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  • Blogs

    January 8, 2013

    Richard Stallman, Software Freedom Activist, Is Still Jerky After All These Years

    Richard Stallman, leader of the "free software movement," says he has no regrets about saying mean things about Steve Jobs just after Jobs' death. After all, he told Slashdot readers in a recent discussion, "Apple is your enemy, and if you don't recognize this and fight, you're being a chump." For ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 30, 2012

    Sans Steve Jobs, Apple Is Becoming Just Another Company

    After Steve Jobs died, there was a lot of talk about whether the company could ever really be the same. Some said Jobs' DNA would stay in the company. Others said his absence meant that the company couldn't possibly be the same. Both things can be true at once. Recent events reveal that his absence ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2012

    Steve Jobs: Remembering an Insanely Great Capitalist

    It was one year ago today that Steve Jobs died, which means everyone needs to put down their iPad for just one minute and remember the man who made your life cooler and more convenient with his genius inventions. For those of you who are glued to your gadgets, Apple was kind enough to make it a litt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2012

    Joyless Comic Strip's NYT Parody Falls Flat

    There seems to be a wide and growing divide between people who appreciate healthy portions of meaty journalism and those who prefer a media diet of bite-sized snark snacks full of empty calories. In this context, "old media" outlets like The New York Times can never win, no matter what they do. Even ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 1, 2012

    Heart Over Heels

    There seems to be a wide and growing divide between people who appreciate healthy portions of meaty journalism and those who prefer a media diet of bite-sized snark snacks full of empty calories. In this context, "old media" outlets like The New York Times can never win, no matter what they do. Even ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2012

    Chinese Consumers Go Crazy for iPhone 4S, Apple Stores in Bejing Shut Down

    View more videos at: http://nbcbayarea.com.It's not often -- in fact, it's unheard of for a store to close shop because of too many customers. But an Apple store in Bejing never even opened this morning, saying they were worried about the big crowd of Chinese consumers camped outside the store, wait ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2012

    The Steve Jobs Action Figure Is a Creepy, Plasticky Abomination

    He made your computer, your phone, your TV entertainment system, your music player, and he created the store where you buy most of your music. But just in case you think your screen-circumscribed life isn't already a total shrine to Steve Jobs, the most arrogant technologist of our age, now there's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2011

    Five Things Pete Townshend Got Wrong About iTunes and the Online Music Industry

    Phyllis KeatingPete Townshend​Last night, Who guitarist Pete Townshend made a rousing speech at a British radio festival, blasting Apple's iTunes store for its treatment of musicians "whose work it bleeds like a digital vampire." His speech even included a list of things Townshend believes App ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2011

    Lost iPhone 5: Bernal Heights Man Says Visitors Impersonating Police Searched His Home (Exclusive)

    ​A Bernal Heights man says that six officials claiming to be San Francisco Police officers questioned him and searched his family's home in July for a lost iPhone 5 prototype they asserted had been traced to the residence using GPS technology.The man's statements to SF Weekly in an exclusive inter ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2011

    Lost iPhone 5 Update: Police 'Assisted' Apple Investigators in Search of SF Man's Home

    ​The bizarre saga involving a lost prototype of the iPhone 5 has taken another interesting turn. Contradicting past statements that no records exist of police involvement in the search for the lost prototype, San Francisco Police Department spokesman Lt. Troy Dangerfield now tells SF Weekly that " ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2011

    Apple Employee Wants to Unionize

    Taking a bite out of Apple​There's a great scene in The Social Network where Andrew Garfield's character, Eduardo Saverin, storms into the Facebook office, picks up Mark Zuckerberg's laptop, and sends him a strong message by shattering it.That's the sort of scene we imagined when word got out that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2011

    iSpaceship Could be a Big Loss for S.F. Convention Centers

    Will the iSpaceship be the end of Apple events in San Francisco?​When Steve Jobs ambled up to the city council podium in Cupertino Tuesday night to deliver the news that Apple was planning a campus expansion -- a stunning, 12,000-person capacity space-age doughnut scheduled to break ground in 2015 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2011

    iSpaceship: Steve Jobs Crashes Curpertino City Council Meeting to Announce New Apple Campus

    The iSpaceship has landed.​For a guy on medical leave since January, Steve Jobs is busier than ever. Just one day after announcing a raft of new software products at Apple's WWDC in San Francisco, Jobs appeared in front of a starstruck Cupertino City Council meeting, announcing plans to build a 12 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 6, 2011

