John Browett, former retail president of Apple, he announced today that he left the company because he ‘didn’t fit in’. Browett had been working for Apple for only six months before making his decision to leave in October last year, and went on to become chief executive of Monsoon Accessorize. His time at Apple has been described as being ”probably best…
Complaints from labor unions has led to a Paris courtroom decision to hand seven Apple Stores in France a 10K euro fine. The complaint concerned French labor laws, which disallow companies to make employees work beyond 9pm, unless a justified reason is given, as this is defined as night work, which is reserved only for exceptional cases in France. Of…
You may or may not be aware of a years-old App Store security flaw that allows potential identity thieves to access account information by exploiting unencrypted connections when a victim accesses Apple’s App Store. Well, it looks like Apple has finally ticked the issue off of its to do list, and enabled encryption when a device tries to connect to its…
Arthur Levinson, also known as Chairman of Apple’s board and former Genentech CEO, spoke at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business yesterday. Fortune was there to listen in on the talk, and got some interesting tidbits out of it. One of the subject brought up was of course the former CEO, Steve Jobs’ death in 2011. When asked what it was like to work…
So the evasi0n jailbreak is out, and it’s been downloaded a lot. If you haven’t yet, you can check out how to here: OS X, Windows. Well here I have put what my top 5 tweaks you should install are, as I’ve been doing some research the past week to see what I’m most looking forward to. Check it out below. 1. Auxo – $1.99 This was the very…
Have you jailbroken yet? If so, you may want to check your weather application. Users from all over the interwebs (including myself) are coming out with reports of the weather application crashing after jailbreaking using the new evasi0n method that was just released. Other than this bug, and Cydia’s severs getting overloaded from all the heavy traffic,…
This made me laugh, honestly. According to BabyCenter’s most recent list of baby name usage, the name “Apple” jumped 585 positions for girl’s names, 15% over last year’s place. For boys, the name “Mac” rose 12% over last year. You can’t forget Siri, Apple’s digital assistant, who saw a rise of 5% in girl’s names. Like I said, this news just kind of made…
Sorry to disappoint, but no, AT&T and T-Mobile aren’t trying to get back together. However, they are playing nice. With coverage being hard to come by in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in the Northeastern region of the United States, AT&T and T-Mobile are temporarily allowing each other’s users to share networks. This is a very nice gesture by…
Purchased a new Mac recently? Apple has got you covered on Mountain Lion. If you purchased a Mac after June 11th you will be able to claim your copy of Mountain Lion through Apple’s Up-to-Date program. If you are eligible, you will have 30 days after the launch of OS X 10.8 to request your free upgrade. When Mountain Lion goes live in the Mac App Store,…
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