November 2011
15 posts
Apple opens subscription payments for iOS games;... →
Apple has extended its subscription-based pricing options beyond newspapers and magazines, allowing at least one game company to offer access to its games on a subscription basis….
Ruling: Apple did not infringe HTC graphics... →
The International Trade Commission has sided with Apple in a patent infringement investigation brought by HTC subsidiary S3 Graphics. An initial decision found that certain Macs …
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-20) →
Trans Am (24)
The Album Leaf (21)
Beastie Boys (4)
Young M.C. (3)
Common (3)
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Feature: Can the iPhone 4S replace a "real"... →
When Apple announced the iPhone 4S, the company certainly talked up the improvements made to the smartphone’s integrated camera hardware. With 8 megapixels of resolution, a…
Why Apple rejected AMD's Llano in the MacBook Air →
Apple’s MacBook Air may have come close to shipping with AMD’s “Llano” integrated CPU and GPU processors this past summer. According to unnamed sources speaking to SemiAccurate,…
LTE may come to iPad, iPhone next year thanks to... →
Apple’s move to standardize on Qualcomm baseband chips will be helpful in bringing LTE to the iPhone and iPad next year thanks to Qualcomm’s next-generation mobile device modem (MDM)…
Genentech's Levinson replaces Steve Jobs as Apple... →
Apple announced on Tuesday that it has named long-time board member Arthur D. Levinson as a non-executive Chairman of the Board. Levinson, who has served on Apple’s board since 2000,…
Mac OS X has its own sandbox security hole →
Move over, iOS: CoreLabs Research has posted a public notification of a potential security vulnerability in Mac OS X’s sandboxing mechanisms. According to CoreLabs, it’s possible…
iOS 5.0.1 update causing contact, WiFi headaches... →
Apple released the first update to iOS 5 on Thursday, fixing a critical security hole and promising better battery life for iPhone 4S users. However, it now looks like…
Apple's efficient, toxin-free devices help it... →
Greenpeace’s latest “Guide to Greener Electronics” was released on Wednesday, ranking Apple in fourth place among several of its consumer electronics peers. What’s significant,…
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-6) →
Bebel Gilberto (13)
Parts & Labor (12)
The Starting Line (12)
Trans Am (11)
Against Me! (10)
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Businesses can now participate on Google+ with... →
Google announced on Monday that it is adding a “pages” feature to Google+, allowing businesses and brands to join its homegrown social network. The new feature closely resembles…
Apple pushes back sandboxing deadline as devs... →
Apple has given developers a few more months to either come to grips with its new app sandboxing requirements or say goodbye to the Mac App Store. Apple originally set a November…
Stale Mac Pro lineup has pro users concerned →
Apple’s top-of-the-line workstation, the Mac Pro, hasn’t been updated in well over a year, waiting on Intel’s delayed (and delayed again) Sandy Bridge-E based Xeon…
Apple now has third piece of mapping puzzle, but... →
Apple was suspected to be the mysterious buyer of Swedish-based 3D mapping technology company C3 technologies earlier this year, and sources speaking to 9to5 Mac have now …
October 2011
10 posts
Hands-on: Pixelmator 2.0 adds value with "healing"... →
The Pixelmator team revved its Mac OS X image editor Pixelmator to version 2.0 on Thursday. The popular alternative to Adobe’s oft-overwhelming Photoshop adds a number of new…
Apple building 171 acre solar panel farm to power... →
Apple has apparently begun the early stages of construction for a planned 171 acre solar panel farm across the street from its $1 billion data center located in Maiden, North…
Researchers can keylog your PC using your iPhone's... →
Researchers at Georgia Tech and MIT have developed a proof of concept to demonstrate that it is possible to record a computer user’s keystrokes using an iPhone 4’s accelerometer. The…
iPhone 4S sets new record, sees 4 million unit... →
The iPhone 4S may have been an evolutionary upgrade, but sales seem to be quite brisk nonetheless. Apple reported Monday morning that the device sold over four million units…
Apple wins preliminary Galaxy Tab 10.1 ban in... →
An Australian court has awarded Apple a preliminary injunction preventing Samsung from marketing or selling its Galaxy Tab 10.1 down under. Though Samsung could still appeal, and…
iOS 5 now protects against DigiNotar, MD5-signed... →
iOS 5, still slowly rolling out to users after its launch on Wednesday, not only brings new features—it also brings a number of important security fixes for iPhone, iPad, and iPod…
First look: Facebook iOS app upgrade with native... →
Facebook launched a major 4.0 update to its iOS app late Tuesday, finally offering a native iPad interface. Before the update, users were either stuck with either running the…
Siri is iPhone 4S-only today; where will it be... →
Apple is launching the iPhone 4S this week with the recently unveiled integration of Siri, a voice activated “assistant.” Siri accepts voice input and can perform a range of…
iPhone 4S preorders start, unlocked GSM-only... →
Apple’s recently announced iPhone 4S is now available for pre-order on AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon. The device will be publicly available beginning next Friday, October 14….
