Apple is taking over. That’s pretty clear. Now it seems the company has a notion to get involved in travel ticketing, boarding passes and check-in tech with a new app for that, called ‘iTravel’. Read the rest of this entry
Posted April 21st, 2010 by Jonny
Posted April 21st, 2010 by Jonny
“These teenagers work for the KYE factory in China, which manufactures computer mice and webcams for Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, Samsung, Best Buy, Foxconn, Acer, Logitech, and other US companies. Read the rest of this entry
Posted April 21st, 2010 by Jonny
Apple delivers another stellar quarter, sets new records, teases us with little info nuggets, yadda-yadda…
Key findings include news that iPod sales have declined just 1 percent in the quarter – iPod touch is doing a great job holding up that category, with sales of that product up 63 percent, Apple revealed…
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Posted April 21st, 2010 by Jonny
Apple has ceased updating the Downloads page it hosts at Apple.com.
The page was well-used by some Mac owners as a portal for easy discovery of Combo OS X upgrades. Many Mac users have learned that these full install upgrades can be less troublesome than direct Software Update installs.
Apple removed the page from the site navigation UI last month, and ceased updating it on March 26.
Via: TUAW
Posted April 20th, 2010 by Jonny
Another day, another Apple press release, this time entitled:
iPad Wi-Fi + 3G Models Available in US on April 30
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Posted April 20th, 2010 by Jonny
We say no, no, no. If these are true they are far too high, so we do hope they are false.
Posted April 20th, 2010 by Jonny
Posted April 20th, 2010 by Jonny
Apple board member, Arthur Levinson, has joined the board of Amyris Biotechnologies, Inc.
He’s joining to pursue what appears to potentially be a green vision, saying, “Amyris’s technology of turning microbes into living factories to produce defined, recoverable, high energy molecules offers an exciting potential alternative to petroleum,” said Levinson.
“I’m looking forward to working with the board and management to seek to realize their vision of reducing carbon emissions to better our environment.”
“Arthur is a highly respected business and technology leader who led one of the most important and successful science-based companies in the world,” said John Melo, chief executive officer of Amyris. “His experience will add immeasurably to our leadership team, and will help guide us as we work to capitalize on the potential of our industrial synthetic biology platform.”
Levinson is no stranger to biotechnology. Read the rest of this entry
Posted April 20th, 2010 by Jonny
Oh we love this steampunking technology thing here at Distorted Loop, and we got stupidly excited this morning when we saw these really rather cool-seeming 3D glasses. Read the rest of this entry