    Apple Introduces iCloud at WWDC

    What do you see in the iCloud?​As expected, Steve Jobs took the stage at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco today, announcing the company's new iCloud product, which will allow users to upload and sync data across nearly every Apple device, for free. Jobs, who has been on me ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2011

    Google Pulls Dog Wars App

    Google: a fight not worth having​Yesterday, SF Weekly recounted the national uproar over a new Android game "Dog Wars," which even Michael Vick said is training ground for dogfighters. Apparently, Google felt the heavy pressure and yesterday announced it would remove the app from its online store. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2010

    How to Be a Tech Company for Halloween

    ​ Forget the Zuckerberg mask -- be a whole damn tech company for Halloween. Here's how. Apple How to dress: Wear all white with silver shoes. Limit your ports: No pockets, no fly. Your hair should be seamless.   How to scare people: Jailbreak your pants.   The night's over when: You call ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2010

    Worried About Cell Phone Radiation? There's an App for That.

    WARNING! CODE RED!​This June, San Francisco became the first city in the United States to require retailers to post information about how much radiation cell phones emit. Now, an Israeli company is capitalizing on the as-yet-unjustified anxiety surrounding cell phone radiation and allowing phone u ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2010

    Is There Room Online For Apple's Ping Social Network to Succeed?

    Christopher VictorioPing will let Lady Gaga reach out to her fans in new ways.​Apple 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2010

    Paul Shin Devine, Apple Manager Accused of $1 Million Kickback Scheme: Here's the Civil Suit

    The civil suit vs. alleged bad apple Paul Shin Devine is stuffed with damning allegations​Suit names Asian firms accused of conspiring with former Apple employee in kickback schemeYesterday we reported on the federal indictment of Paul Shin Devine, a former Apple global supply manager accused of m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 16, 2010

    Paul Shin Devine, Apple Manager, Busted in Kickback Scheme: Read Indictment Here

    ​As SF Weekly and others reported earlier, a mid-level Apple manager has been arrested for allegedly spilling company secrets in exchange for kickbacks from Asian firms. SF Weekly has obtained the 23-count, 14-page indictment against Paul Shin Devine and you can read it right here. Here are some h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2010

    Jailbreak! iPhone Users Can Now Legally Download Apps Apple Hasn't Approved.

    Tough luck, Steve...​The Library of Congress' copyright office today approved an application submitted by San Francisco's Electronic Frontier Foundation which will allow millions of iPhone owners to get out of jail -- free. It is now legal for iPhoners to break electronic locks and download applic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2010

    The Case of the Missing iPad Cover: What to Do While Waiting for "the" Case

    They're selling for twice the price on eBay.​How can you define your status as an Apple fanboy/girl/hermaphrodite without the official Apple iPad case? With its sleek simple design and unique texture...

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2010

    What Apple's Big Announcement Means for Music Fans

    How will this pretty little thing shake up the music world?​Yeah, yeah, the new iPhone 4 is slick and skinny and sports two video cameras. But will today's news shake up the music world as Apple developments have in the past? Our thoughts below:Mobile music videos: Get ready for a world of iPhone- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2010

    Dating Sites SF Needs More Than Cupidtino

    ​I realize that Apple's masterplan is to take charge of all our pastimes: phone calls, listening to music, surfing for porn on a giant tablet. But dating? Oh yeah, buddy. Behold Cupidtino, "a beautiful new dating site created for fans of Apple products by fans of Apple products." Assuming thi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2010

    Is Gawker's Shield Law Claim Legit?

    Gizmodo bought itself a whole lotta trouble along with its spiffy new iPhone. Will the shield law come to the rescue?​Gawker Media certainly has plenty of new media attitude to spare. But, arguing its case in the wake of legal heat following the company's shady maneuver to obtain a next-generation ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2010

    Apple Sued for Allegedly Failing to Honor Warranty of 'Wet' iPhones

    You're shit outta luck...​A San Francisco woman is suing Apple, Inc. in a class action suit filed in U.S. District Court,  alleging that the company refuses to honor the phone's warranty by telling her the phone's "liquid submersion indicator" showed the phone had been dunked in water when it ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2010

    You Know What Would Be Cool? If the iPad Was Also a Hoverboard.

