Beepocalypse: How Apple could improve multi-device reminders
May 17, 2012 – 8:00 pm | No Comment

Today, beloved leader Victor pointed me to this write-up over at Tidbits . Although Joe Kissel’s experience with quite so many devices (nine, I believe) falls a bit into the extremes of iOS/OS X use, the problem of dealing with distributed alarms …

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Apple VP of iOS Scott Forstall cashes in $38.7 million of Apple shares
May 2, 2012 – 5:30 pm | No Comment
Apple VP of iOS Scott Forstall cashes in $38.7 million of Apple shares

Tim Cook’s salary came up in the news last month when he was awarded a million shares of Apple stock, and cashed out a few, in addition to his many other forms of compensation. And here’s another Apple manager who’s taking advantage of Apple’s soaring …

Apple, Dropbox, our PC-free future and our sweet solution past
May 2, 2012 – 6:15 am | No Comment
Apple, Dropbox, our PC-free future and our sweet solution past

A few days ago in the Dropbox forums , a developer said Apple had rejected his app due to a little quirk, so to speak, in using Dropbox . Specifically, if a user doesn’t have the Dropbox app installed, a link to a web …

T.G.I. Friday’s to let diners pay with their iPhones
April 27, 2012 – 8:00 pm | No Comment
T.G.I. Friday’s to let diners pay with their iPhones

In here, it’s always Friday, and you can always pay for your food and booze with your iPhone. Casual dining chain T.G.I. Friday’s has announced that iPhone owners can now use a mobile payment option called Tabbedout to pay their bills . The option is part of…

Apple’s plans for Texas construction delayed due to disagreement with county
April 27, 2012 – 4:00 pm | No Comment
Apple’s plans for Texas construction delayed due to disagreement with county

Apple’s plans to bring 3,600 jobs to Austin, Texas are being delayed due to a disagreement between the company and the Travis County Commissioners Court over the terms of an economic incentive …

Kaspersky Lab: Apple is ’10 years behind Microsoft’ on security
April 26, 2012 – 5:00 pm | No Comment
Kaspersky Lab: Apple is ’10 years behind Microsoft’ on security

Kaspersky founder and CEO Eugene Kaspersky told Computer Business Review that malware targeting the Mac is beginning to grow and Apple needs to take notice. The CEO said Apple is “ten years behind …

VoodooPad 5: wiki magic
April 26, 2012 – 3:00 pm | No Comment
VoodooPad 5: wiki magic

For those of us who nerd out about things like desktop wikis, VoodooPad 5 (from the creator of Acorn ) is an exciting release. It brings new capabilities so powerful that they should come with a “for good, not …

Sprint sold 1.5 million iPhones to new customers in Q1
April 25, 2012 – 7:30 pm | No Comment
Sprint sold 1.5 million iPhones to new customers in Q1

Sprint announced its quarterly earnings on Wednesday and the results were disappointing as expected. The carrier posted a net loss of US$863M and cash reserves are now at a razor thin $7.6 billion. In the midst of this …

Apple sold 645,000 devices per day in the 2nd quarter
April 25, 2012 – 6:00 pm | No Comment
Apple sold 645,000 devices per day in the 2nd quarter

Blogger Adrian Kingsley-Hughes over at ZDNet did the math and came up with some staggering statistics about Apple’s hardware sales during the last quarter. As we heard during the Q2 2012 earnings call yesterday, Apple sold 35.1 million…

Apple to issue 150 student scholarships to attend WWDC 2012
April 25, 2012 – 2:33 pm | No Comment
Apple to issue 150 student scholarships to attend WWDC 2012

Apple is looking to reward outstanding student developers with a trip to WWDC 2012 . Full- or part-time students over the age of 13 may apply. Apple’s decision will be based on the following: Technical ability Creativity of ideas expressed in products…

HackStore collects non-Mac App Store apps together
April 25, 2012 – 2:00 pm | No Comment
HackStore collects non-Mac App Store apps together

The Cydia store serves up apps to those with jailbroken iOS devices, but what about Mac users who don’t want to use Apple’s Mac App Store? Now, they have HackStore , a free app put together by Andrey Fedotov. HackStore is a collection of…