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NEWS ABOUT: Apple

Apple stories: 400 news summaries

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 Apple Pulls Sex Offender App 

App Store withdraws paid version of 'Offender Locator'

Aug 7, 09 2:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Apple's App Store will no longer sell “Offender Locator,” an iPhone add-on for tracking sex offenders, CNET reports. The company offered no explanation, and it pulled only the paid version of the hugely popular application—leaving “Offender Locator Lite” available. It's possible that the software ran afoul... More »

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Apple • sex offenders • criminal • iPhone applications • software applications • App Store • Offender Locator

(Newser) - Apple tried to silence an angry British father and daughter with a gag order after the girl's iPod Touch exploded and "went 10 feet in the air," said the dad. The company offered a full refund of $275 for the music player, but only if the two agreed... More »

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United Kingdom • Apple • iPod • iPod Nano • iPod Touch • portable media players • gag order • confidentiality

ANALYSIS

Apple-Google Party Ended Before FCC Waltzed In

Philosophical standoff led to Schmidt's ouster

Aug 3, 09 2:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s departure from the Apple board can be most directly linked to the rejection of the Voice app from the App Store, which has sparked a probe by the Federal Communications Commission, Erick Schonfeld writes for TechCrunch: “Google brought down the disapproving scrutiny of the... More »

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Google • Steve Jobs • FCC • Apple • Eric Schmidt • iPhone applications • Federal Communications Commission • App Store • Google Voice

Google CEO Leaves Apple Board

Once-friendly companies on the
brink of war

Aug 3, 09 10:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - Google CEO Eric Schmidt has left Apple’s board of directors because the once-friendly companies are on a collision course, Apple announced today. “As Google enters more of Apple’s core business, with Android and now Chrome OS, Eric’s effectiveness as an Apple Board member will be significantly... More »

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Google • Microsoft • Apple • rivalry • feud • Eric Schmidt • Google Android • Google Chrome OS

(Newser) - Apple today issued an update for its iPhone operating system, patching a flaw in its text-messaging operation that security experts say could have allowed serious hackers to “take over every iPhone in the world,” AllThingsD reports. “Contrary to what’s been reported,” a company spokesman said,... More »

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iPhone • Apple • hackers • security technology • software patch

(Newser) - Apple and AT&T rejected the Google Voice app for the iPhone, driving TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington to drop the mobile device entirely. Why are Apple and its carrier blocking an innovative program that has amazing call-forwarding features and transcribes voicemail into text? “Because they absolutely don’t want... More »

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technology • Internet • iPhone • Apple • smartphones • Michael Arrington • Google Android • wireless industry • AT&T • Google Voice

opinion

 Why the Kindle Stinks 


Jul 31, 09 10:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Nicholson Baker wanted to like the Kindle, honest. But when he unwrapped it and began to see what all the fuss was about, he "tussled with a sense of anti-climax," the prolific author writes in the New Yorker. Things never improved. He slams the e-reader for having a... More »

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Apple • iPod Touch • book • electronic books • Kindle • Amazon • ebooks • iPods • e-readers • Kindle DX • Nicholson Baker

(Newser) - Even a gadget as good as the iPhone isn't without its annoyances, although luckily bigger geeks than you have cooked up workarounds for most of them, Jared Newman writes in PC World. Some major gripes:
  • AT&T: The carrier's stranglehold in the US is becoming even more irksome as
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iPhone • Apple • smartphones • consumer electronics • iPhone applications • PDAs • iPhone 3G

(Newser) - Apple has rejected Google’s application to distribute its Voice application through the App Store, and that shows that Apple is dead-set against innovation, Adam Pash writes on Lifehacker. The official line is that Google Voice “duplicates features already on the iPhone—namely the Phone and Messages app,”... More »

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wireless • VoIP • iPhone • Apple • innovation • smartphones • AT&T • iPhone applications • App Store • Google Voice

(Newser) - Apple has joined forces with four major record labels on a mission to get music buyers to start buying albums again instead of just single tracks, the Financial Times reports. The project—codenamed "Cocktail"—will bundle album downloads with lyrics sheets, sleeve notes, photos, and assorted interactive features... More »

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music industry • iTunes • Apple • Universal Music Group • EMI • Warner Music • sony • album • record label • album sales

(Newser) - Microsoft has changed at least one of its highly successful "Laptop Hunter" ads after Apple called to complain about it, Advertising Age reports. In the original, a law student shopping for a laptop observes: "This Mac is $2,000, and that's before adding anything." Her mother adds,... More »

