According to a press release issued this morning, Steve Jobs has announced a second medical leave of absence from Apple. In a companywide email published publicly by BusinessWire, Jobs announced the following: Team, At my request, the board of directors has granted me a medical leave of absence so I can focus on my health. […]
Though yesterday may have brought a new version of the iPhone 4 into the world, it marked the silent exit of another. Immediately following the announcement of the Verizon iPhone 4, Apple refreshed its iPhone page with information on the new CDMA compliant handset. However, in the midst of the update, all photos of the […]
Apple today announced a partnership with Verizon Wireless which will officially bring the iPhone 4 to the carrier’s network. Lowell McAdam, President and COO of Verizon, made the highly anticipated announcement at a press conference held in New York City earlier this morning. Tim Cook, Apple’s COO, joined McAdam and Verizon CEO Dan Mead on […]
The Mac App Store, which opened yesterday, had nothing short of a tremendous first day. Apple today announced that over one million apps have been downloaded from the store in its first 24 hours. It is likely that Apple’s established base of app savvy iOS device users contributed largely to the store’s success. As Mac […]
In a press release this morning, AT&T announced plans to reduce the subsidized price of the 8GB iPhone 3GS from $99 to $49. Effective tomorrow, January 7, this offer extends to both new and existing AT&T customers who are eligible for upgrade. Though this may mark the lowest commercially available iPhone price, it does require […]
As of this morning, the Mac App Store has officially opened its “doors” for business. Launching with over 1,000 apps in a wide range of categories, the new store is available as part of the Mac OS X v10.6.6 software update. The lone new feature of the update–beyond typical bug fixes and stability enhancements–The Mac […]
If you currently have iOS 4 installed on your iPhone/iPod/iPad, and you rely on the device as an alarm clock, you may have caught a few unanticipated Z’s this weekend. What some users are already calling “Alarmgate” caused any non-recurring alarms set in the Clock app to fail between January 1st and 2nd of this […]
The re-designed Apple TV is officially a hit. Apple yesterday confirmed having sold over 1 million units in a mere 3 months. The device’s rampant popularity is undoubtably due in part to its attractive price point of only $99. Apple’s strategic redesign of the device’s feature set has likely played into the device’s popularity as […]
Yesterday, Apple released iPhoto 9.1.1 which contained a series of bug fixes and a slew of minor enhancements for the company’s popular photo application. Following the launch of iLife ’11 earlier in the Fall, many early adopters griped over the seemingly reduced email functionality introduced in the software. Though email themes were one of the […]
Apple, this morning released a PR document announcing that the Mac App Store will open Thursday, January 6. Utilizing a similar business model to the current App Store, (soon to be dubbed the iOS App Store?) the OS X application will surely change the ways in which programs are installed, updated, and managed on the […]
