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Foxconnâ€™s Suicide Solution: Robot Worker Empire

noreply@blogger.com (gianluca) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:51:00 +0000

It may sound like something out of an Isaac Asimov novel or a James Cameron film, but the parent company of iPhone maker Foxconn is working to build an “empire of robots” to replace over a million Chinese workers. The company, which assembles devices for a number of electronics giants including Apple, broke ground Saturday [...]

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These Three New iPhone 4S Ads Are Some Of Appleâ€™s Best Yet [Video Gallery]

noreply@blogger.com (gianluca) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:51:00 +0000

Over the weekend, Apple launched three new iPhone 4S ads: one for the iPhone 4S’s incredible new 8MP camera and iOS 5′s Photo Editing abilities, one for iCloud and one for Siri. They all really speak for themselves, but even so, this is Apple advertising at its finest. You can find the other two ads [...]

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Apple Stores Will Soon Let You Self-Checkout Purchases Using Official iOS App

noreply@blogger.com (gianluca) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:51:00 +0000

The official Apple Store app is already a useful tool if you have to sally forth into meat space, allowing you to schedule appointment times at your local Genius Bar, reserve items for pickup at your local Apple Store and the like. Come November 3rd, though, the Apple Store iOS app is set to gain [...]

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RunKeeperâ€™s Latest App Update Will Help Prevent Your Heart From Exploding

noreply@blogger.com (gianluca) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:51:00 +0000

When I, through sheer exertion of will, lift this moribund pile of musky flab out of the desk chair to which it transhumanistically is trying to absorb, put on my sweatbands and take myself out for a wheezing, gasping “jog”, RunKeeper is my preferred app for tracking the whole ordeal. The free app is already [...]

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Siri Could Someday Save Your Life By Calling 911 For You

noreply@blogger.com (gianluca) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:51:00 +0000

Up until now, Apple’s Siri voice-recognition system has been shown in a humorous light. However, what if Siri could save your life? People remaking next-generation 911 services see Siri as the voice of emergency victims, not just a locator of the nearest sushi joint. “Once the word ‘emergency’ is spoken to Siri, a range of [...]

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Slimmer, Faster MacBook Pro â€˜Airsâ€™ Are In Development For 2012 Release [Rumor]

noreply@blogger.com (gianluca) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:51:00 +0000

It’s been three years since the last major design refresh of the MacBook Pro, and we’ve been hearing whispers for almost a year that the next major update would see Apple’s professional line of laptops take on some of the characteristics of the MacBook Air line: slimmer profiles, ubiquitous SSDs, no optical drives. If those [...]

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Oasis Star Declares: â€œiPhones Are For $%@!sâ€

noreply@blogger.com (gianluca) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:51:00 +0000

(Photo by Chrissy Polcino, used with thanks under Creative Commons license.) So here’s former Oasis megastar Noel Gallagher, quoted in The Mirror this weekend: I just want a basic 1994 Nokia mobile. I can keep it in my back pocket and just do the basics with it â€" phone and text. What would I need [...]

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Need A Last Minute Halloween Costume? Check Out The Fun You Can Have With Two iPad 2s [Video]

noreply@blogger.com (gianluca) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:51:00 +0000

This has been all over the place today, but if you’re stuck for a Halloween costume idea and have two iPad 2s lying around, here’s a great suggestion: just initiate a FaceTime call between your iPads, duct tape them to your torso, pull on a ripped hoodie and smear fake blood all over yourself. It’ll [...]

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iCloud Solar Farm And Spaceship HQ Could Push Apple Costs To $8B

noreply@blogger.com (gianluca) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:51:00 +0000

Apple’s massive new solar farm and their next-gen spaceship campus will boost the tech giant’s 2012 expense to $8 billion â€" a 73% hike over this year, one analyst told investors Monday. Apple’s capital expenditures are expected to jump by $3.4 billion in 2012, according to the company’s annual 10-K report with the Securities and [...]

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AirPlay Mirroring And iMessages Coming To OS X Lion? [Rumor]

noreply@blogger.com (gianluca) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:51:00 +0000

This weekend broke news that Apple was already hard at work on OS X 10.8, so it would be natural to assume that in the next version of OS X, Cupertino will bring even more iOS functionality to their desktop operating system: stuff like Airplay and iMessages. Nope. But don’t be too disappointed. AirPlay and [...]

