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Apple Saves Billions by Creatively Exploiting Loopholes of International Tax System

Think different, Apple tells the world. The Cupertino company, whose creations have defined our technological age, apparently applies the same innovative thinking to its tax evasion strategies. Stuffing revenue in some low-tax, high-privacy bank in the Caribbean? 'Bout as forward-thinking as a Bla ... More >>

This Is Why It's Taking so Damn Long for Apple to Make Your Next iPhone

This week bloggers were in a tizzy about revelations that Apple has two new iPhones in the hopper, much to the chagrin of San Francisco DA George Gascón who criticized Apple for not including anti-theft technology in the newest phones.  While the DA groused about a recent surge of iPhone burgl ... More >>

Paramount Searching for Unreleased Film That Was Stolen in San Francisco

It's like a story made for the movies. Police are reportedly searching for a yet-to-be-released version of a film from Paramount Studios that was stolen from a car in San Francisco. ABC7 News has the scoop after talking to Paramount Pictures' security team while they were in San Francisco trying to ... More >>

Creepy Steve Jobs Sculpture Is Partly Made of Apple Guru's Trash

Steve Jobs has apparently inspired art just as much as he's inspired tech. Look no further than this newly created, freakish sculpture of the Apple CEO himself which, believe it or not, was made of trash collected from Jobs' residential garbage bins.According to Cory Allen Contemporary Art, artist X ... More >>

iPhone 5 Release: Indolent Consumers Can Now Hire Someone to Wait in Line for Them

Wouldn't it be great if Siri could go pick up your new iPhone for you while you loaf away on the sofa?Well, maybe she won't, but guess what -- someone will. With a few taps of your iPhone 4, you can hire local "TaskRabbits" (aka unemployed people) to wait in that long-ass line so you can g ... More >>

Apple Updates iTunes, Offering Possible Relief to Music Fans Everywhere

The computer giant named after a piece of fruit announced a shiny new iPhone 5 in San Francisco today, one that comes with a .5-inch larger screen, better camera... and blah. Doubtless people are most excited (or not!) about the new iPhone, but for music fans -- at least those of us still bound to v ... More >>

iPhone 5: Parody Video Promotes New Gadget That Only Allows Us to Take Photos of Our Food

If you are one of those grubbers who can't go one snack without snapping a picture of your carrots and hummus and then sharing it with the world, then the iPhone 5 might be made for you. Or at least this hilarious commercial is. Video artist Adam Sacks released this parody iPhone 5 commercial that, ... More >>

Thinner MacBook Pro, iOS6, and a Smarter Siri Revealed at Apple's WWDC

Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference kicked off today at the Moscone Center. Here's a brief rundown on some of the highlights from the first day that are sure to get your iHearts pumping. The next generation of Apple notebooks  New versions of the MacBook Air (starting at $1,199), and the ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

Apple Closes Stores, Puts iPhone 5 Rumor Mill in Motion

Guess we'll have to go buy a PC then​The 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 >>

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 >>

SF Weekly Letters

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Gone Fishing: Have a Good Holiday

We gave you plenty of news to chew on over the weekend -- the iPhone 5 saga, a finger-snapping show gone bad, and a quick lesson on how to pee standing up if you are a woman. So we're taking off for the weekend and we won't be around to inform or entertain you Monday, because we don't want to do lab ... More >>

Lost iPhone 5 Prototype: SFPD Says It Has No Records of Investigation

​Yesterday we related an interesting scoop that popped up on CNET: the tech-news site reported that a prototype of Apple's latest iPhone model had been lost in a San Francisco bar, echoing a similar incident last year that led to embarrassment for Apple and legal threats against the gadget blog Gi ... More >>

iPhone 5 to be Released Next Month

Waiting for the next generation ​On Friday, we gave iPhone users some grim news -- customers were being overcharged by as much as 300 percent for data they never used. But now we are here to deliver some good -- if not curious -- news: The iPhone 5 will be out in June!At least that's the buzz amon ... More >>

Applemania Strikes: Tickets to Apple Conference Going for $3,000

Is there room for one more at the WWDC?​How much would you pay to hang out with Apple nerds for a week?Okay, now take that number and add $3,000 -- that's what sold-out tickets are now going for on auction sites. Tickets to the Worldwide Developer's Conference in San Francisco this summer sold out ... More >>

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 >>

iPhone 5 Gets New Antenna Design, No More Dropped Calls...Hopefully

The next generation ​To this day, one of the most widely read blogs on SF Weekly is a July 2010 story on whether Steve Jobs knew the iPhone 4 antenna was a lemon all along. And for good reason -- people are still pissed. But they might be somewhat delighted to hear that reports and rumors circulat ... More >>