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May 15, 2012
Greenpeace Activists Call Apple's iCloud a "Dirty Cloud"
Giant walking iPhones greeted Apple employees as they entered the company's headquarters in Cupertino this morning where Greenpeace activists criticized Apple's iCloud for using "dirty power."Demonstrators stood outside demanding employees and executives stop powering its iCloud using coal-fired pow ... More >>
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May 2, 2012
San Jose Man Says Apple Is Double-Billing iTunes Customers
Apparently, Apple isn't just dodging taxes, it's also double-dipping from its customers. At least that's what one San Jose man claims after he says he was charged twice for one song he bought on iTunes.Robert Herskowitz filed a class-action lawsuit this week, claiming Apple's e-store refused to reve ... More >>
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March 15, 2012
Apple Users to Protest Apple Store ... and Buy the iPad3
They might love Apple products, but they sure hate the way they are made. Apple fans across the nation are planning a protest Friday outside retail stores, including San Francisco's downtown location, demanding better working conditions at oversea factories. Apple consumers have been rather criti ... More >>
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March 14, 2012
Frustrated New Yorker Sues Apple, Claiming Siri Doesn't Understand S**t
Earlier this week, Apple's latest gadget, the loose-lipped and prudish Siri, was slammed by the Northern California ACLU for knowing a little too much about you -- and then sharing those personal tidbits with Apple. But over on the East Coast where people are arguably less patient, Siri users are ... More >>
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March 12, 2012
Even Siri Pisses Off the ACLU
As mouthy as the saucy Siri can be, it's no wonder Apple's latest gadget has gotten herself into trouble with the notoriously offended American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU of Northern California penned a very pointed press release today detailing all the ways in which Siri is more nefarious t ... More >>
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March 9, 2012
Is "i" the New "Mc"? The Rise of the iRestaurant
Two weeks ago, the Weekly reviewed iSkewers, a now three-month-old restaurant serving skewers and dumplings in the Outer Sunset. iSkewers (2407 Judah) opened in the same month as iThai (720 Post) and iCreation (1139 Taraval), and there's also a new iDumpling in Redwood City. This week, a tea-and- ... More >>
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February 22, 2012
Apple Settles 'Death Grip' Lawsuit over iPhone Service
Apple has settled multiple class-action lawsuits alleging that holding the iPhone 4 in a certain way cut off service to the popular smartphone -- what plaintiffs in the case called a "death grip" causing the loss of the phone's signal.As Courthouse News reports, customers in the 16 separate feder ... More >>
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February 14, 2012
Apple CEO, Tim Cook, Defends Company's Working Conditions
Humane working conditions across seas ... now that's innovative Last week, we told readers about the massive protest of Apple products, with hundreds of thousands of consumers turning in petitions to retail shops, including downtown San Francisco, amid reports over inhumane working conditions at ... More >>
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February 9, 2012
Apple Consumers Protest Factory Conditions, Demand "Ethical iPhone"
Concerned Apple customers will be descending on the downtown Apple store today, where they will deliver petitions from local consumers demanding for a more "ethical iPhone." iPhone activists across the nation have been criticizing Apple for its "appalling" working conditions in factories overseas, i ... More >>
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February 3, 2012
Four Men Accused of Ripping Off Apple Electronics from FedEx Trucks
Police are saying they have nabbed a ring of serial Apple thieves who allegedly have been swiping massive amounts of high-end electronics as they are being delivered to Apple stores across San Francisco Police arrested 52-year-old Jose Reyes, 45-year-old Victor Morales, 55-year-old Angel Erazo, a ... More >>
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December 20, 2011
Apple Products Swiped from San Francisco Delivery Truck
A bigger prick than Steve JobsSome Grinches with hearts two sizes too small came pretty damn close to stealing Christmas when they ripped off a "large quantity" of Apple electronics earlier today.Police tell us that at about 11:30 a.m. an unidentified thief or thieves broke into a FedEx delivery ... More >>
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December 7, 2011
PHOTOS: A Peek Inside Secret Research Facilities at Apple 'Mothership'
Extensive plans detailing the shape of Apple's 'mothership' campus in Cupertino have become public, Gizmodo reports today. Among the enticing details to emerge is that the facility will include what the tech blog calls "mysterious 'research facilities'" separated from the central building.Apple c ... More >>
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November 4, 2011
John Theriault, Apple Security Official, Quits Amid Lost iPhone Prototype Controversy
John TheriaultThe head of Apple Security Operations has reportedly left the tech company following a scandal over a lost iPhone prototype in San Francisco earlier this summer.9to5mac broke the news that John Theriault, vice president of global security, was the latest Apple executive to leave the ... More >>
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October 19, 2011
Steve Jobs' Memorial: Apple to Close Retail Stores Today
iSadIf you were planning to honor Steve Jobs today by purchasing an Apple product or you were hoping to make a stop at the Genius Bar, you might want to hold off. The Wall Street Journal reports that many retail stores are planning to close down for a few hours so that employees can participate i ... More >>
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October 18, 2011
What Exactly Is a Tech Company?