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Schools Expect iPads To Outnumber Computers In Next Five Years [Report]

noreply@blogger.com (gianluca) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:51:00 +0000

The days of students lugging around massive backpacks loaded with heavy textbooks are numbered. According to a new poll of educational IT directors, signs are strong that within the next five years, all U.S. schools couldÂ adopt tablets, many as a replacement for textbooks. The good news for Apple is that in education circles (as with [...]

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Make Your Own Bumps In the Night With iSoundGrid Halloween For iPad

noreply@blogger.com (gianluca) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:51:00 +0000

Today is Halloween. So here’s a last-minute Halloween themed iOS app that runs on the iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad. Â It can turn your next scary party into a real spooktacular or you can use it to enhance the fun while passing out loads of candy to all the little ghosts and goblins that visit. [...]

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Bill Gates On Steve Jobs: We Created The Mac Together [Video]

noreply@blogger.com (gianluca) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:51:00 +0000

Last night, former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates was on ABC News to discuss continuing foreign aid as well as his philanthropy work. During the interview, he was asked about Steve Jobs’s less than kind words about him in Walter Isaacson’s bio: specifically, the part where Jobs (unfairly) says that Bill Gates had no original ideas [...]

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Chinese Knockoff Makers Almost Perfectly Clone The Unibody MacBook Air

noreply@blogger.com (gianluca) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:51:00 +0000

What’s this? Looks like a unibody MacBook Air, right? Don’t bet a kidney on it: Shenzhen’s Evil Confederacy of Mad Scientist Cloners have managed to almost perfectly rip off the feel of Apple’s bestselling MacBook Air, including unibody enclosure, for under half the price of Apple’s ultraportable. And you know what? For a piece-of-$%@! netbook [...]

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Appleâ€™s Seamless Glass Cube on Fifth Avenue is Launching Friday [Report]

noreply@blogger.com (gianluca) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:50:00 +0000

Apple is finally unveiling its seamless glass cube entrance to the Fifth Avenue store on Friday, according to MacRumors. Apple’s Fifth Avenue retail store is one of the most recognized Apple stores in the world and a main tourist attraction in New York City. $6.6. million in renovations to the Fifth Avenue store will finally [...]

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Shake Things Up By Making Your Own Custom Vibration Alerts in iOS 5 [iOS Tips]

noreply@blogger.com (gianluca) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:50:00 +0000

If you find yourself in a quiet environment like a meeting or at the doctor’s office you’ll usually silence the ringer on your iPhone. The iPhone will then vibrate when you get incoming calls. Although that sounds great, the iPhone will vibrate the same way for every caller. But it doesn’t have to do that. [...]

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Lion Introduces New Privacy And Location Services To Mac OS X [OS X Tips]

noreply@blogger.com (gianluca) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:50:00 +0000

Lion has introduced some new yet basic privacy settings. The new settings control how you share your location and collect usage data to send to Apple. Although now it seems to be fairly basic I think it is still important to know what if any apps on your Mac are accessing location services on Mac [...]

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Appleâ€™s Just A Twitch Away From Killing The Mac Pro Line Forever

noreply@blogger.com (gianluca) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:50:00 +0000

Last week’s three-month minimum delay to their Xeon-class Sandy Bridge processors may be the final nail in the Mac Pros coffin, inside sources are now reporting. It’s obvious that Apple’s heart isn’t exactly in the Mac Pro these days. There hasn’t been an update to the line since 2010, which is significantly longer than most [...]

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Check Out This Completely Unrealistic, Yet Still Awesome, iTV Concept [Gallery]

noreply@blogger.com (gianluca) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:50:00 +0000

Spotted by 9to5Mac, artistÂ Guilherme M. SchasiepenÂ has posted a gallery of concept iTV images. The images depict a multi-touch TV set with 3D that doesn’t require glasses. Color us skeptical, but the idea of a touch-screen television seems absolutely unrealistic. This concept is still pretty gorgeous, however. While the TV itself looks great (check out this [...]

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Free Steve Jobs Audio Book via Audible.com

noreply@blogger.com (gianluca) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:39:00 +0000

From 9to5Toys.com: Looking to get a free Audio copy of the Steve Jobs book (or any book for that matter)? If you don’t feel like shelling out the $35 in addition to whatever you paid for the paper/digital version,Â Audible.com offers a free audio book with a 14-day membershipÂ which allows you to pick up the book [...]