    Yeah, we can't believe the damn thing came out before the hoverboard either.​ We're not among the privileged few that received advanced review iPad units, nor among the prepared few that put in their pre-orders. We're not even part of the contingent of brave souls like Robert Scoble, who had the ... More >>

  • News

    February 3, 2010

    I, Tablet

    Yeah, we can't believe the damn thing came out before the hoverboard either.​ We're not among the privileged few that received advanced review iPad units, nor among the prepared few that put in their pre-orders. We're not even part of the contingent of brave souls like Robert Scoble, who had the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2010

    All Tomorrow's Tablets: Will Steve Jobs Bring Back Reading?

    On Wednesday, Apple's secrecy-clad chief Steve Jobs will unveil a new gadget, a tablet computer that he's been said to have called "the most important thing I've ever done." Depending on who you ask, the magic tablet will either deliver a new way to read the written word, or it'll be a way to watch ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2009

    Apple Competitor Psystar Loses Court Case, Goes Out of Business

    By C. Stiles Robert Pedraza​In 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 >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2009

    Apple Triumphs in Key Copyright Ruling in San Francisco Lawsuit

    Robert Pedraza                      By C. Stiles ​In our cover story last week, Worms in the Apple, writer Tim Elfrink detailed the saga of the Rudy and Robert Pedraza, a couple of rogu ... More >>

  • News

    November 11, 2009

    Worms in the Apple

    Two rebels take on America's most beloved computer company.

  • Calendar

    June 24, 2009

    Objects of Affection

    Two rebels take on America's most beloved computer company.

  • Blogs

    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]

  • Blogs

    August 15, 2008

    Photos: Week on the Street (Part 6)

    • Apple strudel [Bay Area Bites]• Global remixes of chicken soup [SFGate]• Top Chef-recommended cookbooks [Bits Bites]• Miso-butternut squash soup [The Urban Housewife]

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2008

    Last Night: Counting Crows at The Apple Store

    • Apple strudel [Bay Area Bites]• Global remixes of chicken soup [SFGate]• Top Chef-recommended cookbooks [Bits Bites]• Miso-butternut squash soup [The Urban Housewife]

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2008

    Apple World Wide Developers Conference: June 9 At Moscone West

    • Apple strudel [Bay Area Bites]• Global remixes of chicken soup [SFGate]• Top Chef-recommended cookbooks [Bits Bites]• Miso-butternut squash soup [The Urban Housewife]

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2008

    Apple, Cisco, Google, SF Weekly To Attend SanFran MusicTech Summit Feb 25

    • Apple strudel [Bay Area Bites]• Global remixes of chicken soup [SFGate]• Top Chef-recommended cookbooks [Bits Bites]• Miso-butternut squash soup [The Urban Housewife]

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2008

    How To Cope With Data Loss, After Weeping Like a Newborn - By Laser-Guided Awesome, The SF Weekly Utility Blog

    • Apple strudel [Bay Area Bites]• Global remixes of chicken soup [SFGate]• Top Chef-recommended cookbooks [Bits Bites]• Miso-butternut squash soup [The Urban Housewife]

  • Blogs

    October 9, 2007

    Bay Area's Apple #1 Among Nubile Sorority Girls, Slain Quarterbacks

    • Apple strudel [Bay Area Bites]• Global remixes of chicken soup [SFGate]• Top Chef-recommended cookbooks [Bits Bites]• Miso-butternut squash soup [The Urban Housewife]

  • Dining

    May 18, 2005

    Never a Feckless Eater

    Talking to R.W. Apple Jr. about Apple's America over lunch

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 11, 2005

    Best Used Bookstores

    Talking to R.W. Apple Jr. about Apple's America over lunch

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 11, 2005

    Best Tech Store

    Talking to R.W. Apple Jr. about Apple's America over lunch

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 11, 2005

    Readers' Poll

    Talking to R.W. Apple Jr. about Apple's America over lunch

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 14, 2003

    Readers' Poll

    Talking to R.W. Apple Jr. about Apple's America over lunch

  • Music

    November 15, 2000

    Charlie Parker

    The Complete Savoy and Dial Studio Recordings (1944-1948) (Savoy Jazz)

  • Film

    June 28, 2000

    Reel World

    Cold Heaven; The American Friend

  • News

    December 4, 1996

    Temporary Solidarity

    With a new (powerful) champion in Silicon Valley, a recent court victory, and ranks that continue to swell by the day, long-beleaguered "contract workers" have reason to believe their house may not be so bleak after all.

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