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Apple Wins Injunction Against Psystar
Groklaw is reporting that Apple has won a total and permanent injunction against Psystar, the injunction which can be seen in whole here [PDF] rules the following: Copying, selling, offering to sell, distributing, or creating derivative works of plaintiffs copyrighted Mac OS X software without…
Apple Wins Multitude of Advertising Awards from AdWeek
AdWeekMedia this week announced the winners of its "Best of 2000s" advertising awards. Apple won numerous awards including "Brand of the Decade", "Campaign of the Decade" and "Product of the Decade" and "Out of Home Ad of the Decade". Steve Jobs also won "Marketer of…
Apple Delays iMac Shipments
Apple has acknowledged and apologised for slipping ship times on new 27-iMac orders although did not official identify any issues. A number of 27-inch iMac owners have reported recently that their displays flickered or distorted with reports of the issue growing over the last week…
Apple Countersues Nokia
Apple today added a twist to the legal battle between the company and Nokia. In October Nokia accused Apple of "trying to get a free ride on the back of Nokia's innovation". Nokia stated that Apple infringes on 10 Nokia owned patents in the iPhone…
Unicom Shifts 100,000 iPhones
China Unicom chairman Chang Xiaobing has confirmed that the official iPhone carrier in China has sold 100,000 iPhones in the first 40 days of sales. The comment comes after company Wednesday Marbridge Consulting reported that Unicom had sold only 10,000 units. This figure has now…
Tesco Mobile Announces iPhone Availability and Pricing
Tesco Mobile has confirmed that it will begin selling the iPhone in the UK on December 14. The mobile provider which uses O2's network has announced a starting tariff of just £20. Tesco Mobile will offer a £20 a month contract with a duration of…
Apple Issues AirPort, MacBook Pro, MacBook and SuperDrive Software Updates
AirPort Client Update 2009-00 - 13MB This update is recommended for all Macintosh computers running Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.2 and includes fixes for the following: Inability to turn AirPort on or off in some cases after upgrading from Mac OS X Leopard An…
Apple Unveils iTunes Store Top Sellers for 2009
Apple has today announced the availability of the iTunes Rewind section on the iTunes store . Apple has listed the top selling albums, songs, movies, TV shows, apps, audiobooks and Podcasts from 2009. On the US iTunes store the following were the top sellers of…
Apple Purchases Music Start-Up Lala [U]
Over the weekend it was reported that Apple has agreed to purchase Lala a start-up based in Palo Alto, California. Word of the acquisition came from inside the four year old start up late last week. Lala is a lot like the iTunes store in…
Apple Pushes Back Frankfurt Store Opening
The Apple Store in Frankfurt was due for its grand opening this weeked but ifoAppleStore is reporting via iFun.de that Apple has cancelled the opening and pushed it back to some time in January 2010. Reasons for the delay are unknown but speculation points to…
Apple Adds 3.33GHz Quad-Core Option to Mac Pro and Xserve
Apple has today quietly added the ability to configure Mac Pro and Xserve systems with a 3.33GHz Quad-Core processor for an additional $1200 as well as the ability to configure both the quad-core and 8-core models with 2TB hard drives. The new option of 2TB…
OFT Forces Apple to Improve Terms and Conditions
The Office of Fair Trading in the UK has released a press release stating that Apple has changed its terms and conditions to make them clearer and fairer for consumers. In particular the OFT had Apple adjust its terms which apply to consumers who buy…
Chipmakers Claim Apple Bullying Market
Kim Yoo-chul of The Korea Times writes that a growing number of complaints from companies in the "semiconductor industry" claim that Apple is manipulating NAND flash pricing using "'questionable' purchasing strategies". The news which comes from industry sources familiar to The Korea Times states that…
Apple Pulls in Almost Half of U.S. Desktop Sales Money
According to NPD data Apple grabbed 47.71 percent of U.S. retail desktop revenue during the month of October. The data which comes from Joe Wilcox who spoke to Stephen Baker, NPD’s vice president of industry analysis. Baker attributed this impressive number down to the release…
Apple Begins 2009 Black Friday Sale
Apple has today begun a one-day sale that traditionally takes place on the Friday following Thanksgiving in the US. Apple has posted the discounts on all of its stores worldwide with reductions in price ranging between 4-10%. Prices for the major products below for the…
Tesco to Begin Selling iPhone in UK
Britains largest supermarket Tesco announced today that it will begin selling the iPhone through an agreement with O2, the supermarket hopes to have pay-as-you-go and contract models available before Christmas 2009. Tesco is not currently offering any pricing or tariff details. But did describe the…
Apple Releases iPhoto 8.1.1 Addressing Facial Recognition Issues
iPhoto 8.1.1 - 12.5MB This update addresses issues affecting face recognition performance and accuracy. It also fixes minor issues in the areas of book ordering, and iPod touch support. The update is recommended for all users of iPhoto '09. For detailed information on this update…
Phil Schiller Speaks on App Store Approval Process
Following last weeks change to how applications destined for the App Store are approved Businessweek has run an interview with Apple's senior vice-president of worldwide product marketing Phil Schiller who commented on the process which is often under criticism. "We've built a store for the…
Apple Announces Black Friday 2009 Sale, Details Rumoured
Apple today announced that this coming Friday it will be holdings its annual Black Friday sales, commonly offering modest discounts on Macs and iPods for just one day of the year. The one day sale which will be held worldwide on November 27th has been…
App Store Submissions Now Subject to Private API Use Checks
Apple has begun running all App Store submissions through a static analysis tool which will identify apps using private API calls. Apple offers developers for the iPhone and iPod touch a list of public application programming interface (APIs) which are free to be used and…