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A judge has granted IBM's request for an injunction preventing former executive Mark Papermaster from joining Apple as its new head of iPhone development. (Read More)
Submitted by Louisgray
from Google Reader:
Well, I haven’t done any totally unfounded Apple speculation in a while - so here goes.First off, Apple spokesman Bill Evans is quoted as saying Apple’s current product line going into the holidays is solid - there will be no new products announced until the new year. This fall, we had refreshes to the iPod and the MacBook (Read More)
Submitted by Gbatuyong
from Google Reader:
Apple added approximately 10,400 more full-time workers during its 2008 financial year, a 48 percent rise over 2007, filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission show. The figure is found within the company's 10-K report, which also notes a total of 32,000 full-time workers as of September 27th, plus 3,100 contract (Read More)
Mac Rumors
On Wednesday, Apple released its annual 10-K reports which detailed revenue and spending for fiscal 2008. eWeek has kindly organized the information into a number of charts, including this one showing Apple's revenue growth over 2007:
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gaming, Odds and ends, Apple, iPod touchWelcome to last year, Business Week. Their writer Arek Hesseldahl has a story up about how Apple seems poised to take over the mobile gaming world this holiday. He's been playing with an iPod touch and the games available on the App Store, and he's rea (Read More)
FORTUNE: Apple 2.0
Of all the reporters who have tried to slog their way through Apple’s 100-page Form 10-K for fiscal year 2008, nobody has done a better job digging out the nuggets of news than AppleInsider’s Prince McLean. (We got bogged down in the page-turning boilerplate of the Risk Factors section.)What did Mr. McLean disco (Read More)
Submitted by Rpetty:
Apple appears to be taking its policing of the rumor mill to the phones, in one case dialing a customer who expressed concern over Internet reports on the Mac mini's fate to assure him the situation would be addressed in due time.Having read a blog post speculating that a discontinuation of the current Mac mini line oversea (Read More)
Mac Rumors
German blog Schimanke.com publishes new screenshots from the iPhone 2.2 firmware that reveal that Apple has activated App Store features that will make their debut in the next iPhone update. Prior to this past week, these new App Store featu... (Read More)
: What happened to the copy & paste feature? And Push? Well at least we can download our podcasts on the fly now - that will satisfy some lonely souls...
New York Times
Programmers are harnessing the power of iPhones and other advanced cell phones to track data like speed, acceleration and fuel consumption. . (Read More)
AppleInsider
Standing as the single largest change to an Apple portable in recent history, the 13" MacBook completely overhauls the system with a switch from plastic to a strong, thinner aluminum shell and a totally new platform that puts it into a new performance category -- albeit with key sacrifices to meet its goals. (Read More)
Submitted by Leolaporte:
I call on all Obama supporters to consider immediately wearing clothes of mourning... a black arm band or a black shirt or some other article of black clothing - in a peaceful protest... not only against the feeling that the election has been or is being stolen...But in protest that in the year 2008 - when Technology is so (Read More)
: How about a call to action! "November 4th, 2008 a date that will live in infamy - the constitution was suddenly and deliberately attacked through lies and deceptions." Shout it, blog it, twitter it and podcast it. The blogosphere is mightier then the sword! You, sir, are mightier then the sword! Mourning is for the dead. Democracy isn't dying on my watch. (Sorry I have been watching a little too much Keith Olbermann.)