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Hacker Defaces Korean Apple Website
Silicon.com is reporting that a hacker of Turkish descent gained access and modified Apple's Korean online Store last week. The hacker who identifies itself as "Dinam" defaced a portion of the site which runs a Mac OS X server with Apache Webserver software, Apple reportedly…
The Day the Whining Ends - May 20th 2006
MacBook Pro owners around the world are preparing to simultaneously call Apple support as a form of protest. Scheduled for May 20th 2006, the protest calls for all MacBook Pro owners to call into Apple's support centre and report their problems. Personally I can't see…
BBC Releases Video Search Widget
The BBC Motion Gallery has released a Dashboard widget to allow users to search the online film archives. The widget from the BBC "Apple has built fantastic tools into Tiger, like Spotlight and Dashboard, to expedite production workflow and we intend to take full advantage…
Apple’s Market Value Tops that of Dell. Again.
Back in January Apple very briefly became more valuable than Dell and the feat was recognised by a message from Steve Jobs being sent round to all staff. Now once again Apple is valued more than Dell with Apple being worth $ 60,777,591,440 compared to…
Get a Mac TV Ads Begin
Apples new TV ad began airing in America last night, a total of 6 ads have been produced consisting of two men standing in front of a white background. The ads are on Apple's website.
Regent Street Store Music Event May 4
Apple Regent Street Store is hosting a special music event on May 4, the BRIT School Concert. Apple states on their website: "The world-famous BRIT School has spawned such luminaries as Katie Melua and Amy Winehouse. Prepare to be wowed as this year's crop of…
Apple Renews Contracts With Record Companies
On Monday Apple revealed it had renewed contracts with the big four, it comes as a win to Apple as the record companies were pushing for a variable pricing scheme but the contracts reportedly still stick to a static pricing scheme. No one from the…
Apple to Double nano Capacities?
Research firm American Technology has maintained its "buy" rating on Apple stock along with its previous $101 price target. The research firm believes that the iPod nano is losing its market grasp and requires a refresh of storage capacities or a drop in prices to…
Apple Interested in Solaris’ ZFS?
According to rumbles on the internet, the ZFS team at Sun has been contacted by Apple's Filesystem Development Manager to make headway with a port of ZFS to Mac OS X. Wikipedia description of ZFS: ZFS is notable for its high capacity, integration of the…
Apple to Assume Spectacular Space for Retail Store in Boston?
ifoAppleStore is reporting that Virgin Records have announced that in June 2007 they will be vacating a huge retail space in Boston so that an unidentified "upscale retailer" can move in. The retail space situated at 360 Newbury Street, is around 40,000 square feet, this…
Single of the Week Turns 2
Apparently Apple likes releasing things this time of the year, we had iTMS turning three on Thursday, Tiger turning one and Single of the Week is turning 2. Single of the Week turns 2, holding image from iTunes Music Store Strangely enough Apple is only…
Happy 1st Birthday Tiger
Today April 29th Mac OS X Tiger celebrates it's first birthday, I'm sure we all remember the day well. World of Apple was in attendance of the World Premier of Tiger at the Grand Opening of the Bullring Apple Store. You can relive the evening…
Aperture Team Change Confirmed
It appears that Aperture lives long and prosper, a blog posting by Blake confirms that a new Aperture team is being formed. In case the article goes down, here's the re-post: One of the reasons I left my previous job was to focus all my…
The Countdown to World of Apple 2.0
It begun with the new header and now with a new section, today World of Apple is happy to present a brand new section to the site, The Blog. In light of recent issues with some posts made to the main site we thought that…
Three Years, Three Cheers
You wouldn't believe it but three years ago on this very day, the iTunes Music Store opened its doors to the US market, making it the first viable solution for online music sales. The store was naturally an immediate success with the Apple followers but…
Keyboard Update 1.0 for Intel Based Macs
Apple today released Keyboard Update 1.0 for the following computers: MacBook Pro iMac (Early 2006) Mac mini (Early 2006) Apple States: The Apple Keyboard Update 1.0 addresses reliability of keyboard and mouse functionality. The installer guides you through the steps to install the Apple Keyboard…
Shareholders Meeting Reveals Apples Future Plans
In todays annual shareholder meeting held at Apples Cupertino Campus many questions were raised with some interesting results. Steve Jobs, Peter Oppenheimer and Phil Schiller attended as part of the executives of Apple, during the session all three remained tight-lipped. When one shareholder asked Jobs…
Apertures Development a Shambles
Think Secret is reporting that Apple has let the majority of its Aperture development team move onto to separate projects. The report claims that the development of said application was a "mess" and the worse they had witnessed from Apple, it is even reported that…
Apple Updates iWorks
Apple today released updates for both Pages and Keynote. Keynote 3.0.1 - 39MB approx Keynote 3.0.1 addresses issues with three-dimensional charts and textures. It also addresses a number of other minor issues. Pages 2.0.1 - 21MB approx Pages 2.0.1 addresses issues with charts and image…
Quanta Withdraws from iPod Deal, Samsung Claims it has the Chips
Back in mid-march World of Apple reported on a story citing that Quanta Computer had won the contract to produce the up-coming iPod Video. It is now being reported that Quanta Computer never acknowledged the order and that the whole thing has been shifted to…