The North Carolina Utilities Commission today officially approved (PDF) Apple’s proposal to construct a 4.8-megawatt fuel cell electric generating facility near its data center in Maiden, North Carolina. The Commission previously approved a plan by App…

In the week since Apple’s last developer update of OS X Mountain Lion, several new features including hints of automatic app downloads have been discovered in the next-generation operating system. The discoveries are still continuing, with signs of tw…

Accessory maker Moshi has released a new ultra-thin plastic shell protective case for the 11″ and 13″ MacBook Air models. This type of plastic case tends to be especially popular among students, protecting their machines from bumps and scratches. Moshi…

Someone who reads my articles sent me this email: Even if (Michael Wolff) is overblowing things in his criticism of Facebook, he poses an interesting idea: that the

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Major League Baseball All-Star FanFest is coming in July to Bartle Hall, and MLB will…

Blizzard Entertainment said this week that it sold more than 3.5 million copies of Diablo III on launch day, setting the record for fastest-selling PC game. The company also sold 1.2 million copies of the game to subscribers of the World of Warcraft An…

Hard drive maker Seagate has announced it will purchase data storage device maker LaCie for roughly $186 million.

The company plans to buy the controlling stake owned by Philippe Spruch, Lacie’s chairman and CEO, followed by a cash-offer for th…

BGR reports that Microsoft is planning to launch Office for iOS in November this year, with the source claiming first-hand knowledge of the software running on an iPad. With the app’s splash screen referring to it as “Office for iOS”, the source also …

Play around with Google's latest Doodle, which mimics the iconic Moog Synthesizer. If you can recreate the show's theme song, share it with others.

Intuit has upgraded the iOS app for its Mint personal finance tool with two new “most-requested” features that should keep users from ever having to go to the Mint.com website. Until now, there were several important budgeting tasks that required users…

The Palo Alto Online has unearthed plans for a new glass-enclosed retail store going in near the current Stanford mini-store at the Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto, CA.

The store will have three floor-to-ceiling glass walls enclosing the front …

NEW YORK, NY– – The Fashion Institute of Technology's Cosmetics and Fragrance Marketing and Management Program's Master of Professional Studies candidates had their Capstone projects sponsored this year …

Wired points to a recent Technology Review interview with IBM chief information officer Jeanette Horan highlighting the issues of the “bring your own device” trend in which employees choose their own mobile devices to bring to the workplace and use for…

Earlier this week, Apple CEO Tim Cook met with his counterpart from Samsung, Choi Gee-sung, as part of court-mediated talks seeking to find common ground in the ongoing patent battles between the two companies. Unsurprisingly, the talks seems to have …

BBC reports that Apple’s design chief Jonathan Ive was knighted today in Buckingham Palace, with Princess Anne performing the honors. Ive’s knighthood was announced in December, but the official ceremony was not held until today.

Ive’s knighthood…

Needham gives it a $40 target.

The theme this week seemed to be about booking. There was the booking glitch at Delta, Asian bookings are up, Amadeus, Easyjet wants more business bookings. And then of course Facebook went public. On that note, here is our pick of the week’s news…

AudienceView today announced that AV Tiki, the company’s innovative online sales solution for live event ticketing through Facebook, has been successfully launched with partner organizations in Europe, Asia and North America as part of a staged roll-out strategy.

Studies of “brand value” are always difficult to compare, as widely differing methodologies used by those measuring such data yield markedly different results. But tracking year-to-year movements using a consistent methodology can offer some interesti…

Apple today released Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 3.10, bringing RAW image support to Aperture and iPhoto for a number of new cameras.
This update adds RAW image compatibility for the following cameras to Aperture 3 and iPhoto ’11:

- Canon …

As noted by ifoAppleStore, Apple is continuing its trickle of retail store openings this week with a new location opening on Friday, May 25 in Paris. The new Les Quatre Temps store will be Apple’s sixth in the Paris metropolitan area.

The huge stor…

TiVo owners can control their devices via an iOS app on the iPhone and iPad, but — for the moment — can only watch shows on their television.

But that’s all going to change in a few months. According to a report from ZDNet, TiVo is launching an exte…

Binary Nights has dropped the price of its file-transfer app ForkLift to $0.99, down from $29.99, for a limited time.

ForkLift is a well-reviewed file management app that offers FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3, iDisk, SMB, AFP, and NIS support, a…

In line with today’s claims of taller iPhone prototypes with 3.95-inch displays, one of our sources has provided us with images of what are claimed to be new next-generation iOS device parts being carried by a supplier. The most significant of these p…

NORFOLK — The Facebook phenomenon hasn't hit everyone.   A recent Associated Press/CNBC poll shows just 21% of seniors have an account. May is Older Americans Month and the theme is Never Too Old to Play. Senior Services of Southeastern Virginia will hold a Never Too Old for Facebook on May 29 at the MCI/ECPI building on Greenwich Rd. Seven students and faculty from ECPI University will …

9to5Mac reports that Apple is currently testing two prototypes of the next-generation iPhone that offer a taller screen while maintaining the existing 640-pixel width. According to the report, the two prototypes carry a display with a height of 1136 p…

Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, widely derided for renouncing his U.S. citizenship before the company's lucrative IPO, is finding powerful allies on the Right

In the wake of Facebook's poor stock market debut, is it time to start worrying about the future of publicly traded companies?

