Munster offers three content scenarios for iTV, says Apple tapping ‘major TV component supplier’ for late 2012 launch

Apple television mockup by Guilherme M. Schasiepen Piper Jaffray’s resident Apple analyst Gene Munster is arguably the most vocal proponent of an integrated high-definition television set from Apple, the mythical iTV. His old predictions were picked up by the press lately thanks to that vague Apple HD TV hint in Walter Isaacson’s authorized Steve Jobs biography, [...]

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Apple’s new retail SVP and why he was chosen to replace Ron Johnson

We reported last night that Apple officially appointed CEO of Dixons John Browett as its senior vice president of Retail following Ron Johnson’s departure in October of last year. Browett is leaving his position at Dixons Retail, which operates various United Kingdom-based retail stores including Currys, Currys.digital, and PC World. Dixons is one of the [...]

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Neil Young: In spite of iPod revolution, Steve Jobs enjoyed vinyl, was working on high-fidelity music service

A year ago, CNN reported that Apple was working on a high-fidelity music service that would have required updates to its iPods and other music playing devices. “Most of you aren’t hearing it the way it’s supposed to sound,” Dr. Dre said in a Beats Audio promotional video. “And you should — hear it the way [...]

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Mac OS X finally gets ZFS support thanks to former Apple engineer

Apple has long been rumored to include support for the ZFS file system designed by Sun, with rumors dating back even before Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz announced in 2007 Leopard would utilize ZFS as its file system. It even made an appearance in Disk Utility in a beta of Mac OS X 10.5 (pictured right). [...]

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Foxconn to set up five manufacturing facilities in Brazil, each employing 1,000 workers [UPDATE: Foxconn denies]

Apple and Foxconn are continuing to work on bringing that $12.5 billion iPad plant in Brazil online (there have been no iPads “Made in Brazil” seen yet, unlike iPhones). Meanwhile, the country’s Secretary of Planning and Development of the State of São Paulo Julio Semeghini revealed today that Apple’s favorite contract manufacturer will build up to five factories in [...]

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Apple updates Final Cut Pro X with multicam editing

Apple this morning updated its Final Cut Pro X video editing software with new features, namely the much sought-after multicam editing capability. Final Cut Pro X version 10.0.3 is a minor updated bringing other tweaks as well. Full release can be found after the break. More information coming soon. CUPERTINO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Apple® today released [...]

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Apple names European retail executive John Browett its Senior Vice President of Retail

Filling a void left last year by former Senior Vice President of Retail Ron Johnson, Apple has announced that John Browett is its new Senior Vice President of Retail. CUPERTINO, California—January 30, 2012—Apple® today announced that John Browett will join the company as senior vice president of Retail, reporting to Apple CEO Tim Cook. Browett [...]

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China Telecom says it will sell the iPhone 4S in a month

Earlier this month, we reported that China Telecom earned the necessary approvals to launch the iPhone 4S on China’s third-largest carrier. Today, the China Telecom subsidiary Beijing Telecom issued a press release (via China Daily) saying that the Beijing based company will be launching the iPhone 4S as early as the end of February or beginning of [...]

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Mastercard/Paypass to be NFC partner with Apple on iPhone 5?

iPhone NFC by moneto We had some time to talk to a well-connected developer at Macworld who was building an app that, among other capabilities, includes NFC reading for the purpose of mobile transactions.  We were obviously curious why they would do that, noting that third party NFC readers for iPhone weren’t popular, aside from [...]

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Sprint launches official ‘Sprint Zone Mobile’ iPhone app

Since the iPhone 4S landed on Sprint in October, users have not had access to an official Sprint iOS app to manage their account like most other iPhone carriers provide. Now the carrier has launched a new Sprint Mobile Zone app (via SprintFeed) allowing users to manage their online accounts, access promotions and Sprint news, [...]

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