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Apple Moving Into "The Cloud"

Taking lessons from recently acquired LaLa, Apple is said to be making moves to make iTunes more web-friendly, potentially allowing users to access their music via "the cloud" online, rather than having it

Verizon Droid: Big Deal? Or Just Another Late Arrival Rival?

According to this woman, who was in line at 3 a.m. this morning at a Verizon store in order to be the very first owner of a Motorola Droid phone in SF,

Steve Jobs, the Rachel Zoe of Silicon Valley?

Though not nearly as important as Rachel Zoe (obvi), Apple CEO Steve Jobs is facing some of the same criticism as Hollywood's most stylish heroine, namely his pin-thin stature. "I probably need to

Photos: Behold the New iPod Nano

They're very shiny. Also, they come with video cameras, FM radio, and pedometers. We like this. We like this a lot. SFist Jay has the whole lowdown about Steve Jobs' announcement (and appearance!

Live Re-Posting of Apple Launch Event Liveblogging

Five months after a liver transplant, Steve Jobs is alive and on stage at Apple's "It's only rock and roll" event this morning. The focus is on music, and the release of iTunes

The iPhone Is Killing AT&T, One 'Bump' Download at a Time

Many AT&T customers, including the legion of iPhone users out there, may be aware of some wonkiness with their wonder devices of late. Dropped calls, delayed voicemails, inability to access voicemail,

Google CEO Steps Down From Apple Board

Since working for both Google and Apple is starting to look odd, Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently ditched his gig on the board at Apple. Being on the board since 2006, Schmidt thought

Apple OKs Vibrator iPhone App

Billed at the "first X-rated app approved by Apple," the folks in Cupertino gave the green light to MyPleasure.com’s MyVibe vibrator application. Sex researcher Dr. Debby Herbenick, according to Gizmodo, gave

Apple Sells 1M Phones

While some of us are more than content with our MetroPCS phones (questionably referred to as GhettoPCS in less esteemed circles), people are finally getting their first iPhones. So much so that Apple

Photo du Jour 439

Kudos to AP photographer Eric Risberg who snapped this shot of Noonan, a golden retriever poodle mix, standing with his owner, Jay Streets, and others on a bridge inside the downtown SF Apple

Steve Jobs Had Liver Replaced

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple CEO / His Holiness Steve Jobs just underwent a successful liver transplant. While initially reported back in 2004 that Jobs took leave of Apple due to

Get a New iPhone for $850

According to KRON4, folks are lined up outside the downtown Apple store to grab one. And, according to Darya Folsom, it's nuts! But, look, check out this Craigslist ad, which takes all of

What Will Happen at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference?

You can feel it in the air. Mac sect members eagerly awaiting the next pearl of genius to drop at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, which is happening right now at the Moscone

Apple, Google, Yahoo, Genentech in Antitrust Probe Re: Hiring Practices

Some of the largest employers in the Bay Area are being investigated by the Department of Justice to determine if they have been in cahoots not to recruit or hire away each others'

Apple Buyout Just a Rumor, Says Twitter

The rumor that Apple wanted to buy Twitter for $700 million turned out to be just that, a rumor. According to KCBS, Biz Stone said in a television appearance Wednesday on The View

Apple to Buy Twitter?

Although it's known more for pretty computers and applications celebrating infanticide than Internet know-how, Apple is rumored to snatch up Twitter, according to Valleywag. While the SF-based company turned down a $500 million

Film du Jour: iSnort

This one goes out to SFist commenter mcgordonliddy... Here's another damn application for that damn Apple mobile communication device you all seem to love so damn much. Behold the iSnort. It's like doing

Apple Approves 'Baby Shaker' Game, Then Removes It

Perturbed parents groups are demanding answers from Apple after it approved, then dumped, a new 'Baby Shaker' app for the iPhone. The game, which delightfully promoted infanticide for $.99 on Monday, was described

iPhone Update

Copy / paste. Ta-da. Happy? You shouldn't be. Because every MSM news outlet seems to think this is a story. It's not. This and this is an actual news story-, at least when compared

Apple Unveils Smaller iPod Shuffle

Those crazy kids down in Cupertino unveiled a "minuscule" new iPod Shuffle on Wednesday. It's so small, in fact, that those of you who aren't anal retentive or born under a Virgo sun

Apple Layoffs?

Owen Thomas at Valleywag has word that there might -- might! -- be "'major layoffs'" at Apple today. According to VW tipsters, "'all sales teams have mandatory meetings today'" and "'HR booked conference

The Woz to Shimmy, Shake, Shine on <em>Dancing With the Stars</em>

We love that Apple co-founder and lovable bear Steve "Woz" Wozniak isn't immune to fame's sweet heron-like release. It just goes to show that that those gifted with Asperger's disorder are just like

The Woz to Dance with Stars

Steve Wozniak, who founded Apple along with Camille, has been announced as part of the lineup on ABC's assault on dancing and television, Dancing with the Stars. Steve Wozniak, affectionately known to his

SEC to Steve Jobs: How You Feeling?

Not since Lindsey Lohan and Britney Spears has the media been so interested in one person's health condition. That person, of course, is Silicon Valley's Steve Jobs. And now the SEC wants to

Steve Jobs to Take Leave of Absence from Apple

According to CNBC and MacRumors, Apple says CEO Steve Jobs is taking "a leave of absence," citing health reasons. Story developing. More info as it comes to us. Apple CEO Steve Jobs sent