Fast Company has published what might be the best, clearest look at the how the contours of the tech landscape are shaping themselves, and how that landscape has come to be dominated by four companies. I was alerted to the article via a tweet by Chronicle tech reporter Casey Newton who characte ... More >>
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October 4, 2011
Apple Unveils ~~iPhone 5~~ iPhone 4S Today
Unlike Apple CEO Tim Cook, we're going to cut to the chase and tell you what you really want to know from the Let's Talk iPhone event that kicked off at 10 a.m. today at Apple headquarters in Cupertino. For the tech journalists who sat through the three-hour conference, perhaps a more fitting nam ... More >>
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September 30, 2011
Apple Closes Stores, Puts iPhone 5 Rumor Mill in Motion
Guess we'll have to go buy a PC thenThe temporary shutdown of several Apple stores has people wondering whether there's a connection to the highly anticipated iPhone event to be held at Apple headquarters in Cupertino on next Tuesday.Considering that a number of stores have closed and reopened p ... More >>
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September 26, 2011
Missing iPhone 5: SFPD Wants Surveillance Video from Bar Where Apple Employee Lost Device
San Francisco police have reportedly asked the owners of Cava Bar in the Mission -- the spot where an Apple employee supposedly lost a prototype of the unreleased iPhone 5 -- for surveillance footage as part of an internal investigation regarding the SFPD's questionable search into the miss ... More >>
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September 19, 2011
Iconic SF Fashion Brand Esprit de Corp. Pulls out of U.S.
Goodbye America.Esprit de Corp., the iconic San Francisco fashion label that pioneered socially and environmentally conscious marketing, has left the United States, so that its current Hong Kong owner can concentrate on other markets. The move marks the final American chapter of a ... More >>
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September 14, 2011
SF Weekly Letters
Goodbye America.Esprit de Corp., the iconic San Francisco fashion label that pioneered socially and environmentally conscious marketing, has left the United States, so that its current Hong Kong owner can concentrate on other markets. The move marks the final American chapter of a ... More >>
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September 7, 2011
SFPD Launches 'Internal Investigation' into Controversial Search for Missing iPhone 5
It appears that the police officers and Apple security employees who stoked a tech-industry scandal with their controversial search for a lost device rumored to be the unreleased iPhone 5 will themselves be the object of law-enforcement scrutiny.The San Francisco Police Department has launched an ... More >>
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July 8, 2011
Apple Can't Stop Amazon from Using "App Store"
Weren't apples famous before Apple?In another case of the Silicon Valley giants butting heads, a federal judge denied Apple's motion for a preliminary injunction against Amazon and its use of the term "App Store."Lawyers for Apple argued that the "Amazon Appstore for Android" name infringes on it ... More >>
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June 16, 2011
Apple's Secret Sales Tricks Leaked
Turns out, not even this is considered unfortunateHave you ever noticed that you consistently experience positive interactions with Apple employees? Theoretically, you should be able to go to any of the 326 Apple stores and receive the same kind treatment. Here is the reason why: The Silicon Vall ... More >>
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June 16, 2011
Please, Ban Video at Concerts -- It Will Improve the Experience
Jane's Addiction at Google I/O: Look familiar? So Apple may be developing a technology that automatically turns off an iPhone's video camera when it's shooting a concert. The idea, reporters have surmised, would be to protect copyright holders (artists and show promoters) by limiting the free ... More >>
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June 8, 2011
Apple Dumps DUI Checkpoint App
This is something your iPhone can't help you with SF Weekly readers might recall the controversy that ensued after Apple released an iPhone app that would let drivers know exactly where and when they might be crossing a DUI checkpoint. Of course, it wasn't nearly as controversial as the app that ... More >>
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June 6, 2011
Apple's iCloud Gonna Make it a Cloudy Kind of Day in S.F.
