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Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin Shares Some Thoughts About Steve Jobs Biopic, Woz Hired As Advisor

admin — Fri, 18 May 2012 03:25:34 +0000

Aaron Sorkin, the creative genius behind The Social Network, The West Wing, and upcoming HBO show confirmed as the screenwriter for Sony’s upcoming movie based on Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs — though, Sorkin himself says he has a lot of work to do. Reuters reports that Sorkin held an interview with reporters and [...]

Steve Jobs ‘Worked Closely’ on Design of Next-Generation iPhone with Larger Display

admin — Fri, 18 May 2012 00:50:45 +0000

Bloomberg reports that Steve Jobs was intimately involved in the design work for the next-generation iPhone scheduled for release later this year, reiterating claims that the device will be a substantial change from previous designs in part because of a larger display. Apple, based in Cupertino, California, has placed orders from suppliers in Asia for [...]

Apple Board Member Mickey Drexler on Steve Jobs’ iCar Dreams, Apple’s Living Room Push

admin — Thu, 17 May 2012 21:18:43 +0000

Speaking at Fast Company‘s Innovation Uncensored conference earlier this week, J. Crew CEO and Apple board member Mickey Drexler shared his thoughts (via Business Insider) on several topics related to Apple, including Steve Jobs’ dream to build an “iCar” that would have revolutionized the automobile industry. While the idea obviously never developed very far, it [...]

Verizon Clarifies Discontinuation of Grandfathered Unlimited Data: Applies to New Subsidized Devices

admin — Thu, 17 May 2012 20:41:47 +0000

Verizon yesterday made headlines for comments from Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo revealing that the carrier is planning to discontinue its grandfathered unlimited data plans when the carrier rolls out new shared data plans this summer. Verizon dropped those unlimited data plans within months of introducing the iPhone early last year, but customers who had [...]

Apple Censoring ‘Jailbreak’ in U.S. iTunes Store Listings [Update: Fixed]

admin — Thu, 17 May 2012 19:23:11 +0000

Exploring an observation initially made by iOS hacker @planetbeing, Shoutpedia notes that Apple has mysteriously begun censoring the word “jailbreak” in the U.S. iTunes Store. While not all mentions of the word are affected, the vast majority of them across all content types are currently being censored to “j*******k”. Apple has long objected to the [...]

Apple Cutting Off Mac App Store Hotkey Apps as Sandboxing Requirement Goes Live on June 1?

admin — Thu, 17 May 2012 19:20:34 +0000

sandboxing requirements are scheduled to go into effect. Apparently, Apple will allow hotkey apps that are already in the Mac App Store before June to offer only bug fixes after that. New sandboxed apps and any apps that add features (i.e. non-bugfix releases) will not be allowed to support hotkeys. TUAW has been told that [...]

Physics Puzzler ‘Feed Me Oil’ Free for Today Only [iOS Blog]

admin — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:38:00 +0000

Our sister-site TouchArcade notes that Chillingo’s excellent physics puzzler Feed Me Oil is free today for both the iPhone and iPad. It’s normally $0.99 for iPhone and $1.99 for iPad. Feed Me Oil is something of a mix between World of Goo and Where’s My Water?. Every level features two things: A spigot where oil [...]

Apple’s Data Centers to Be Powered by 100% Renewable Energy

admin — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:06:34 +0000

Earlier today, we noted that Apple had received official approval for its 20-megawatt solar farm across the street from its data center in Maiden, North Carolina. But even more significant developments are also occurring today, with Apple posting a new page to the environmental section of its website touting that all of the company’s data [...]

Comcast Dropping 250GB Data Cap In Favor of "Improved Data Usage Management" [iOS Blog]

admin — Thu, 17 May 2012 17:26:49 +0000

Several years ago, Comcast began instituting bandwidth caps of 250GB per month on its residential customers. In 2008, this was plenty for most customers, but with the advent of streaming video services like Netflix, Hulu, WatchESPN and others, some users have been concerned about whether the 250GB cap was sufficient for their needs. Today, Comcast [...]

25 million gigabytes brings prosecution of MegaUpload and its eccentric founder to standstill

admin — Thu, 17 May 2012 17:05:00 +0000

The last time a preservation issue caused this much commotion, the Big Four accounting firm KPMG was fruitlessly disputing a court order forcing it to save 2,500 hard drives that had been used by former employees. Now there is a federal criminal case in Alexandria, Virginia involving a store of data so large it could [...]