Tag: APPLESTORE

When Microsoft opened its first branded store last year, it was assumed that the company was serious about combating Apple and the retail juggernaut it's become. But, as malls across the country teem with consumers toting the signature white Apple shopping bags, Microsoft appears to be drawing significantly less interest. After the Los Angeles Times monitored both the Apple and Microsoft stores ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Based on Goldman Sachs' assessment of "underwhelming" initial sales, the new BlackBerry Torch probably won't help RIM reverse the recent, astronomical ascent of Android. [From: Business Insider] A licensing dispute with Universal Music Group UK has forced the removal of Grooveshark from Apple's App Store, although previously ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... The Recording Industry Association of America recently triumphed over filesharers in a momentous Limewire copyright suit, and now the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) apparently hopes to achieve its own victory over Google. The BPI has issued a cease and desist letter to the search engine in hopes that Google will remove ...

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 ...

A few week's ago, as ridiculous as it sounds, we told you about a place on the Web for Apple fanboys and girls to find love. According to The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW), Cupidtino, a dating site created solely for Mac users, recently moved into open beta testing for the public. Now anybody that owns an Apple product can visit the site, create a profile (which includes adding photos and a list ...

Share Ah, New York City. The teeming masses, the crowded subways, broad avenues and millions of people. All touching iPads. With over two million of Apple's wonder gadget sold, just think of how many people have tried the product out for themselves. With the Fifth Avenue Apple Store a practical landmark, the amount of curious consumers -- tourists and natives alike -- that trek in to touch the ...

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 If you don't have a debit or credit card, you won't be the owner of an iPad. Or so one Palo Alto, California, woman learned when she was turned away for trying to purchase Apple's new tablet with cash. According to an ABC 7 News report (video after the break), Diane Campbell, who is on a fixed income, saved for months to get the $600 she needed to buy an iPad. When she entered the ...

There is devotion, and then there is crazy Apple fanboy devotion. Take a look at this Apple Store diorama built by Gary Katz -- a man with apparently a lot of time on his hands. Katz carefully recreated the interior of an Apple Store within a regular shoebox. By using two iPhones -- one to power the store's glowing Apple logo, and the other as a screen behind the Genius Bar -- he spent countless ...

Nearly three years ago, we interviewed a man named Greg Packer. Mr. Packer got our attention for being devoted enough to camp out for three sweltering summer days -- just so he could be the first person to buy an iPhone at Apple's Fifth Avenue store in Manhattan. Fast forward to the present, and guess what? Packer is at it again, staking out the first spot in line for the iPad's Saturday release. ...

A New York City Apple Store employee claims she was choked by 'Law & Order' star Richard Belzer. According to the New York Post, police were called to the Upper West Side store because Milan Agnew, 21, alleged that Belzer lunged at her, grabbed her neck, shouted "I need help!" and choked her. But after talking with witnesses and watching the surveillance video, New York City police determined ...

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 ...