IPhone Creator’s Nest Labs Turns Up the Heat With Latest Thermostat
As one of the creators of the iPod and iPhone, Tony Fadell raised eyebrows when he announced last year what he’d be doing for a second act. “A thermostat?” was the collective response from Silicon Valley. Fadell, along with fellow...
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An Apple designer said meetings take place in a secret lab at a kitchen table (not pictured).
Apple Trial Offers Glimpse of Kitchen-Table Product Design
Decisions on the design of Apple products that have pulled in billions of dollars in sales and helped turn it into the world’s most valuable company are made by a group of about 15 industrial designers who gather once a...
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Apple's Sir Jonathan Ive displays his Knight Commander medal at Buckingham Palace in London today.
Design Guru Jony Ive’s Favorite Apple Product? The Next One
Apple design chief Jony Ive rarely gives interviews, but on the occasion of being knighted in his native U.K. today, the man who helped craft the iPhone and iPad talked with the Telegraph newspaper about the creative process and life...
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Forrester Research CEO George Colony said that without Steve Jobs at the helm, Apple will 'coast and then decelerate.'
Apple Doomed to End Up Like Sony, Says Forrester CEO
As analysts, investors and other pundits try to out-superlative one another talking about Apple’s second-quarter results from yesterday, the CEO of one of the leading market research firms used the event as an opportunity to warn that the iPhone maker...
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Nationwide Mutual Insurance is the latest business to support the switch to Apple and Android phones.
Nationwide Workers Reach for IPhones in Latest Blow to RIM
As soon as Nationwide Mutual Insurance allowed its employees to use iPhones and Android smartphones for work last October, people started ditching their BlackBerrys. Since then, about 15 percent of the company’s 7,000 BlackBerry users have traded in their devices,...
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Thermal images of the iPad 2, left, and new iPad show the difference in heat.
Consumer Reports Gets Torched Over iPad Temperature Test
Consumer Reports wasn’t the first publication to draw attention to the fact that Apple’s new (don’t call me No. 3) iPad can get a 116-degree fever when running graphic-intensive tasks. But that hasn’t stopped the 76-year-old magazine from taking the...
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Rich and Mary Bleyle attended Apple's shareholders meeting.
Apple’s Shareholder Meeting Brings Out Newly Minted Millionaires
While a small group of protesters marched outside Apple’s shareholders meeting this morning over labor practices in China, investors inside were mostly saying thank you. And with good reason. Take Rich Bleyle, a retired teacher attending the annual meeting from...
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