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David Tupman, who has been on Apple’s payroll for over a decade now, is no longer working for the Cupertino, California-based computer giant. The reason behind his departure is unknown. What is known for a fact is that Apple has been leaking executives like a sinking ship over the past year. Tupman was Appl...

CNN is running a story on account hacking in iTunes and how Apple has failed to address the matter over the years. A security researcher suggests there's a good chance Apple isn't even trying to fix the problem. The report highlights a few complaints from Apple forum posters, such as this one from a user identified as “glight&rd...

Apple is selling a refurbished MacBook Air packing a 1.86 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU, and 256GB of NAND Flash for just $1,099 - a $400 discount from the notebook’s original retail price. Originally released October 2010, this MacBook Air is the first redesigned model with a square-ish appearance and FaceTime camera.

Where To?, the augmented reality app that helps you find all types of stuff near you or far away, has been updated to version 4.1 with a number of enhancements. In addition to finding pretty much anything for you, Where To? offers turn-by-turn voice directions using Navigon MobileNavigator, TomTom, MotionX GPS drive...

If we’re to go by Scott Forstall’s explanation as to why Apple sets the time to 9:42 on its iDevice promos, the next iPhone should be announced some 40 minutes into the WWDC 2012 kick off. Renewed interest in the time mystery has spawned a report quoting former Apple executive Bob Borchers as say...

A discovery by Patently Apple reveals that the company run by Tim Cook has recently trademarked the term “Macroscalar”, which may be related to 3D transistors as part of a new A-processor architecture, according to Extreme Tech’s Joel Hruska. Up until now, work on Apple’s “Macroscalar” ...

Apple is adding more and more high-res graphical elements to the OS X Lion interface hinting at Retina displays for future Macintosh computers. Apple pundit John Gruber points out to an additional set of high-DPI image resources that act as clear evidence of Apple’s plans for the future of desktop computing. The finding is credited to ...

After pulling a number of fraudulent applications from iTunes, Apple is reminding iOS developers that if they want to do business in the App Store, they’ll have to play by the rules.Particularly, the Cupertino giant has issued a reminder to all those enrolled with the company’s developer program that they shouldn’t take adv...

An analyst with Deutsche Bank believes the next-generation iPad will drop in at a favorable point for Apple, as rivals scramble to release products that don’t even remotely compete with the iPad. Deutsche Bank’s Chris Whitmore expects the third-generation iPad to arrive in March. Although many analysts a...

Best Buy is asking customers to say whether they’d be interested in buying an Apple HDTV with a 42-inch display and an iSight camera for Skype conversations on the big screen. A “concept” survey asks U.S. residents to provide their feedback on a potential new television product from Apple....

As the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating Google and Apple for allegedly signing a “no poach” agreement, the latter has just lost a senior director to the former. Google will be assigning a top secret project to this person, according to VentureBeat. Simon Prakash was most recently the senior director o...

The world’s most popular note-taking application has received an update on the Mac platform, gaining a new note editor interface, a redesigned login window, new functionality when deleting files, a new way to create lists, and Lion full-screen enhancements. According to the developers, “Evernote helps mill...

Case manufacturer Cellpig has launched a promo to entice customers into buying their Cellhelmet case, promising to replace their iPhone 4S altogether if it breaks inside the case. The company still needs to raise some funds before production can begin, so customers may have to pre-order their Cellhelmets on fait...

Newly-revealed details about Apple’s A5 chip inside the iPhone 4S are shedding new light on the company’s reasons not to ship Siri for iPhone 4 handsets. It appears that the reason wasn’t marketing after all. It was tech-related. Audience, a company that licensed its latest EarSmart technology to Apple, said its partn...

An 18-year-old Foxconn employee who had never seen or touched a finished Apple iPad agreed to talk to the press under condition of anonymity to describe the working conditions at the factories that assemble Apple’s immensely profitable gadgets. Miss Chen (as CNN reporters decided to fictively call her) stared...

