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Google Honcho's Ex-Mistress Says She Was Attacked by Flight Attendant

Matt Cherette — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 03:11:25 EDT

Has Apple's war on Google soared to 30,000 feet? Marcy Simon, erstwhile mistress of Google chairman Eric Schmidt, has taken to Twitter to report her "abuse" at the hands of a United flight attendant. More »

CryoVac'd iPhone Remains Fully Functional

Mike Byhoff — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:43:14 EST

Before each shift, a chef in Charleston, SC vacuum seals his iPhone in plastic by running it through a CryoVac. Now the phone is safe from all water damage throughout his shift. The kicker? The phone remains fully functional. More »

Macheads Documentary Finds the Biggest Mac Fanboy on the Planet

Mike Byhoff — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:07:44 EST

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Everyone may be enjoying their time at CES right now, but this guy can't wait for Macworld. You think you're a fanboy because you own a lot of Apple products? Child's play. Try getting the logo tattooed on your body. More »

Guys Spoof The Lonely Island with "I'm on a Mac"

Whitney Jefferson — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:20:07 EST

Despite the fact that we're partial to Apple products in general, this spoof is spot-on and hilarious. Lyrics like "a Nano in pink? anything is possible?" and "if you're on a PC then you're not CEO!" put us in stitches. More »

Bill O'Reilly vs. Barney Frank, Part II

The Cajun Boy — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:14:36 EDT

Remember when Bill O'Reilly and Barney Frank almost killed each other on national television? It was, without question, one of the greatest moments in world history, if only because it inspired this Lil' O'Reilly skit. Tonight they met again. More »

Salma Hayek's Hacked Emails Reveal Celebrity's Quotidian Existence

Owen Thomas — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:54:11 EDT

Hackers have broken into Salma Hayek's email, revealing the actress's iPhone-app obsession, designer-clothes habit, travel plans, and more. (Her billionaire husband, François-Henri Pinault, who's throwing a second wedding for her this weekend, pays the bill!) More »

Rosie O'Donnell On View Cold War

Ryan Tate — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:57:48 EST

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Rosie O'Donnell, contradicting Barbara Walters' rosy description of relations on The View: "I’m not saying they loathe each other, but the fact of the matter is, there was not a lot of camaraderie off camera.” [LAT]

Microsoft research chief takes credit for iPhone

Owen Thomas — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:20:00 EDT

At Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles today, Rick Rashid, the head of Microsoft Research, reminded the audience that he helped write the Mach kernel 25 years ago. That piece of code is now at the core of Apple's OS X, the operating system which runs both the Mac and the IPhone. What he should be asking: Why didn't his employer think of that? (Photo by Ina Fried/CNET News) More »

Outrage: Apple Continues To Mock Microsoft!

Hamilton Nolan — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:36:12 EDT

Oooh, ad war escalation! You remember how Microsoft got so mad about Apple's ads that they had to run out and spend $300 million on a fancy ad campaign consisting of Mac lovers declaring their love for PCs, as well as celebrities doing things seemingly unrelated to computers. Meanwhile Apple has just been sitting back chuckling, and now they've released a new ad making fun of Microsoft's ad spending. Which is too insidery, but very entertaining to people forced to write about ad campaigns. Apple's only problem: the people who buy PCs, such as myself, don't even know what this "Vista" thing is. (If we knew about computer things we would have bought a better one!). I imagine that Microsoft grows ever more apoplectic, though. Full ad below: More »

Microsoft Picks Another Apple Lover For Its Ad Campaign

Hamilton Nolan — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:06:09 EDT

First Microsoft hired proven Mac lover Jerry Seinfeld to crappily kick off its new $300 million ad campaign. Then the company dropped Seinfeld and brought in a slew of new celebrities to declare their love for PCs. Including hip hop star Pharrell—Another. Proven. Apple. Lover. Research! Payoffs! Do something, Microsoft! Pictured, Pharrell and his beloved golden iPhone. Here's a video where he describes his Mac tendencies. Fiasco! Ridiculous! And here's a brand new Microsoft ad with Pharrell declaring he is, in fact, a PC: More »

Good news! MobileMe is now a-okay!