Some people don't just 'like' Facebook, they love it.

Veterans will take center stage in Dexter on Monday for the village’s annual Memorial Day ceremonies, which include a special service in Monument Park at 9 a.m. to be followed by a parade down Main Street at 10 a.m….

As noted by Zach Kahn (via 9to5Mac), the latest developer build of OS X Mountain Lion released last week sets the stage for bringing iOS-like automatic app downloads to Mac App Store purchases.

Like on the iPhone and iPad, when you buy and install a…

Apple last week sent out a mailing to neighbors of its planned Apple Campus 2, a massive new facility on the site of an old HP campus in Cupertino that is set to host 13,000 workers. The mailing offers details on the project, solicits feedback, and as…

Will Smith went back in time just like his “Men In Black III” character to lead an audience in the United Kingdom with a rendition of “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” theme.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Vayama.com , the online travel agency that specializes in international travel, announces today that it is sponsoring a South African international travel …

Following last month’s announcement that Apple and Samsung had agreed to high-level talks involving the two companies’ CEOs in an attempt to resolve ongoing patent litigation, Reuters provides a preview of the session set to begin today in San Francisc…

China Daily reports that Apple’s manufacturing partner Foxconn continues to expand its operations in support of Apple’s strong growth in product sales, investing $210 million to build a new production line for unspecified components. The new produ…

The weekend G-8 summit's supposed commitment to keep Greece within the Euro-zone may not amount to much in the absence of a favorable outcome from that country's fresh elections next month.

We don't have much on the economic docket today and the items on deck for the rest of the week are also relatively lightweight.

A day at Disneyland or California Adventure for visitors 10 and older will cost $87, a 9% increase. The premium annual pass that includes parking rises 30%. If you're thinking of visiting a Disney park in Anaheim this summer, be warned that the price is about to jump by between $7 and $150 depending on the ticket deal.

Mark and Priscilla tie the knot

In the wake of Facebook's billion-dollar Instagram buyout, video-sharing apps are jostling to become the next big thing.

Gamers were able to explore a Disney theme park in last year’s Xbox 360 game from Microsoft, Disneyland Kinect. But the new Disney Animal Kingdom Explorers is a whole new take on bringing the real world to the virtual. Inspired by scenes and locations from the Disney Animal Kingdom theme park, the new Playdom Facebook game was designed in partnership with the Orlando park’s scientists to ensure …

Shares in the social network end first day of trading little-changed, as investors buy and sell in record numbers leaving founder Mark Zuckerberg worth $19bn.

Russian forensics firm ElcomSoft earlier this week announced that it has discovered a way to easily access iCloud backups of iOS devices, incorporating the functionality into its Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker software. While the Apple ID and passwo…

Russian newspaper Izvestia reports [Google translation] that the organizers behind the Skolkovo technology park near Moscow are currently in talks with a number of high-profile companies including Apple, Google, and Facebook about locating research and…

I spotted this on Facebook yesterday. A user in Singapore linked to it saying, “My friend Deborah Torres Patel, is the writer and producer of the FB song. She resides in Singapore but went to Hollywood to produce this. We are proud of her. This may be adopted as FB official theme song.”

Each July since 2007, Apple has held its iTunes Festival in London, offering a month’s worth of free concerts from some of the industry’s top performers. Apple is now beginning to unveil this year’s plans, and the most notable change for 2012 is a mov…

Amidst the frenzy over the ?s IPO I have seen a few folks question why this didn?t all happen first for MySpace. After all, it was there first, people seemed to like it well enough, and it had some features that still doesn?t have. (Example, it was much easier for bands to download songs directly …

Shares of Quepasa Corporation (QPSA), a social discovery company and owner of the Latin-American platform Quepasa and the North-American platform myYearbook, are rallying 10%, or 42c, to $4.33 in pre-market …

The social-networking giant's trove of data on its users is its ace in the hole as the firm races to develop new revenue streams.

It doesn't matter if you're a budding poet or not – you just need to be honest about how you feel about the skin you're in.

Shares of Facebook are now trading on the Nasdaq market, the third largest initial public offering in United States history. DealBook's live blog tracked all of the reactions to the I.P.O. throughout the day.