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Microsoft • advertising • Apple • laptop • consumer electronics • advertising campaign

 iPhone App Would Let 
 Users Text God 

Calif. teen, software developer team up for 'A Note to God'

Jul 23, 09 2:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - The iPhone already handles many aspects of contemporary life—texts, emails, web surfing, phone calls—so why not prayer? That’s the idea behind “A Note to God,” an iPhone app being developed based on a write-in suggestion from a California teen, the Sacramento Bee reports. Allen Wright’... More »

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iPhone • religion • Apple • prayer • iPhone applications • Twitter • App Store • Allen Wright

(Newser) - A Chinese worker accused of stealing an iPhone 4G prototype jumped to his death from the 12th floor of his apartment building in the southern city of Shenzhen, the BBC reports. The man, 25, responsible for shipping 16 iPhone prototypes to Apple, had reported one missing. His friends say he... More »

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China • technology • suicide • iPhone • Apple • Shenzhen • iPhone 4G

Apple Earnings Up 15% on iPhone, Mac Success

Firm sold 5.2 million iPhones last quarter

Jul 21, 09 5:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - Apple reported a strong quarterly profit, beating analysts’ expectations by selling 5.2 million iPhones and 2.6 million Mac computers, MarketWatch reports. The firm reported earning $1.23 billion on revenue of $8.34 billion in the quarter ending June 26. Sales of iPhones were the highlight, as the... More »

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iPhone • Apple • earnings reports • corporate earnings • quarterly reports • Mac • quarterly profits • iPhone 3GS

 Tech Falls, But Dow Up 68 

Market extends winning streak into 7th day

Jul 21, 09 3:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - Stocks closed with modest gains today as the tech and financial sectors, drivers of the recent rally, lost some steam, the Wall Street Journal reports. Nonetheless, the Dow was boosted by a 7.7% rise by Caterpillar, which reported a smaller-than-expected profit decline and raised its full-year earnings forecast. Apple... More »

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Yahoo • Dow Jones • Apple • Nasdaq • Caterpillar • S&P 500

New iPhone App
Locates Pot Spots


Jul 20, 09 8:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Instead of hotspots, IPhone users can now find pot spots, thanks to a new app that locates legal medical marijuana outlets, reports Mashable. Apple has approved the $2.99 iPhone app, Canabis, which seeks out legal pot clinics, collectives, advocacy organizations, and prescribing docs throughout the US. The smokin' application... More »

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iPhone • medical marijuana • physician • Apple • marijuana • doctor • application • App Store

 Microsoft Ad 
 Campaign Gets 
 Under Apple's Skin 

Laptop-browsing spot may be boosting Microsoft's 'value perception'

Jul 16, 09 2:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - Apple demanded Microsoft ditch TV ads featuring shoppers mulling the relative value of PCs and Macs, CNET reports. In the ads, which Microsoft’s chief operating officer calls “completely unscripted,” shoppers get to keep money they save by choosing a PC over a Mac. “We got a... More »

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retail • Microsoft • shopping • Apple • commercials • laptop • ad campaign • MacBook • notebooks • comparison shopping • Kevin Turner

TECH REVIEW

 Firefox Loses 
 Some of Its 
 Edge: Mossberg 

It's not the fastest browser anymore

Jul 16, 09 9:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Mozilla's Firefox is still good, but it doesn't stand out as much as it used to, Walter S. Mossberg writes in the Wall Street Journal. The latest edition of the web browser, version 3.5, works well on both PCs and Macs, but "Firefox has lost its traditionally biggest... More »

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Internet • Microsoft • Apple • web browser • Internet Explorer • Safari • Firefox • Mozilla

Apple Sells 1.5B iPhone Apps in First Year

App Store is the leading retailer of mobile programs

Jul 14, 09 4:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - Apple’s App Store has had a pretty good year—since its inception, the store has sold 1.5 billion applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch, making it the leading retailer of mobile applications, CNet reports. Not only has the App Store done well, its success seems to be... More »

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Steve Jobs • iPhone • Apple • digital downloads • iPod Touch • iPhone applications • App Store • Jay-ZTV

GLOSSIES

How the Kindle Could Kill Book Publishing

...if an Apple e-reader doesn't kill the
Kindle first

Jul 9, 09 7:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - With the Kindle, Amazon's Jeff Bezos may be poised “ to do to book publishers what Steve Jobs did to the music industry,” writes Adam Penenberg in Fast Company: rapidly create a market from nothing and use it to rule over publishers with an iron fist, perhaps even “... More »

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Apple • publisher • book • Kindle • Amazon • ebooks • publishing industry

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