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

January 13th, 2012 3:09pm No comments

Pass the barf bag - Apple fanboy/girl site Cupidtino releases 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.

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Supermarket prankster turns iPhone’s Siri assistant into foul mouthed yob

December 30th, 2011 11:11am No comments

Supermarket prankster turns iPhone's Siri assistant into foul mouthed yob

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.

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Lenovo now #2 global PC vendor behind HP. Apple fail to show in top five

October 13th, 2011 9:30am No comments

Lenovo now #2 global PC vendor behind HP. Apple fail to show in top five

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.

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Apple releases iTunes 10.5 into the wild, gets ready to frolic with iOS 5

October 11th, 2011 7:16pm No comments

Apple releases iTunes 10.5 into the wild to frolic with iOS5

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.

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Apple briefly becomes the most valuable company, still fails to lead where it matters

August 9th, 2011 9:13pm 4 comments

Apple briefly becomes the most valuable company, still fails to lead where it matters

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.

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Apple announces new MacBook Air range, kills off plastic MacBook

July 20th, 2011 2:41pm No comments

Apple announces new MacBook Air range

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.

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Furious GetJar tells ‘bullying’ Apple: “You’re taking the p*ss”

July 11th, 2011 2:46pm 1 comment

Furious GetJar tells 'bullying' Apple: 'You're taking the p*ss'

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!

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High fives galore as Apple App Store smashes through the 15 billion download landmark

July 7th, 2011 2:18pm No comments

High fives galore as Apple App Store smashes through the 15 billion download landmark

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.”

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Apple iOS iCloud serves up automatic cloud storage

June 6th, 2011 10:02pm No comments

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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.

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Apple shamed as the least green tech company

April 21st, 2011 4:01pm No comments

Apple shamed as the least green tech company

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.

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Android’s growth leaves iPhone ‘dead in the water,’ Apple fans should be ‘scared to death’

April 4th, 2011 9:30am 4 comments

Android's growth leaves iPhone 'dead in the water,' Apple fans should be 'scared to death'

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.

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PLAYMOBIL Apple Store Playset for junior fanboys

April 1st, 2011 10:24am 2 comments

PLAYMOBIL Apple Store Playset for junior fanboys

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

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London Apple store hit by protesters, fanboys scatter

March 28th, 2011 11:48am No comments

Photos of the TUC March for the Alternative, anti-cuts protest, central London, Saturday 26th March 2011

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.

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Apple has no problem with ‘anti-gay’ iPhone app despite 80,000 complaints

March 21st, 2011 2:40pm 4 comments

Apple has no problem with 'anti-gay' iPhone app despite 80,000 complaints

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.

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Apple iOS 4.3 coming to iPhone, iPad and Touch from March 11th, 2011

March 2nd, 2011 6:58pm 1 comment

Apple iOS 4.3 coming to iPhones, iPads and Toych from March 11th, 2011

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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