Bloomberg reports that Steve Jobs was intimately involved in the design work for the next-generation iPhone scheduled for release later this year, reiterating claims that the device will be a substantial change from previous designs in part because of …

Aaron Sorkin, the creative genius behind The Social Network, The West Wing, and upcoming HBO show The Newsroom was recently confirmed as the screenwriter for Sony’s upcoming movie based on Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs — though, Sorkin him…

Speaking at Fast Company’s Innovation Uncensored conference earlier this week, J. Crew CEO and Apple board member Mickey Drexler shared his thoughts (via Business Insider) on several topics related to Apple, including Steve Jobs’ dream to build an “iCa…

If you lived in or around New Jersey in the 80s or 90s, the words ?Action Park? are like a Pavlovian signal to the danger cortex of the brain. Whereas modern theme parks seem to care about things such as ?safety? and? well? ?safety?, Action Park was like a bizarre Truman Show-sized trap from a …

Verizon yesterday made headlines for comments from Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo revealing that the carrier is planning to discontinue its grandfathered unlimited data plans when the carrier rolls out new shared data plans this summer. Verizon d…

TUAW reports that Apple will be scaling back on systemwide “hotkey” apps, which allow users to call up other apps and functions, in the Mac App Store as of June 1, the same date the company’s sandboxing requirements are scheduled to go into effect.Appa…

Our sister-site TouchArcade notes that Chillingo’s excellent physics puzzler Feed Me Oil is free today for both the iPhone and iPad. It’s normally $0.99 for iPhone and $1.99 for iPad. Feed Me Oil is something of a mix between World of Goo and W…

Earlier today, we noted that Apple had received official approval for its 20-megawatt solar farm across the street from its data center in Maiden, North Carolina. But even more significant developments are also occurring today, with Apple posting a ne…

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Several years ago, Comcast began instituting bandwidth caps of 250GB per month on its residential customers. In 2008, this was plenty for most customers, but with the advent of streaming video services like Netflix, Hulu, WatchESPN and others, some use…

The Basis Point is a popular mortgage and housing blog that tracks consumer critical issues and data. It is edited by Julian Hebron, a retail mortgage lender who runs the San Francisco branches of RPM Mortgage.

The Basis Point is a popular mortgage and housing blog that tracks consumer critical issues and data. It is edited by Julian Hebron, a retail mortgage lender who runs the San Francisco branches of RPM Mortgage.

The Basis Point is a popular mortgage and housing blog that tracks consumer critical issues and data. It is edited by Julian Hebron, a retail mortgage lender who runs the San Francisco branches of RPM Mortgage.

The Basis Point is a popular mortgage and housing blog that tracks consumer critical issues and data. It is edited by Julian Hebron, a retail mortgage lender who runs the San Francisco branches of RPM Mortgage.

The North Carolina Utilities Commission today officially approved (PDF) Apple’s proposal to construct a 20-megawatt solar farm across the street from its data center in Maiden, North Carolina.The Public Staff presented this matter to the Commission at …

In partnership with Sportsdigita, the Buccaneers find a creative way to keep fan engagement high through the offseason with the interactive Facebook game titled 'Save Your Mate'. (PRWeb May 17, 2012) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/Sportsdigita/Buccaneers/prweb9517442.htm

In partnership with Sportsdigita, the Buccaneers find a creative way to keep fan engagement high through the offseason with the interactive Facebook game titled 'Save Your Mate'. (PRWeb May 17, 2012) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/Sportsdigita/Buccaneers/prweb9517442.htm

Exploring an observation initially made by iOS hacker @planetbeing, Shoutpedia notes that Apple has mysteriously begun censoring the word “jailbreak” in the U.S. iTunes Store. While not all mentions of the word are affected, the vast majority of them …

Earlier this month, we noted that Apple had filed a claim with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) seeking to gain ownership of the iPhone5.com domain, which had hosted a small independent discussion forum for the past year and a half.
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Time Warner Cable and Viacom have settled their legal entanglements regarding Time Warner’s streaming of Viacom video content on its iPad app, according to the New York Times.

The breakthrough comes as a result of a settlement between Time Warner Cabl…

Security firm Symantec previously estimated that the authors of the Flashback malware that affected hundreds of thousands of Macs at its peak could have been generating up to $10,000 per day by hijacking users’ ad clicks. Further analysis from the …

I have been asked several times over the last few weeks whether Facebook shares would be an interesting opportunity and how to get in on the IPO.Naturally, my response i

Apple today pushed out another update to its OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion developer preview program, moving to build 12A206j. The update comes on top of build 12A193i, which was released on May 1.

Apple notes that “MacBookPro3,1″, which corresponds to…

With Apple’s MacBook Pro line now widely rumored to be gaining ultra high-resolution “Retina” or “HiDPI” displays at next month’s Worldwide Developers Conference, CNET reports that such panels are already available in the supply chain and that they car…

U.S. cellular carrier Verizon is planning to move its customers who still have unlimited data plans for their smartphones to its new family data-share plans as customers switch to LTE data plans.

