Entries Tagged ‘Apple’:
filed in Business, Music on Sep.15, 2008
Best Buy is moving into a position to take a piece of the market share for music downloads. The electronics retail giant’s bid Monday to acquire online music provider Napster would continue Best Buy’s quest for mobile dominance by boosting its mobile music offering, while attempting to rescue the struggling Napster in the process.
Minneapolis-based Best [...]
Tags: Apple, Best Buy, downloads, Music, Napster
filed in Gadgets, Software on Sep.09, 2008
The 3G iPhone has had a rough start since its inception. Signal issues, system crashes, and other glitches have plagued users. Most recently, a glaring security flaw allowed people to bypass the password lock code and gain access to the iPhone’s contact list. Firmware update 2.1, believed to be announced at tomorrow’s Apple event, might [...]
Tags: Apple, Bug, iphone, security, Software
filed in Odd Stuff, People on Aug.28, 2008
Bloomberg News goofed by accidentally published an incomplete version of Steve Jobs obituary over its wire service. This gave many Apple fans and investors a huge scare late yesterday.
The service quickly retracted the release, but it was a little to late as many Apple forums and social networks were buzzing over this news.
What’s even [...]
Tags: Apple, Bloomberg, Dead, Obituary, Steve Jobs
filed in Gadgets, Software on Aug.19, 2008
Apple is trying to make friends and influence people who have been disappointed over the latest issues with the iPhone 3G. Apple is offering MobileMe users 60 days of service for free.
The company’s wireless syncing service was supposed to replace its .Mac service and provide nearly instant data syncing between a user’s home computer and [...]
Tags: Apple, Application, Free, iphone, MobileMe