Alaska Miller — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:40:00 EDT

The enigmatic David G. of Apple has been given the go-ahead to proclaim MobileMe's email problems, affecting those lucky 1 percent of users, resolved after three weeks. I guess someone should email the FailMe Is More Like It guy. [Apple] More »

iPhone day 13: Dude, where's my mail?

Paul Boutin — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:00:00 EDT

Apple's .Mac email — relaunched as MobileMe in conjunction with the iPhone 3G two Fridays ago — is still flying as crooked as Drinky Crow on payday. MacRumors has aggregated customer gripes. Apple's hard-to-swallow response: Only 1 percent of customers are having problems after Apple's server migration. MobileMe mail works for stationary old me, but see these screenshots from readers: More »

Slavish fanboy purchases of Macs and iPods pad another profitable quarter for Apple

Alaska Miller — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:20:00 EDT

Apple reported numbers for its third fiscal quarter today: Based on the sales of 2,496,000 Macs and 11,011,000 iPods, Apple generated revenues of $7.46 billion and a net profit of $1.07 billion. In the same time period last year, Apple's revenue was $5.41 billion, with a profit of $818 million. Apple didn't release numbers for iPhone sales — those come next quarter. Steve Jobs, skipping over talk of his health, also hinted at more new product releases in the coming months. New products from Apple? Yes, we're not shocked, either. More »

Doctor Quits Practice To Blog About Apple

Ryan Tate — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:21:59 EDT

This morning's Times brings the story of Arnold Kim, the blogger behind MacRumors.com. Kim just quit his job as a freshly-minted physician to blog full time. Wait, what? Well, see, MacRumors has been estimated to be worth $85 million — more valuable than the Huffington Post. So, for Kim, going full-time was "on paper... an easy decision." Also he has a 14-month-old daughter (awww) who he'd like to spend more time with. Even his dad approves! "When he told his father, also a doctor, about the decision, Dr. Kim was pleased that 'he was very supportive of it, which was sort of surprising to me,'" the Times said. Only an hour after publication, the Times story has already reached number two on the Technology section most-emailed list — no doubt thanks to platoons of vindicated bloggers forwarding the piece to their parents. I think I'll join them! [Times] (Photo via blakespot on Flickr) More »

Apple's legal bell tolls for thee, PsyStar

Jackson West — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:00:00 EDT

PsyStar, a Miami company, garnered quite a bit of press when they announced a cheap Intel-based desktop computer that you could use as an Apple clone running Mac OS X, in a pretty clear violation of Apple's legal restrictions on use of the operating system. So everyone was waiting for the hammer to drop — which it finally did yesterday, in the form of a complaint filed by Apple with the U.S. District Court in San Francisco. More »

What Apple can learn from McDonald's

Tim the IT Guy — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:00:00 EDT

[Editor's note: Tim Woolery, aka Tim the IT Guy, works hands-on in IT in the Bay Area. With nearly 15 years' experience at everything from CAT 5-cabled steel furnaces to intercontinental remote-controlled radio stations, Tim's able to spot and plug holes in the coverage of important tech news. Rather than bone up on change management best practices ourselves, we decided to let Tim post for himself once a week.] More »

Is Google helping Apple launch Me.com?

Owen Thomas — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:20:00 EDT

Apple and Google are already quite cozy — but could they be getting even closer over Apple's rumored Me.com Web services? A source close to Google says the company is about to make a big announcement with Apple, likely in conjunction with Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference next week. It could be nothing more than integration of a new iPhone's GPS features with Google Maps. But our source thinks more is at stake. More »

Apple replacing .Mac Web services with Me.com

Owen Thomas — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:40:00 EDT

Most of Apple's customers have never touched a Mac. By the numbers, Apple has reached far more people with the iPod and iPhone. Yet Steve Jobs's sole venture onto the Web, .Mac, is designed to work with Mac hardware. That could change, now that it's registered the domain Me.com. In 2005, Apple patented a service called "Mobile Me," and last week a programmer noticed it was already using that name in new iPhone software. When the new iPhone is announced — as soon as this week, according to rumors — we may see it linked up not with .Mac, a name meaningless to most iPhone buyers, but with Me.com instead. More »

Apple thinks corporate — or rather, corporations think Apple

Nicholas Carlson — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:00:00 EDT