SFMusicBlogSun not expected today, figuratively speaking. The real reason for all the June gloom: Perhaps our weather system is anticipating today's events at Moscone Center? There, Apple is expected to unveil, among other things, its long-awaited cloud music service, which (all early reports ... More >>
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May 9, 2011
Apple, at $153 Billion, Unseats Google as World's Most Valuable Brand
Secret weaponA surge in estimated valuation from sales of products such as the iPad has landed Apple at the top of a survey of the world's most valuable brands, displacing fellow Silicon Valley juggernaut Google.Financial-research company Millward Brown set the company's current brand value at $1 ... More >>
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April 28, 2011
Apple Bans Immigrant-Smuggling Game (Video)
There is a big difference between smuggling and snuggling illegal immigrantsWith all of the recent ire over controversial smartphone apps, including dogfighting games and apps meant to cure gays, the average iPhone user has probably started to wonder: are there any apps that are too offensive to ... More >>
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April 22, 2011
Apple May (Finally) Launch Cloud Music Service Soon -- But Who's Excited?
Apple, the company that already makes 75 to 99 percent of the stuff you use to listen to, organize, and perhaps even make music, is ready to launch its cloud music service ahead of a similar service by Google, according to a report today from Reuters: Apple's plans will allow iTunes custo ... More >>
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April 20, 2011
Yep, Apple Is Watching You
What do they know about you?Is Apple stalking you? The answer is yes. Yes, it is. And that's supercreepy.But hey, this is America: We should be used to Big Brother watching us by now. A new report claims that anyone who owns a iPhone and iPad is being recorded by Apple. Writers Alisdair Allan and ... More >>
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April 13, 2011
Will Apple Take Over The World by 2041? Think: iBeer (Video)
By 2041, Apple might have just taken over the world. That means you might be sharing beers with friends and enjoying a meal out via your iPhone 44G.Hong Kong-based YouTube user Ming shares his vision of an Apple-dominated world 30 years from now. Enjoy.
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April 12, 2011
Apple Sued by Pissed-Off Parents
There is no such thing as a free smurfberryParents across the country have banded together to sue Apple, claiming the Cupertino-based company has given kids carte blanche to rack up charges on mom and dad's credit cards by buying online games without authorization. Garen Meguerian, a Pennsylvania ... More >>
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March 28, 2011
Apple to Hold World Developers Conference in SF: Will Steve Jobs Reveal Plans for iPhone 5?
What will the next generation look like?Apple officials fired off an e-mail on Monday to developers, inviting them to the next conference where they can get a sneak peek at the future of iOS and Mac OS X and --as some analysts speculate -- view plans for the iPhone 5. The e-mail was also th ... More >>
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March 23, 2011
Apple Dumps Controversial 'Gay-Cure' App
Apple's newest positionApple on Wednesday quietly removed the controversial "gay-cure" app created by a religious group with the goal of helping people resist their unwanted homosexual desires. Media outlets are reporting that while the company has not made any comments, the iPhone app is no long ... More >>
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March 22, 2011
Apple Asked to Scrap Apps That Help Users Evade DUI Checkpoints
What does your app tell you?Earlier today, SF Weekly told readers about the controversial gay-cure app that's put Apple at the center of an uncomfortable high-tech debate about religion and gays. Now, U.S. lawmakers are challenging the company to scrap another iPhone app -- one that alerts users ... More >>
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February 22, 2011
Dear Apple, Please Don't Make Us Pay More for Better-Sounding Music Downloads
Okay, but in high-quality audio at no extra cost?Apparently getting hip to the idea that people who still pay money for music might want it to sound good, Apple is considering offering higher-quality audio files in the iTunes store.This alone would be great news -- we're frustrated that the store ... More >>
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February 16, 2011
Apple Sued for Privacy Invasion -- Again
What does he know about you?The number of iPad and iPhone users that claim Apple has passed around their private information is growing by the day.In December, two separate groups of iPad and iPhone users sued Apple, Inc., claiming the company had created apps that distributed personal informatio ... More >>
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September 1, 2010
The Case for Apple's 'Ping' Social Network
