News tagged with 'apple'. Found 455 tagged news.

Apple Store on Simpsons

Cupertino :: CA :: USA | about 2 hours ago

Posted by wikiboy

The Simpsons spare no one: American Idol and X-Files are just a sampling of the cultural icons that the show has taken a pop shot at. There have been Apple references in past seasons: it was a Mac that was parodied in an attempt by a Springfield bully...

Tags: The Simpsons, Apple

Dell loses weekend retail battle, survey suggests

New York City :: NY :: USA | about 17 hours ago

Customers at Best Buy, the largest U.S. electronics retailer, preferred H-P's computers 5-to-1 over Dell's during the three-day weekend, according to a survey of 35 stores conducted by Doug Reid, an analyst at investment bank Thomas Weisel Partners. Chief...

Tags: apple, iphone, ipod, dell, music player, music, Michael Dell

ZDnet Australia: Hackers boot Linux on iPhone

London :: United Kingdom | 1 day ago

A new front has opened in the ongoing arms race between Apple and iPhone hackers, with one hacker group making the iPhone boot with a Linux 2.6 kernel. The announcement of the successful kernel porting was made on the Linux on the iPhone blog, complete...

Tags: iphone, apple, Linux

New month, old worries for stocks

New York City :: NY :: USA | 1 day ago

U.S. stocks appeared set for a weak open Monday, the first trading day in December, as ongoing concerns about the global economic slowdown weighed on investors returning from the long weekend...ET, Dow Jones industrial average, Standard & Poor's 500 and...

Tags: stocks, economy, apple, 500, wall street

Information Week: iPhone Firmware 2.2 Breaking Some Apps

Lisbon Falls :: ME :: USA | 2 days ago

Now that the iPhone firmware 2.2 is available , reports are trickling in about new issues brought on by the upgrade. Among the problems are disabled third-party applications purchased via the iPhone Apps Store. According to user reports on iPhone Atlas...

Tags: iphone, applications, application, apple, iphone firmware

Watchdog bans iPhone TV ad in Britain

London :: CA :: USA | 3 days ago

The ad for the iPhone 3G misled consumers about the speed with which they can access the internet, the Advertising Standards Authority said in a statement on Thursday. Websites In August, the watchdog banned another Apple ad for wrongly suggesting the...

Tags: iphone, apple, banned, web, google, iphone 3g

Apple offers limited Black Friday price cuts (Reuters)

San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 3 days ago

Apple Inc's much-anticipated Black Friday event offered consumers discounts on Mac computers , iPods and accessories at levels similar to years past, despite speculation about deeper price cuts. Apple , a company renown for its marketing prowess, had...

Tags: apple, ipod, iphone

Apple and the Digital Rights Management debate

London :: United Kingdom | 4 days ago

Friday November 28, 2008 iTunes couldn't work for Apple without Digital Rights Management (DRM), as then you could buy a song once and pass it on to three million people. The music companies Apple uses to supply content to the iTunes store would totally...

Tags: apple, itunes, ipod, music

Blackberry Storm: prepare to be let down

London :: United Kingdom | 4 days ago

Anyone with any experience of a smartphone, like the iPhone, knows that they are great because they can connect to the internet using a 3G connection, wherever you are...Your broadband connection at home is far faster, so you want to be able to connect...

Tags: blackberry storm, iphone, apple

PC World: Apple Offers IPhone 3G Gift Card

Lyman :: WY :: USA | 5 days ago

If you're feeling especially giving this holiday season, you can help someone get an iPhone 3G of their own, with the help of a new gift card from Apple. Apple began offering the new iPhone 3G Gift Card on Wednesday...The cards are available at the company's...

Tags: iphone, apple, iphone 3g, gift cards, 3g gift