Out of 250 surveyed companies, 87 percent report owning Apple computers. That's up from 48 percent In 2006. In BusinessWeek's story on Apple's creep into corporate cubicles, Dimension Data CIO Mark Slaga explains how Apple is gaining ground without really trying: "Steve Jobs doesn't need a sales force because he already has one: employees like the ones in my company." (Though, as it happens, Apple is looking for office space in Manhattan's Midtown, which could conceivably house salespeople.) More »

Apple Logo Makes You Creative. Really

Hamilton Nolan — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:23:08 EDT

A counterpoint for all you Apple-haters out there: a new study by researchers at Duke University found that "even the briefest exposure to the Apple logo may make you behave more creatively." How did they measure that? By having the subjects list "all of the uses for a brick that they could imagine beyond building a wall." That's science for you! If only gazing at the Apple logo could help me think of a good joke for this post. The actual scientific findings: More »

New Microsoft Guy: Johnny Knoxville?

Hamilton Nolan — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:57:55 EDT

Now this would be an interesting potential genius move/ mistake: According to an unverifiable leak to Gawker-approved blogger Cajun Boy In The City, Microsoft might be thinking about Johnny Knoxville as its cool new answer to Mac's young annoying hipster spokesman, Justin Long. You'll recall that Microsoft recently hired a new, more with-it ad agency in a bid to stop getting humiliated in 30-second spots. Is this what they came up with? We've emailed the company for comment [UPDATE: Microsoft's PR firm emails us: "Microsoft is planning a consumer advertising campaign with Crispin Porter & Bogusky. We have no other details to share at this time." Thanks!]. After the jump, the entire email [via Cajun Boy] from someone who purportedly attended a Microsoft focus group and saw it all firsthand. More »

Hipster Thief Of Williamsburg Wants Only Apple Products

Ryan Tate — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:15:30 EST

"True story. My apartment in 'prime Williamsburg' was broken into. The thieves searched out my [Apple] iPod and [Mac] PowerBook, but the didn't touch my roommate's Dell that was sitting out in plain sight on our kitchen table. PS: A kitchen table - suck it Manhattan." [via email] (Photo: Everystockphoto) More »

AdAge delves further into mystery of Mac owners' smugness

Nicholas Carlson — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:40:30 EST

It's scientific now, bitches — and illustrated. Mac owners are "self-satisfied" and "superior," according to a recent study from Mindset Media. But earlier reports didn't lay it out in full color. AdAge says the characterization is best embodied by Justin Long, the actor who plays "Mac" in the Mac vs. PC ads. They even draft up a handy illustration to make their case. Fair point, but we disagree. More »

Apple .Mac clearly taunting us at this point

Paul Boutin — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:35:51 EST

"It is possible that the application does not exist." Well, granted, if you took enough math and philosophy classes, that statement is 100 percent correct. More »

Apple .Mac back up — whoops! Spoke too soon

Paul Boutin — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:10:33 EST

Someone, somewhere is hot-swapping servers like there's no tomorrow. Because if Steve Jobs gets this error, there won't be a tomorrow. More »

Apple .Mac = FAIL

Paul Boutin — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:47:38 EST

If you hurry, you can catch the outage at Apple's .Mac service. It started this morning with me not being able to send mail, then unable to check mail, and it's now a full-on "mac.com/unavailable" interruption page. If this were Windows Live, it'd be all over Digg by now. More »

Time Machine malfunction throws TechCrunch reviewer into wormhole

Paul Boutin — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:45:23 EDT

TechCrunch writer Duncan Riley deems Apple's new operating system "worth the wait." Does he mean the product's four-month shipping delay, or the several hours it took him to install and then recover from this fiasco?

If Time Machine hasn't made a backup yet to visit, clicking the Time Machine button completely borks OSX...least it did for me. It took me a number of restarts and some serious banging of the keyboard (no CTRL+ALT+DELETE on a Mac) to fix it.

Radar Jumps the Gun on Annoying Mac Ad Guy

Doree Shafrir — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 14:25:42 EST

Last week, Radar ran an EXCLUSIVE! about the ditching of Mac guy Justin Long from those Mac vs. PC ads. The spin, according to Radar EXCLUSIVE!-maker-in-residence Jeff Bercovici, was that Long had been canned because he'd come off as more annoying than the PC guy, played by Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman. No one would talk on the record about what future ads would bring. More »