Samsung has announced that the company has released its 1.8″ SpinPoint N2, a 120 gigabyte drive that could find its way in handheld portable devices as well as future iPods. According to Engadget, the SpinPoint N2 spins at either 3,600 rpm or 4,200 rpm, sports an average 15-ms seek time and uses sub-1W power consumption. […]
Ensuring that Apple‘s legal department doesn’t get bored, Illinois-based intellectual property agency IP Innovation LLC and its parent firm, Nevada-based Technology Licensing Corporation, have filed suit against Apple according to AppleInsider. The suit, filed on April 18th in a U.S. district court in Marshall, Texas, is fueled by a four page formal complaint purporting that […]
If you can’t beat ’em, settle. According to the Wall Street Journal, former Apple Inc. chief financial officer Fred Anderson has settled with the Security Exchange Commission on allegations that he backdated stock options during his time at Apple. Unnamed sources claim that Anderson will both pay a fine of approximately US$150,000 as well as […]
An anonymous source close to Cingular, which was recently acquired by AT&T, has stated that in addition to pursuing the consumer markets, the iPhone will appeal to business users. To this end, Cingular is shoring up its backend enterprise billing and support systems in anticipation of when the iPhone ships according to Macworld News. The […]
Despite Apple’s announced delay of its Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard” until an October release, the company is beginning to publicize various features of the operating system. Specifically, an expanded Instant Message framework within iChat 4.0 has become more prominent. In recently published developer documentation, Apple claims that the framework will allow developers to determine […]