Last evening, CNET reported Apple has completed an important step in the licensing process of its rumored cloud music service, by inking a deal with industry giant EMI. Joining last month’s Warner Music Group deal, the agreement with EMI indicates the launch of Apple’s highly anticipated music service may be drawing near. The multiple music […]
Yesterday, Apple VP Bud Tribble joined Google’s Alan Davidson in a U.S. Senate panel on mobile privacy. Prompted largely by the recent controversies surrounding Apple’s purported collection and usage of user data from its mobile iOS platform, Tribble—armed with a formal letter from Apple—testified on the exact details of the company’s iOS location database. In […]
A recent survey conducted by BrandZ has ranked Apple the world’s most valuable brand, with an estimated worth of $153 billion. Boasting an incredible 84% value shift in the last year, Apple displaced four time list king Google by more than $40 billion. Surpassing tech heavyweights IBM, Microsoft and AT&T—which all appeared in the top […]
Last evening Fortune released its annual list of the 500 largest American companies ranked by revenue. Though list mainstays such as Wal-Mart and Exxon Mobil unsurprisingly continued to hover at the top of the list, Apple jumped an impressive 21 spots from #56 to #35 this year. Pulling in more than $65 billion in revenue, […]
Today, Apple released significant updates to its popular line of all-in-one iMacs. Introducing next generation quad-core Intel i5 processors across the line, the new iMac models also feature faster graphics, the recently released Thunderbolt I/O technology and a FaceTime HD camera. Maintaining physical similarities to the previous generation, today’s update falls more in line with […]
Earlier this morning, antivirus software company Intego posted an article detailing a new malware threat for OS X users. This malicious software—masquerading as “MACDefender”—targets users through Safari via SEO poisoning attacks. Essentially when a rigged link is clicked after performing a search, users are redirected to a page containing JavaScript that automatically downloads a compressed […]
Recently, Apple product releases such as iPad 2 and the white iPhone 4 have been overshadowed in the news with negative leaning press surrounding the iOS device location tracking issue identified last week. For those unfamiliar with the controversy, essentially a small file containing nearly a year’s worth of location data was discovered within the […]
Apple today announced that the long awaited, and highly fabled white iPhone 4 will finally be available for sale beginning tomorrow. Debuting nearly a year after iPhone 4’s initial announcement and release, many Apple fans had assumed the colorless phone would never live to see production. Plagued with manufacturing problems from the onset, initial pre-orders […]
Last evening, Apple announced the next version of its professional video editing software—Final Cut Pro X. The application, which was presented at this year’s Final Cut Pro User Group SuperMeet, has been described as a complete rewrite of the existing program, and is being lauded as “Something as revolutionary as the first version of Final […]
Consumer Reports has published a new report on tablet computers. For those who don’t know, Consumer Reports is the magazine published by Consumers Union (CU), which in their own words is “an expert, independent, nonprofit organization whose mission is to work for a fair, just, and safe marketplace for all consumers and to empower consumers […]
