Apple Times

Last week, Apple released its annual 10-K report, offering a summary of the company’s financial performance and other items of interest for fiscal 2011. One interesting tidbit from the report is gaining some attention for its glimpse into the future, as GigaOM reports on a new research note from UBS analyst Maynard Um addressing Apple’s planned capital expenditures (CapEx) for fiscal 2012. From the 10-K report: The Company’s capital expenditures  [ Read More ]

Holy game bonanza bat geeks! So many titles were launched “just in time for Halloween” it’s hard to keep up. Most of them have been getting a lot of press, but a few are so new you may not have seen them yet. And, hiding in all that gaming goodness were a few very cool app releases as well. This week we look at five you may have missed. If  [ Read More ]

Apple’s new Siri voice recognition system is only officially available to new iPhone 4S users. Predictably, over the past few weeks, there have been various attempts to port Siri to previous generation hardware. The early versions of these hacks, however, simply got the user interface working on the iPhone 4, but were unable to actually use the voice recognition due to authentication issues in connecting to Apple’s servers. Tonight, developers  [ Read More ]

This week at 148Apps.com, writer Rob Rich previewed the upcoming freemium Charlie Brown game, Snoopy’s Street Fair. Rich was pleasantly elated by the game’s trailer, as he writes, “(The Peanuts characters have) been around a long time. Long enough, in fact, to have spawned more than a couple video game iterations. Now it’s time for the unnaturally bald man-child and his friends to try their luck on iOS with Snoopy’s  [ Read More ]

Blackjack by Yazino Review By Greg Dawson on October 28th, 2011 Our Rating: :: HIT TO 21Universal App – Designed for iPhone and iPad Learning blackjack is a lot of fun. Before heading out to the casino, try Blackjack by Yazino for its easy to use interface and integration of social gameplay.   Developer: Advanced Games Lab Limited Price: Free Version: 1.0.2 App Reviewed on: iPhone 4 Graphics / Sound  [ Read More ]

Last week, we noted that Apple is unlikely to update its Mac Pro line until early next year at the soonest, as Intel’s Sandy Bridge E processors intended as the successors to the current Mac Pro chips have been delayed until the first quarter of 2012. Newly-released pricing information from CPU World now offers a bit more data to help analyze which of the new E5-2600 and E5-1600 series Xeon  [ Read More ]

Apple today officially launched the iPhone 4S in 22 new countries, marking the second round of launches for the device. The company began taking pre-orders last week ahead of the launch scheduled for the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. iPhone 4S order page for Apple’s Swedish online store While  [ Read More ]

Stardash Review By Carter Dotson on October 27th, 2011 Our Rating: :: RETRO STELLARUniversal App – Designed for iPhone and iPad Stardash is a trial platform with a Game Boy-inspired aesthetic.   Developer: OrangePixel Price: $ 1.99 Version Reviewed: 1.0.2 Device Reviewed On: iPod touch 4, iPad 1 Graphics / Sound Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Game Controls Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Gameplay Rating: 4 out of  [ Read More ]

Financial media and data company Bloomberg today launched a new Bloomberg TV+ app for the iPad, offering free, ad-supported live streaming of the financial news channel. – Live TV: Bloomberg Television Live 24-hours a day – Featured videos: The biggest business stories right now prioritized by importance – Last 24 Hours: All the important business stories from the last 24 hours – Exclusive interviews with the most influential people in  [ Read More ]

I was working in a now-defunct bookstore when Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was released on an unsuspecting public. I don’t have precise figures but I can say with certainty that the book sold like mad. It was a combination of a small publisher doing a somewhat limited run, and a level of consumer interest that not many predicted. People love Victorian zombies, apparently. Who knew? A year after the  [ Read More ]