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Retail news: Seamless Fifth Avenue glass cube debuting this Friday, Apple Store app self-checkout, multiple shipping addresses for online orders

noreply@blogger.com (gianluca) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:39:00 +0000

An artist’s rendition of the seamless glass cube Apple Store at New York’s Fifth Avenue. Credit: The Gothamist. Apple is set to unveil an all-new glass cube entrance into its iconic outlet atÂ New York City’s Fifth Avenue, MacRumorsÂ has learned. The new look should be unveiled this coming Friday, November 4. The work on remodeling the [...]

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Canalys: HTC passes Apple to become top smartphone maker in the United States

noreply@blogger.com (gianluca) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:39:00 +0000

Research firm Canalys in its new report ranked Taiwanese handset maker HTC (owned by the Formosa Plastics Group conglomerate) the leading smartphone vendor in the United States. The finding is based on the reported third-quarter shipments by major phone makers including HTC, Samsung and Apple. And, per-country performance estimates stemming from historic trends. As you [...]

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Walmart offers free Smart Covers/$50 iTunes with iPad 2 (also Target)

noreply@blogger.com (gianluca) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:39:00 +0000

From 9to5Toys.com: Walmart today lists the iPad 2 in all sizes and varieties with a “Starter Accesory” which include previous generation Smart Covers or USB all charges (or $50 iTunes gift cards when ordered site-to-store). If your shopping tastes take you to Target, you can get a $40 iTunes gift card with iPad 2 purchase [...]

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Bill Gates on Jobs bio quotes â€œhe said a lot of very nice things about me and he said a lot of tough thingsâ€ [Video]

noreply@blogger.com (gianluca) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:39:00 +0000

Gates defends himself slightly but seems smart enough (and secure enough) not to handle the tough words head on. “Well, Steve and I worked together, creating the Mac. We had more people on it, did the key software for it.” “So, over the course of the 30 years we worked together, you know, he said [...]

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Is this the geekiest-freakiest Halloween costume yet?

noreply@blogger.com (gianluca) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:39:00 +0000

I don’t know about you, but this is one freakily awesome Halloween costume. If you have a pair of iPad 2s lying around, you could put them to work and create an illusion of a huge hole in your torso. How? Dead simple, says one Mark Rober, a NASA employee. Just strap one iPad to [...]

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Apple Pie News

Foxconnâ€™s Suicide Solution: Robot Worker Empire

These Three New iPhone 4S Ads Are Some Of Appleâ€™s Best Yet [Video Gallery]

Apple Stores Will Soon Let You Self-Checkout Purchases Using Official iOS App

RunKeeperâ€™s Latest App Update Will Help Prevent Your Heart From Exploding

Siri Could Someday Save Your Life By Calling 911 For You

Slimmer, Faster MacBook Pro â€˜Airsâ€™ Are In Development For 2012 Release [Rumor]

Oasis Star Declares: â€œiPhones Are For $%@!sâ€

Need A Last Minute Halloween Costume? Check Out The Fun You Can Have With Two iPad 2s [Video]

iCloud Solar Farm And Spaceship HQ Could Push Apple Costs To $8B

AirPlay Mirroring And iMessages Coming To OS X Lion? [Rumor]

Schools Expect iPads To Outnumber Computers In Next Five Years [Report]

Make Your Own Bumps In the Night With iSoundGrid Halloween For iPad

Bill Gates On Steve Jobs: We Created The Mac Together [Video]

Chinese Knockoff Makers Almost Perfectly Clone The Unibody MacBook Air

Appleâ€™s Seamless Glass Cube on Fifth Avenue is Launching Friday [Report]

Shake Things Up By Making Your Own Custom Vibration Alerts in iOS 5 [iOS Tips]

Lion Introduces New Privacy And Location Services To Mac OS X [OS X Tips]

Appleâ€™s Just A Twitch Away From Killing The Mac Pro Line Forever

Check Out This Completely Unrealistic, Yet Still Awesome, iTV Concept [Gallery]

Free Steve Jobs Audio Book via Audible.com

Retail news: Seamless Fifth Avenue glass cube debuting this Friday, Apple Store app self-checkout, multiple shipping addresses for online orders

Canalys: HTC passes Apple to become top smartphone maker in the United States

Walmart offers free Smart Covers/$50 iTunes with iPad 2 (also Target)

Bill Gates on Jobs bio quotes â€œhe said a lot of very nice things about me and he said a lot of tough thingsâ€ [Video]

Is this the geekiest-freakiest Halloween costume yet?

Oasis Star Declares: â€œiPhones Are For $%@!sâ€

Bill Gates on Jobs bio quotes â€œhe said a lot of very nice things about me and he said a lot of tough thingsâ€ [Video]