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Google’s Former Food Director “Poached” By Apple

It’s fairly difficult to pin down what Apple is cooking up next. Until Now. Apple has “poached” Google’s Food Director John Dickman, in what seems to be the latest battle of the Silicon Valley Cafeteria Wars.

Google’s cafeteria hasn’t exactly been in the limelight lately. Rumors of illegal workers being staffed have caused some initial worry [...]

Tapulous: Latest Victim to Silicon Valley Venture Capital Culture

Tapulous is an iPhone development company best known for applications like Tap Tap Revenge, Friend Book and the Twitter client Twinkle. After a seemingly smooth launch and opening months, things have just been shaken up at Tapulous, not for the better.

The iPhone dev company launched right before Apple’s WWDC ‘08. It seemed like good timing [...]

Weak Consumer Spending? Try Telling That to Apple

Despite the economic downturn, the National Post is reporting that Apple is attracting potential buyers like never before.

In a recent article, the National Post cites that in a recent survey of 4,400 people between August 4th and August 12th, conducted by RBC Capital Markets and ChangeWave Research, 34% of participants claimed they plan to purchase [...]

Chinese Authorities Block Access to iTunes

Chinese authorities have blocked all access to the iTunes music store, ostensibly due to one single album out of the over 8 million or so songs, that doesn’t groove well with them.

The album in question, entitled ‘Songs for Tibet’, includes tracks such as “great firewall of China,” criticizing the the unfair treatment that Tibetans [...]

Japan and iPhone: Afraid to Commit

By now we all know that the iPhone 3G was a huge success on it’s debut weekend.  Now the question is:  Will its international popularity hold up, or did first weekend sales boom due to curiosity for the sleek device?
With Apple announcing 1 million iPhone 3G sales in the first three days, they neglected to [...]

Mac Users Stay Loyal with Overwhelming Number of iPhone 3G Purchases

On July 11th, while many of us were waiting in line to grab our piece of the 1 million iPhones sold this last weekend, members of investment bank Piper Jaffray were conducting a survey in the New York and Minneapolis queues that quantified everything from launch demand to the mix of 8GB and 16GB models, [...]

[Video] MacBlogz iPhone 3G Launch Line continued.

We here at MacBlogz hope that everyone has had a successful and enjoyable iPhone 3G launch day. While there were definitely some ups and downs (to say the least), those of you that have triumphed over the lines only to be faced with further issues, can now sit back and bask in all of the [...]

[Photo Gallery][updates] MacBlogz iPhone 3G Launch Line Pics

This Morning’s iPhone 3G Launch Line Was Our Family Away from Home.
We joined our wonderful 3G Launch Line at around 3:30am this morning. Luckily, we were in a location that had a fairly large Apple Store right around the corner, so we had two lines within a stone’s throw from each other. Our line was [...]

[video] How do you like them Apples? One nerd’s quest to find something to write about.

Earlier this week I set out on a quest to find the most irrelevant, OCD, and downright fanboyish post ever.
Here it is:
Below is a video clip from the Apple Special Event in August 2007 in which Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the all-new, redesigned aluminum iMac and the new features in iLife ‘08, iWork [...]

Apple moving into Vegas with insanely lavish Retail Store.

Apple is planning to unleash its fury in Las Vegas with an insanely lavish and over-the-top 20,000-square foot Retail space. Check out a few of the photos below (courtesy of Apple Insider) and read the full article here.

Apple Insider and ifo Apple Store co-authored the story mentioned here.

Where to get the best WWDC Live Coverage.

Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference is an annual event showcasing everything Apple and Development related. Every year, thousands of top industry professionals and Apple enthusiasts get together in San Francisco, CA at the Moscone West. 2008 is the first year where this event has sold out, largely in part to the brand new “iPhone Development Track” [...]

Mac OS X Lion. Time to start getting excited ! [poll]

Apple’s Mac OS X is a Unix-based operating system built on technology developed at NeXT (Steve Jobs’ side-project) from the second half of the 1980s until early 1997, when Apple purchased the company.
Mac OS X (currently Leopard) is far and away the best operating system I have ever used. Without getting too technical… Leopard [...]

Apple to steal Garmin and TomTom’s milk money

Remember those things our grandparent’s use to use that when unfolded like a paper puzzle, revealed microscopic lines, designated points of interest, and could estimate our travel length and time within +/- 100 miles? What were they called again?…Oh yes, Maps! Well, since the invention and subsequent “perfection” of GPS navigators from companies like [...]

24 hr Apple Store has 60 person line in the middle of the day.

For absolutely no reason there is a line 60 people deep outside Apple’s flagship retail store in Manhattan. Some people think they’re waiting for a 3g iPhone. Others just have no idea what they are doing. Keep in mind, this store is open 24 hrs a day. This is simply insane. Apple’s magical, mystery marketing [...]

[video] Boston Apple Store Before Opening !

Here’s a brand new video displaying the madness going on as we speak in Boston !!!

Battle of the fruits !

RIM (Research in Motion) attempts to make waves with the new BlackBerry Bold 9000, a touch screen device.
“I was absolutely blown away. I can pretty much say I’ve never seen a better-looking display on a smartphone. Colors pop off the screen, and it’s really amazing how sharp and crisp everything looks on the display.” CNet [...]

Second Life Apple Store.

While You Tubing a moment ago I came across this two minute video. Check out the detailed genius bar 1 minute 6 seconds into the video !
Second Life has quickly become an all encompassing virtual world. Apple has forever been virtually immortalized. Does that make sense? Either way, now people can spend their virtual dollars [...]

What moves Apple’s stock?

What moves Apple’s stock price? This is a question that can be asked and answered by every hot-shot tech investor and Silicon Valley analyst for years to come. Everyone has their own theory on what influences Apple’s stock fluctuations. But, chances are most people are wrong.
A company like Apple’s stock price does not fluctuate up [...]

NEW !!! Get-a-Mac Ads !

Hello all,
Apple has posted three new Get-a-mac ads on their website titled Sad Song, Group and Pep Rally. You can follow the previous links or go to Apple.com and check them out.
ORRRRRRR……. you can check out some truly remarkable Apple amazingness below ! (we’ve posted about this one before, but it’s just too awesome to [...]

Google Moves In.

Unless you’ve been living at the bottom of the ocean for the last 4 years, you’ve heard of a little internet company called Google™. Well, how would you feel if this friendly little internet GIANT was moving into your town and developing massively complex buildings, data centers and cooling plants? Would you welcome The Goog [...]