Apple Stock Hits New Highs (2009)
Wow! Wall Street was thrilled with Apple's new product announcements. Today Apple stock reached $208, its all time high.
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Apple Store is Down. New Products Being Released Today.
Have you been to http://store.apple.com/ yet today? It’s down. Apple usually only takes their online store down when they’re adding new products. So what new stuff will Steve Jobs and Co. have ready for this holiday shopping season? There’s a leaked list of new Apple product item numbers swirling around the tech blogs today. It …
Oops! Mac OS X Snow Leopard Bug Deletes All User Data (2009)
The Apple Support forums are full of users who are reporting that all their user data has disappeared from a Mac OS X Snow Leopard bug.
Woman Survives Freak Accident After Being Impaled By A Tree Limb
Michelle Childers had a lucky escape from death after she was skewered through the neck by a tree limb following a freak accident in Montana.
Steve Jobs: New iPods, iTunes and Liver
Last week, a still kind of recovering Steve Jobs, equipped with a new liver, unveiled new iPods with increased multimedia functionality and a new version of iTunes. iTunes 9: New Features Smarter “Genius” Feature: The new and improved iTunes now makes “Genius” recommendations for not just music but apps, movies and TV shows too. Improved …
How Danny DeVito Hilariously Joined Twitter
Actor Danny DeVito just joined Twitter and his first tweet gave us a hint on how an official Danny DeVito Twitter account will entertain his fans online.
Watch Thieves Clean Out An Apple Store In Only 31 Seconds
Thieves cleaned out an Apple Store in NJ. The robbers used a brick to smash the window and stole 23 MacBook Pros, 14 iPhones, and 9 iPods in 31 seconds.
AT&T Rolling Out MMS for iPhone Users on September 25th
It’s been a long time coming, but today AT&T announced that MMS will finally be available to American iPhone users starting September 25. MMS messaging was probably the most hyped feature of the new iPhone OS 3.0 when it was released this past June. AT&T confirmed the September 25th release date today in an e-mail …
Microsoft Advertising Team Under Fire For Removing An African American From Its Polish Website
Microsoft is apologizing for removing an African American man from a photo on its website.
Toshiba Applies To Blu-ray Disc Association And Plans To Manufacture Blue-ray Players
Toshiba announced this week that they have applied to the Blu-ray Association and will begin producing Blu-ray DVD players. Toshiba had developed the HD-DVD high-definition DVD format and competed and conceded defeat in a format war with Sony’s competing Blu-ray in 2008. Details will be made available later this year, but this move should give …
MTV Shutting Down Its Time Square Studio
MTV didn’t renew the lease on its window studio overlooking Times Square in NYC. MTV opened the space ~12 years ago for TRL, which helped launch the career of its host, Carson Daly. MTV’s lease runs through the end of 2009. methodshop
Apple Tablet Rumors Intensify – Will The Apple Tablet Really Be Called The iPad?
Here we go again. The Internets are buzzing with Apple Tablet and MacBook Touch announcement rumors. Could the rumors finally be true? According to an article in the Financial Times, Apple‘s long rumored tablet is reportedly going to be announced as early as September and in stores in time for Christmas. The Financial Times is …
iTunes Digital Album Covers and MacBook Tablet Rumors
Apple’s digital music store, iTunes, has a problem. iTunes users don’t like to buy entire albums. iTunes is great for downloading singles, but there’s not much incentive to purchase entire albums. Sometimes Apple will restrict certain songs, especially longer tracks, to “Album Only” purchases. Apple also often includes music videos and special PDFs of album …
Texting Teen Falls Down Staten Island Manhole
15-year-old Alexa Longueira got an unexpected sewer tour when she fell into an uncovered Staten Island manhole while texting and walking.
Rumor: Apple Is Releasing An $800 Tablet
PC World is reporting that Apple will release its long-awaited tablet in October just in time for Christmas. Sourcing a translated report on the Taiwanese site InfoTimes, the PC World article follows Digital Daily's John Paczkowski having written; "It's about to go into production in advance of an October launch date." While continuing to play things close to the chest, apparently a few of Apple's manufacturing partners are indicating that orders have been placed for tablets.
British Royal Family Joins Twitter
Buckingham Palace announced last Friday that the royals now have their own Twitter account @BritishMonarchy. The purpose of the account is to inform royal watchers of what the family is up to on a daily basis. Don’t expect Her Majesty to tweet or to get any dirt or juicy information from the account. A palace …
United Airlines In A PR Nightmare After “United Breaks Guitars” Music Video Goes Viral
In the spring of 2008, musician Dave Carroll and other passengers watched from the plane as klutzy United Airlines baggage handlers in Chicago broke his(Amazon link) $3,500 Taylor acoustic guitar on the tarmac. After the incident, Carroll contacted the airline to ask for compensation. For the next few months, Carroll was given the runaround until …
