Tag: APPLE STORE

If you count yourself among the masses of consumers itching to get your hands on the new iPhone 4 this month, you won't have to wait in line at your local Apple or AT&T store. Instead, you can just mosey on down to Walmart. According to CNET, the retail giant has officially announced that it will begin selling the iPhone 4 on June 24, the day Apple's newest phone arrives at the public's ...

The popular "On Your Side" segments which permeate local news broadcasts typically focus on small-time shenanigans and relatively local scams. San Francisco, California's ABC 7 affiliate actually managed to transcend that trend, and garner national recognition by recently exposing Apple's "No Cash" iPad purchasing policy. Although, most of the credit for this exposé should probably be ...

Share Geek weddings are nothing new to the Switched beat. Video game 'Katamari Damacy' inspired one service, and we've seen one set of marriage vows culminate in a groom updating his Facebook relationship status. In 2010, we'll supposedly see the first weddings... in spaaaaace. Today's tale of geeky nuptials comes to you from that gleaming, subterranean realm known as Manhattan's Fifth Avenue ...

Apple fans are legendary for their fanatical devotion to the company and its products, many of which have been crowned as this decade's best gadgets. Sometimes, though, that feverish desire for all things Cupertino can inspire disastrous criminal enterprises. Apple robberies have become increasingly commonplace, with the latest tech heist going down in Murray, Utah. According to KSL, the theft ...

While repairing a Fairfield, Connecticut man's computer, an Apple Store employee discovered something horrible hidden on the hard drive. No, it wasn't the new Jonas Brothers album. That's only enough to bring shame, but the images discovered on the Power Mac G5 brought an arrest. According to the Stamford Advocate, 36-year-old Raymond Miller was arrested at the Stamford Town Center Apple Store ...

Police in Arlington County, Virginia are looking for a suspect in a botched robbery and shooting at an area Apple Store. It's currently unclear what the thief was after, but authorities have released surveillance footage from the store's security cameras and posted it to YouTube, in hopes that someone will be able to identify the shooter. The suspect can be seen leading a female employee through ...

With the thousands visiting Apple retail stores each week competing for time to test drive the in-store machines, the company has again decided to ban a social networking site from the computers in its store. This time, Facebook is getting the boot. As of this week, the ubiquitous site, like Myspace before it, will no longer be accessible on computers in the Apple Store. The retailers have ...

We went through an embarrassing phase where we were addicted to Fox's episodic-patriotic t.v. series '24'. But now we're over it. So are the employees at the Apple Store, apparently, since they denied our boy Kief an advance copy of the new iPhone. Word has it that Sutherland and lady friend Siobhan Bonnouvrier pulled out all the stops while trying to peer pressure a New York City Apple Store ...

The wedding is probably the oldest traditional ceremony we have left. Even though nuptials are common, couples always try to make their ceremony reflect their personalities and interests. One Mac fanatic couple would like to have it at a somewhat unusual location: their local mall's Apple Store. Yes, they want to have their reception at the mall. You see, the couple met at the Apple Store and ...

The IPhone is very popular. It is so popular in fact that Apple retailers in New York are finding it impossible to keep on their shelves. On Wednesday, all three locations - the original SoHo store, the 59th Street store and the one on West 14th Street in Manhattan were completely sold out. When asked when new shipments were coming in, a definitive answer wasn't given, according to Danny Shea ...

Is it us, or has Apple truly cultivated a cozy, nice-guy image in the consumer's world of technology? That funny commercial with the uptight PC nerd versus the laid-back Apple innovator type aside, it seems as if Apple's trying to live up to the image. Get this: A model actually wrote her memoir in New York's SoHo Apple Store over a period of three months. Isobella Jade, a diminutive catwalker, ...

You don't normally link the U.S. Military and Apple too often, so it may seem odd that the Mac-Daddy is taking inspiration from the Army. It looks like Apple has banned MySpace from machines on display in its Apple Stores. According to the company's press release, usage of the site was taking up too much of the stores' bandwidth (sound familiar?). MySpace was also banned because stroll-by ...