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Big news! According to The New York Times, the Senior Vice President of iPhone hardware engineering division at Apple has left the company in the wake of the so called iPhone 4 Antennagate from which the company is still fighting to recover from. While there is no word from Apple on whether Mark Papermaster was…
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Apple has posted a new job description for a software engineer position, who will be involved in a new revolutionary feature in a future version of Mac OS X. Apple is calling this new feature as something that has never been seen or done before and that it will truly amaze everyone. Here is the…
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During last week’s iPhone leak saga, Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, reached out to us with a story: The morning of the iPad launch, an engineer showed Woz an iPad for two minutes. For this he was fired. It’s a story that paints Apple as many people already see the company: ruthlessly secretive, and even…
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Apple supposedly bought Lala for its uploading tech and engineering expertise, but not so it could roll out a subscription service. Instead, Apple may be planning to speed up the process of building a cloud component for iTunes. More: continued here
Mac Rumors Apple takes down Fingerworks.com in nod to tabletZDNet (blog)The concept blended software and hardware that was probably ahead of its time The duo has since been hired as senior engineers at Apple and little has been …Apple Takes Down FingerWorks.com Ahead of Tablet LaunchSoftpediaFingerWorks' site pulled before Apple tabletElectronista (blog)Fingerworks.com Content Pulled Ahead…
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Apple’s designers and engineers have done a good job putting together what is an iconic product, the iPhone. Its software gurus have helped foster the app revolution. But it when it come to the App Store approval process, Apple is blowing it. More: continued here
At DOER Marine, a California firm that designs and builds subsea automobiles, engineers are working to create a manned car that can explore the ocean ground. VP of Operations Ian Griffith credits iPhone for protecting their engineering staff responsive and nimble sufficient to make it occur — regardless of the place they are on the…
Apple is no longer going after a wiki publishing site for offering links to an iTunes reverse-engineering project, and in return the EFF has dropped its countersuit against Apple. More: continued here
There can be no doubt Apple is working on a low-power, mobile processor of its own. It acquired chip designer PA Semi early last year. And just last month, the Cupertino, Calif., company advertised for engineers familiar with the NEON extended instruction set used by next-generation ARM processors. More: continued here
Programmer and former Apple engineer Landon Fuller has released a proof-of-concept exploit demonstrating vulnerabilities in Apple’s current implementation of Java that allow arbitrary code execution in Java-enabled Web browsers. More: continued here
Apple Inc. is building a significant capability to design its own computer chips, a strategy shift that the company hopes will create exclusive features for its gadgets and shield Apple’s work from rivals. The Silicon Valley trend-setter has been hiring people from many different segments of the semiconductor industry, including engineers to… More: continued here
Developed by Grammy nominated and winning engineers Allen Sides and Steven Miller, Ocean Way Drums is an incredible product for Mac-using musicians and songwriters. More: continued here
In a University of Delaware news article from way back in October 2008, Wayne Westerman, the engineer credited as the lead inventor of multi-touch, described his inspiration for the technology. Westerman explains how his bout with tendonitis played a major role in the development of touch-sensitive technology: “I had an ergonomic problem and I paired…
In a recent interview with Wired, developer Ethan Nicholas admits he made about $600,000 in a single month with his iPhone game iShoot. The game was his first and surely won’t be his last. Ethan Nicholas quit his day job as an engineer at Sun Microsystems the day iShoot reached the number one position at…
Early Snow Leopard in Q1 2008?: “ It looks like Snow Leopard might be coming a bit earlier than expected if slides from Apple’s Director of Engineering of Unix Technologies, Jordan Hubbard are to be believed.’ The presentation was given at LISA ‘08 last week in San Diego.” Originally planned for ‘about a year’ from…