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Apple v. Psystar: Psystar Retains New Law Firms
On July 15, 2009, Psystar filed a Motion with the Court requesting allowance for substitution of counsel from the firm of Carr & Ferrell, LLP (the firm where Colby Springer is employed) to K.A.D Camara of Camara & Sibley, LLP of Houston, Texas and David…
Apple Releases iTunes 8.2.1 [U]
Apple has today released a minor point update to iTunes which provides "a number of important bug fixes and addresses an issue with verification of Apple devices." The update which is 80MB in size brings no obvious features but is reported by numerous sources to…
Mac OS X Snow Leopard Build 10A411 Available
Just five days after Apple released Mac OS X Snow Leopard build 10A402 the company has made build 10A411 available via the built-in software update utility. The update which weighs in at 750MB, significantly less than the 1.31GB update available last week is described by…
Custom Apple Processor to Power Tablet?
Following the recent resurgence of talk about Apple's "touchscreen netbook" VentureBeat has heard that Apple is planning to power the device using a custom designed and built processor. VentureBeat points to Apple's acquisition of PA Semi in April 2008 as the source of the processor…
Developers Greeted with Latest iPhone OS and SDK Builds
Apple has this evening given iPhone developers the latest iPhone SDK and the accompanying OS. iPhone OS and SDK 3.1 first saw light of day just two weeks ago and brought with it a number of enhancements including non-destructive video editing and Voice Control using…
App Store Downloads Surpass 1.5 Billion in First Year
Apple has today announced that the App Store which had its one year anniversary over the weekend has topped 1.5 billion app downloads. Apple also stated that the store now has 65,000 applications and over 100,000 registered developers. "The App Store is like nothing the…
Apple Continues Testing Latest Leopard Update [Seed Notes]
Apple began testing Mac OS X 10.5.8 just over one month ago and has this week delivered another build to registered developers. Build 9L25 includes just two areas of change; a fix to the "Save As" option in Mail app and URL localisation but an…
NVIDIA Updates GeForce GTX 285 Drivers
NVIDIA today released updated drivers for the GeForce GTX 285 graphics card. The GTX 285 is a graphics card currently available for the Mac Pro at $449.95 and offers significant advantages over the standard options available for the Mac Pro. According to Mac Rumors updating…
$800 Apple Touchscreen "Netbook" in October
Taiwanese based InfoTimes reported today [ translation provided by Mac Rumors] that Apple is set to release its long awaited "netbook" this coming October. According to the article commonly used manufacturing partners Foxconn, Wintek and Dynapack have all received orders for the new device. The…
Apple v. Psystar: Settlement Conference Date Set
As I had suggested in my last article in which I noted that although a second mediation had been ordered, no date had been set, an Order has come from Magistrate Judge Zimmerman setting the mediation for July 30, 2009. This Order is a bit…
Reports of South Korea iPod nano Recall Untrue
Reports of a South Korean iPod nano recall are untrue a ccording to The Loop , in a statement provided to the blog fully clarifies the situation. “Since last August, Apple has offered to repair or replace any customer’s first generation iPod nano if its…
Latest Snow Leopard Update Adds UI Tweaks [Updated: Screenshots]
Apple has today issued a new update to Mac OS X Snow Leopard via the built-in Software Update application. The update which pushes Snow Leopard to build 10A402 weighs in at 1.31GB. Apple describes the update as follows: This Snow Leopard Developer Preview Update is…
Apple v. Psystar: New Case Management Scheduling Order Entered
Now that the automatic stay has been lifted, the California Court has issued its Second Case Management Scheduling Order. All of the previous future deadlines have been moved forward by approximately one month with the new trial date set for January 11, 2010 .
Apple Issues Minor Safari 4 Update
Safari 4.0.2 This update is recommended for all Safari users and improves the stability of the Nitro JavaScript engine and includes the latest compatibility and security fixes. For detailed information on the security content of this update, please visit this site: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222 .
Apple Confirms Plans to Open Data Centre in Maiden, NC
According to the Catawba County Economic Development corp. Apple plans to locate its new $1 billion data centre in Maiden, North Carolina. It has also been revealed that the data centre will be a massive 500,000 square feet. The 500,000 square foot facility will be…
Apple v. Psystar: Examining the Declaration of Rudy Pedraza
A great deal of attention has been paid to the truth-is-stranger-than-fiction drama of the Psystar bankruptcy filings. However, buried in the flurry of filings were some overlooked gems. I had mentioned one of these in my last article in which I had pointed out that…
Apple v. Psystar: Summary of Status (with buried tidbits and copies of transcripts not made available elsewhere)
The Psystar case has taken a odd path. Just after the Court-ordered deadline for production of financial records and just prior to the date scheduled for the deposition of the Psystar representative who would not answer "I don't know" over 90 times when asked about…
Three New iPhone 3GS Adverts Air
Apple has begun airing three new iPhone 3GS adverts. The first advert called " Skateboard " demonstrates the iPhone 3GSs video recording and editing and sharing via email. The second advert called " Copy and Paste " actually shows a feature of iPhone OS 3.0…
Apple Details MobileMe Tweaks
Apple has detailed in a support article some changes that have occurred recently to its MobileMe online service. In the Mail application HTML mail messages retain their formatting and do not convert to plain text, the unread message icon now appears next to each folder…
O2 UK's Stock of iPhone 3GS Runs Dry
A message on O2 UK's website states that the exclusive partner to Apple in the UK has run dry of all iPhone 3GS stock. The message appeared towards the end of last week and states that stock is expected to return "at the end of…