for the iPhone 5s on Friday, September 20, at 12:01AM pacific time (3:01AM eastern), and in-store purchases will start at 8AM local time, as will iPhone 5c in-store purchases. Since the iPhone 5s isn't available for pre-order, there's a good chance that means Apple's inventory will be very limited.…
Bono and Jony Ive to Auction 18K Rose Gold Apple EarPods for Charity
U2 frontman Bono, Apple design guru Sir Jonathan Ive, and Aussie biomorphism designer Marc Newson are teaming up for a charity auction to benefit Bono's Project (RED). Headlining the auction is a pair of 18K rose gold Apple Earpods, as shown below. The auction will be held on November 23rd, and the proceeds will specifically…
Low Price iPhones: There's a Model for That
The idea that Apple is going to make a cheap iPhone just doesn't sit well with me because the low-end market is something the company has historically been willing to leave for its competitors to fight over. That said, Apple also has its own way of systematically working its way down the market ladder and…
Want a Cheap iPhone? Don't Hold Your Breath
Apple needs to make a cheaper iPhone. That's what analysts are saying, which tells me they still don't understand Apple's market. The company has proven quarter after quarter through sales that consumers are fine with its price structure, and that it has no interest in following the overall market's make-it-cheap mentality. Don't look for a…
Staples Reportedly Strikes Deal to Carry Apple Products in U.S.
Customers looking to purchase Apple products in the United States will soon have the option of shopping at office supply chain Staples, according to multiple tweets from Staples executives discovered Thursday by 9to5Mac. Staples currently sells Apple products in Canada and other international locations but the new deal with Apple will allow it to carry…
Rare See-Through Apple Newton Sells for $1,350
A rare version of an Apple Newton recently sold on Ebay for US$1,350. The see-through device appears to have been a promotional version of the Newton MessagePad 110 handed out at an Apple conference in the 1990s. See-Through Newton (Click the image for a larger version) The Newton was the pet project of one-time Apple…