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Time Cook Email To Apple Staff Sent Today

Team,
I have some very sad news to share with all of you. Steve passed away earlier today.
Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring [...]

Steve Jobs : Dynamic Innovator Dies At 56

Born Feb. 24 in San Francisco to Joanne Simpson and Syrian father Abdulfattah Jandali and later Adopted from infancy by Paul and Clara Jobs in San Francisco. The man who took over the technology race started his career at HP in 1969 and later joined Atari as a Technician. He raised 1750$ with Wozniak who [...]

Apple Launches iPhone 4S, iOS 5 & iCloud

Apple® yesterday announced iPhone® 4S, the most amazing iPhone yet, packed with incredible new features including Apple’s dual-core A5 chip for blazing fast performance and stunning graphics; an all new camera with advanced optics; full 1080p HD resolution video recording; and Siri™, an intelligent assistant that helps you get things done just by asking. With the [...]

Steve Jobs has resigned from Apple, people ask why?

As a breaking and surprising news, Apple’s founder and CEO Steve Jobs has resigned from his position of CEO hinting he may become Chairman of the group. His fans are still receiving the shocking news and are expressing their shock and amazement on Twitter, Facebook and other social networks on Internet.

Why Samsung & Apple fired lawsuits against each other ?

Why leading players in portable devices industry are runing to courts and fighting each other?
Last week, Apple sued Samsung for copying iphone and ipad design in recently launched Galaxy Series. There is no doubt that Galaxy series looks amazingly same to Apple’s iphone.
“Samsung is responding actively to the legal action taken against us in order to [...]

Apple’s iPad – an expensive paperweight? not really

Hundreds of people camped out side the High Street overnight so they can get iPad – the much talked about new brand of the Apple company. Long queues outside the shopping malls was meant to ensure that “you get one or even two Apple iPad, a new touch-screen, tablet-style computer that looks rather like a large iPod touch.

Apple & Google on coffee table, Get ready Microsoft!

They say “enemy of enemy is a friend”. Although in the past few years, Apple and Google have become eachothers’ competitors as well, Apple and Google’s rivalry with Microsoft is stronger than that. Now when Apple and Google’s CEOs meet at Calafia – a coffee shop in Palo Alto – eyebrows raise throughout the world. What are they talking about? Are they planning to do something together?