Tag archive for "Apple"

Apple Online Store Down with New Look

11 April 2012

We typically avoid posting a story each time the Apple Store goes offline for updates. While the Apple online store famously goes offline to introduce new products, it also goes down for routine maintenance. Tonight’s downtime is likely related to maintenance or other non-product tweaks, but notably the “We’ll be back soon” graphic that should [...]

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U.S. Department of Justice Sues Apple and Publishers over E-Book Pricing

11 April 2012

Following up on last month’s threat to file suit over the Apple-backed agency model of e-book pricing, the U.S. Department of Justice today sued Apple and a number of book publishers over the practice, Bloomberg briefly reports. Settlement talks had been ongoing, but Apple and the publishers were reportedly unwilling to meet the Department of [...]

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Apple Does Have a 7.85″ iPad in their Labs

05 April 2012

As noted by The Tech Block and The Next Web, during his Talk Show podcast with Dan Benjamin, DaringFireball’s John Gruber offered up some additional confirmation of the existence of a 7.85″ iPad. Gruber reports that he has been told by “numerous” people that this size iPad is something Apple has been “noodling with”. When [...]

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Apple Offers Royalty-Free Patent Licenses to Push Proposed Nano-SIM Standard

26 March 2012

Last week, we noted that Apple was still pushing to have its “nano-SIM” design adopted as the official next-generation standard to further reduce the size of the removable cards that include subscriber information and activation capabilities for mobile phones and other devices connecting to cellular networks. While the company has received the backing of a [...]

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Lines of Resellers Returning New iPads at Fifth Avenue Apple Store [iOS Blog]

22 March 2012

A tipster sends us this tale of a trip to the Fifth Avenue Apple Store last night. Went to the Fifth Ave store near midnight today, and saw that Apple was setting up a separate line just to handle the volume of iPad returns from Chinese resellers. The manager kept the separate line to ensure [...]

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