The iTunes store will be available in South Africa next month, according to an announcement just made at the Mobile Entertainment Africa 2012 conference taking place in Cape Town at the moment.
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A monument dedicated to Steve Jobs is in the works to go up in the main square of St. Petersburg, Russia. The Foundation of IT Progress – the organization behind the initiative – has launched a competition to find the best concept for the memorial. Do you think you know what a proper Steve Jobs memorial should look like?
In Apple’s latest ad promoting its virtual assistant, it called on legendary film director Martin Scorsese. Shot in the back of cab driving through New York city, Scorsese uses Siri to help him with a handful of simple tasks.
Fanboys always claim that Apple is basically giving us technology from the future. And if these leaked images are anything to go by, they might not be too far off. The photos show that while the iPad was only officially released in 2010, the tablet was already knocking around Apple HQ as long ago as 2002!
Celestica, the Toronto-based manufacturer that produces hardware for Research In Motion, have announced that they’ll be stopping production of BlackBerry hardware over the next three months, and charging the company $1 billion for unsold BlackBerry inventory. Between the BlackBerry 10 smartphone getting pushed back to late 2012, and new iPhone rumours, this could sort of be RIP RIM.
I am pleased to announce that Digicape is already taking orders for the new range of Macbook Pros – with retina displays. Rumours are that they will begin hitting SA retail outlets the week of the 26th (of June), so best you get moving! It won’t be long before everyone is trying to buy an […]
Apple opened its annual WWDC conference in Cupertino last night, and to no-one’s surprise has revealed the brand new line of MacBook Pros, as well as a update to the very popular line of MacBook Airs. See the full, drool-worthy specs inside.
A low-cost Singaporean airline has begun offering passengers iPads as an alternative to traditional in-flight entertainment. The bold move has allowed the airline to slash costs while improving passengers’ experience while on board.
Throughout his life, Steve Jobs imparted many inspiring words of wisdom, many of which were caught on video during his onstage appearances at Apple events and during interviews. Yesterday a host of these were made available, for free, on iTunes. Click through for the details.
More details are emerging about Buffy, apparently the codename for Facebook’s HTC smartphone which may run with Android, all the Facebook trimmings and an Opera browser. Or will it? We try sort the facts from the fiction as excitement mounts over the phone that might topple Apple.
Apple’s Tim Cook and Samsung’s Choi Gee-sung were instructed by a San Francisco federal judge to meet for a two-day mediation to help resolve a high-profile US patent case. The companies are locked in bitter patent litigation all over the world, and the judge diarised the meeting to take place yesterday and today, with the intention of bringing one of the many cases to a close.
Environmental activist group, Greenpeace staged a protest outside tech giant, Apple’s head office in Cupertino yesterday. The protest was a call for Apple to start powering its data centers with greener energy, and to move away from coal. They did this is the strangest way possible – by live tweeting from a “pod” dropped outside their HQ.
Apple has been forced to drop the use of the term “4G” in its UK advertising for the new iPad, bacause not only is 4G not yet available to iPad users in the UK and Europe; it also appears that not all new iPads will be able to work on UK and European 4G when it does arrive. Is SA likely to suffer the same fate?
Earlier this month, Apple was briefly the most valuable company in the world, and their cash in hand value currently stands at $76,2 billion. You could literally buy anything with that and still have enough change to buy some more anything. Still struggling? Click through for a look at the National Post’s lovely, informative and aptly named More Money Than God infographic.
Step right up, boys and girls! The New iPad is out, and you can get it at our Apple retailer of choice, DigiCape. Why should you get one? We thought you might ask, so we made this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_tw7bb09kM Wham. Now that you’ve made your choice, click here to find a branch near you. Or shop […]
Nokia is no longer the world’s biggest selling cell phone manufacturer. For the first time ever, Korean handset manufacturer Samsung has outsold Nokia in the last quarter – by an estimated 93 million mobile phone units compared with Nokia’s 83 million. It’s also predicted that Samsung has outsold the iPhone in the smartphone market in recent months.
Google, Apple, Adobe and Intel – among other companies – have been accused of restricting salary increases and restricting career development by agreeing not to poach each other’s staff; California District Judge Lucy Koh has found that there’s enough evidence to support trial for antitrust injury. Intuit, Pixar, and Lucasfilm are also involved.
Earlier this year Apple opened the doors to their manufacturing plant, Foxconn, to the public for the first time. It wasn’t pretty. Now, they’re being dragged into the spotlight again by none other than Greenpeace. Apparently their amazing iCloud isn’t all that amazing for the environment.
Apple have been known to lure some of the entertainment industry’s biggest names to promote their products, and their two latest ambassadors are no exception. The one has been nabbed from her throne in hipsters’ hearts, and the other from the walls of cult movie fans. Click through to see the respective icons plugging Apple’s flagship device.
Sergey Brin, the Google co-founder everybody keeps forgetting about except when he talks about stuff like this, has pointed to a handful of “threats to internet freedom” – Facebook, Apple, the entertainment industry, and governments that censor their citizens. By which I guess he means threats to Google.
As the concern over threats to Mac users’ security grows, a recent study by Kaspersky Labs reveals one Trojan that has managed to infiltrate over 600 000 Macs, throwing the supposedly tight security protocols used by Apple into sharp relief.
Computer viruses are mostly a headache reserved for PC and Windows users. But with Apple becoming more popular globally in recent years, so has the numbers of hackers with wet dreams of corrupting its operating system. Read more about a new pair of Trojan viruses – with the ability to infiltrate Macs – after the jump.
Still don’t get why the iPad is the best tablet out there? Then check out this presentation by two Swedish magicians – their use of seven iPads, along with some old-fashioned trickery, should clear things up for you. Bucket loads of amazing are waiting for you – after the jump.
For the first time in nearly 17 years, Apple Inc. announced a dividend payment roll out today. The company launched a $10-billion share buyback scheme, as well. It looks like they finally buckled under the pressure to do something for their shareholders! Read what Tim Cook has to say – after the jump.
It’s less than a week to go until the iPad 3 is unveiled, so everybody and their grandma is throwing out thoughts about what the new toy can do. Concrete stats are emerging though – Apple employees have been browsing the web with their personal iPad 3’s, turning up details about the new tablet on website server logs.
Apple’s iOS has been under fire for allowing third-party apps to access users’ location data and contacts without permission – and now it looks like photos and videos have been compromised too. The New York Times used a test app to prove that the security software had a giant loophole in its privacy settings.
Okay kids. It’s here. Official, straight from the horse’s mouth. I normally adopt the policy that any news regarding an Apple product should come from Apple themselves, and it doesn’t come clearer than this – the invitation to the “special event” next week. Apple is also known for giving away clues in their invitations – hit continue to see what we think this one is hinting at.
Hey, future. Mercedes-Benz unveiled plans yesterday to use Siri – the virtual assistant exclusive to the iPhone 4S – to power its new A-class electronics system, called “Drive Kit Plus,” which will allow drivers to access their iPhone apps using voice commands. In case you ever feel like updating your Twitter status while driving something sexy.
Sigh. Another day, another round of iPhone 5 rumours. This week, the boards and assorted interweb nooks and crannies that concern themselves with such things have been getting themselves in a tizzy over images released by an Italian design firm that claims they have worked out what the much-anticipated iPhone 5 is going to look like. Check out these Florentine flights of fancy after the jump!