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Apple Day – Apple, iPod, iPad, iPhone, iTouch, iMac, iBook
Samsung’s third quarter 2014 earnings are likely to disappoint as the company faces intense competition from both high-end and low-end competitors, even as Apple’s newly launched iPhone 6 and 6 Plus are just starting to roll out. According to the Wall Street Journal, Samsung is expected to announce a quarterly operating profit drop of up…
The Wall Street Journal has cast some more light on recent reports that Apple’s sapphire supplier had declared bankruptcy earlier this week. According to the Journal’s report, Apple withheld a payment of $139 million from GT Advanced, though currently there’s no indication of why this decision was made. In another interesting revelation, the Journal also discovered…
Quanta Computer has begun production on Apple’s ultra-slim 12-inch MacBook and will look to ramp up its efforts beginning November, reportsDigitimes. Despite these newest efforts however, the report also states that the notebook will not be ready in time for this holiday season. Since initial production of 12-inch MacBook Air has not yet reached a…
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Word surfaced yesterday that GT Advanced Technologies filed for bankruptcy. The company was responsible for producing the millions of sapphire glass displays that were long rumored to come with the iPhone 6, but missing that deadline threw the company into a tragic spiral that seems to grow worse with each day. Earlier this morning a…
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Less than two months ago, Daisuke Wakabayashi of the Wall Street Journal reported that Apple was "betting $700 million" on a plan to use sapphire screens on its upcoming iPhones. After being proven wrong, the writer now claims that Apple radically reversed its plans just weeks before the new devices went on sale. More: continued…
Used as an in-car hands-free system, Siri causes a high level of mental distraction while driving, according to research conducted by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. In a thorough study [PDF] that measured the cognitive workload of 45 drivers completing in-car tasks using various voice-based technologies, Siri’s high complexity and low intuitiveness resulted in…
jones_supa (887896) writes Apple has released the OS X Bash Update 1.0 for OS X Mavericks, Mountain Lion, and Lion, a patch that fixes the “Shellshock” bug in the Bash shell. Bash, which is the default shell for many Linux-based operating systems, has been updated two times to fix the bug, and many Linux distributions…
An anonymous reader writes: Over the past several days, we’ve been hearing reports about some amount of users noticing that their brand new iPhone 6 Plus is bending in their pockets. The pictures and videos shown so far have kicked off an investigation, and Consumer Reports has done one of the more scientific tests so…
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Be sure to follow 9to5Toys to keep up with the best gear and deals on the web: Twitter, RSS Feed, Facebook, Google+ and Safari push notifications. Today’s can’t miss deals: 3-in-1 Portable Car Charger, Wall Charger & Power Bank: $6, 4-port USB car charger: $20 MEElectronics Air-Fi Runaway AF32 Stereo Bluetooth Headphones w/ Mic: $40 shipped (Reg. $75) Apple iPad Air 16GB WiFi $390 shipped…
An anonymous reader writes: A U.S. district judge ruled last week that a decade-old antitrust lawsuit regarding Apple’s FairPlay DRM can move forward to a jury trial (PDF). The plaintiffs claim that in 2004, when “Real Networks launched a new version of RealPlayer that competed with iTunes,” Apple issued an update to iTunes that prevented…
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aupi now available for iPad For aupi iPhone version click here (http://modmyi.com/forums/iphone-5-new-skins-themes-launches/838832-aupi-ios.html) Support iPad 3,4,Air and iPad mini Retina Welcome to the new language of design. aupi is smooth icon with smooth shadow. aupi takes iOS to new way on design. All icons and UI match to iOS and wallpaper. Every icon look deep and…
Before CarPlay was announced, and even before it becomes a standard utility in some cars coming off the assembly line, using our smartphones in cars usually meant we had to directly interact with them in some way or another. According to a new report, Siri’s hands-free solution is still quite distracting while you’re driving.Continue reading…
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mrspoonsi writes GT Advanced Technologies is filing for bankruptcy. In an announcement on Monday, GT Advanced, which makes sapphire displays that many investors hoped would be in Apple’s newest iPhone, said that it was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. In early September, shares of GT Advanced got crushed after the company’s sapphire displays were not…
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