The iPhone was initially offered with unlimited data…

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Digitimes’ poor track record has been thrust into the spotlight in recent days, but that hasn’t stopped one of the Taiwanese news site’s reports from having a major effect on stock prices for Samsung and Hynix. The report from earlier this week claims…

Last December, Apple won a U.S. International Trade Commission case against HTC, with the agency ruling that several of HTC’s handsets infringed upon a pair of Apple-held patents. The agency’s ruling included a ban on the import of infringing devices …

Reuters reports that China Mobile Chairman Xi Guohua has once again publicly stated that the world’s largest mobile phone carrier is engaged in talks with Apple about offering the iPhone to its customers.”We’ve been actively talking to Apple on how we …

The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple has placed orders for screens measuring “at least 4 inches diagonally” for the next-generation iPhone, marking a significant increase in size over the displays used in every iPhone model released to date.Apple…

Sony Pictures today announced that Aaron Sorkin will indeed serve as the screenwriter for the studio’s upcoming film adaptation of Walter Isaacson’s authorized biography of Steve Jobs. Sorkin, who is famous for his work on The West Wing, The Social Ne…

Startups usually succeed because of a single major product or business innovation. Google is unusual in that they succeeded because of two major innovations: their core search product, and their keyword advertising business model.

Tim Cook met with Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) today. It is unknown what the topic of discussion was, but it’s possible that Cook was lobbying Boehner to pass a tax holiday that would allow Apple and other companies with large overseas ta…

Apple has filed a motion to dismiss in a case filed by customers over alleged misleading advertising depicting the Siri technology in the iPhone 4S. The lawsuit, filed in March, alleges that Apple’s advertising of Siri doesn’t reflect real-world usage….

With long-running rumors of ultra high-resolution “Retina” displays for Apple’s next-generation MacBook Pro receiving a significant boost with reports from several sources surfacing yesterday and similar upgrades now being rumored for the iMac, fans of…

The American Customer Satisfaction Index (ASCI) today released its latest rankings of customer satisfaction in the United States for mobile phones and a number of products and services, with the new mobile phone rankings being expanded to include Apple…

Bloomberg briefly reports that Apple and Disney are in talks to bring sports network ESPN’s WatchESPN application [App Store] to the Apple TV set-top box.ESPN subscribers with AppleTV would gain access to the network’s Internet service on their TV se…

Business Insider reports on a new research note from Macquarie analyst Ben Schacter, who claims that Google is working to bring a version of its Chrome browser to iOS devices. According to the report, Apple “may already be reviewing” the app, which co…

More than four years after Psystar challenged Apple by first selling $399 unauthorized Mac clones and later shifting tactics to offer software supporting installation of Mac OS X Snow Leopard on PCs, the dispute between the two companies has finall…

Avis have created an infographic showing some interesting facts about international car hire and travel. It includes information about the most popular destinations for car hire and the most checked into places on facebook.London (PRWEB UK) 15 May 2012 Spain is the most popular destination for people hiring cars abroad, according to a new international car hire infographic, accounting for over …

As part of ABC News’ roundup of the latest MacBook Pro rumors, Joanna Stern claims that not only the MacBook Pro family but also the iMac line is set to gain ultra high-resolution “Retina” displays.The laptop will see the introduction of the “Mac Ret…

As long ago as last November, SemiAccurate claimed that Apple would be switching back to NVIDIA from AMD for the graphics chips in the next-generation MacBook Pro. With MacBook Pro rumors flooding out today, that claim is gathering renewed momentum fr…

Bloomberg confirms a report from earlier today that Apple is preparing to release thinner MacBook Pro models with Retina displays.

The models are to be released at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference on June 11 and will also include flash memory…

Seventeen more states have joined the antitrust lawsuit against Apple and several book publishing houses over the pricing of ebooks. Perhaps more interesting are certain details released in the latest filing that were previously redacted, including one…

Earlier this month, iLounge reported that Apple is indeed looking to move to a 4-inch display in the next-generation iPhone by increasing the height of the screen while keeping the width consistent. With the report including a number of other specific…

While Apple moved fairly quickly to release software tools for OS X Lion and Snow Leopard to remove the Flashback malware from infected systems and patch the Java vulnerability it exploited, users of earlier operating system versions have remained vuln…

AirPlay is a technology that seamlessly moves audio and video from device to device in the Apple ecosystem. It’s built into the iPhone, iPad, and — most importantly — the Apple TV set-top box. Among other things, AirPlay can be used to send video fro…

There's a lot of nothing going on in the tech industry because companies are no longer motivated by technology, but by crazy, super-fast success. We see this nothingness in the social media bubble, which feels very close to bursting these days with Facebook about to have its big-bonanza IPO after buying up Instagram for way too much money. It's just a lot of me-tooism, as The Atlantic's Alexis …

The Wall Street Journal briefly reports that Apple is planning to unveil an upgrade to iCloud at next month’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), with one of the main new features being a photo-sharing functionality.The new features, expected to be…

As highlighted by TidBITS (via Macworld), Apple has informed the last holdout users still on the company’s MobileMe service that they will be able to continue using their Me.com even after MobileMe’s June 30 discontinuation, even if they do not fully c…

NEW YORK, NY– – The Fashion Institute of Technology's Cosmetics and Fragrance Marketing and Management Program's Master of Professional Studies candidates will have their Capstone projects sponsored this …

