What is it about the south of France that makes iPhones self-destruct ? For the second time in a month, a resident of the French Mediterranean region is claiming that an Apple phone blew up in his hands.
The other day, Romain Kolega, an 18-year-old from Aix-en-Provence, said he had been injured when his girlfriend's iPhone went 'crackle and pop like a deep-fryer' and sent shards of screen into his face.
In a new research note to investors, Piper Jaffray has forecast that Apple's new Snow Leopard operating system will sell 5 million copies during its launch window in the September quarter.
Apple has discontinued support for legacy Palm OS devices in Mac OS X Snow Leopard's iSync 3.1.0, according to sources familiar with the latest Gold Master build, requiring users of Palm OS devices to obtain third party support for syncing their Palm Desktop information with Mac OS X's Sync Services.
Apple will ship its newest operating system to customers a little earlier than expected. The company said Monday that Mac OS X Snow Leopard will be available this Friday, August 28.
Apple made it clear from the beginning that Snow Leopard was not as much about adding new features as it was about refining the code in the operating system. For instance, according to Apple, 90 percent of the Mac OS X code has been worked on for the Snow Leopard release. This isn't just application code, it also includes working on the Finder, making it more responsive.
Speculation is mounting that Apple is preparing to launch a revolutionary touch-screen computer named the Tablet. The famously secretive company has steadfastly refused to comment on rumours about the hand-held gadget, but one executive recently hinted that it had been working on something "very innovative".
REPORTS THAT THE LATEST IPHONE is capable of playing high definition video at resolutions of up to 1080p have got the Interweb all of a buzz. No doubt it won't be long before Macolytes are baiting potential Zune HD purchasers and owners of Samsung's 720p-toting Omnia HD.
Despite the official Apple line that the ubiquitous handset, which every other device maker on the planet is trying to replicate, is only capable of playing video files at 480x320, a poster on a Chinese tech forum Weiphone has suggested otherwise.
An anonymous Mac mini buyer in Japan has claimed, with pictures, to have received with their purchase an install DVD of Snow Leopard, Apple's upcoming operating system release.
The pictures, sent to Engadget Japanese, have served further fuel speculation that Apple will release Snow Leopard this week, ahead of its announced September release. Numerous rumors and temporary Web site listings have pointed to an Aug. 28 launch.
Mounting clues point toward an August 28 release date for Snow Leopard, the next version of Apple's Mac OS X operating system.
Last week, reports circulated that Apple, which had promised to ship Snow Leopard sometime next month, would in fact launch the upgrade on Friday, August 28. Additional hints that have appeared since then further point to an early release for Mac OS X 10.6. Late yesterday, Apple enthusiast site MacRumors noted that Apple's UK-specific online store briefly showed a ship date for the Snow Leopard "Up-to-Date" program as Aug. 28.
Citing a "pretty reliable source," The Boy Genius Report revealed Saturday what could become new features in an anticipated upcoming new release of Apple's digital media software.
Mac OS X is considered by some to be an extremely secure operating system. Those people claim that thanks to its many security features, users will be kept much safer using Apple's software, rather than risk it with Microsoft's Windows operating system. They claim that proof of that can be found in the sheer number of security vulnerabilities Microsoft has been forced to patch, compared with Apple. Those same people might be interested to know that that logic is starting to show itself for what it really is: a red herring.
