CNN has done a great job putting together a summary of the book outlining Steve Jobs‘ life. To quote from the article: “Steve Jobs,’ the biography of the late tech visionary that went on sale Monday, has already produced plenty of headlines: How Jobs met his birth father without knowing who he was, how he [...]
Tags: Android·Apple·CNN·Google·History·Pioneers·Steve Jobs·Walter Isaacson
Good-bye and good luck, Steve. Steve Jobs resigned this week as Apple’s President and is looking to move to Chairman of their Board. It would be difficult to overstate the significance of Steve Jobs to Apple, and harder still to overstate Apple’s influence on the tech sector. Jobs was the towering figure behind a towering [...]
Tags: Apple·Bloomberg L.P.·Job (Biblical figure)·Steve Jobs·Steve Wozniak·Tim Cook·Wheels of Zeus·Woz
Apple says more than 1 million customers bought and downloaded OS X Lion in the first day since it went on sale in the Mac App Store. The company says in a statement users are buying Lion faster than any other OS release in Apple’s history
Tags: Apple·Mac App Store·Mac OS·Mac OS X Lion·Music download·Philip Schiller·Product marketing·Vice president
Back in 2007, Apple’s new entry to the smartphone market was one of the least secure operating systems on the market. Although it had been based on their desktop/laptop operating system, they managed to lose much of their security focus. Fast forward 4 years and things are much different. Apple’s newest iPad/iPhone Operating System (iOS [...]
Tags: Android·AppStore·Apple·IOS·IPad·Operating system·iphone·smartphones
Both MACDefender and Mac Security are fakes. Don’t install it, or you’ll end up along with thousands of other victims searching the Apple forums for a way to get rid of the pornographic pictures it pops up on your screen. MACDefender seems to have been successful because of the work its creators did to make [...]
Tags: Apple·AppleCare·Ed Bott·MacOS·Macintosh·Malware·ScareWare·ZDNet
Apple has introduced a new lineup of iMac computers, and a complete and total re-engineering of the iMac may be in the works. After a brief period of downtime Tuesday, the Apple Store has returned with brand new iMacs, confirming recent rumors about an imminent refresh of the lineup. The new iMacs sport the latest [...]
Tags: Apple·Apple Store·Desktop computer·IMac·IPad·Intel Core·Patently Apple·Sandy Bridge
Image via Wikipedia It’s rare that I recommend something as a must-have, but this is one of those times. If you are buying, or have recently bought, an electronic device such as a cell phone, iPod, iPad, MacBook Laptop or other electronic item you need to protect it now. The manufacturer of ScreenGuardz and BodyGuardz [...]
Tags: IPad·IPod·IPod Touch·Mobile phone·Protector·Shopping·iphone
Image via CrunchBase We’ve been watching the popular iPhone 4′s technical problems over the past few weeks with its antenna design. The iPhone 4′s DeathGrip is so common that anyone who owns and uses an iPhone on the road has experienced its propensity to dropping calls. As a radio technician (Advanced-Class HAM license), I have [...]
Tags: Apple·Handhelds·Smartphone·Steve Jobs·antenna·iPhone 4·iphone
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