Archive for February, 2012
Click for full sizeAs noted by iPhoneinCanada, Apple has submitted revised plans for their so-called “Spaceship” campus proposal. The massive new campus is expected to provide Apple with approximately 2.8 million square feet for up to 13,000 employees. Steve Jobs personally presented the original plans to the City of Cupertino in June. Jobs described it [...]
Last July, Apple discontinued the white MacBook from its consumer lineup, pushing consumers toward the company’s popular MacBook Air line or the 13-inch MacBook Pro. The company didn’t kill off the MacBook entirely though, as it continued to offer it to educational institutions. Apple has now notified resellers that it has ended that distribution channel [...]
Photo by Kiel Oleson (@kielo) A week ahead of Apple’s iPad media event, Engadget revises its claims about we can expect to see from Apple at Yerba Buena. Engadget’s previous claims included an SD card slot and a “super high resolution” display for the next iPad. Those claims generated a fair amount of discussion surrounding [...]
Following in the footsteps of yesterday’s release of iOS 5.1 Beta 3, Apple today seeded a new version of OS X 10.7.3 to registered Mac developers. The new version, termed Build 11D42, comes three weeks after the previous build, but the development team’s work was undoubtedly slowed due to the holidays. According to those familiar [...]
As noticed by several users running the developer preview version of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Apple is no longer including its X11 application for running software through the X Window System interface. A popular option for scientists and others seeking to run specialized UNIX software both on local machines and across networks, X11 has [...]
Electronista reports on a new article [Google translation] from Taiwan’s Commercial Times claiming that Apple is planning for production of 65-70 million iPad 3 displays in 2012, paving the way for a significant boost to Apple’s tablet sales. Shipments for the new LCD panel, believed designed by Sharp but being manufactured by LG Display and [...]
(Click here for larger version)RepairLabs reports that it has received a photo of what is claimed to the inside of the rear shell of the iPad 3, comparing the part to the corresponding version found on the iPad 2. The iPad 3 version demonstrates a few minor changes compared to the iPad 2, with one [...]
Apple has won what could be a fairly significant victory in its wide array of ongoing patent lawsuits. A German court has ruled that a number of Motorola Mobility products infringe on Apple’s European slide-to-unlock patent, EP1964022. The ruling is a permanent — but appealable — injunction that Apple can enforce today if it is [...]
In a preliminary ruling (PDF) today, the ITC ruled that Motorola’s smartphones do not violate the Apple patents at issue, though the decision still needs to be approved by the full six-member ITC panel. On this date, the ALJ issued an initial determination on violation of Section 337 and recommended determination on remedy and bond [...]
The Wall Street Journal reports that Google and several other advertising agencies have been discovered to be circumventing privacy protections in Apple’s Safari browser for iOS devices in order to track users through ads on numerous popular websites. Google implemented the technique in order to embed +1 buttons on its ads, tricking users’ systems into [...]