SF News Airlines To Consider Letting You Keep Your iPad On During Takeoff Do a few Kindles and iPods and iPads really pose a threat to airline safety? We have always wondered this. Especially while sitting on the ground at JFK waiting an hour to take
SF News Apple Buys Back $10 Billion In Stock, Shareholders See Dividends In a conference call for Wall Street and tech reporters this morning, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced the company would pay out some $45 billion to investors over the next three years by
SF News Apple Fans Wait For New iPads, Get Unnecessarily Soggy As expected, a crowd of roughly 100 eager gadget hoarders gathered at the Apple Store on Stockton Street last night and early this morning to wait out those final sopping and anxious hours
SF News Protest At Apple Store For Friday's iPad Release Just like the release of the iPhone 4s and iPad 2, tomorrow's new iPad release at the Stockton Street Apple store in San Francisco will play host to a group of protesters. And
SF News NYC Man Sues Apple Because Siri Doesn't Understand Him Those of us with an iPhone 4S boasting Apple's personal-assistant Siri, we understand the frustration when the nice lady inside our phone doesn't grasp a word we're saying. However, one New York man
Arts & Entertainment Video: Watch The New iPad Unboxing Part of what makes Apple's fandom so rabid is the act and art of opening up a new Apple product. Like mainlining heroin, it's a quick high that the buyer can never reach
SF News ACLU Doesn't Like Siri's Loose Lips Siri — the iPhone 4S's personal-assistant feature that lets you use your voice to send messages, make calls, set reminders, and ask filthy questions — has come under fire from the American Civil Liberties Union
SF News Live Update: Apple Reveals The New iPad, Available March 16 With promises of a faster chip, sharper screen, and better camera, media and Mac fans lucky enough to score an invite to today's iPad bash are filling up Yerba Buena Center for the
Arts & Entertainment It's Not The 'iPad 3', It's The 'iPad HD' Before Apple's big next-generation iPad media vent hits Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on Wednesday, word has it that the Cupertino company will drop the numbers game when it comes to naming
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Yerba Buena Center Prepares For iPad 3 Event San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts gets ready for Wednesday's big iPad3 party. Invites for the event were sent out last week, featuring and image and only these simple words, "We
Arts & Entertainment Did You Get Invited To Apple's iPad 3 Event? (It's March 7, FWIW) Apple sent out invites this morning to an iPad 3 (or 2S) coming out party taking place on March 7th at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts where they unleashed the iPhone 4S
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Every Apple Design Ever In 30 Seconds Laughing Squid brings our attention this this video, created by Boing Boing's Rob Beschizza, showcasing almost every Apple design in 30 seconds. Enjoy.
SF News Early March Announcement For New iPad 3? Hey, rabid iPad fans, get ready to change your pad for one that's clearer, crisper, and thinner. According to All Things D, Apple will announce the iPad 3 (or, worse, the iPad 2S)
SF News Google At Work On Some Sort Of Home Entertainment System Sigh. Remember Google TV? Yeah, we barely do. Anyway, the Bay Area's most well publicized employer is working on their first real foray into the world of entertainment hardware, with the intent of
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, At The Macworld iWorld Expo... US Olympic trampoline team hopeful Elena Williams, up high, demonstrates the Polk ultra fit sports headphone at the Macworld iWorld Expo happening now through Saturday at Moscone Center West in San Francisco.
SF News New iPhone 5 Rumors Swirl New iPhone 5 rumors popped up this week. Among them? The next generation's iPhone release could come as soon as this summer. It might also (finally!) boast a larger display. Venture Beat reports,
SF News Apple Astounds With Record Revenue Apple reports its highest quarterly revenue and earnings ever, due in large part to sales of remarkable iPhone 4S. (We love our new white iPhone 4S more than anything else on Earth. This
SF News Apple Looks To NYC For Bookish Media Event Aside from speculation that Steve Jobs' last initiative as CEO of the revered technology company was to finally conquer the clunky interfaces of television and the usual "when does it come out?" rumors
SF News Is Apple Developing a TV? There is a fresh "assault" in the works from Apple on the TV industry, and a piece in today's Wall Street Journal focuses on some recent meetings that Apple execs have been having
SF News Three-Page Apple Contract Sells For $1.6 Million The contract that established Apple Computer Company sold at auction today for a whopping $1.59 million. Purchased via phone by an anonymous bidder, the contract was signed on April 1, 1976, by
SF News Fearful Apple Trains All New Retail Managers on 'Union Awareness' In an effort to quiet union tinkering by Apple store employees, something that almost happened earlier this year, all new Apple store managers must take "union awareness" classes starting today. In a company
SF News Steve Jobs' Keen Final Words Sunday's New York Times features the eulogy Steve Jobs' sister, writer Mona Simpson, delivered at his funeral. Describing her brother's last hours, she reveals his simple yet touching final words: Steve's final words,
SF News Apple Posts Entire Steve Jobs Memorial Online Filmed on October 19 at the Cupertino headquarters, Apple posted the entire Steve Jobs memorial on their site. It's available on Safari, so if you're using Chrome (like any rational, clear-thinking person) or
SF News Steve Jobs Regretted Trying Alternative Medicine Before he died, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs wanted to world to know that he deeply regretted "wasting time" on alternative medicine while trying to combat his pancreatic cancer. During a recent interview with
SF News Afternoon Palate Cleanser: S**t Siri Says So, you and/or a bunch of people you know probably bought an iPhone 4S in the last couple of days, and/or you upgraded to iOS 5, which means that by now
