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Tim Cook announces $2.5M donation to Hurricane Sandy relief – that would never happen under Steve Jobs

Once it was clear that Hurricane Sandy had caused unprecedented damage across miles of East Coast cities and towns, Apple quickly put up a donation scheme within iTunes so that customers could donate easily and quickly to help out with the cost of relief. As well as that, Tim Cook has just sent a letter to Apple employees stating that Cupertino will be…

Check out Steve Jobs’ huge yacht [Video and Gallery]

Before Steve Jobs passed away, he’d had a massive yacht commissioned for him and his family. Sadly, he never got chance to see it finished. The huge sea vessel is sharp and angular in design, and obviously minimalist. Finally, the boat was unveiled, and pictures snapped by Dutch site, OneMoreThing, have been published. As a thank you gift from the…

iOS “Slide to Unlock” patent covers opening apps too?

After yesterday’s reports that Steve Jobs vowed to “patent everything” following a $100 million loss in court, it comes as no surprise that more information pertaining to the “slide to unlock” patent has been unearthed. According to AppleInsider’s findings, the patent regarding horizontal movement used to unlock the screen of an iOS device also includes…

TiP Daily: October 5, 2012 [VID]

TiP Daily October 5, 2012: Apple honors Steve Jobs on the anniversary of his death, Apple is slowly but surely improving its Maps application! – iOS 6 Maps improvements: http://tinyurl.com/8f7vnhw – iPhone 5: two weeks later: http://tinyurl.com/9nu8s3x – Steve Jobs tribute: http://tinyurl.com/8fjhp89 – Follow me on…

Tim Cook’s tribute to Steve Jobs published on anniversary of his passing [UPDATE: Video added]

Any Apple fan out there will know what took place 12 months ago. Today is the 1st anniversary of Steve Jobs’ death. Apple’s co-founder had not only started the company with a friend in a garage, he returned after being sacked to rescue it from the brink of bankruptcy in the late 90s. Throughout his time at the helm, he pushed the company to innovate,…

Life-like Steve Jobs wax work model revealed in Hong Kong [Video]

Creepy really isn’t the right word to describe the most recent addition to Madame Tussauds in Hong Kong. The wax work is of former late CEO and co-founder of our favorite fruit company. The man behind such iconic product launches as the Macintosh, the iPod, iPhone and – of course – iPad has been eerily transformed in to a strange life-size still life…

Steve Jobs trash sculpture to be unveiled

In response to recent Foxconn riots, artist XVALA has reportedly been crafting a sculpture based on a banned Steve Jobs action figure – partially made of Jobs’ own residential trash, which the artist had collected approximately one year ago. The sculpture is in protest of what the artist believes is a careless attitude on Apple’s part, with regards to…

TiP Daily: September 13, 2012

TiP Daily September 13, 2012: The iPhone 5 will go on preorder on September 14th at 12:01 AM PST, Jake has a roundup video detailing everything Apple announced yesterday, and more! – iPhone 5 event roundup: http://tinyurl.com/95y9fe4 – iPhone 5 keynote on iTunes: http://tinyurl.com/8esb6z4 – iPhone 5 preorder times: http://tinyurl.com/8wwnhct -…