Ping lets Lady Gaga reach out to fansApple CEO Steve Jobs announced today that his company is hopping on the social network bandwagon with a service, called Ping, that will connect music fans, musicians, and their friends and followers. Jobs describes Ping -- which will be available on Apple mobi ... More >>
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August 24, 2010
Paul Devine, Apple Exec Accused of Massive Kickback Scheme, Kept $150K in Shoe Boxes
Ever have problems figuring out what to do with those old shoe boxes? Paul Shin Devine apparently doesn't. Prosecutors claim feds found roughly $150K squirreled away in the home of the former Apple global supply manager, as well as more than $20,000 in foreign currency. The massive amount of cas ... More >>
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August 18, 2010
SF Weekly Letters
Ever have problems figuring out what to do with those old shoe boxes? Paul Shin Devine apparently doesn't. Prosecutors claim feds found roughly $150K squirreled away in the home of the former Apple global supply manager, as well as more than $20,000 in foreign currency. The massive amount of cas ... More >>
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July 13, 2010
Consumer Reports' Thumbs Down on iPhone 4 an Old Media Throwback
In a world of viral marketing where everyone with a computer and an opinion is potentially a widely read critic, Consumer Reports' message to hold off on purchasing an iPhone 4 was like something out of the way-back machine. While there have been class-action lawsuits claiming Apple's new gizmo h ... More >>
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July 1, 2010
iPhone 4 Hit With Class Action Lawsuits -- First of Potential Cavalcade
Pair of San Francisco suits regarding iPhone 4 join Maryland Suit. Those holding their breath until a lawsuit was filed over the propensity of the new iPhone 4 to get poor reception or even drop calls due to a supposed antenna problem can finally exhale. Apple and AT&T were yesterday hi ... More >>
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June 18, 2010
Foxxconn Protestors Flashmob San Francisco Apple Store
A crowd of at least 100 people gathered outside the Union Square Apple store yesterday evening for what may be the first large scale American protest of Foxxconn, a Chinese factory that produces iPads and iPhones.
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June 9, 2010
Apple's Latest Hot Mess: Prominent iPad Users' Personal Info Exposed
A window to your soulThink Facebook's got privacy problems? Just wait till you get a load of the latest scandal at Apple, which has apparently allowed some very prominent users of its iPad device -- think White House prominent -- to have their personal information exposed in an AT&T security ... More >>
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February 23, 2010
SuicideGirls, In Defense of the App Store Ban: 'Bummer for Apple, We Get It'
Missing the opportunity to do so at San Francisco's Goldman Sachs' tech conference earlier today, Apple has yet to clarify guidelines as to why over 5,000 apps were removed from its App store this weekend. As is the case with most news about Apple, the Internet has responded to the most easily acces ... More >>
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February 3, 2010
I, Tablet
Missing the opportunity to do so at San Francisco's Goldman Sachs' tech conference earlier today, Apple has yet to clarify guidelines as to why over 5,000 apps were removed from its App store this weekend. As is the case with most news about Apple, the Internet has responded to the most easily acces ... More >>
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January 4, 2010
The Apple Tablet: One More Reason to Hope Daddy's Check Clears
For those of us that haven't touched a PC since The Oregon Trail, Apple CEO Steve Jobs provides a much needed service; his iPhone revitalized our mobile consumer habits to the point of creating an entirely new species of urban dweller. We now use our phones to hail cabs, land planes, and stalk our f ... More >>
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December 18, 2009
Apple Competitor Psystar Loses Court Case, Goes Out of Business
By C. Stiles Robert PedrazaIn a recent SF Weekly cover story, Worms in the Apple, writer Tim Elfrink detailed the saga of the Rudy and Robert Pedraza, a couple of rogue computer programming brothers who hacked Apple's OS X and retooled it for use on cheaper PCs. Elfrink wrote about h ... More >>
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December 1, 2009
Apple Settles With Company That Took a Bite Out of Them
You may remember our Nov. 11 cover story, "Worms in the Apple," about a pair of brothers who run a company called Psystar. Robert Pedraza cracked the code behind the Apple operating system, OS X, and he and his brother started selling Mac "clones" at a price far less than that of the computer gia ... More >>
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February 3, 2009
Localvore: Bay Area Cravings of the Now
• Apple strudel [Bay Area Bites]• Global remixes of chicken soup [SFGate]• Top Chef-recommended cookbooks [Bits Bites]• Miso-butternut squash soup [The Urban Housewife]
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