Computing.co.uk reports on comments from the Chief Technology Officer of Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab, who claims that his firm has been invited by Apple to probe security issues on OS X and to assess the platform’s vulnerabilities.Speaking excl…

Sparrow today announced that its iPhone mail app [App Store] has been updated to version 1.2, bringing several new features including swipe navigation between messages and new support for composing in landscape orientation.New features:

- Navigate b…

Following the appearance of a benchmark potentially signaling a near-term launch for Apple’s much-rumored thinner MacBook Pro, 9to5Mac reports that it has received specific information on the new 15-inch MacBook Pro’s design from a source who has handl…

As noted in our forums, two new benchmark results appearing in Geekbench’s database within the past few days are sparking discussion about imminent upgrades to Apple’s MacBook Pro and iMac lines.

The first item of interest is a MacBookPro9,1 entry, …

Jennifer Hudson was spotted at an Illinois theme park a day after jurors delivered a guilty verdict against the man charged with killing her mother, brother and nephew.

The U.S. Postal Service will issue a commemorative pictorial postmark celebrating Maine's 50th annual Windjammer Days.

Part leaks from the next-generation iPhone are beginning to ramp up, with component vendor SW-BOX.com having recently added a new headphone jack/earpiece/Wi-Fi cable part claimed to be from the device (via Cydia Blog). The new part joins a claimed mic…

The casting of Ashton Kutcher in the role of Steve Jobs in an upcoming independent film focusing on the Apple co-founder’s life has certainly generated a significant amount of attention for the project, despite the fact that the film is a completely se…

Apple is in talks to acquire German luxury television manufacturer Loewe, according to an unconfirmed report from AppleInsider. The site claims Apple has offered €87.3 million for the company, a 48% premium from Loewe’s Friday close on the Frankfurt …

We all have webapps and services that we love, but that doesn’t make them perfect. If you want to do more with Gmail, remove annoying parts of Facebook, connect two webapps you love, automate tedious actions and more, you can do all this with a few clever scripts, extensions and services. Here are our 10 favourites.10. Fix Your Biggest YouTube Annoyances YouTube is a great place to find l …

The social network’s IPO, expected to debut May 18, isn’t a foregone conclusion, according to a report. Also, Morningstar says investors may be underestimating the company’s challenges.

Apple is planning on implementing a new, smaller dock connector, according to a report by iMore. The site has been reliable in the past and correctly predicted the release of an LTE equipped iPad. iMore also reported that Apple is still in the prototyp…

Among Apple’s early competitors in the tablet market, HP gained a significant amount of attention as it initially sought to build its niche around webOS, which it acquired along with Palm in early 2010. HP introduced its webOS-based TouchPad in early …

Spotify has updated its Mac app to version 0.8.3, bringing Pandora-like playlist-based radio stations to the music service. Users can start a new radio channel from any playlist or album in order to listen to similar songs.

Among other new features, …

Finnish game studio Rovio has begun to drop hints about its next game — and its first outside the Angry Birdiverse. Amazing Alex will be based on the game Casey’s Contraptions, which Rovio recently acquired.

Rovio CEO Mikael Hed told a Finnish TV c…

Last week, we noted that several iOS developers were seeing their apps being rejected from the App Store for their inclusion of Dropbox integration that could allow users to sign up for Dropbox accounts and purchase extra Dropbox space. Dropbox moved …

With over 168 million Americans now considered gamers and a growing faction of the global community playing casual games online through networks like Facebook or on mobile devices, PCs, and consoles, Walt Disney Imagineers are expanding the offerings at Walt Disney World Resort to appeal to this audience.

As noted by Steven Stroughton-Smith (via 9to5Mac), Apple appears to be testing a revised iCloud.com portal at beta.icloud.com that shows two additional icons for Notes and Reminders in the background of the login screen. The standard iCloud.com portal…

In line with its Creative Suite 6 announcement from earlier this week, Adobe today launched its Creative Cloud subscription service. As part of the Creative Cloud debut, Adobe has also publicly debuted Muse, a subscription-based website creation packa…

James Farmer at WPMU.org wrote a very interesting Penguin-related article, which doesn’t make the update look to great, despite its apparently honorable intentions. The update hit WPMU.org, sending it from 8,580 visits from Google on one day pre-Penguin to 1,527 …

9to5Mac reports that Apple will moving away from Google Maps services in iOS 6, making the transition to an in-house mapping service that included 3D views. According to the report, Apple’s prior acquisitions of mapping companies Placebase and Poly9 a…

China Daily briefly notes (via How To Arena) that Foxconn chairman Terry Gou directly addressed the topic of Apple’s rumored television set yesterday at a news conference in Shanghai marking the start of construction on a new company headquarters facil…

Apple has released a new update for the generation 2 and 3 Apple TV models. The update allows movies and TV show previews from the iTunes Store to be viewed in HD and fixes a few other minor issues.
Apple TV Software Update 5.0.1

iTunes previews – Pr…

Take care to look through past the hype. Some serious red flags merit attention and scrutiny.