If the A5 makes mobile gaming awesome, why isn't... →
When Apple introduced the iPhone 4S on Tuesday, the company took great pains to show off the A5 processors’ ability to make games “really scream,” claiming twice the computing…
August 2011
10 posts
Apple hands internship to Jailbreakme.com... →
After building the semi-famous website that allowed iPhone users to jailbreak their devices by simply clicking a link, 19-year old hacker Nicholas Allegra, aka “comex,” now has a…
Logs suggest iPhone 5 is dual mode, coming next... →
Information gleaned from an iOS developer’s activity logs show a suspected next-generation iPhone model connected to both Verizon’s and AT&T’s networks. This is the first evidence that…
Dropbox app finally updated with Lion integration... →
A new version of Dropbox was released on Thursday without much fanfare, but Lion users will be happy to know that the update finally restores Finder integration for Apple’s latest…
Apple hoping Dutch court will give Samsung major... →
Apple’s full-court press on Samsung in the European Union isn’t over by a long shot. New details about Apple’s lawsuit against Samsung in the Netherlands reveal that the company wants…
27,000 South Korean iPhone users suing Apple over... →
Following a recent victory against Apple over claims that iPhone location data collection violated user privacy, a South Korean law firm has now launched a class-action lawsuit…
Report: Apple boosts expected iPhone sales for... →
Sources within Apple’s supply chain claim that the company revised its total expected iPhone sales for the second half of 2011 up from 50 million to 56 million units. That projection…
We may want Mario on the iPhone, but Nintendo... →
Nintendo’s investors are urging the company to bring its iconic game characters, like Mario, Luigi, Zelda, and Donkey Kong, to Apple’s iPhone and iPad. The call to make games for…
After Samsung win, Apple targets Motorola Xoom in... →
Court documents from Apple’s recent preliminary injunction win against Samsung in Europe reveal that the company has also filed a claim against the Motorola Xoom. Like the Galaxy…
NVIDIA drivers giving 2010 MacBook Pro owners Lion... →
Users of last year’s MacBook Pro models with NVIDIA GPUs are finding the upgrade to Lion to be far less than perfect. Problems in the NVIDIA graphics drivers that shipped with OS X…
Developers still divided on mobile app... →
Mobile developers are still divided on how best to monetize mobile apps, according to the latest Mobile Developer Report survey by mobile development framework maker Appcelerator…
July 2011
9 posts
Apple sells 11 percent of all US computers last... →
Apple continues to excel in a softened PC market that is shifting toward cloud computing and media tablets, according to the latest PC market share analysis from Gartner and IDC.
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Bulldozer prototype suggests AMD shooting for... →
AMD’s Bulldozer processor architecture still hasn’t formally launched, but Donanim Haber got a hold of a recent engineering sample with benchmarked speeds that come close to Intel’s…
Apple hires lead patent counsel; Samsung alleges... →
Apple has recently replaced its top intellectual property counsel even as it is embroiled in numerous patent lawsuits—both offensive and defensive. Meanwhile, one of its biggest suits…
New wireless-charging tech may be in store for... →
Apple may bring wireless charging to the iPhone in a future iteration, but it likely won’t use the same induction charging technology popularized by Palm’s Touchstone charger. Instead,…
Apple denied preliminary injunction against... →
A federal judge has denied Apple’s motion for a preliminary injunction against Amazon, one that would prevent Amazon from using the term “app store” for its Amazon Appstore for…
Analysis: Facebook video chatting handy,... →
Facebook held a special media event on Wednesday to introduce “awesome” new Facebook features. It turns out the company unveiled improvements to Facebook Chat, including a new…
WSJ: next iPhone to be "thinner and lighter" than... →
The next-generation iPhone, expected to be released around September of this year, will be “thinner and lighter” than the iPhone 4. And while manufacturer Foxconn has had difficulty…
Ask Ars: will iTunes Match be used to chase down... →
In 1998, Ask Ars was an early feature of the newly launched Ars Technica. Now, as then, it’s all about your questions and our community’s answers. Each week, we’ll dig into our…
Big bidding: Apple, Microsoft, RIM nab Nortel... →
The bidding war over the patent portfolio from bankrupt Canadian telecom Nortel’s has ended. Google began the bidding on the collection of 6,000+ patents at $900 million, but Nortel…
June 2011
9 posts
The technology inside Apple's $50 Thunderbolt... →
The first Thunderbolt compatible peripherals—Promise’s Pegasus RAIDs—starting shipping on Tuesday. Using the RAIDs with a Thunderbolt equipped Mac, though, requires a rather…
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Apple expecting huge demand for updated MacBook... →
It appears that Apple is expecting massive demand for updated MacBook Air models that are likely to be launched shortly after the release of Mac OS X Lion. According to sources…
iOS 5 legalese suggests Apple still plugging away... →
Though Apple hasn’t publicly disclosed any major upcoming improvements for iOS’s Maps app, new legal notices contained within iOS 5 suggest Apple is still hard at work developing…
64-bit Final Cut Pro X now in Mac App Store,... →
Apple first made public mention of the major overhaul to its Final Cut Pro editing software in April, and on Tuesday, the company announced immediate availability of Final Cut Pro…
EU regulators scrutinize Facebook's facial... →
Facebook’s integration of face recognition technology into its photo tagging feature has EU regulators concerned over possible privacy violations. The Article 29 Data Protection…