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Briefly: Apple Issues Press Release Announcing Papermaster’s Arrival

Apple has issued an official press release regarding the new arrival of Mark Papermaster. The new recruit will now act as Senior Vice President of Devices Hardware Engineering at Apple.
Following reports issued last week about Papermaster leaving IBM to join Apple, a press release has made the transition official. While IBM has surely been distraught [...]

Tony Fadell, Senior VP of iPod Division, Leaves Apple

Tony Fadell is the Senior Vice President of the iPod Division at Apple Inc., having succeeded Jon Rubinstein in 2006. According to the Wall Street Journal Fadell is stepping down from his position at Apple, and the company has hired Mark Papermaster from IBM to replace him.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Fadell is [...]

Apple Poaches Top IBM Chip Designer, IBM Sues Back

IBM’s vice president of microprocessor technology development, Mark Papermaster has been poached by Apple, and will begin working closely under CEO Steve Jobs in early November. In an attempt to protect its technology and intellectual property, IBM is suing Papermaster and hoping to prevent him from divulging any trade secrets to Apple.

IBM issued the following [...]

Ex Apple CEO John Sculley Comments On iPhone Success

TechRadar has a very interesting piece with ex Apple CEO John Sculley. In the article, Sculley reveals much of what he believes make Apple, the iPhone and current CEO Steve Jobs so… “magical.”
The article dives right into the core aspects of Apple and the iPhone’s success. When asked if the iPhone is as important of [...]

MacDailyNews Posts a Comprehensive List of iPhone Haters, Enjoy

Our dear friends at MacDailyNews posted an extremely interesting article yesterday.

Following statements on the iPhone’s blockbuster success made by Apple CEO Steve Jobs, MDN has compiled a rather comprehensive list of some infamous iPhone naysayers.
READ → MacDailyNews

Steve Jobs Makes Rare Appearance During Quarterly Earnings Call

Apple CEO Steve Jobs made a rare appearance during Apple’s 4th quarter earnings results conference call. Feeling the timing was right to address some questions that have been raised, Jobs highlighted two core milestones. First being Apple beating (outselling) RIM, and second, measured by revenue, Apple has become the world’s third largest mobile phone supplier, [...]

BOOM! Apple Officially Smashes Goal of Selling 10 Million iPhones

BOOM! Apple has officially shattered their goal of selling 10 million iPhones by the end of calendar year 2008.

Arguably the biggest piece of information announced in today’s 4th quarter earnings conference call was Apple’s iPhone sales. Apple has explained that in this past quarter 6.9 million iPhone 3G’s were sold. This exceeds all previous iPhone [...]

Apple Awards Executives $122 Million Worth of Stock Grants

Apple has long used stock grants, as a way to lock crucial executives into their positions at the company for certain amounts of time. Last week the Cupertino big-tech firm awarded more than $122 million in stock compensation to members of its executive team.

The restricted stock grants are being used to reward Apple’s top-line of [...]

Facebook Mandates Redesign on its 100 Million Users.

That’s right, as of today all Facebookers will be forced to adapt to the social networking giant’s redesign unveiled seven weeks ago, whether they like it or not.

Since launch nearly four and a half years ago, Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, has discovered that any significant changes made to the popular online destination cannot be delivered [...]

Former Apple Exec Sides With Dell to Take on iTunes

In the three years following a ‘wrongful termination’ suit against former employer, Apple Inc., Tim Bucher has chosen to side with Dell to combat the iTunes supremacy.

According to Bucher’s lawsuit, on November 10, 2004, Steve Jobs had told the former engineering executive that “People think you are sometimes manic-depressive…. I think I’m going to [...]

Sprint Execs Love the Instinct; Dismiss iPhone as a Threat

Sprint Execs have learned to love the Instinct handset. In fact, the only time you see them without one in their hands, is when someone nearby has an iPhone they’re playing with.

In Sprint’s second-quarter performance discussions with Wall Street analysts this morning, the company’s execs made it abundantly clear that they are not threatened by [...]

Macbook Touch? Think Again. Completely Re-vamped Notebook Line Instead?

A recently republished rumor from our friends over at MacDailyNews about an upcoming Macbook Touch has recently attracted major attention across the web. So much so, that even the Wired Gadget Lab, not particularly known for endorsing or spreading mac rumors, has written about the elusive device as well. However, amongst all of the ongoing [...]

Doug Field to make a Segway into Apple

It was recently reported on SegwayChat forums that Doug Field, Segway’s Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Design and Engineering (since day 1) will be leaving the company to accept the coveted position as Apple’s Vice President of Product Design.
During his time at Segway, Field and his team were entirely responsible for the development [...]