With the launch of the new iPad, equipped with 4G LTE cellular data, it seems likely that the next iPhone will be similarly supplied. Until then, a new startup called FreedomPop is rolling out a new iPhone case/sled that includes a Wi-Fi hotspot powere…

Apple is continuing the process of preparing OS X Lion for Macs offering ultra high-resolution “HiDPI” screens, upgrading several application icons to higher resolutions in yesterday’s public release of OS X 10.7.4.

AppleInsider pointed to TextEdit …

iMore reports that Apple is “currently targeting” an October launch for a smaller iPad, with the device carrying a display of roughly 7 inches and being priced in the $200-$250 range. According to our source, which has proven reliable in the pa…

CCC Youth Service Celebration Kids from elementary school through high school were honored by Mayor Craig Johnson and Elk Grove Village trustees, and local school officials at the Community Character Coalition of Elk Grove Youth Service Celebration Tuesday at village hall.

The Etch A Sketch has been a cultural icon for more than 50 years. These days, the iPad has replaced the red tablet as the cultural icon, but a new Kickstarter project aims to combine the two.

The Etcher combines a red iPad case complete with sket…

Last week, Network World shared a long-lost internal Apple video from 1984 featuring a brief cameo by Steve Jobs in the role of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Given the early 1980s production value and Apple’s alternate universe take on its battle w…

Following a claim earlier this week that Apple had made its first settlement offer to Proview in the ongoing dispute over the “iPad” trademark in China, The Next Web now points to a report from Sina.com [Google translation] claiming that Apple’s offer …

Silicon Valley likes to think it has a nice meritocracy going on, where smarts and ingenuity trump money and social class, but the circle of tech companies, described in today's New York Times proves, yet again, that's not exactly how it works. 

Reuters reports on comments from Foxconn chief Terry Gou, who claims that Apple and Foxconn will be splitting the initial costs to improve working conditions at Foxconn’s facilities in China.”We’ve discovered that this (improving factory conditions) is…

Two months after the public release of Photoshop Lightroom 4, Adobe has now brought the software to the Mac App Store [Direct Link]. The release marks the most substantial Mac App Store release yet for Adobe, joining Photoshop Elements 10 Editor and P…

Potential investors in Facebook should pay attention to a few red flags before deciding whether the social network merits its anticipated hefty valuation, writes Therese Poletti.

Potential investors in Facebook should pay attention to a few red flags before deciding whether the social network merits its anticipated hefty valuation, writes Therese Poletti.

DEAR Facebook friends, it's been fun these past several years on this social networking site. Who could forget those early, breezy days when all the site allowed us to do was poke each other, and write inane updates about our lives?

Apple today released OS X 10.7.4, the fourth maintenance update to OS X Lion. The update is currently available via Software Update and should appear on Apple’s download pages soon.The 10.7.4 update is recommended for all OS X Lion users and includes…

Case-Mate has released a new iPhone case made from 100% recycled post-consumer PET bottles — the plastic in soda and water bottles. Case-Mate says one recycled water bottle equals one iPhone case.

“As part of our greater effort to encourage more …

Apple customers who purchased an iPod between September 12, 2006 and March 31, 2009 are being informed via email that they are being included in a class-action lawsuit filed against Apple in 2004. The lawsuit was granted class-action status by the cour…

Ritz Crackerfuls was introduced in 2009, with same target audience as Ritz crackers: women ages 35 to 54. But in a new humorous campaign, the product will be pitched at busy adults, ages 25 to 54.

With the introduction of its new ENVY Spectre XT Ultrabook today, HP is finding itself defending the lightweight notebook’s design as observers have raised comparisons to Apple’s MacBook Air. The issue was addressed directly in a Q&A session with HP d…

Digitimes has had a hit-or-miss track record when it comes to Apple rumors, but with the site having offered some accurate information in the past, its claims continue to be closely watched. In its latest report, the site lays out a timeline for Apple…

Apple has been pushing its own nano-SIM design as a replacement for the current micro-SIM for a year. As of a couple months ago, however, Apple was fighting with rival phone makers who were pushing their own SIM designs. Apple has even offered a royalt…

Roughly two weeks after the debut of a new Apple retail store in Madrid, Apple is preparing to open another store in Spain. As noted by ifoAppleStore, Apple has officially announced that the grand opening of its Nueva Condomina store in Murcia will ta…

Among several lawsuits filed by Chinese company Proview alleging that it legally owns the “iPad” trademark in China despite a deal December 2009 between Proview’s Taiwanese arm and a dummy corporation set up by Apple for the purposes of acquiring the t…

Disney CEO Bob Iger has confirmed the obvious today. After smashing through the record books with its $207 million domestic opening weekend and ruling the world with over $702 million grossed to date, Walt Disney Studios is working on The Avengers 2.

