Apple News

Excerpts of Apple Executives' Senate Committee Testimony on Tax Policy

2013-05-21T19:29:05Z

Three Apple executives, CEO Tim Cook, CFO Peter Oppenheimer, and head of tax operations Phillip A. Bullock, appeared in front of the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigation earlier today, testifying about Apple's tax policies. MacRumors Read More......(read more)

Apple to Expand Social Network Integration in iOS 7 with Support for Flickr and Vimeo

2013-05-21T18:53:30Z

Apple has been making efforts to offer deep social network integration in its mobile operating system, first offering Twitter integration in iOS 5 and then Facebook integration in iOS 6. Apple will expand its social network integration even further with Read More......(read more)

Microsoft Unveils Xbox One, an All-In-One Entertainment System with Revamped Kinect and Fully Integrated SmartGlass

2013-05-21T18:11:27Z

Microsoft today released details on its next generation console at an event hosted at its Redmond campus in Washington. Called the Xbox One , the new console is designed to be the ultimate all-in-one home entertainment system with a heavy focus on both Read More......(read more)

Apple Still Tops in Cellphone Customer Satisfaction, but Losing Ground to Samsung and Others

2013-05-21T16:42:39Z

The American Customer Satisfaction Index (ASCI) has today released its annual rankings of customer satisfaction for mobile phones in the United States. While Apple had the highest customer satisfaction index score for the second year in a row, its score Read More......(read more)

Photos of Likely 802.11ac 'Gigabit Wi-Fi' Card From Next-Generation iMac Surface

2013-05-21T15:10:44Z

Tonymacx86 points ( via 9to5Mac ) to recently discovered photos of a Broadcom BCM94360CD Wi-Fi/Bluetooth card that supports the 802.11ac "Gigabit Wi-Fi" standard rumored to be coming to Apple's Mac lineup later this year. While the photos Read More......(read more)

Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer Testify In Front of Senate Committee on Tax Strategies [Live]

2013-05-21T13:44:11Z

After jostling in competing memoranda yesterday, Apple and a group of U.S. Senators are prepared to go head-to-head in a committee hearing examining the tax avoidance strategies of Apple and other multinational corporations. CEO Tim Cook, CFO Peter Oppenheimer Read More......(read more)

Yahoo's Flickr Gets Major Design Overhaul, 1TB of Free Photo Storage Space

2013-05-20T22:22:02Z

Following this morning's acquisition of Tumblr, Yahoo today hosted an event in New York City to detail changes to its popular photo sharing site Flickr . Flickr on the web has been given a major design overhaul, with a focus on full resolution pictures Read More......(read more)

U.S. Senators Claim Apple Has Avoided Paying Billions in U.S. Income Taxes Ahead of Tim Cook Testimony

2013-05-20T21:52:19Z

A Senate subcommittee has released a 40-page memo accusing Apple of not paying billions of dollars in federal taxes through "extensive tax-avoidance strategies". Apple CEO Tim Cook, CFO Peter Oppenheimer, and Apple's head of tax operations Read More......(read more)

Samsung and Sharp Introduce New Ultra-High-Resolution Notebook Displays

2013-05-20T20:29:33Z

While Apple's 15" MacBook Pro was the first consumer notebook to gain a Retina-level display nearly a year ago, it is no longer the only such offering, as Google's Chromebook Pixel with its 12.85" 2560x1700 display and Toshiba's Read More......(read more)

AT&T to Expand FaceTime Over Cellular to All Customers by Year End

2013-05-20T19:08:48Z

In a statement to The Verge on the future of pre-loaded apps, AT&T today revealed that it is planning to offer FaceTime over cellular to all of its customers on any data plan by the end of 2013. For video chat apps that come pre-loaded on devices Read More......(read more)

Apple Releases Statement Ahead of Tim Cook's Senate Appearance on Tax Policy

2013-05-20T18:50:48Z

Apple today released a statement [PDF] ahead of Apple CEO Tim Cook, CFO Peter Oppenheimer, and head of tax operations Phillip A. Bullock's appearances in front of the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigation tomorrow. In the seventeen page Read More......(read more)

U.S. Mac Sales Flat in April as iPod Sales Continue to Slide

2013-05-20T17:32:46Z

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster today released a brief report highlighting April data from market research firm NPD looking at Apple's U.S. Mac and iPod sales. The data shows Apple's Mac sales coming in flat year-over-year, and while Munster Read More......(read more)

Apple's Revenue Per Store Visitor Hits Record High

2013-05-20T17:16:10Z

Apple's retail stores have been ranked as the U.S. retail chain with the highest sales per square foot for a number of years and according to a new report from Asymco’s Horace Dediu, the company also outranks competitors when it comes to revenue per Read More......(read more)

Apple Raising Notebook Orders Ahead of Likely Launch at WWDC

2013-05-20T15:01:23Z

Digitimes briefly reports that Apple will be releasing updated notebooks "in the near future", with supply chain sources indicating that Apple's orders will rise 20% in the second quarter compared to first-quarter production. The new MacBooks Read More......(read more)

Apple to Begin Ramping Up Production of 25-33% Lighter iPad in July?

2013-05-20T14:13:08Z

Digitimes reports that Apple will soon begin trial production on its fifth-generation iPad, with full production said to be planned to begin in July. Based on that schedule, Apple could hit monthly production of 2-3 million units by September as it prepares Read More......(read more)