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Macbook Air Hinge Failures Not Covered by Apple’s Warranty (VIDEO)

A large number of first generation Macbook Air owners are claiming that the hinges on their notebooks are failing. Unfortunately, early responses from Apple claim these issues are not covered under the company’s warranty.
The issues seem fairly widespread with Macbook Air owners explaining what is going wrong both in Apple’s Discussion Threads, as well [...]

App Store Wars: Taking the Fun Out of Flatulence [U]

After we ran a story about two competing applications, NJection Mobile and Trapster, another iPhone developer has stepped up to expose what he sees as unethical and immoral tactics being used by his competition.
Air-o-matic makes Pull My Finger (iTunes link), which sells for $0.99. Competing developers InfoMedia Inc, make iFart Mobile (iTunes link), which also [...]

Apple Removes Recent NVIDIA Graphics Update (VIDEO)

Apple has hastily pulled a recent software update that was targeted at graphics issues stemming from the Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI adapter with the Mini DisplayPort-enabled MacBook Air, MacBook and MacBook Pro.

Just two days after its release, the NVIDIA Graphics Update 2009 has been removed from both Apple’s website and software update system for [...]

Another Fake Steve Jobs Heart Attack Rumor Published Online

Wired.com’s open image viewer had been used today in another disgraceful attempt to spread false rumors about Apple CEO Steve Jobs going into cardiac arrest.
Apparently, even amidst all of the incredibly heated reports regarding Jobs’ health, some people thought it would be amusing to post more fake rumors about the CEO going into cardiac arrest. [...]

Leaked Image Shows Apple Destroying Macs In Warehouse

A factory worker going by the fake name James Johnston has leaked an image of what allegedly seems to be perfectly fine “looking” Apple equipment being compacted and smashed in a warehouse in Sydney, Australia.
The report which first showed up on apcmag.com, claims that most of the macs shown in the image are in working [...]

Apple Sends Wired a Cease-and-Desist Letter for Netbook Video [U]

Apple’s legal hounds have sent Wired’s Gadget Lab and Brian Chen a cease-and-desist letter demanding they remove a detailed video explaining how to hack Mac OS X onto a netbook PC.
Chen has disclosed via Twitter that a past video tutorial on how to install Mac OS X onto a netbook, has gotten Wired into legal [...]

Apple Acknowledges Fairly Serious Safari RSS Vulnerability

Apple has acknowledge a moderately frightening Safari RSS vulnerability than makes the browser vulnerable to attack without user intervention.
Brian Mastenbrook, a computer scientist using Apple’s Safari browser discovered the bug and reported it to Apple.
“I have discovered that Apple’s Safari browser is vulnerable to an attack that allows a malicious web site to [...]

App Store Wars: Developers, Spamming, Lying and Bogus Reviews

Apple’s App Store has become quite a source for commotion since being unveiled. The latest dilemma comes not from a situation between developers and Apple, but from two competing developers whose applications serve the same purpose.
NJection Mobile (iTunes link) is a speedtrap locating application selling for $0.99, just like Trapster (iTunes link) which is [...]

Apple, Google and Microsoft Sued Over File Preview

Technology giants Apple, Google and Microsoft are all being sued over “file preview” functionality both in web browsers, and operating systems, that allows users to preview files before actually opening them.
Cygnus Systems is suing the three companies saying that they infringed on its patent (#7346850) which was filed back in 2001, but only granted to [...]

Reflection: Was This Summer’s Mobile Me Meltdown Worth It?

This past summer Apple revamped its online suite of applications changing its name from dot-mac to Mobile Me. The transition was painstaking and users that were most affected suffered months of email being lost or deleted. One question we’ve been wondering ourselves is, was it worth it?
Nearly 5 months have gone by since Apple launched [...]

Apple Sued Over Alleged Apple TV Patent Infringements

A lawsuit has been filed against Apple, accusing the company of infringing on certain patents pertaining to the Apple TV, Airport Express, and Macintosh personal computers.
The lawsuit was filed Tuesday, by EZ4Media in Bannockburn, Illinois. The patents in question were obtained by EZ4Media (UEI) in March. They say that Apple hired three former UEI employees [...]

iPhone Dev Spends $500k on Development, Still Not Approved by Apple

Apple’s App Store is an interesting, exciting and frightening place all at the same time. iPhone application developer Chris Nikkel knows this first hand. His application “Newber” has spent nearly 75 days waiting for approval from Apple, and he has yet to hear a word.
Chris Nikkel and FreedomVoice Systems have spent nearly half a million [...]

Unibody Macbook Issues, Ram Lockups and NVIDIA ‘Bad Bumps’

Multiple credible publications, such as PC World and Computerworld are reporting that some users of the new MacBook and MacBook Pro unibody laptops are reporting that their machines become unstable or lock up after they add third-party memory. Additionally, NVIDIA is being charged with selling “bad bumps” in their some of their chips.
According to a [...]

Attack of the Mac Clones, Part Two: OpeniMac Sets Up Shop

It seems as though the ongoing Psystar battles have opened the doors for a few more bold clone attempts, as another Mac clone maker has popped up. This time, they are selling the “OpeniMac” and the “OpeniMac Pro,” with Leopard pre-installed.
Back in April 2008, Psystar unveiled a line of Mac clones. After having their [...]

iFund’s $100M Database Leaks Onto The Web

Hosting company Meteora Technologies Group has accidentally leaked Kleiner Perkins’s $100 million iFund Database information onto the internet. With a text editor, the file can be easily read.

The information was quickly indexed by Google, and found in a search by Fruxx.
The iFund is a $100 million fund used to invest in digital startups that have [...]

Apple Is Investigating Gaming, Browser Related Graphics Errors

Apple is investigating two different issues customers are having with their new unibody Macbooks. Some digging around the Apple discussion threads shows that the issues are in fact fairly widespread.
As Macnn explains, the first issue is strictly plaguing Macbook Pros. It involves a “hard lockup”, where the screen will suddenly turn black, during games such [...]

Unlocked 32GB iPhone Mistakenly Sold Outside Apple’s NYC Flagship

Apparently an unauthorized reseller is marketing a 32GB unlocked iPhone only a few blocks away from Apple’s flagship NYC retail store.
As you can imagine, the reseller is clearly mistaken and the 32GB “unlocked” iPhone being displayed is false. The reseller happens to be only a few blocks from Apple’s flagship retail store in NYC, [...]

Apple Ad Banned in Britain, Black Friday Sales Have Begun

UK Bans Another Apple iPhone 3G Commercial
While not the first time, another iPhone 3G commercial has been banned from ever airing in Britain because of misleading claims about network speed and performance. Back in August the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) of the UK pulled an Apple iPhone 3G add claiming it “over-hyped the Internet capabilities [...]

Google Admits to Knowingly Breaking App Store Rules

Google has admitted that their Mobile Search App for iPhone is breaking some of the App Store rules. However, according to a spokesperson, the notion that Google was utilizing private API’s is simply false.
As MacBlogz previously reported, Google’s Mobile App for the iPhone appeared to be breaking some iPhone SDK rules. Research done by John [...]

Apple Sends Cease and Desist Email to Public Wiki Site, Bluwiki [U]

Apple has sent an official “cease and desist” email to public wiki site Bluwiki, demanding they remove postings where users are trying to figure out how to “write software that can sync media to the latest versions of the iPhone and iPod Touch.”
Bluwiki is a public wiki site that aims at allowing anyone to [...]