Apple subsidiary FileMaker passes 1 million downloads of iOS app on App Store
Apple subsidiary FileMaker announced today that it has reached over 1,000,000 downloads on the App Store of its FileMaker Go database management app. The news follows the release of FileMaker 13 in...
View ArticleVideo demo of Sapphire-coated iPhone display leaves it unscratched by concrete
With increasing evidence that Apple plans to replace Gorilla Glass with sapphire to protect the screen of the iPhone 6, it’s interesting to watch a video demo of just how scratch-resistant the...
View ArticleGerman patent troll demands $2B from Apple for using a mandatory emergency...
Demands from patent trolls - companies that invent nothing, but simply buy up patents in order to demand cash – are just a fact of life for any large company, and Apple doubtless receives hundreds of...
View ArticleHate the new Twitter web redesign? This Safari extension might help
If you’re not a fan of the new iOS 7-like design on Twitter.com, this Safari extension transforms the massive, white tool bar into a less distracting, dark tool bar. It still keeps the simple, flat...
View Article9to5Toys Lunch Break: Seiki 39″ 4K UHDTV $400, headphones from $10, daily...
Be sure to follow 9to5Toys to keep up with the best gear and deals on the web: Twitter, RSS Feed, Facebook, Google+ and subscribe to the new Safari push notifications feature. Today’s can’t miss deals:...
View ArticleApple acknowledges AirPlay Mirroring issue with new Mac Pros & MacBook Pros
In a support document issued today, Apple addressed a known issue with AirPlay Mirroring performance freezing or dropping out. MacBook Pro and Mac Pro users with last year’s models may see the issue...
View ArticleApple posts new 30-second iPhone ad created from Burberry fashion show footage
In September of 2013, Apple and Burberry partnered up to shoot an entire fashion show using only iPhones. Today Apple released a new thirty-second ad for the iPhone 5s that features footage from the...
View ArticlePhonejoy app provides complete list of App Store games compatible w/ MFi...
One of the complaints about Apple’s new MFi game controllers has been the lack of an App Store section that lists games updated with support. Some of the manufacturers are maintaining lists of their...
View ArticleApple announces first Apple Store in Brazil to open on February 15th
After teasing the store last month, Apple has confirmed on its website (as noted by MacMagazine) that the store will launch on the 15th of February, in just over a week. The store will launch at 11am...
View ArticleApple pulls last remaining Bitcoin wallet app from App Store
Photo: wired.com Blockchain, the most popular Bitcoin wallet app, has become the latest casualty of Apple’s apparent crackdown on Bitcoin apps. The app was removed from the App Store yesterday without...
View ArticlePost-PC era in full swing, as Sony exits PC business and Apple leads in...
Sony has confirmed earlier rumors that it is exiting the PC business, selling both its computer division and the VAIO brand to a Japanese investment fund which plans to use the brand only within...
View ArticleNeed occasional access to Windows on your Mac? Install it from a USB key …
If you need occasional access to Windows and don’t want to install it from a DVD, a how-to guide by Sam Power may have the perfect solution. It talks you through exactly how to create a...
View ArticleiWatch time: Apple seeking physiologists to run fitness, energy expenditure...
Apple has published a job listing on its website seeking physiologists and engineers to run tests related to health and fitness data. This job will require the employees to “design and run user...
View ArticlePC Market exodus continues as LG considers quitting, Mac prices & margins...
PC manufacturers seem to be dropping like flies at present. Shortly after Sony confirmed it was selling its PC business and Vaio brand, LG is rumored to be planning its own exit from traditional PCs,...
View ArticleFormer WSJ Apple reporter has a dreary take on life at Apple after Steve Jobs...
Former WSJ Apple reporter/scoopster Yukari Iwatani Kane is coming out with a new book called Haunted Empire: Apple After Steve Jobs ($12.74 Amazon/$14.99 iBookstore). We’re not sure how the book reads...
View Article9to5Toys Last Call: iPad 2 $299, ZAGG PROfolio BT iPad keyboard $40, Logitech...
Be sure to follow 9to5Toys to keep up with the best gear and deals on the web: Twitter, RSS Feed, Facebook, Google+ and subscribe to the new Safari push notifications feature. Today’s can’t miss deals:...
View ArticleIncipio’s NFC-enabled iPhone case for ISIS payments now available to Verizon...
First launched by AT&T at the end of last month, Verizon announced today that it too will be selling Incipio’s Cashwrap iPhone case that builds in an NFC chip for using the ISIS mobile wallet...
View ArticleU.S. Senate presses Apple & other tech companies at summit on solutions to...
Chairman John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation is today hosting a summit where he will press technology companies on potential solutions...
View ArticleApple just procured enough Sapphire Crystal furnaces to make 100-200M ~5-inch...
Last year, Apple and GT Advanced struck a deal to open and operate a manufacturing facility in Mesa, Arizona related to sapphire crystal components. Earlier this year, we learned that Apple is...
View ArticleApple seeds OS X Mavericks 10.9.2 build 13C53 to developers
One week after the previous beta, Apple has provided registered Mac developers with OS X Mavericks 10.9.2 build 13C53 to developers. Previous 10.9.2 builds added FaceTime Audio functionality to the...
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