Fortune yesterday released its 2012 “Fortune 500″ list, ranking America’s largest companies by revenue. As a result of its continued strong growth, Apple rose 18 spots from last year’s rankings to land at #17 in the new rankings, which are based on c…

We really wouldn't have been all that surprised if somebody did this for a Japanese politician — those guys have been sucking up to video game and anime fans for years — but Ron Paul?

Apple and Samsung have been suing each other for years, and Apple wants things to move along a little faster in the main U.S. case in California — Apple wants to start the jury trial on July 30th as scheduled. Samsung believes the case is too large to…

Facebook games star Zynga is launching an old-school, arcade-style title that will be free at its new website or at the world's biggest social network.

As revealed by Apple’s iPad selection page for Latin America, the new iPad will be launching in 13 new countries in that region this Friday, May 11. The most significant new addition is Brazil, where Apple’s manufacturing partner Foxconn has been ramp…

The temptations to pound on the foreign policy theme should not obscure the serious challenges the president faces in taking this path, writes Julian Zelizer.

NEW YORK (TheStreet) — I recently wrote about why there isn't a bubble in social networking and new media stocks. In this article, I follow up with more color on the broad space, focusing on two companies and one major catalyst that will send both higher over the long-term. Going Mobile It's clear that when Steve jobs introduced the the first iPod, he set up Apple to dominate technology …

Apple’s new senior vice president of Retail, John Browett, has introduced himself to Apple Retail employees in an email obtained by IFO Apple Store.Team,

At last I’ve officially started at Apple, and it’s great to be here. I’ve had the chance to mee…

Apple appears to be testing a notification service on the iCloud website. The test message appears at the top of the browser window upon logging into iCloud.com.

Apple introduced a new notification system in iOS 5 and has announced that a similar …

WASHINGTON, May 8, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) kicks off the 39th annual Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Week starting May 20th with events in communities across the nation, as well as several national events organized around the theme “EMS: More Than a Job, A Calling.” EMS for Children (EMSC) Day, focusing on EMS response to children …

Last month saw six small U.S. carriers begin offering the iPhone for the first time, and it appears that another round of expansion to similar carriers is coming on May 18. Three new iPhone carriers, all operating CDMA networks, have rolled out their …

“Reggie Makes Music” is an online companion series to IFC's upcoming comedy series “Comedy Bang! Bang!”

Our sister site TouchArcade.com has launched an official iOS app this morning.

TouchArcade is a site focused on game news and reviews for Apple’s iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad platforms. The new iOS app features website content, easy game discovery…

Last year, both AT&T and Verizon acknowledged that they were working on offering shared data plans, which would allow multiple devices owned by a single user or members of a family to draw data from a single monthly allotment. But while there has been…

T-Mobile USA yesterday announced its plans to begin work with Ericsson and Nokia Siemens Networks to roll out LTE service in 2013, taking advantage of spectrum it obtained from AT&T last week following the failed merger of the two carriers. But perhap…

News  that the use of  Facebook’s  reader apps was in a steady freefall got me thinking about  AOL . Or, more specifically, America Online, as the company was known back in the dot-com bubble, before it took on the AOL moniker as part of one of many image overhauls. There was a time when AOL had more than 30 million users for its Internet services. That seems like a small number by today’s nine …

Weekend chatters can now use an efficient chat box that can bring hours of relaxation. This application is known as Chatwing. Chatwing is 100% free and even allows users to log in with their Facebook accounts.Nashville, TN (PRWEB) May 08, 2012 Chatwing’s latest chat box is now ready to help people get the most of their weekend Internet surfing fun by providing an efficient stream of …

The temptations to pound on the foreign policy theme should not obscure the serious challenges the president faces in taking this path, writes Julian Zelizer.

Wordpress blog marketers can now take advantage of a website chat tool that is efficient in handling communication. The Chatwing application also uses Facebook integration. It also allows users to modify the chat box’s appearance.San Diego, CA (PRWEB) May 08, 2012 Blog marketing is one of the most important facets in Wordpress, as proven by the blogs created for this sole purpose alone. Chatwing …

Photo sharing service TwitPic has released its first iPhone app, saying in an interview that the company “wanted to provide a better experience for our users.”

The app, which looks something like Instagram, includes a photo editor with effects, crop…

Ubisoft’s next installment in the “Assassin’s Creed” franchise won’t be released until Oct. 30th, but the company is beginning to entice fans with some hidden gameplay footage. A one-minute trailer for “Assassin’s Creed 3” was released on May 7th, and if enough gamers “Like” a post on the game’s official Facebook page, the entire trailer will be unveiled.

