Apple fanboy/girl site Cupidtino releases iPhone app. Barf bags primed

A little part of us died inside when we first read about the Cupidtino dating service set up for Apple fanboys and fangirls, and now the developer has released an iPhone app.

A little part of us died inside when we first read about the Cupidtino dating service set up for Apple fanboys and fangirls, and now the developer has released an iPhone app.

A prankster tampered with a demo model of an iPhone in a Coventry supermarket so that anyone trying out the Siri voice technlogy could expect an earful of abuse in return.

Hewlett-Packard has hung on to its #1 on the planet ranking, increasing its share of the PC global market to 17.7 per cent in the third quarter of 2011, according to the number-crunching bods at Gartner.

With the eagerly awaited iOS 5 software nearly ready to rumble, Apple have just released an update to iTunes, taking it up to version 10.5.

The Financial Post is reporting that Apple briefly moved past Exxon to become the most valuable publicly traded corporation in the United States, although it remains famously stingy.

Apple has taken the wraps off its new generation of MacBook Airs, which strut into the world sporting nippy Intel Sandy Bridge processors and high-speed Thunderbolt ports, spawning machines which the company claims are up to twice as fast as their predecessors.
Best of all, the backlit keyboard has returned too.

Free app distributor GetJar has responded angrily to Apple after lawyers for the tech giant sent them a ‘cease and desist letter‘ over their use of the term ‘app store.’
Head honcho Patrick (Mad) Mork let rip in a blog post, insisting that Apple claiming ownership of the term ‘app store’ was – in his words – ”taking the piss.” Way to go Partick!

Vast clouds of dislodged suit-dust threatened to engulf Cupertino today as Apple execs puffed out their chests and roared to the world, ” Over 15 billion apps have been downloaded from our App Store.”

Apple has announced some big – and some not so big – upgrades to its iOS operating system at today’s WWDC, and one of the most interesting is its new iCloud service.

It’s certainly not turning out to be Apple’s week – just a day after the news broke that its iPhones and iPads were secretly storing location info, Greenpeace has produced a damning document declaring them to be the ‘least green’ tech company.

It seems like every week we’re posting up news about the continuing growth of Google’s Android OS, and the latest figures reveal that it’s leaving Apple behind in the dust.

Man, we love this – and what a perfect toy for those folks sitting in long iPad2 queues to play with while they wait!

Apple’s shiny, cash-scooping prestigious Regent Store in London didn’t escape the attention of rampaging protesters at Saturday’s huge March for the Alternative demo on Saturday.

We’ve long been baffled by Apple’s erratic, censorial and sometimes moralistic App Store approval policies, but their approval of an iPhone and iPad app targeting “homosexual strugglers” really is head scratching stuff.

Apple has just announced that it will be releasing the latest iteration of its mobile operating system – iOS version 4.3 – on March 11th.
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