After releasing OS X 10.7.3 to the public last week, Apple started receiving a lot of negative feedback from customers who had installed the delta update on their computers only to be greeted by a “CUI” error message and applications failing to launch. The issue has not been addressed yet, though Apple should be working on a fix a...

Apple has updated its End User License Agreement (EULA) for the iBooks Author application to amend a section that spurred controversy regarding the sales of e-books created with the tool. The updated EULA comes as part of update 1.0.1. It arrives alongside the new iBooks 2.0.1, which fixes an issue that caused various iBooks Textbooks to crash.

Labor activist and founder of China Labor Watch, Li Qiang says Apple is on top of the issues surrounding its assembly partner, Foxconn. In fact, the Cupertino company is doing much more than the likes of Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and Nokia. “I compared Apple with other cell phone companies, such as Nokia. And the conditions in those facto...

The Security Update 2012-001 launched this week delivers a ton of fixes, but it also breaks Rosetta compatibility for some users, rendering their PowerPC apps useless. Apple has now released Security Update 2012-001 version 1.1 to address this issue. Earlier this week, one Softpedia reader commented: “Don't download this ye...

The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) has released an app for the iPad that facilitates access to the ASHP library of eBooks. The software was developed by Impelsys, ASHP’s eBooks technology partner. There are almost two dozen eBooks available for immediate download onto the iPad, with more to roll out in the coming w...

In case your trial copy of Final Cut Pro X has expired, you may want to remove it from your system, as it takes up unnecessary space on your hard drive. To do that, there are specific steps for different versions of the Mac operating system.

 This week, Apple updated FCP X with quite a few fixes and enhancements. The 30-day tria...

The retail stores Browett handled in his day may not have provided a perfect experience, as many have suggested ever since he was named SVP of Retail at Apple, but the man handles his business well, reports suggest. Apple, as you may have heard, recently decided to take Browett under their wing and nurture him. Appl...

A new study conducted by Vocal Laboratories Inc. (Vocalabs) reveals that Apple’s support satisfaction has dropped significantly in the past 18 months. Vocal Laboratories’ National Customer Service Survey (NCSS) tracks customer service quality in different industries. The NCSS is underwritten and conducted independently by...

Jumsoft, the company you generally see mentioned in the news for their cool Keynote themes, has launched its first new product for 2012 - Book Palette. It’s a companion to the new iBooks Author from Apple that allows you to make stunning digital textbooks for iPad. “If you have the slightest idea of what the Jumsoft team is doing ...

An Apple Store Genius whose iMessages got leaked to the web spurred a flurry of reports about the service being buggy. Apple, however, quickly dismissed such claims, saying the employee simply hadn’t followed procedure. The employee not only had his texts leaked to the web for everyone to see, but also a bunch of photos ...

Aspyr Media has announced the release of RAGE: Campaign Edition for Mac OS X. Developed by id Software, the creators of DOOM and QUAKE, RAGE is a stunning first-person shooter set in the future, after an asteroid impacts Earth. “You emerge into this vast wasteland to discover humanity working to rebuild itself against such f...

Apple has put out a notice to all registered developers informing that a new version of the Safari web browser is available for testing. The update boasts faster JavaScript on OS X Lion, delivers plug-in fixes, multi-touch enhancements, and more. Labeled as “Safari 5.1.4 Update for Mac and Windows”, the new seed arrives ...

A strange error showing a message that reads “CUI” causing applications to crash on launch has been discovered in OS X 10.7.3 Lion. Fixing the issue is complicated, though not impossible, and Apple is already on the case for a future software update.Many users who installed OS X 10.7.3 on launch day became very disappointed to see that...

Avid is giving Apple’s iMovie a run for its money with the release of Avid Studio for iPad. The application enables users to edit video, audio, and photos using tools like Storyboard, Timeline, and a flurry of effects and transitions. Avid is attempting to put “big-screen moviemaking” into the hands of every iPad owne...

A new report from Taiwan claims the new iPhone 5 will put Apple’s smartphone refresh trend back on track. The company will unveil the next-generation handset this summer, during its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, according to Daiwa Securities. The analyst firm is quoted by the Chinese-language Commercial Times ...