The number of industries that Apple is disrupting with the iPhone and iPad is growing by the day. Amtrak, the government-owned American passenger railroad company, has adopted the iPhone as a ticket scanner for its 1,700 conductors, reports the New Yor…

Hard French , El Rio's award-winning afternoon queer dance party in the Mission District, turned soft over the weekend after several of its Facebook followers (i.e., commenters) took offense to their naming their Cinco de Mayo's party ” Pico de Gallo .” Some daytime disco fans thought the salsa-themed title was a touch racist. For whatever reasons. Furthermore, club promoters (quite cleverly …

Apple today reduced prices on all refurbished models of the original iPad and iPad 2 in its online store, knocking between $20 and $50 off of each model. The price drops include:

iPad 2

- 16 GB Wi-Fi: $319, down $30 from $3…

Apple today released iOS 5.1.1, offering bug fixes and other improvements for recent models of the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.This update contains improvements and bug fixes, including:

- Improves reliability of using HDR option for photos taken…

Evernote, the notetaking and archiving service, has acquired notebook app Penultimate for an undisclosed sum, reports The Next Web. Evernote has been on something of a buying spree — in August of last year, Evernote bought image editing and sharing ap…

Cult of Mac reports that it has received information from a “well-placed” source who claims to have seen a prototype of the rumored Apple television set. According to the source, the device resembles Apple’s current Thunderbolt display but is “much la…

ZDNet reports on the discovery of a significant breach of password security for certain users of Apple’s FileVault encryption system under OS X Lion. Affected systems currently store the login information for every recent user of the machine in plain …

Eric Jackson, last week, drew attention to a truism of modern business – most companies still don't get mobile or how it affects the way we work.  And he stirred the pot with the claim that Google and Facebook will disappear in five years time, a theme he returns to today, because they lack new generation know-how.  So, link bait aside, how do we sort out truth from imagination in this debate …

Angry Birds may just be a 99 cent app, but it's spawned a sequel, inspired a theme park franchise, and is now considering an IPO. Reuters' Tarmo Virki reports that Rovio Entertainment, the maker of the wildly popular game Angry Birds series, is eying a $9 billion IPO bolstered, in part, by the success of Angry Birds Space, which has been downloaded more than 50 million times since its debut in …

Two weeks ago, Adobe officially unveiled its new Creative Suite 6 (CS6) bundles of design applications, as well as its new Creative Cloud subscription service offering access to the software and other cloud services for integrating access across deskto…

Xinhua reports on comments from a Proview lawyer claiming that Apple has for the first time put forth a settlement offer in the dispute over the “iPad” trademark in China. The offer came as part of settlement talks suggested by the court overseeing th…

Digitimes reports that Apple is planning to launch a cheaper MacBook Air in the third quarter of this year, dropping the entry-level price to $799 from the current $999. The move is reportedly being made to take on Intel’s “Ultrabook” initiati…

If chilly temperatures, grey skies and drizzle and in some cases even snow wasn’t already enough to make for a miserable bank holiday weekend, pity those who braved the weather to go to the Legoland theme park in Windsor, Berkshire, to find it closed due to a mystery power cut.

If chilly temperatures, grey skies and drizzle and in some cases even snow wasn’t already enough to make for a miserable bank holiday weekend, pity those who braved the weather to go to the Legoland theme park in Windsor, Berkshire, to find it closed due to a mystery power cut.

NEOGA — The Regional Office of Education held an Educational Office Personnel dinner honoring administrative professionals on April 24 at the Neoga Middle School. The theme for the evening was “One Ca

The responses to this week's Social Circle are some of the very best. Contributors provided thoughtful and detailed posts from every side of town and described how their neighborhoods have changed, or didn't change, over time.

While there has been much debate about whether Apple will refer to the next-generation iPhone as “iPhone 5″, “iPhone 6″, simply “iPhone”, or something else entirely, Fusible notes that Apple has filed a claim with the World Intellectual Property Organi…

Is there anyone, particularly at a large fund, who hasn’t made up their mind about whether to buy this stock?

Facebook has updated its standalone mobile messaging app, as it tries to make messaging more modern. The Facebook Messenger app has gained read receipts, which tell senders when their messages have been read, as well as providing the senders location i…

Speaking at a conference this week, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson noted that he only had one regret about AT&T being the first cellular carrier to support the iPhone. As reported by the New York Times:

“My only regret was how we introduced pricing in …

Bloomberg briefly reports that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is preparing to fine Google over its efforts to circumvent privacy restrictions in Safari for iOS to track users through ads on numerous sites across the web. According to a source…

Third-party warranty provider SquareTrade has announced that it is expanding its warranty coverage to include jailbroken iPhones, a procedure that voids the standard Apple warranty.

The policy change affects new and existing coverage holders, accord…

Late yesterday, Cult of Mac reported that select Walmart locations had significantly dropped their prices on the AT&T iPhone 4S and iPhone 4, slashing the 16 GB AT&T iPhone 4S to just $114 and the AT&T 8GB iPhone 4 to $34 on contract. Walmart’…

iDownloadBlog points to a new YouTube concept video showing one user’s idea of how Apple could vastly improve the text editing functionality on the iPad and other iOS devices.

While the current method of text selection involves tapping and draggin…

Last November, it was reported that an iPhone 4 had experienced self-combustion onboard an aircraft that had just landed in Sydney, Australia. The incident gained a fair amount of attention for the apparently dangerous situation it caused and existing…