(Video): iPhone 4S’s Siri makes appearance on CBS’s Big Bang Theory
Former head of Palm, Inc., Jon Rubinstein, leaves HP
Following various rumors during the week, HP has now confirmed that Jon Rubinstein, former head of Palm, Inc., has left the company.
Rubinstein was CEO of Palm, Inc. before HP acquired the company back in 2010. In recent months, his role for the company has been reduced to R&D work.
Before joining Palm, Rubinstein was the head of Apple’s iPod devision and had a major role in bringing the small hard drives to the original models in 2001.
Nintendo sees first annual losses due to Apple
“Nintendo Co Ltd posted a sharp drop in quarterly profit and forecast a bigger-than-expected full-year loss, its first at an operating level, as it battles a strong yen and its games devices lose ground to gadgets such as Apple’s iPhone,” Yoshiyuki Osada and Isabel Reynolds report for Reuters.
“Nintendo now expects an annual operating loss of 45 billion yen ($575 million), dwarfing expectations of a 4.2 billion yen loss, based on the average of 21 analyst forecasts,” Osada and Reynolds report. “Nintendo cut its forecast for annual sales of its ageing Wiiconsole to 10 million devices from 12 million, and for the 3DS handheld games device to 14 million from 16 million.”
Osada and Reynolds report, “The company plans to launch the Wii’s successor, the Wii U, in Japan, the United States, Europe and Australia in the year-end season, Iwata told reporters. But with cloud-based gaming emerging as a potential threat, Nintendo may have trouble generating excitement about its new product, some analysts say… Apple is thought to be preparing a new iPad and possibly a smart TV that could be game-changers for the industry. ‘We think we need to consider the possibility that home consoles could become a thing of the past,’ Citigroup analyst Soichiro Fukuda wrote in a recent report. ‘We think the direction taken by marketing trendsetter Apple will be very important and we will be watching the company’s announcements at future events with interest.’”
Read more in the full article here.
Apple employees to receive discounts on Apple products
According to 9to5Mac, during today’s town hall meeting, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced to employees that they would get $500 off Macs and $250 iPads.
The new discount program starts in June 2012, and can only be used once every 3 years. Employees also need to have been working at Apple for at least 90 days. The discount is reportedly for both corporate and retail employees. The discount is said to exclude the Mac mini.
Apple employees presently are allowed a one-a-year 25% discount on Apple systems. One report even claims that this discount will remain in place alongside the new discounts.
In 2007, shortly after the original iPhone‘s launch, Apple had announced a similar perk for employees. At that time, Steve Jobs announced that all full time and part time Apple employees would receive an 8GB iPhone.
Via: MacRumors.com
AppleScoop.com pays tribute to Penn State’s Joe Paterno
AppleScoop.com is dedicating the next week to the memory and the life of the winningest coach in college football history, Joe Paterno.
“JoePa” as he was known to those of us who went to Penn State, was more then just a football coach, he was Penn State.
Over the years, he gave countless time, knowledge and money to the school and help make it what it is today – a high class school that any of us would have no problems sending our kids too.
While it is true that scandal blackened his final days, keep in mind that he did not cause it, nor was he ever directly involved. He too was a victim just like those students who came forward and brought the scandal to light.
WE ARE, PENN STATE!!!
“Inside Apple” now available at Amazon.com in hardcover and Kindle form
The long talked about book entitled “Inside Apple” by Adam Lashinsky is now available at Amazon.com in hardcover to Kindle Book Format and costs $26.99 (or $16.19 for Prime Members).
The book claims to take a look behind the scenes on how Apple, Inc. works and how it become the world’s most successful company.
For more information, click here
Apple to hold “Town Hall Meeting” today – discuss “Exciting New Things”
Virgin America honoring Steve Jobs
The airline Virgin America has taken it upon themselves to apply a famous quote from the late Steve Jobs to one of their new Airbus A320 jets. According to the photo (taking by Virgin America) shows the famous “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish” quote that Steve Jobs said during his now popular commencement speech at Standford University back in 2005.
According to MacRumors.com, the company’s owner, Richard Branson said that it choose the quote “as part of an internal plane naming competition.”
Apple opens up new iTunes U Support Section
With the announcement of the iTunes U app during last week’s event, the company has now opened a new support web site for the app.
For more information, just go to: www.apple.com/support/itunes-u
Jailbreaking iOS – The dirty truth
By: Dan Uff
Recently, we received a few emails asking us why we don’t cover how-tos on the topic of Jailbreaking an iOS device (such as an iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad).
While other web sites make it seem that Jailbreaking is “THE” thing to do, here are what these sites do not tell you:
1. Apple has protected their iOS devices for a reason – security. Jailbreaking an iOS device is like running a Windows computer without a firewall. Hackers could exploit the holes that Jailbreaking causes to obtain your personal information, contacts, emails, etc.
2. Putting a non-Apple approved iOS application is like what I just said in opinion #1.
3. It voids your device’s warranty. Even though one can restore a device back to its original state, one risks a chance that the person will not be able to restore the device, there by allowing Apple to refuse a user customer support.
4. Jailbreaking apps could gain access to other apps. An Apple-approved iOS application runs in its very own area called a Sandbox. This sandbox protects the application from accessing other applications and other parts of the operating system. All (legal) iOS developers must abide by this stipulation. Jailbreak apps do not.
Yes, their are some neat Jailbroking applications, and I do agree that Apple should find a way for developers to make some Jailbroken apps work on an iOS device, but, like I said, they (Apple) wants to make sure that iOS is a secure operating system for all to use. Do you really want to risk having your personal information stolen by supporting Jailbreaking? We do not.
Don’t agree? Please tell me why in the comments below.
